Author: Elga Bartsch
Publisher:
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Category : Liability for environmental damages
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Enforcement of Environmental Liability in the Case of Uncertain Causality and Asymmetric Information
Author: Elga Bartsch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liability for environmental damages
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liability for environmental damages
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Liability for Environmental Damages
Author: Elga Bartsch
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
From an economic point of view, liability for environmental damages aims at two goals. On the one hand, liability should efficiently allocate the risk imposed by the stochastic nature of environmental damages. On the other hand, ex post liability should generate ex ante incentives to take appropriate precautions against environmental risk. In reality, precautionary incentives generated by civil liability for environmental damages are often reduced by various impediments to the enforcement of legal claims. One of the key impediments is uncertain causation, especially when precautionary pollution control measures cannot be easily observed. This book analyzes the consequences of asymmetric information regarding the precautionary pollution control measures on enforcing legal claims, and, hence, on the precautionary incentives. The question is discussed against the background of the 1991 German Environmental Liability Act (Umwelthaftungsggesetz). In the first part of this book, Elga Bartsch gives an overview of selected liability systems and then derives the conditions for an optimal liability rule in a situation of uncertain causation and imperfect information within the principal-agent framework. This theoretical discussion is followed by an empirical analysis of the impact of the German Environmental Liability Act on the German chemicals industry by means of an event study. Its results indicate that the change in the legal framework did not have an adverse effect on the German chemicals industry.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
From an economic point of view, liability for environmental damages aims at two goals. On the one hand, liability should efficiently allocate the risk imposed by the stochastic nature of environmental damages. On the other hand, ex post liability should generate ex ante incentives to take appropriate precautions against environmental risk. In reality, precautionary incentives generated by civil liability for environmental damages are often reduced by various impediments to the enforcement of legal claims. One of the key impediments is uncertain causation, especially when precautionary pollution control measures cannot be easily observed. This book analyzes the consequences of asymmetric information regarding the precautionary pollution control measures on enforcing legal claims, and, hence, on the precautionary incentives. The question is discussed against the background of the 1991 German Environmental Liability Act (Umwelthaftungsggesetz). In the first part of this book, Elga Bartsch gives an overview of selected liability systems and then derives the conditions for an optimal liability rule in a situation of uncertain causation and imperfect information within the principal-agent framework. This theoretical discussion is followed by an empirical analysis of the impact of the German Environmental Liability Act on the German chemicals industry by means of an event study. Its results indicate that the change in the legal framework did not have an adverse effect on the German chemicals industry.
A Note on the Double Dividend Hypothesis
Author: Christian M. Scholz
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Opening Up for Foreign Banks
Author: Claudia M. Buch
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Subsidising Inequality
Author: Martin Raiser
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Market Entry Paradox
Author: Frank Stähler
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Category : Barriers to entry (Industrial organization)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Barriers to entry (Industrial organization)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Does Foreign Direct Investment Contribute to Unemployment in Home Countries?
Author: Jamuna Prasad Agarwal
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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How are China's State-owned Enterprises Doing in the 1990s?
Author: Martin Raiser
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Regulating Network-based Industries
Author: Henning Klodt
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Capital Mobility, Tax Competition, and Lobbying for Redistributive Capital Taxation
Author: Oliver Lorz
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Category : Capital levy
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital levy
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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