Economics and liability for environmental problems /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Burlington, VT :
Ashgate/Dartmouth,
[2002]
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| Series: | International library of environmental economics and policy.
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Table of Contents:
- The Role of Liability
- 1. Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral / Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed
- 2. Liability for Harm versus Regulation of Safety / Steven Shavell
- 3. A Comparison of Taxes, Regulation, and Liability Rules under Imperfect Information / Michelle J. White and Donald Wittman
- 4. A Model of the Optimal Use of Liability and Safety Regulation / Steven Shavell
- The Incentive Effects of Liability
- 5. Strict Liability versus Negligence / Steven Shavell
- 6. Strict Liability vs. Negligence in a Market Setting / A. Mitchell Polinsky
- 7. When Does the Rule of Liability Matter? / Harold Demsetz
- 8. Strict Liability in a Principal-Agent Model / Harry A. Newman and David W. Wright
- 9. On Liability and Insurance / Steven Shavell
- 10. The Influence of Litigation Costs on Deterrence under Strict Liability and under Negligence / Keith N. Hylton
- 11. Bankruptcy and Care Choice / T. Randolph Beard
- 12. Tort Law as a Regulatory Regime for Catastrophic Personal Injuries / William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
- Conceptual Models
- 13. The Effects of Environmental Liability on Industrial Real Estate Development / James Boyd, Winston Harrington and Molly K. Macauley
- 14. Lender Penalty for Environmental Damage and the Equilibrium Cost of Capital / Anthony G. Heyes
- 15. Sharing Damages Among Multiple Tortfeasors / Lewis A. Kornhauser and Richard L. Revesz
- 16. Indivisible Toxic Torts: The Economics of Joint and Several Liability / Tom H. Tietenberg
- 17. Liability for Groundwater Contamination from Pesticides / Kathleen Segerson
- 18. The Structure of Penalties in Environmental Enforcement: An Economic Analysis / Kathleen Segerson and Tom Tietenberg
- Empirical Models
- 19. Controlling Stochastic Pollution Events Through Liability Rules: Some Evidence from OCS Leasing / James J. Opaluch and Thomas A. Grigalunas
- 20. Risk Premiums for Environmental Liability: Does Superfund Increase the Cost of Capital? / Steven Garber and James K. Hammitt
- 21. Strict Liability as a Deterrent in Toxic Waste Management: Empirical Evidence from Accident and Spill Data / Anna Alberini and David H. Austin
- 22. Liability and Large-Scale, Long-Term Hazards / Al H. Ringleb and Steven N. Wiggins
- Liability Reform
- 23. Environmental Liability Reform and Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe / James Boyd
- 24. Economic Models of Compensation for Damage Caused by Nuclear Accidents: Some Lessons for the Revision of the Paris and Vienna Conventions / Michael Faure.