Analysis on the Implementation of Environmental Liability
Insurance System Based on the Game Theory
LI Ying
College of Management and Economics
Northeast forestry university
Harbin, Heilongjiang, P. R. China
lyfly68@163.com
ZHANG Rui-ling
Jiangsu Hengshen Fiber Material Co., Ltd.
Zhenjiang, Jiangsu,
zhangruilinghenan@163.com
Abstract—This paper, from the perspective of the theory,
analyses the implementation of environmental liability insurance
system. Using static game to analyse the pairwise game process
for the government department of environmental protection,
potential pollution enterprise and insurance company, studied
the yield of the potential pollution enterprise on two kinds of
situations in pay insurance and not pay insurance, and the
occurrence probability of environmental accident how to affect
government, potential pollution enterprise and insurance
companies, This paper demonstrates the necessity of the
government environmental protection department force the
potential polluted enterprises to pay environmental liability
insurance, and the most reasonable decision is that government
must give certain subsidy to the insurance companies that accept
the environmental liability insurance, proved that the accident
probability play an important role in the enterprise decision-
making.
Keywords-Environmental Liability Insurance;Insurance
Premium;The Game Analysis;The Government Subsidy
I. INTRODUCTION
Game theory also called game theory, its meaning can be
expressed as follows: In the restraint of certain environmental
conditions, some persons, teams or other organizations in the
face of certain environmental conditions choose a behavior or
strategy from the allowed ones and carry it out simultaneously
or successively, once or more times, based on the information
mastered, and then, they obtain corresponding results or
incomes respectively. Nowadays, because of its guiding
significance to the reality, Game theory has been widely used
and influenced a lot in economics, sociology, psychology,
political science and other fields of social science. This paper
attempts to introduce the game theory into environmental
liability insurance system and use it to analyse the feasibility of
the implement of the environmental liability insurance system
and the specific game of the stakeholder involved during the
implementing process.
The participator during the implementation of environme-
ntal liability insurance system under the perspective in game
theory includes:the government's environmental protection
department,potential environmental pollution enterprise env-
ironmental liability and insurance insurance institutions.
Therefore,the specific game relation includes:(1) The
relationship between the government department of
environmental protection and environmental pollution
enterprise; (2) The relationship between the potential
environmental pollution enterprise and environmental liability
insurance covers institutions; (3) The relationship between the
government department of environmental protection and
environmental liability insurance covers institutions.
II. THE SPECIFIC ANALYSIS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF
ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY INSURANCE SYSTEM UNDER THE
PERSPECTIVE IN GAME THEORY
On the basis of game theory, we apply Static game model
to analyze the specific game relationship.
A. The Relationship between the Government Department of
Environmental Protection and the Potential Environmental
Pollution Enterprise
In this game, The the government department of
environmental protection has two kinds of strategies: forcing
the potential environmental pollution enterprises to pay the
environmental liability insurance premium or not forcing them
to pay the environmental liability insurance premium.
As the government departments, the environmental
protection bureau have the obligation to do something for the
public welfare of society and protect social public safety of life
and property, so the revenue function of the government
department of environmental protection relates to the
confidence level(C) of social public to the government
department of environmental protection. Besides, good
governance of the environment can bring a lot of social
benefits, such as attracting foreign investors, boosting the
development of tourism and improving the resident health of
body and mind and so on. We note these social benefits for (S)
and note the economic benefits social benefits bringing us for
(E), so the revenue function of the government department of
environmental protection can be expressed as:
U1=C+S+E,0 ≦ C ≦ 10,0 ≦ S ≦ 10,0 ≦ E ≦ 10.
(1)
Predictably, 0 ≦ U1 ≦ 30.Namely, revenue of the
environmental protection department is minimum 0, maximum
30.
The potential environmental pollution enterprises have two
kinds of strategies: Participating in environmental insurance or
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not, in other words, paying the environmental liability
insurance premium or not.
Now we will discuss the factors influencing the profit
function of the potential environmental pollution enterprise,
there are two factors:
Firstly, if not paying the environmental liability insurance
premium, we suppose the losses enterprise suffered when
environmental accident happens as (R).
Secondly, if the enterprise has participated in environmental
insurance, when environmental accident happens the losses can
be be lowered to 0.4R(Here we set the weight casually just for
conveniency).
Thirdly, supposing the environmental liability insurance
premium the enterprise pays as (a).
The revenue of the potential environmental pollution
enterprises we are talking about here is actually a loss, the
larger absolute value of the function means more losses of the
enterprise.
Then, if the potential environmental pollution enterprises
have paid the environmental liability insurance premium, we
can got the formula 2:
If the potential environmental pollution enterprises have not
paid the environmental liability insurance premium, we can got
the formula 3:
We suppose that the probability of environmental accidents
was P, and the probability of no accident was 1-P, on the basis
of formula2 and formula3, we can show the profit function of
the potential environmental pollution enterprise as formula4:
So far, we can show the game between the government
department of environmental protection and the potential
environmental pollution enterprise as figure-1:
From the above game tree we can see that it is appropriate
for the government department of environmental protection to
force the enterprise paying the environmental liability
insurance premium, the proceeds under force is more, therefore
the environmental protection department will definitely select
mandatory measures to make enterprises pay environmental
liability insurance premium.
To the enterprises, they should measure the size of -0.4PR-
a and –PR, if -0.4PR-a<-PR,namely P<5a/3R,they should
select payment, if -0.4PR-a >-PR, namely P>5a/3R, they
should not select payment. Now it is necessary to evaluate the
probability of the environmental accidents, insurance premium,
and the the losses of the environmental accidents. Owing to
space limit, here we will not do the further research.
B. The Game between Potential Contaminated Enterprises
and the Insurance Company
In according to the analysis above, we know that the
decisions made by the environmental protection department are
mandatory, then as the auxiliary sector of the implementation
of environmental liability insurance system, the main job of the
insurance company is to determine the premium a reasonably,
however, the determination of insurance premiums should not
only think about environmental accidents Probability P, the
extent of the harm incidents, but also taking into account their
own profit margins, therefore the insurance company's game
strategy (coverage, or exclusions). The extent of the harmful
environmental accidents, refer that the fees R of the recovery of
plant or equipment and compensation for victims ,to the
insurance companies, the loss of environmental accident
hazards is 0.6R, the insurance company's earnings Function can
be expressed as follows:
U3=P(-0.6PR+a)+(1-P)a=-0.6PR+a (5)
When the U3> 0,ie,P <5a/3R, insurance companies are
profitable. When the U3 <0, ie, P> 5a/3R, insurance companies
can not get profit. However, by the preceding analysis, we
know that when P<5a/3R,the potential contaminated
companies would not pay the environmental liability insurance
fees, when P> 5a/3R, the potential companies will choose to
pay. Therefore, there is a interest conflict between the business
and insurance companies, when companies choose to pay the
insurance premium when the company get a loss, this is why
government subsidies should be introduced, the subsidies to the
U2 2 =
-R
(when environmental accident happens)
0
(when no environmental accident happens)
(3 )
U2 1 =
-a
(when no environmental accident happens)
-0.4R-a
(when environmental accident happens)
(2 )
No force
unpay pay unpay pay
Force
U2 =
-0.4RP-a
(paying the liability insurance premium)
-RP
(not paying the liability insurance premium)
(4 )
Government
Enterprise Enterprise
(30,-0.4PR-a) (15,-PR) (10,-0.4PR-a) (0,-PR)
Figure-1:the game between the government department and the
enterprise
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insurance company's fee is B, then insurance company's profit
functions can be expressed as:
U3=-0.6PR+a+B (6)
When P <5 (a + B) / 3R when, U3> 0, insurance
companies are profitable.
When P> 5 (a + B) / 3R when, U3 <0, insurance
companies can not get profit.
Potential contaminated with the insurance company's
game tree shown in Figure-2:
Figure-2. The game tree of the potential contaminated
enterprise and the insurance companies
The result of the game of potential contaminated enterprises
and the insurance companies is that when 5a/3
5a/3R, the potential contaminated companies should choose to
pay premiums.
The driving force of the insurance institutions involved in
environmental liability insurance system is the subsidies from
the government. If there is no government subsidies, the
insurance companies will get no profit if they cover the
environmental liability insurance. Therefore, the
implementation of environmental liability insurance system can
not do without the great support of the government.
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exclusions
coverage
Insurance companies
companies companies
(-0.6PR+a+B, -0.4PR-a) (B, -PR) (0, -PR-a) (0, -PR)
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