How liable should an exporter be?: The case of trade in hazardous goods

Carsten Helm

International Review of Law and Economics, 2008, vol. 28, issue 4, 263-271

Abstract: This paper analyzes liability issues in the context of internationally traded goods like hazardous waste. It focuses on waste disposers of a small open economy that are judgement-proof due to either wealth constraints or regulatory liability limits. In this case, the extension of liability to waste exporters distorts the factor allocation and may reduce disposal care. Hence the optimal extension is partial at most. However, extending liability increases incentives of the waste importing country to hold domestic disposers liable. Interaction through the price system and through contracts that condition payments for disposal services on the occurrence of an accident yield identical outcomes if disposers are judgement-proof.

Keywords: Extended; liability; Hazardous; waste; trade; Externalities; Moral; hazard (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Working Paper: How liable should an exporter be? The case of trade in hazardous goods (2005)
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