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Limited liability may result in inefficient accident prevention, because a relevant portion of the expected harm is … externalized on victims. This paper shows that under some restrictive conditions further limiting liability by means of a liability …
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). Finally, we offer considerations on the optimal design of liability rules. …
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We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem arises, implying that reciprocal workers should be given weak financial incentives. In a...
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There is extensive literature on whether courts or legislators produce efficient rules, but which of them produces rules efficiently? The law is subject to uncertainty ex ante; uncertainty makes the outcomes of trials difficult to predict and deters parties from settling disputes out of court. In...
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