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Environmental Substance Abuse : The Substantive Competence of Social Science Empirical Environmental Policy Research

Atlas, Mark K. - 2014

In a 2002 article, social science scholars criticized legal scholars for violating empirical analysis principles in law review articles. Their review of hundreds of empirical law review articles led to a pervasively grim assessment of these articles and their authors, concluding that empirical...

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Combating Global Climate Change : Why a Carbon Tax is a Better Response to Global Warming than Cap and Trade

Avi-Yonah, Reuven S.; Uhlmann, David M. - 2013

Congress is likely to consider domestic climate change legislation during 2009, with a cap-and-trade system continuing to draw support from the Obama Administration and many leaders in Congress. Yet cap-and-trade regulations would take years for EPA to develop and implement, the desired price...

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Liability of Public Authorities in Cases of Non-Enforcement of Environmental Standards

de Graaf, Kars J.; Jans, Jan H. - 2014

This paper will explore the possibility of using tort law based instruments for the enforcement of environmental standards. Not by using these instruments vis-à-vis those who are violating environmental standards (which could be regarded as a rather innovative approach to the subject), but...

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Liability as a Complement to Environmental Regulation : An Empirical Study of the French Legal System

Bentata, Pierre - 2013

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...

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Environmental Regulation and Civil Liability under Causal Uncertainty : An Empirical Study of the French Legal System

Bentata, Pierre - 2013

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,...

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Environmental Regulation and Industrial Performance : Evidence from Unexpected Externalities in China

Jefferson, Gary H.; Tanaka, Shinsuke; Yin, Wesley - 2015

The neoclassical model argues that environmental regulations impede industrial performance. In this paper, we shed light on two features of environmental regulations in developing countries that have received little attention and that give rise to unexpected outcomes with respect to industry...

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Environmental Standards and International Trade : Latin American Stakeholders and the EU Environmental Footprint Program

Frohmann, Alicia - 2016

This paper presents the unique experience of participation of Latin American stakeholders in the definition of European environmental standards, in the context of the EU Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) Program for coffee. The PEF Program is an ongoing process and the results will not be...

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Environmental Standards, Thresholds, and the Next Battleground of Climate Change Regulations

Castle, Kimberly M. - 2019

This Article addresses a central battleground of the debate about the future of greenhouse gas regulations: the valuation of particulate matter reductions that accompany reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. The benefits from particulate matter reductions are substantial for climate change...

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A Dissolving Paradox : Firms' Compliance to Environmental Regulation

Nyborg, Karine; Telle, Kjetil - 2004

theory, a result labeled the "Harrington paradox" in the literature. Enforcement data from Norway presented here appears, at … subject to credible threats of harsh punishment. This seems quite consistent with predictions from standard theory. Although … predicted by standard theory should be viewed with skepticism …

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Relocate or Innovate? The Impact of Environmental Regulation Stringency on Pollution-Intensive Firms in China

Dong, Yizhe - 2020

China. Pollution haven hypothesis (Porter theory) suggests that firms would (not) choose to relocate (but to innovate). We …

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