英文文献：Market competition and abatement technology diffusion under environmental liability law
英文文献作者：Li, Yi
英文文献摘要：
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.