Unité mixte de recherche 7235

Trial and settlement negotiations between asymmetrically skilled parties

Bertrand Chopard, Thomas Cortade, Eric Langlais

[en] Parties engaged in a litigation generally enter the discovery process with different informations regarding their case and/or an unequal endowment in terms of skill and ability to produce evidence and predict the outcome of a trial. Hence, they have to bear different legal costs to assess the (equilibrium) plaintiff’s win rate. The paper analyses pretrial negotiations and revisits the selection hypothesis in the case where these legal expenditures are private information. This assumption is consistent with empirical evidence (Osborne, 1999). Two alternative situations are investigated, depending on whether there exists a unilateral or a bilateral informational asymmetry. Our general result is that efficient pretrial negotiations select cases with the smallest legal expenditures as those going to trial, while cases with largest costs prefer to settle. Under the one-sided asymmetric information assumption, we find that the American rule yields more trials and higher aggregate legal expenditures than the French and British rules. The two-sided case leads to a higher rate of trials, but in contrast provides less clear-cut predictions regarding the influence of fee-shifting. [/en]

AGENDA

lundi 25 septembre 2023

Law, Institutions and Economics in Nanterre (LIEN)

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Less than meets the eye: simultaneous experiments as a source of algorithmic seeming collusion

mardi 26 septembre 2023

Recherche et Economie et Socioéconomie Politique, des Institutions et des Régulations (RESPIR)

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ATTENTION : exceptionnellement, le séminaire aura lieu en G 301-302 et non en G614b

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Lunch

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Salle 614B de 11h – 12h

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Groupe de travail Economie Comportementale

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TBA

jeudi 5 octobre 2023

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The impact of climate variability on internal migration in Thailand.

dimanche 8 octobre 2023

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