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Optimal cleanup and liability after environmentally harmful discharges
Polinsky, Alan Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - 1992
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Corrective taxation versus liability
Shavell, Steven - 2010
"Abstract: Taxation and liability are compared here as means of controlling harmful externalities. It is emphasized that liability has an advantage over taxation: inefficiency of incentives arises under taxation when, as would be typical, it would be impractical for a tax to reflect all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003995048
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The corrective tax versus liability as solutions to the problem of harmful externalities
Shavell, Steven - 2010
harmful externalities, its actual use has been limited, mainly to the domain of pollution. Liability, in contrast, has great … importance in controlling harmful externalities. I compare the tax and liability here in theory and suggest that the conclusions … help to explain the observed predominance of liability over taxation, except in the area of pollution. The following …
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The corrective tax versus liability as solutions to the problem of harmful externalities
Shavell, Steven - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509444
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Corrective taxation versus liability
Shavell, Steven - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509445
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Corrective taxation versus liability as a solution to the problem of harmful externalities
Shavell, Steven - In: The journal of law & economics 54 (2011) 4, pp. 249-266
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Corrective taxation versus liability
Shavell, Steven - In: The American economic review 101 (2011) 3, pp. 273-276
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Corrective taxation versus liability
Shavell, Steven - In: Die ökonomische Analyse des Rechts : Entwicklung und …, (pp. 23-32). 2013
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Optimal Cleanup and Liability After Environmentally Harmful Discharges
Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 1992
This article studies how liability for environmentally harmful discharges affects the incentives of firms to engage in cleanup and invest in precautions, as well as the incentives of consumers to purchase the goods whose production leads to discharges. Our main conclusion is that making firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474792
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The Corrective Tax versus Liability As Solutions to the Problem of Harmful Externalities
Shavell, Steven - 2010
harmful externalities, its actual use has been limited, mainly to the domain of pollution. Liability, in contrast, has great … importance in controlling harmful externalities. I compare the tax and liability here in theory and suggest that the conclusions … help to explain the observed predominance of liability over taxation, except in the area of pollution. The following …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462420