Suppose that your city government is interested in reducing littering. Currently, there is a ($ 100) fine

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Suppose that your city government is interested in reducing littering. Currently, there is a \(\$ 100\) fine for littering and there is a 10 percent probability of being caught if you litter. The city is deciding between two different policies: (1) It can increase the number of police that monitor littering, which would make the probability of being caught if you litter 20 percent rather than 10 percent; or (2) It can keep the monitoring the same yet raise the fine for littering from \(\$ 100\) to \(\$ 200\). (Notice that both policies have the same expected cost of littering.) If litterers are risk averse, which policy would lead to a larger reduction in littering?

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Public Finance

ISBN: 9780073511283

8th Edition

Authors: Harvey Rosen, Ted Gayer

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