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A setting of reliance investments is explored where one of the parties to a contract obtains private information concerning his utility or cost function that remains hidden to the other party and to courts. As a consequence, it will be a difficult task to award expectation damages corrrectly to...
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exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group … liability lending. We find evidence that the lending model matters: for the same borrower, the required monthly loan … installments are 11 percent less likely to be missed under the group liability setting in comparison with individual liability. In …
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covered. The first is legal liability for harm. Here we discuss liability rules as incentives to reduce risk, issues of risk …-bearing and insurance, and the costs of the liability system. Second, we consider property law, where we address the nature and …
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The assertion that a 'license' is simply a 'contract not to sue' has become a commonplace in both copyright and patent law. I argue that this notion is conceptually flawed, and has become a straightjacket channeling juristic reasoning into unproductive channels. At root, a license is not a...
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liability rule as opposed to a property rule in instances of infringement …
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