Frontiers in the Economics of Environmental Regulation And Liability (Ashgate Studies in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics) (Ashgate Studies in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics). This item is unavailable.Frontiers in the Economics of Environmental Regulation And Liability (Ashgate Studies in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics) (Ashgate Studies in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics)

Industrial and environmental accidents are seldom far from the headlines in any part of the globe. Yet what factors determine their occurrence and is there a pattern to their distribution? This book brings these key questions into focus by examining three critical aspects of the the belief formation vis-a-vis risk or misconduct; the design of legal sanctions; and the effects of risk regulation and liability rules on business and on the supply of finance. The book as a whole offers real insights into the institutional and incentive constraints faced by the major players involved in the public and private management of industrial and environmental risk.

Marcel Boyer (Ph.D. in economics, Carnegie-Mellon University) is Bell Canada Professor of Industrial Economics at the University of Montreal, Howe Scholar in Economic Policy at the Canada Howe Institute, and Fellow of CIRANO (Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations) and CIREQ (Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en economie quantitative). He has been awarded numerous prizes for excellence in research and is the author of over 175 articles, public reports and scientific papers. Yoland Hiriart and David Martimort are both Researchers at the Universite des Sciences Sociales Toulouse in France.