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Automobile Seatbelt Usage and the Value of Statistical Life
(Southern Economic Journal, 2007)
This article uses several within-sample tests to assess whether current seatbelt usage decisions are consistent with the stated preferences of survey respondents. The expressed survey values of statistical life are positively ...
An Empirical Assessment of Early Offer Reform for Medical Malpractice
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2007)
The early offer reform proposal for medical malpractice provides an option for claimants to
receive prompt payment of all their net economic Losses and reasonable attorney fees. Using a Large sample of closed individual ...
Rational Discounting for Regulatory Analysis
(University of Chicago Law Review, 2007)
This Article examines the economic basis for what is termed "rational discounting,"
which entails full recognition of policy effects over time and exponential discounting
at a riskless rate of return. Policies often cannot ...
Allocating Responsibility for the Failure of Global Warming Policies
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2007)
A recent series of climate change lawsuits has sought to mimic the "regulation through litigation" approach of the claims brought by the states against cigarette manufacturers. What is distinctive about the cigarette cases ...
Tort Liability Litigation Costs for Commercial Claims
(American Law and Economics Review, 2007)
This article analyzes tort liability litigation costs using the Texas Department of Insurance Commercial Liability Insurance Closed Claim database for the years 1988–2004. Insurer costs to defend claims in which a suit was ...
An Empirical Assessment of Early Offer Reform for Medical Malpractice
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2007)
The early offer reform proposal for medical malpractice provides an option for claimants to receive prompt payment of all their net economic losses and reasonable attorney fees. Using a large sample of closed individual ...