The Impact of Court Errors on Liability Sharing and Safety Regulation for Environmental/Industrial Accidents
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- Boyer, Marcel & Porrini, Donatella, 2011. "The impact of court errors on liability sharing and safety regulation for environmental/industrial accidents," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 21-29, March.
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Keywords
Environmental Policy; Court Efficiency; Liability Sharing; Regulation; Incomplete Information; Politique environnementale; efficacité des tribunaux; partage de responsabilités; informations incomplètes;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-CTA-2010-12-18 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-ENV-2010-12-18 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-REG-2010-12-18 (Regulation)
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