On discovery, restricting lawyers, and the settlement rate
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Keywords
litigation; discovery; moral hazard; principal-agent relationship;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- K41 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Litigation Process
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2014-08-25 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-LAW-2014-08-25 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2014-08-25 (Microeconomics)
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