Of hired guns and ideologues: why would a law firm ever retain an honest expert witness?
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Keywords
expert witnesses; signaling; litigation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- K41 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Litigation Process
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GTH-2021-08-23 (Game Theory)
- NEP-ISF-2021-08-23 (Islamic Finance)
- NEP-LAW-2021-08-23 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2021-08-23 (Microeconomics)
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