论ACTA下著作权侵权损害赔偿额确定问题

在著作权损害赔偿额确定问题上,ACTA的规定与TRIPS协定相比更为全面、细致,执法标准也更加严厉。其主要内容分为4个层面:三层方法(权利持有人的损失、侵权利润、替代方法)和一个范围(各项费用)。在具体适用上,主要体现如下特征:全面赔偿和附加威慑、各计算方法的平行适用、向权利人利益保护倾斜。鉴于我国相关立法的不足,虽然我国目前尚未加入ACTA,但该协议的相关规定也并非对我国没有任何参考价值,我国对此不能一味排斥,而应该辩证看待其利弊,根据我国国情有鉴别地取舍。     

自由贸易及跨界污染背景下的国际环境政策协调

文章构建了一个考虑跨界污染损害的福利函数,推导出自由贸易背景下某国的最优污染税,并与世界福利最大化时的最优污染税进行比较,以说明国家间环境政策协调的必要性。文章考虑了四种情况,分析结果表明,只有在该国为小国且污染不跨界时不需要国际协调;当该国为大国或者污染跨界时,单个国家的独立行为通常不会产生合意的世界福利水平,此时需要国际协调以实现世界福利最大化。大国的污染政策具有贸易条件效应,因而出口国有设定过高污染税的激励,而进口国则会设定过低的污染税,双方都寻求转变贸易条件以有利于本方。而污染跨界时单个国家通常会有"搭便车"的激励,此时会实施较为宽松的环境政策。     

企业所有制结构与区域工业污染——基于我国2003～2009年的省级面板数据研究

本文采用广义矩估计(GMM)法,选取我国2003～2009年的省级面板数据,对国有企业、私营企业和外商港澳台企业与区域工业污染之间的关系进行实证研究。研究结果表明:国有企业、私营企业和外商港澳台企业的环境污染效应均为正,这三类企业的发展均会导致环境状况恶化;征收排污税可以改善环境,而工业污染源治理资金的投入却并未带来相应的环保效益。     

地方政府与污染企业动态博弈分析

近年来,中央和地方政府相继出台了一系列保护环境的激励政策和相关措施,但效果并不理想。人口的压力,资源的短缺,环境的胁迫,生态的危机,这一系列的世界性问题,已经成为21世纪中国乃至世界急需考虑并解决的问题。为了实现经济与环境的可持续发展,近年来,中央和地方政府相继出台了一系列保护环境的激励政策和相关措施,但由于外部性和公共产品属性等因素的存在,环境治理过程中存在市场失灵。为了探求这一现象背后的原因,本文利用博弈论的分析方法进一步考虑财政补贴、税收、罚金等系数对企业支付函效的影响,在更为一般的条件下分别建立政府监管部门和企业的完全信息条件下静态博弈模型和无限阶段重复博弈模型,并且讨论了多种因素对局中人的影响,并导出企业的最优策略和纳什均衡解,以揭示环境治理政策设计的经济机理和提出优化我国节能减排政府政策设计的一系列政策建议,旨在为提高我国节能减排政府政策设计的效果提供理论论证和现实见解。     

医疗纠纷中引入惩罚性赔偿之探讨

医疗纠纷损害赔偿作为一种民事损害赔偿,应引入惩罚性赔偿。但应仅限于故意或恶意的行为、严重不负责的行为和重大过失行为,以更好地保障公民的生命健康权。     

浙江工业产品贸易的“污染足迹”研究

改革开放以来,浙江省的贸易保持着快速的增长。工业产品作为浙江省对外贸易的绝对主体,每年巨大的贸易顺差,必然给浙江省带来很大的污染成本。文章从＂污染足迹＂的概念出发,利用浙江省各工业部门的对外贸易量及污染物的排放数据进行定量分析,核算出浙江省具有代表性的产业部门的产污系数,进出口污染系数及部门来源。结果表明：浙江省工业产品的对外贸易虽然向海外转移了污染物,但是总体来说,巨大的贸易逆差在浙江省留下了污染足迹核算和分析的结果表明,从1997年到2006年,浙江工业产品出口正慢慢偏向于低污染行业,进口偏向于污染密集型行业;浙江省工业产品出口带来的废水的增长速度最快,而废气和固体废弃物呈缓慢增长趋势;化学工业的进口转移了最多的污染物,而金属采选业的进口转移了最多的固体废气物。     

从珠三角环境责任风险看环境责任保险

环境污染问题,是我国改革发展中的一项重要课题,也是责任保险的重要领域。本文以珠三角环境责任风险为实例,认真分析了环境污染的主要表现,阐述了环境责任保险的功能和面临的困境,提出了发展环境责任保险有效对策,对加强环境责任保险,推进二型社会建设有着良好的指导意义。     

General equilibrium modelling of the direct and indirect economic impacts of water quality improvements in the Netherlands at national and river basin scale

The main objective of the study presented in this paper is to estimate the direct and indirect economic impacts of water quality policy scenarios in the Netherlands focusing on the reduction of emission levels of nutrients and a number of eco-toxicological substances. For this purpose, an Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model consisting of 27 production sectors is extended to water through the inclusion of substitution elasticities between labour, capital and emissions to water in the sectors' production functions. The macro-economic costs of a 10, 20 and 50% reduction of the emission levels in the year 2000 of ten priority substances in the EU Water Framework Directive vary between 0.2 and 9.4% of Net National Income (NNI). A large share of the total economic costs are borne by important sources of pollution like commercial shipping, the chemical and metal industry. However, important spin-off effects due to adaptation take place in the tertiary service sector. Besides the estimation of the economy-wide impacts of water quality improvements, the novelty of the study presented here is found in the downscaling of national and sector results to river basin level and the estimation of shadow prices for water-polluting substances through the introduction of an emission permits market.     

Which Firms are More Sensitive to Public Disclosure Schemes for Pollution Control? Evidence from Indonesia’s PROPER Program

This paper analyzes differences in firms’ responsiveness to PROPER, Indonesia’s public disclosure program for industrial pollution control. The overall effectiveness of this program at achieving emissions reductions and its low regulatory costs have earned it a good reputation around the world. PROPER had no deterrents or incentives other than those that arose indirectly from publicly disclosing information about the environmental performances of firms. We analyzed plant-level data to relate short- and longer-term environmental responses to facility characteristics. The results revealed that foreign-owned firms were consistently more likely to respond to the environmental rating scheme, compared to private domestic firms. This is a clear and important insight with consequences for a number of issues, such as understanding the pollution haven debate. Also, firms located in densely populated regions, particularly in Java, responded more positively to the public disclosure of PROPER ratings. The main observed effect was however given by the initial level of environmental performance of firms. Those firms that had bad environmental performance records felt pressure to improve, but if the initial abatement steps had already been taken, the incentives to improve further appeared to diminish.     

Why environmental management may yield no-regret pollution abatement options

Empirical evidence supports the existence of pollution abatement possibilities at negative costs, the so-called ‘no-regret options’. We provide a microeconomic rationale for the existence of such potential at the firm level. An econometric application confirms that pollution abatement cost curves with no-regret options are compatible with a standard production function, as stated in our theoretical model.