This paper deals with the way in which various legal instruments provide compensation to victims of catastrophes in Europe. The traditional law and economics of insurance literature with respect o government relief and insurance solutions towards financial compensation is used to analyse various...

Many injurers now offer to buy out victims' property to reduce harm. This pa- per examines the e¢ ciency of buyouts negotiated in the shadow of regulation and liability rules which require injurers to take e¢ cient precautions. It shows that if the social bene?t from precautions is increasing...

Reasons for the joint use of ex ante regulation and ex post liability to cope with environmental accidents have been a longstanding issue in law and economics literature. This article, which includes the first empirical study of the French environmental legal system, analyzes courts’ decisions...

The key question in this paper is to determine whether regulation and regulators information can help solving causal uncertainty problems in liability. A widely held view among Law & Economics scholars is that civil liability alone is not well-suited to cope with environmental accidents,...

This paper deals with the way in which various legal instruments provide compensation to victims of catastrophes in Europe. The traditional law and economics of insurance literature with respect to government relief and insurance solutions towards financial compensation is used to analyse...

Epstein gave to one of his books a title that summarizes the main conclusion of some studies, in particular Hayek's, of emergent orders (also known as spontaneous orders) such as the law and the market: we need, says Epstein, simple rules to cope with a complex world. We offer a critical...