信息不对称、公众行为和环境规制的有效性——中国环境规制中的公众行为考察

Information Asymmetry,Public Behavior and the Effectiveness of Environmental Regulation——Observation on Public Behavior in the Context of China's Environmental Regulation

信息不对称不仅对公众环境意识的形成和提高有重要影响,还会导致社会公众在消费和投资方面进行"逆向选择"。充分的环境信息披露可以从公众消费和公众投资两个方面间接影响企业的环境决策和环境行为,促进企业对环境规制的遵从和环境规制有效性的提高。然而,由于我国公众参与环境监督的弱质性,我国环境过程中社会公众对政府和企业应有的监督作用未能发挥出来。因此,政府应该加大环境信息披露力度,提高环境信息透明度,以提高公众的环保意识,为环境规制的实施奠定良好的公众基础。

Information asymmetry not only has an important impact on public environmental awareness but also leads to adverse selection about public consumption and public investment. Efficient disclosure of environmental information could change firm＇ s environmental decisions and actions through public consumption and public investment, and then the efficiency of environmen-tal regulation will be enhanced. However, given that the public didn＇t play an expected supervisory role on goverment and firms in the environmental regulation process, our government should reinforce environmental information disclosure, enhance the public environmental awareness and build a strong public basis for execution of environmental regulation.