the corporate employer takes responsibility for employees' negligence under the principle of vicarious liability. But … employees might attract personal liability to the firm's client, despite an apparent lack of contractual or tortious …

consumption. Product liability laws may serve as efficient means to induce socially optimal levels of care or may efficiently … are often not considered in the standard liability economics model that yields these prescriptions: dose-response damage … efforts under different liability rules when both processor and consumer affect damages. Dose-response damage functions yield …

liability for harmful speech have never been fully explored. We construct an analytical framework for studying libel law …

This is a survey of legal liability for accidents. Three general aspects of accident liability are addressed. The first … is the effect of liability on incentives, both whether to engage in activities (for instance, whether to drive) and how …-bearing and insurance, for the liability system acts as an implicit insurer for accident victims and it imposes risk on potential …

Comparing the experience of Vioxx and Celebrex leads Omri Ben-Shahar to think that stiff product liability has the …

(economic incentives, standards, education, liability, and research) and discusses empirical research related to the use of …

); (3) NC CBA with international permit trade; (4) NC CBA with joint and several liability for climate change damages; and … (5) NC CBA with liability proportional to a country’s share in cumulative emissions. As estimates of the marginal damage … the positive, dynamic externalities of abatement. Proportional liability shifts abatement effort towards the richer …

instruments with characteristics of equity, liability, or both. The main problem is how to distinguish liabilities from equity …