Compensation in Personal Injury Cases: Mean or Median Income?
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Keywords
compensation; personal injury; income loss; uncertainty; risk aversion;All these keywords.
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- K13 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Tort Law and Product Liability; Forensic Economics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAW-2019-08-19 (Law and Economics)
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