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Risk Aversion, Liability Rules, and Safety [PDF]
This paper investigates the performance of liability rules in two-party stochastic externality problems where negotiations are feasible and side payments are based on the realized level of externalities.
Joshua Graff Zivin +2 more
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The Impact of Court Errors on Liability Sharing and Safety Regulation for Environmental/Industrial Accidents [PDF]
We focus in this paper on the effects of court errors on the optimal sharing of liability between firms and financiers, as an environmental policy instrument. Using a structural model of the interactions between firms, financial institutions, governments
Donatella Porrini, Marcel Boyer
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Risk-sharing and Liability in the Control of Stochastic Externalities
This paper analyzes alternative policies for controlling stochastic externalities, considering both the incentive and the risk-sharing effects of each. When polluter actions are unobservable so that regulation is not possible, alternative liability rules
Segerson, Kathleen
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Does "skin in the game" reduce risk taking? Leverage, liability and the long-run consequences of new deal financial reforms [PDF]
, 2013 We examine how the Banking Acts of the 1933 and 1935 and related New Deal legislation influenced risk taking in the financial sector of the U.S. economy. Our analysis focuses on contingent liability of bank owners for losses incurred by their firms and
Richardson, Gary, Mitchener , Kris James
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Minimum Distance Requirements and Liability: Implications for Co-Existence
The co-existence of conventional and transgenic products in the food chain introduces new elements in the evaluation of the profitability of transgenic crops and, consequently, on the farmer’s adoption decision.
Soregaroli, Claudio, Wesseler, Justus
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, 2012 The essay deals with the main aspects of liability ‘ex crimine’ of legal entities in Baltic Republics: Estonia, Latvia and ...
Valenzano, A. S.
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, 2013 A recent comprehensive survey of fitness industry professionals shows that there is a lack of confidence amongst members of the fitness industry about the quality of training necessary to obtain fitness qualifications. This is concerning given that legal
Keyzer, Patrick +6 more
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Environmental Protection, Producer Insolvency and Lender Liability [PDF]
The present paper deals with some legal issues surrounding environmental protection, namely those issues concerning the liability of the different firms and individuals directly or indirectly involved in the generation of environment damaging accidents ...
Jean-Jacques Laffont, Marcel Boyer
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The Czech Fundamental Opinion Dealing with the Liability of Directors [PDF]
This paper I would like to devote to a very narrow area of the liability relevant to the liability of directors. In my opinion the legal regulation dealing with the liability of directors is very specific in contrast to liability of the other person and ...
Jelínková, Petra
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Manufacturer Liability for Harms Caused by Consumers to Others [PDF]
Should the manufacturer of a product be held legally responsible when a consumer, while using the product, harms someone else? We show that if consumers have deep pockets then manufacturer liability is not economically efficient. It is more efficient for
Bruce Hay, Kathryn E. Spier
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