Research handbook on the economics of torts
By: edited by Jennifer Arlen, New York University School of Law, USA
Series: Research handbooks in law and economics
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 657
ISBN-13: 9781848441187; 9781781006177
Subjects: Torts
Description: Scholars, students, law practitioners, regulators, judges and economists with an interest in tort law, litigation, damages, and reform will find this seminal Handbook an invaluable addition to their libraries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jennifer Arlen; title: Empirical Analysis of Civil Litigation : Torts Trials in State Courts / Michael Heise; title: Economic analysis of medical malpractice liability and its reform / Jennifer Arlen; title: Economic analysis of products liability : Theory / Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum; title: Causation in tort law: a reconsideration / Keith N. Hylton; title: Causation and foreseeability / Mark F. Grady; title: Fault lines in the positive economic analysis of tort law / Mark A. Geistfeld; title: The law and economics of liability insurance : A theoretical and empirical review / Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman; title: Economic analysis of joint and several liability / Lewis A. Kornhauser; title: Economic policy and the vicarious liability of firms / Reinier Kraakman; title: Group litigation in the enforcement of tort law / Geoffrey Miller; title: The socio-economics of mass torts : What we know, don't know and should know / Deborah R. Hensler; title: Law, economics, and the burden(s) of proof / Eric L. Talley; title: Law and economics of settlement / Abraham L. Wickelgren; title: Bounded rationality in the settlement process : empirical evidence on the causes of settlement failure in litigation / Linda Babcock and Joshua Furgeson; title: Contingent-fee contracts in litigation : A survey and assessment / Eric Helland and Seth A. Seabury; title: Empirical analysis of juries in tort cases / Shari Seidman Diamond and Jessica M. Salerno; title: Damages for incompensable harms /  Robert Cooter and David DePianto; title: Empirical analysis of tort damages / W. Kip Viscusi; title: Economic analysis of punitive damages : Theory, empirics, and doctrine / Catherine M. Sharkey; title: The empirical effects of tort reform  / Theodore Eisenberg; title: Do damages caps reduce medical malpractice insurance premiums? : a systematic review of estimates and the methods used to produce them / Kathryn Zeiler and Lorian Hardcastle; title: No-fault accident compensation systems / Michael Trebilcock and Paul-Erik Veel; title: Alternatives and complements : Liability and regulation as remedies for physical injury / Richard A. Epstein.