IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/jinter/v19y2007i1p83-96.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Deterrence Perspective on Damages for Fraudulent Misrepresentation

Author

Listed:
  • Qi Zhou

    (The School of Law, The University of Manchester. Williamson Building, Oxford Road Manchester, M13 9PL. Email: zhou@qizhou.net)

Abstract

The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, it provides a theoretical framework for understanding the deterrence function of damages as a private legal remedy for fraudulent misrepresentation, explains, from an economic perspective, why fraudulent misrepresentation is socially undesirable, and then shows how the damages rule can be used as a deterrence instrument. Second, it conducts a brief analysis of the deterrence of fraudulent misrepresentation in English tort law and argues that, despite some imperfections, damages in tort law can provide a valuable complement to some traditional deterrence sanctions to fraud such as criminal law and regulation.

Suggested Citation

  • Qi Zhou, 2007. "A Deterrence Perspective on Damages for Fraudulent Misrepresentation," Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, , vol. 19(1), pages 83-96, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jinter:v:19:y:2007:i:1:p:83-96
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://jie.sagepub.com/content/19/1/83.abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:jinter:v:19:y:2007:i:1:p:83-96. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.