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Chapter 25. Economic Analysis of Law
Kaplow, Louis; Shavell, Steven - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 3, (pp. 1661-1784). 2002
This is a survey of economic analysis of law, that is, of the emerging field under which the standard tools of microeconomics are employed to identify the effects of legal rules and their social desirability. Five basic subject areas are covered. The first is legal liability for harm. Here we...
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Litigation of questioned settlement claims : a Bayesian Nash-equilibrium approach
Salant, Stephen W.; Rest, Gregory - 1982
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Non-economic damages in medical malpractice appeals : does the jurisdiction make a difference?
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia - 2015
This article assesses predictors of payouts and non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases decided by the Spanish Supreme Court from 2006 until 2010. Medical malpractice cases can be judged in administrative or civil courts, and this distinction heavily relies on the type of hospital...
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Lay juries, professional arbitrators, and the arbitrator selection hypothesis
Wittman, Donald A. - In: American law and economics review : the journal of the … 5 (2003) 1, pp. 61-93
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Injunctive and reverse settlements in competition-blocking litigation
Hylton, Keith N.; Cho, Sungjoon - In: European journal of law and economics 36 (2013) 2, pp. 243-269
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Malicious litigation
Guha, Brishti - In: International review of law and economics 47 (2016), pp. 24-32
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Information and settlement : empirical evidence on Daubert rulings and settlement rates
Cooper, James C. - In: International review of law and economics 51 (2017), pp. 1-11
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A comprehensive theory of civil settlement
Prescott, James J.; Spier, Kathryn E. - 2016
A settlement is an agreement between parties to a dispute. In everyday parlance and in academic scholarship, settlement is juxtaposed to trial or some other method of dispute resolution in which a third-party factfinder ultimately picks a winner and announces a score. The “trial versus...
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How do legal standards matter? : an empirical study of special litigation committees
Krishnan, C. N. V.; Davidoff Solomon, Steven; Thomas, … - In: The journal of corporate finance : contracting, … 60 (2020), pp. 1-19
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Using Court-Annexed Arbitration to Reduce Litigant Costs and to Increase the Pace of Litigation
Barkai, John; Kassebaum, Gene - 2009
-Annexed Arbitration Program (CAAP), a program with a jurisdictional limit $150,000, the highest jurisdictional limit of any state court …-annexed arbitration program in the country. The Hawaii program is also unique because its primary goal is cost reduction for litigants … of Hawaii’s arbitration program. Data collected for the evaluation are drawn from five sources: (1) a case record …
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