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In an economy where consumers are heterogeneous in their preferences over the hedonic and environmental attributes of goods on sale, we explore the effects of anti-consumerism and environmentalism. We show that when the environmental attributes of products come at the expense of the hedonic...
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Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the empirical literature on the role of landscape amenities in local...
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In this study, we develop and apply a new methodology for obtaining accurate and equitable property value assessments. This methodology adds a time dimension to the Geographically Weighted Regressions (GWR) framework, which we call Time-Geographically Weighted Regressions (TGWR). That is, when...
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liability regimes in tort law: rule of negligence and strict liability. Starting from the standard Shavellian unilateral … accident scheme, I show that matching up liability regime on their capacity to provide the highest level of safety is … associated to the burden of evidence, the fairness between victims and injurers, etc. -- Strict Liability ; Negligence Rule …
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This paper analyzes the meaning of comparing the economic performance of strict liability and negligence rule in a … injurers form beliefs. It shows first that, when the Court agrees with the regulator, whatever the liability regime, the first …, judge and regulator disagree, it is impossible to discriminate among liability standards because the issue depends on the …
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regulated by strict liability schemes. Strict liability induces judgment-proof possibilities. Two civil liability regimes are … then compared: a strict liability scheme and a capped strict liability one. The argument is led under a twofold asymmetric … wealth. The paper shows that standard strict liability under information asymmetries deters the efficient agent to compete …
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This paper addresses the conditions for setting up strict civil liability schemes. For that it compares the social … efficiency of two main civil liability regimes usually enforced to protect the environment: the strict liability regime and the … "capped strict liability scheme". First, it shows that the regulator faces an effective dilemma when he has to enforce one of …
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