UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WORKING PAPERS SERIES IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS Liability for Past Environmental Contamination and Privatization
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I wish to thank the following people for their assistance, advise, and support: Don Lien, Tom Weiss, Rick Lotspeich, JiÍina Jilková, Zdenek Svoboda, and James Boyd. I also thank the feedback from participants at the 1999 Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) meetings and the 1999 American Law and Economics Association (ALEA) meetings. Finally, I acknowledge the financial assistance of the New Faculty General Research Fund Award and the International Research Award from the University of Kansas.
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