There exist evidence that asymmetrical information do exist between litigants: not in a way supporting Bebchuk (1984)'s assumption that defendants' degree of fault is a private information, but more likely, as a result of parties' predictive power of the outcome at trial (Osborne, 1999). In this...

Introducing minimal assumptions on the individual preferences, I show that the Willingness To Pay for both a FSD and SSD reduction of risk may always be described as the sum of a mean effect, a pure risk effect and a wealth effect. As a result, the WTP of a risk-averse decision maker may be...

Introducing minimal assumptions on the individual preferences, I show that the Willingness To Pay for both a FSD and SSD reduction of risk may always be described as the sum of a mean effect, a pure risk effect and a wealth effect. As a result, the WTP of a risk-averse decision maker may be...