Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242339 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2021: Climate Economics
Publisher: 
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Hamburg
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes liability rules when consumers and third parties/the environment incur harm. Expected harm is convex in the level of output and modeled as a power function. We show that the social ranking of liability rules previously established for the case in which only consumers suffer harm (strict liability dominates no liability and negligence) may be reversed if harm to third parties or the environment is sufficiently important.
Subjects: 
Liability
Cumulative harm
Environmental harm
JEL: 
K13
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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