The Filtering Effect of Sharing Rules

Sharing rules have a filtering effect on violations: they prevent the most harmful violations and let the least harmful ones occur. We show the conditions under which the filtering effect improves social welfare and argue that this may explain why, in most areas of the law, sharing rules are, in gen...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of legal studies 2005-01, Vol.34 (1), p.207-237
Hauptverfasser:	Dari‐Mattiacci, Giuseppe, De Geest, Gerrit
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Accidents Comparative negligence Contract breaches Contracts Cost allocation Cost efficiency Law enforcement Liability Sharing Social costs Social welfare Torts Violations Welfare
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