What Is Forensic Economics?

This chapter provides an overview of forensic economics by discussing four questions about its domain. The first question asks whether forensic economics is a practical or academic enterprise, or both. The second one concerns the types of legal decisions that forensic economics informs, including three separate stages of law enforcement and the distinction between questions of fact and law. The third question relates to the fields of law to which forensic economics applies with special attention to tort damages and antitrust. And the fourth one considers the position of the people who carry out the forensiceconomic analyses outside of or within an enforcement body