In this paper, we analyze the impact of Bad Debt Loss Insurance on settlement outcomes. A huge success in a settlement or trial may turn into a disaster when the defendant goes bankrupt. "Rainmakers" face the following dilemma: the greater the success in court, the greater the defendant's...

A university system has both efficiency and equity objectives. Efficiency requires the adoption of a tuition fee system that maximizes net social benefits. These benefits take two main forms: production benefits and a more diffuse range of benefits to society in general. The equity objective...

Taking the fundamental and comprehensive reform of EU competition policy which embodies a shift from a formalistic regulatory approach towards a more economic approach as a point of departure, this article argues that it is time for antitrust policy to move beyond structural understandings of...

This paper (1) investigates Hayek's proposition that law in the sense of universal rules of conduct and property are the only solution to the problem of reconciling indi-vidual freedom with the absence of conflict. It (2) argues that the test of the compatibility with the inherited body of law...