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Preponderance of Evidence
Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - Centre de Recherche sur l'Emploi et les Fluctuations … - 2002
This paper analyzes the incentive properties of the standard and burden of proof for a finding of negligence, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168676
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Preponderance of Evidence
Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002
This paper analyzes the incentive properties of the standard and burden of proof for a finding of negligence, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100970
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The Role of Social Image Concerns in the Design of Legal Regimes
Deffains, Bruno; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013
We consider situations where legal liability yields insufficient incentives for socially efficient behavior, e.g., individuals who cause harm are not always sued or are unable to pay fully for harm done. Some individuals nevertheless behave efficiently because of intrinsic prosocial concerns....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010687448
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Prepondeance of the Evidence: Tort Rules and the Efficient Standard of Proof
Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - Centre de Recherche sur l'Emploi et les Fluctuations … - 2000
This paper analyzes the cost and incentive properties of the standard of proof for a finding of negligence. In common … evidence is the only cost-and-incentive efficient standard of proof consistent with a negligence rule. <P> Cet article analyse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572493
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Preponderance of evidence
Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - 2002
This paper analyzes the incentive properties of the standard and burden of proof for a finding of negligence, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409967
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Assurance de responsabilité et aléa moral dans les régimes de responsabilité objective et pour faute
Fluet, Claude - In: Revue d'économie politique 112 (2002) 6, pp. 845-861
This paper analyses whether liability insurance is socially desirable, under strict liability or under the negligence … hazard. Does this result extend to the negligence rule, when courts obtain only imperfect information about levels of care … courts? rulings (erroneously finding negligence when the defendant exerted due care vs. not finding negligence when he was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011187126
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Enforcing Contracts: Should Courts Seek the Truth?
Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002
I examine the case where fulfillment of a contractual commitment is only imperfectly verifiable and ask whether the court should then "tell the truth"" regarding the action in dispute. I show that truth seeking does not maximize the expected surplus from contractual relationships. From the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100649
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Deterrence vs Judicial Error: A Comparative View of Standards of Proof
Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004
We argue that the common law standard of proof, given the rules of evidence, does not minimize expected error as usually argued in the legal literature, but may well be efficient from the standpoint of providing maximal incentives for socially desirable behavior. By contrast, civil law's higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101073
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Enforcing Contracts: Should Courts Seek the Truth?
Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2002
I examine the case where fulfillment of a contractual commitment is only imperfectly verifiable and ask whether the court should then "tell the truth" regarding the action in dispute. I show that truth seeking does not maximize the expected surplus from contractual relationships. From the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795971
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Deterrence vs Judicial Error: a Comparative View of Standards of Proof
Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004
We argue that the common law standard of proof, given the rules of evidence, does not minimize expected error as usually argued in the legal literature, but may well be efficient from the standpoint of providing maximal incentives for socially desirable behavior. By contrast, civil law's higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696274