"Contents" [2013] ELECD 1209; in Arlen, H. Jennifer (ed), "Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) v

Book Title: Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts

Editor(s): Arlen, H. Jennifer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848441187

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents


List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1
Jennifer Arlen

PART I OVERVIEW OF TORT LITIGATION

1 Empirical analysis of civil litigation: Tort trials in state courts 11
Michael Heise

PART II ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LIABILITY

2 Economic analysis of medical malpractice liability and its reform 33
Jennifer Arlen
3 Economic analysis of products liability: Theory 69
Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum
4 Causation in tort law: A reconsideration 97
Keith N. Hylton
5 Causation and foreseeability 114
Mark F. Grady
6 Fault lines in the positive economic analysis of tort law 149
Mark A. Geistfeld
7 The law and economics of liability insurance: A theoretical and empirical
review 169
Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman

PART III ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF MULTI-PARTY LITIGATION

8 Economic analysis of joint and several liability 199
Lewis A. Kornhauser
9 Economic policy and the vicarious liability of firms 234
Reinier Kraakman
10 Group litigation in the enforcement of tort law 262
Geoffrey Miller



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11 The socio-economics of mass torts: What we know, don't know and should
know 279
Deborah R. Hensler

PART IV THE LITIGATION PROCESS

12 Law, economics, and the burden(s) of proof 305
Eric L. Talley
13 Law and economics of settlement 330
Abraham L. Wickelgren
14 Bounded rationality in the settlement process: Empirical evidence on the
causes of settlement failure in litigation 360
Linda Babcock and Joshua Furgeson
15 Contingent-fee contracts in litigation: A survey ...