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Emerging risks and (liability) insurance in the time of pandemics
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Open AccessThe possibilities and limits of insurance as governance in insuring pandemics
Insurance can, as has clearly been indicated in the literature, play an important role in dealing with catastrophe risks, not only as a compensation mechanism but also as a mechanism to influence the behaviour...
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Open AccessRate Expectations: Jurors and the Self-Reinforcing Effect of Conviction Rates
We examined whether jurors who know that a prosecutor has a high conviction rate are more inclined to convict a defendant than jurors who know that the prosecutor has a low conviction rate. Using simulated cri...
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Open AccessAgents in the sporting field: a law and economics perspective
While agents have been active in the sporting field since the late 1800s, sports agents and their activities have grown in prominence only in more recent times, particularly as a result of typically adverse he...
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Government interventions in microinsurance: evidence from China
The microinsurance market suffers from severe market failures; thus, government interventions are increasingly used to stimulate its functioning. Our article evaluates, from a law and economics perspective, wh...
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Open AccessGreen building in China
Green buildings can play a role in hel** countries meet their commitments under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Green building can provide an important contribution to sustainability, for example, by ...
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Risk shifting in the context of 3D printing: an insurability perspective
The adoption of 3D printing poses considerable liability risk to digital designers and fabricators. Traditionally, liability insurance is considered a crucial way for parties to shift their risk. However, in t...
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Public authority liability and the cost of disasters
We examine the influence of introducing public authority liability in the context of disasters. In an ideal setting a rule of comparative negligence would incentivise the government to take an optimal amount o...
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Open AccessToward a “constitution” for behavioral policy-making
Behavioral policy interventions aimed at redirecting individuals’ behavior toward optimal choices are characterized by an important issue which is often overlooked: the lack of an instrument to define what “op...
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Risk-sharing agreements to cover environmental damage: theory and practice
Mordernization has witnessed increasingly new industrial sectors which have the potential to create environmental disasters. The insolvency of risk creators in case of such disasters may lead to insufficient c...
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The Economics of Harmonization of Food Law in the EU
This chapter applies the economics of federalism to the harmonization of food law in the EU. The economic criteria for centralization (more particularly transboundary externalities, the risk of a race to the b...
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Göran Skogh on Risk Sharing and Environmental Policy
This article pays hommage to the important work of Göran Skogh, the founding father of the European Association of Law and Economics. It recalls Skogh’s work on instrument choice, the transaction cost of insur...
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High veno-arterial carbon dioxide gradient is not predictive of worst outcome after an elective cardiac surgery: a retrospective cohort study
Alteration of tissue perfusion is a main contributor of organ dysfunction. In cardiac surgery, the importance of organ dysfunction is associated with worse outcome. Central venous-arterial difference in CO2 tensi...
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Compensation for nuclear damage: a comparison among the international regime, Japan and China
Following the Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011, how the compensation system for nuclear damage should be improved has obtained broad attention. The compensation system, including liability rules, insurance...
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Self-Regulation Versus Public Regulation: An Analysis of Environmental and Safety Standard Setting in the Oil and Gas Pipeline Sector
Still there occurs a large amount of accidental and non-accidental damage caused by running oil and gas pipelines. In fact, pipelines, similar to other industrial activities, cannot be kept completely safe fro...
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The Regulation of Corporate Environmental Responsibility
This chapter focuses on an increasingly popular phenomenon—corporate environmental responsibility (CER). The key question that is addressed is how CER can be viewed from a law and economics perspective and, mo...
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Guest Editorial
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Towards a Rapid Claims Settlement Mechanism for Disasters?
The starting point of this contribution is the necessity to speedily compensate victims of an accident, which in reality is often not the case. We look at the term accident in a broad manner, referring to disa...
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Liability in Cases of Damage Resulting from GMOs: an Economic Perspective
The problems sketched in the introduction to this research project, being what the role of liability rules could be in case there is a presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in non-genetically modif...
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