EC 311 Assignment #5

Metropolitan State University

ECON 311 Spring 2021

Assignment #5, due 4/3

1.

Refer to "

Unwatched Pollution: The Effect of Intermittent Monitoring on Air Quality"

by Eric Zou to answer the following questions.

https://files.webservices.illinois.edu/7199/zoueric-jmp.pdf

I really like this paper.

A.

How does the EPA conduct intermittent monitoring of air quality? Please be

reasonably complete in your answer and include fun details. See if you can find their

2021 monitoring calendar online so that you know, well in advance, when they're going

to be monitoring air quality in your neighborhood and can adjust your behavior in

advance.

B.

What, in general, is the impact of predictability of occasional monitoring on the

behavior of emitters?

C.

Might this calendar be of interest to people who are not major emitters but, instead,

like to bicycle, run, walk, hike, work out, engage in parkour and freerunning, box, play

speed chess, fence epee, do step aerobics, kayak aggressively, engage in chess boxing,

tree climb, practice tai chi or do krav maga outside? Explain why.

D. Explain how the EPA might use a three, six or twelve-sided die to avoid the impact

described in Dr. Zou's paper.

E. What is chess boxing, anyway?