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标题：Market competition and abatement technology diffusion under environmental liability law
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作者：Li, Yi
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：2014
卷号：SUPPL
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：One challenge in environmental liability law is to apportion the liability appropriately among multiple parties, when these multiple parties generate a single and non-separable damage. This paper provides a method of designing efficient apportionment rule in the presence of product market competition. In particular, I examine the role of apportionment rule in inducing abatement technology diffusion between competing firms. I show that such diffusion can be induced by an efficient apportionment rule. And this apportionment rule allocates a relatively large (more than 1/2) portion of the liability to the firm which originally owns the abatement technology. Furthermore, allocating the liability equally between the firms cannot induce diffusion.
关键词：Environmental liability law;Apportionment rule;Diffusion;Competition