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Hj Holm

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Competition Makes Inspectors More Lenient: Evidence from the Motor Vehicle Inspection Market

Författare

  • Osmis Habte
  • Hj Holm

Summary, in English

We examine the impact of competition on a firm's incentive to relax the standards of its inspection to its customers in the Swedish motor vehicle inspection market, which is heavily regulated and consciously designed to mitigate incentives to deviate from the regulation. We use a panel dataset representing 22.5 million car roadworthiness tests during the period 2010--2015. Fixed effects and instrumental variable estimations, which are used to account for the endogeneity of competition, show that inspection stations that operate in highly competitive markets are more lenient to their customers than stations that operate in less competitive markets.

Avdelning/ar

  • Nationalekonomiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2017

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Working Papers

Issue

2017:19

Dokumenttyp

Working paper

Förlag

Department of Economics, Lund University

Ämne

  • Economics

Nyckelord

  • leniency
  • pass rate
  • inspection behavior
  • competition
  • deregulation
  • inspection market
  • D22
  • L11
  • L84

Status

Published