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Public Enforcement of Law [PDF]
This entry for the forthcoming The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Second Edition) surveys the economic analysis of public enforcement of law — the use of public agents (inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction ...
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Steven Shavell
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The paper examines legal liability for damages caused by autonomous vehicles by analyzing the legal and technical characteristics of highly automated and fully autonomous driving systems, as well as the relevant international, regional, and national ...
Ранко СОВИЉ +1 more
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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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A conclusion drawn from the presented ideas in this article, is that the protected object in this type of crime, in the national and international criminal legislation, lies in the fundamental human right to healthy and relatively protected environment ...
Miroslav Vrhovšek
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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]
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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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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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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