Nine points of the law: evidentiary rules and the costs of litigation

If the defendant in a lawsuit is better informed than the plaintiff about the value of damages that could potentially be assigned by the court, biasing the burden of proof toward the plaintiff may lower aggregate efficiency losses from litigation. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Wärneryd, Karl
Published in:	Public Choice. - Springer. - Vol. 153.2012, 3, p. 279-285
Publisher:	Springer
Subject:	Litigation \| Asymmetric information \| Burden of proof \| Contest

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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