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The Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards
(Emory Law Journal, 2004)
This paper provides an analysis of sixty-four punitive damages awards of at least $100 million. Based on an inventory of these cases, there is evidence that these blockbuster awards are highly concentrated geographically, ...
Punitive Damages: How Judges and Juries Perform
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2004)
This paper presents the first empirical anatysis that demonstrates that juries differ from judges in awarding punitive damages. Our review of punitive damages awards of $100 million or more identified 63 such awards, of ...
The Denominator Blindness Effect: Accident Frequencies and the Misjudgment of Recklessness
(American Law and Economics Review, 2004)
People seriously misjudge accident risks because they routinely neglect relevant information about exposure. Such risk judgments affect both personal and public policy decisions, e.g., choice of a transport mode, but also ...