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This paper analyzes the meaning of comparing the economic performance of strict liability and negligence rule in a … injurers form beliefs. It shows first that, when the Court agrees with the regulator, whatever the liability regime, the first …, judge and regulator disagree, it is impossible to discriminate among liability standards because the issue depends on the …
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Most decisions concerning (self-)insurance and self-protection have to be taken in situations in which a) the effort exerted precedes the moment uncertainty realises, and b) the probabilities of future states of the world are not perfectly known. By integrating these two characteristics in a...
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Time overruns are common in public works and are not confined to inherently complex tasks. One explanation advanced in this paper is that bidders can undergo unpredictable changes in production costs which generate an option value of waiting. By exploiting the real-option approach, we examine...
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