"Index" [2013] ELECD 1236; in Arlen, H. Jennifer (ed), "Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 633

Book Title: Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts

Editor(s): Arlen, H. Jennifer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848441187

Section Title: Index

Number of pages: 30

Extract:

Index


Abbring, J. 180, 181 335­7, 349, 364, 440­41, 446, 448, 460,
Abel, R. 447, 448 473, 481, 491, 492, 497, 504­5, 522, 554
Abraham, K. 36, 41, 45, 51, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, Arrow, K. 36, 37, 38, 47, 179, 180, 183, 446,
151, 169, 170, 177, 178, 185 592
Abrahamse, A. 188, 596, 599 Ashenfelter, O. 439, 449
accidents Ashford, N. 542
automobiles see automobiles Asmat, D. 178
incompensable harms 440­42, 451 asymmetric information
industrial accidents, consensual bounded rationality in settlement process
arrangements 621­3 362­4, 370
no-fault compensation see no-fault accident case quality and contingent-fee contracts
compensation systems 399­400, 406
physical injury see physical injury, liability negative expected value (NEV) suits 349­53
and regulation as remedies physical injury, liability and regulation as
see also injury; medical malpractice remedies 609­10
Adams, J. 295 and settlement see settlement, law and
Adler, M. 451 economics, existing claims, asymmetric
adverse selection information models
contingent-fee contracts in litigation 399, settlement and primary behavior 353­5
403, 404, 405 vicarious liability of firms, 55­9, 234­69
contracting over malpractice liability 53­4 see also information
and liability insurance, moral hazard 180­81, Atiyah, P. 624
186 attorney incentives, contingent-fee contracts
agency costs see contingent-fee contracts in litigation,
liability insurance 171, 177 fee structures, implications of different,
issues, group litigation see group litigation, attorney incentives
agency issues Austin, D. 229
contingent-fee contracts in litigation 396­7 Australia
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