The Efficient Liability Sharing Factor For Environmental Disasters: Lessons For Optimal Insurance Regulation
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Keywords
Liability sharing; environmental insurance; safety care; moral hazard; principal-agent.; Partage de responsabilité; assurance environnementale; effort de prévention; risque moral; principal-agent.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
- K13 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Tort Law and Product Liability; Forensic Economics
- K32 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
- Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2008-02-02 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2008-02-02 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2008-02-02 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2008-02-02 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-REG-2008-02-02 (Regulation)
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