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Enforcement by Hearing how the Civil Law sets Incentives

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Sanchirico, W.

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This paper investigates the manner in which the civil law sets incentives , given that courts do not directly observe that the law would hope to control. The paper proposes a model that casts the civil law's problem as a ccombination of moral hazard in the underlying activity and adverse selection in a second-stage signaling game ( the "hearing", where "types in the latter are determined by actions in the former.

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Paper provided by Columbia University, Department of Economics in its series Discussion Papers with number 1996_01.

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Length: 57 pages
Date of creation: 1996
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Handle: RePEc:clu:wpaper:1996_01

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Keywords: LAW; GAME THEORY;

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K1 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law
K10 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - General (Constitutional Law)

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  1. Chris William Sanchirico, 2004. "Relying on the Information of Interested--and Potentially Dishonest--Parties," Law and Economics 0403001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  2. Chris William Sanchirico, 2004. "Games, Information, and Evidence Production: With Application to English Legal History," Law and Economics 0403002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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