the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. For a given number of buyers, platform liability … interests between innovators and buyers. Furthermore, platform liability can have unintended consequences, which overturn the … intended effect on innovation. Platform liability tends to increase (decrease) innovation and consumer welfare when the …

This paper addresses the role of product liability for the emergence and development of smart products such as … autonomous vehicles (AVs). We analyze how the liability regime affects innovative activities, as well as the timing of market … shifting more liability on the producers of AVs. First, while this improves the safety of AVs in the long run, the safety stock …

Does enhanced shareholder liability reduce bank failure? We compare the performance of around 4,200 state …-regulated banks of similar size in neighboring U.S. states with different liability regimes during the Great Depression. The distress … rate of limited liability banks was 29% higher than that of banks with enhanced liability. Results are robust to a diff …