Liability rules, limited information, and the role of precedent.

Author(s)
Cooter, R. Kornhauser, L. & Lane, D.
Year
Abstract

Recent studies of the role of the law in distributing accident costs have led to the pessimistic conclusion that because judges lack the information to discover the efficient level of care, efficiency cannot be achieved by common law tart rules. It is shown here that judges how enough information to revise the legal standard via the mechanism of precedent. A sequence of court decisions by differential equations is given.

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B 16331 fo /10/73/
Source

Bell Journal of Economics, Vol. 10 (1979), No. 1, p. 366-373, ref.

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