minimized by the efficient contract supplied by the principal. -- Environment ; Strict Liability ; Ex-Ante Regulation ; Ex …-Post Liability ; Judgment-Proof ; Environment Law ; CERCLA ; Environmental Liability …This paper studies the delegation of activities that pose serious risks to health and the environment in an economy …

-takers concerning their potential legal liability for negligence. …

This paper analyzes the meaning of comparing the economic performance of strict liability and negligence rule in a … unilateral standard accident model under Knightian uncertainty. It focuses on the cost expectation of major harm on which the … injurers form beliefs. It shows first that, when the Court agrees with the regulator, whatever the liability regime, the first …

efficiency of two main civil liability regimes usually enforced to protect the environment: the strict liability regime and the … ; Strict Liability ; Ex-Ante Regulation ; Ex-Post Liability ; Judgment-Proof ; Environment Law ; CERCLA ; Environmental …This paper addresses the conditions for setting up strict civil liability schemes. For that it compares the social …

liability regimes in tort law: rule of negligence and strict liability. Starting from the standard Shavellian unilateral … accident scheme, I show that matching up liability regime on their capacity to provide the highest level of safety is … uncertainty. The second one takes into consideration the beliefs of agents and their aversion to ambiguity. The model applies …