article published in economic reviewSociety has several institutional mechanisms that promote the control of product health and safety risks and compensation of the income losses that these risks generated. For risks traded in the market, economic forces at work foster each of these objectives. Social insurance programs, such as worker's compensation, promote the compensation objective directly and influence safety incentives through the meritrating procedure. Two additional institutional mechanisms, which are the focus of this paper, are tort liability and regulation. Each of these institutions has assumed a more active role in the last two decades and has been the focus of considerable academic and policy debate
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article published in an economics journalProduct liability law is intended to create an environment ...
This contribution considers the regulation of work-related risks such as industrial accidents and oc...
The regulatory framework in which employee benefits products are marketed and consumed by individual...
Liability rules, regulation and insurance have all been proposed in legal and economic theory as ins...
This contribution focuses on the governance of industrial accidents and occupational diseases. Preve...
Society approaches health and safety risks in a piecemeal fashion. Regulators attempt to control the...
article published in law journalThe frequency and severity of products liability lawsuits have becom...
This Article suggests that insurance policies are not merely contracts but also are designed to perf...
This paper deals with possible compensation mechanisms for damage caused by occupational diseases. S...
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This article extends the unilateral accident standard model to allow for Cournot competition. Assumi...
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article published in an economics journalProduct liability law is intended to create an environment ...
This contribution considers the regulation of work-related risks such as industrial accidents and oc...
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