Search Results - subject:"Court error"

Tipping the scales: Conciliation, appeal and the relevance of judicial ambition

Christmann, Robin - 2013

Judges become ambitious decision makers when they face appellate review. This paper applies a contract theoretic perspective to the behavior of self-interested trial judges in a twolevel court system and analyzes the consequences for contracting in 'the shadow of' the court. Confronted with the...

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Tipping the Scales – Conciliation, Appeal and the Relevance of Judicial Ambition

Christmann, Robin - Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt … - 2013

Judges become ambitious decision makers when they face appellate review. This paper applies a contract theoretic perspective to the behavior of self-interested trial judges in a two-level court system and analyzes the consequences for contracting in “the shadow of” the court. Confronted with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991229

Tipping the scales : conciliation, appeal and the relevance of judicial ambition

Christmann, Robin - 2013

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Litigation and settlement under court error

Ackermann, Philipp - 2010

of court error, however, this conclusion may be wrong. Court decisions create positive externalities for future litigants … overdeterrence are possible under court error. Moreover, court error increases the likelihood of out-of-court settlements which can … which will not occur if a dispute is settled out of court. Focusing on private litigation, we examine the impact of court …

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Insolvency and Biased Standards - The Case for Proportional Liability

Stremitzer, Alexander; Tabbach, Avraham - 2009

We analyze liability rules in a setting where injurers are potentially insolvent and where negligence standards may deviate from the socially optimal level. We show that proportional liability, which sets the measure of damages equal to the harm multiplied by the probability that it was caused...

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Insolvency and Biased Standards - The Case for Proportional Liability

Stremitzer, Alexander; Tabbach, Avraham - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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Insolvency and biased standards : the case for proportional liability

Stremitzer, Alexander; Tabbach, Avraham D. - 2009

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Tipping the scales : settlement, appeal and the relevance of judicial ambition

Christmann, Robin - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 11 (2015) 2, pp. 171-207

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No Judge, No Job! Court errors and the contingent labor contract

Christmann, Robin - In: European Journal of Law and Economics 38 (2014) 3, pp. 409-429

Judges are prone to error and misapprehension when they are verifying the facts of a legal case. We analyze the significance and scope of accurate court decisions and judicial error for labor contracting and identify the implications of these concepts on behavioral incentives and market...

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The robustness case for proportional liability

Stremitzer, Alexander; Tabbach, Avraham D. - In: The B.E. journal of theoretical economics 14 (2014) 1, pp. 371-395

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