Abstract:International audienceIt is undeniable that the donors exert some environmental liability for the loans they grant to risky activities. However, the 1996 amendments to CERCLA have exempted lenders of much of their responsibility. This article shows that this situation tends to become perennial. This raises the question of the normativity of economic literature devoted to the liability of lenders. To bridge the gap between "practice" which exempts funders of liability and economic theory that takes it for grant… Show more
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