产品责任制度建立的经济学分析——对“三菱帕杰罗事件”的思考

本文旨在讨论群体机会集内由经济发展、收入状况、技术水平及产品特性等因素决定的消费者对产品的质量及价格偏好、产品供求弹性和行业生产者的新技术敏感度对选择产品责任制度中产品缺陷界定标准的影响。论文在对中美两国现行产品责任制度比较分析的基础上 ,借鉴克莱因的市场绩效与质量保证模型 ,建立了产品缺陷界定标准模型 ,论证产品责任制度的产品缺陷标准界定是在机会集约束下 ,群体内各利益集团根据自身剩余最大化原则所做出的选择。

An Economic Survey towards the Establishment of Products Liability System——Consideration of “ Mitsubishi Pajero Incident”

This thesis aims at revealing that the criteria of defining products defects is influenced by quality preference and price preference of consumers、the elasticities of supply and demand、the sensitivity of new technology in a certain industry, which are determined by economic development level、income、technology、product characteristics etc in the opportunity set of a certain country. In the thesis, authors establish a model of the criteria of defining products defects on the basis of comparative analysis on current products liability system between Sino-US legal systems, with the reference of Benjamin Klein's market performance and quality guarantee model,and prove the fact that the criteria of defining products defects in products liability system is the choices made by the interest groups under the constraint of opportunity set according to the principle of self-surplus maximization.