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English versus American rule : an experimental analysis
[Règle anglaise versus règle américaine d’allocation des frais de justice : une analyse expérimentale]

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  • Yannick Gabuthy

    (BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - AgroParisTech - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Emmanuel Peterle

    (CRESE - Centre de REcherches sur les Stratégies Economiques (UR 3190) - UFC - Université de Franche-Comté - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE])

  • Jean-Christian Tisserand

    (CEREN - Centre de Recherche sur l'ENtreprise [Dijon] - BSB - Burgundy School of Business (BSB) - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon Bourgogne (ESC), Fondation Formation universitaire à distance Suisse (UniDistance))

Abstract

In this paper, we conduct an experiment in order to analyze how the trial costs allocation rule (i.e., American or English rule) may shape the efficiency of the litigation process, via its effect on the attorney's effort, the deterrence of meritless claims and the plaintiff's incentives to go to court. It appears that the English rule helps to screen out low-quality claims, partly by lessening attorneys' incentives to provide effort to defend such cases ex post (and hence discouraging potential clients to go to trial ex ante).

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  • Yannick Gabuthy & Emmanuel Peterle & Jean-Christian Tisserand, 2020. "English versus American rule : an experimental analysis [Règle anglaise versus règle américaine d’allocation des frais de justice : une analyse expérimentale]," Post-Print hal-03211963, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03211963
    DOI: 10.3917/reco.716.0973
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