quality of medical care is an extremely important determinant of deferdants' medical malpractice liability. More generally, we …

, injunctions or other forms of property rules work better than compensation for damage or liability rules. The equivalences of the …

We develop a model where products liability trials provide information to consumers who are not parties to the …

Because the optimal level of medical malpractice liability depends on the incentives provided by the health insurance … system, the rise of managed care in the 1990s may affect the relationship between liability reform and defensive medicine. In … this paper, we assess empirically the extent to which managed care and liability reform interact to affect the cost of care …

Previous research suggests that "direct" reforms to the liability system -- reforms designed to reduce the level of …

and 2006, we find that caps on non-economic damages, collateral source reform, and joint and several liability reform …