Add to ORKGIn an economic perspective, punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common economic function – creating optimal deterrence. Building on Parisi and Cenini (2010), we study the effect of alternative procedural regimes on the effectiveness of punitive damages and class actions. Specifically, we compare the workings of punitive damages and class actions in the American and English (“loser-pays”) regimes. Our findings help explain the limited use and late adoption of class actions and punitive damages in Europe
Punitive damages are a typical and settled feature of American law. The remedy can be described as a...
Justifications for the use of punitive damages refer to deterrence and punishment. After formulating...
For the civil proceduralist in the United States the most perplexing problems of recent years have b...
In an economic perspective, punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common eco...
In an economic perspective, punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common eco...
In an economic perspective, punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common eco...
Punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common economic function – creating op...
Punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common economic function - creating op...
Once a preserve of the American legal landscape, the class action device today transcends geographic...
There are plenty of noneconomic reasons to care whether victims are compensated in class actions. Th...
Nineteenth-century debate on punitive damages has led to an apparently un- bridgeable gap between Am...
This essay deals with the enforceability of U.S. opt-out class actions in Europe, with special atten...
Abstract: This entry concerns punitive damages. In considering the rationale for the award of puniti...
Punitive damages are a typical and settled feature of American law. The remedy can be described as a...
Justifications for the use of punitive damages refer to deterrence and punishment. After formulating...
For the civil proceduralist in the United States the most perplexing problems of recent years have b...
In an economic perspective, punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common eco...
In an economic perspective, punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common eco...
In an economic perspective, punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common eco...
Punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common economic function – creating op...
Punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common economic function - creating op...
Once a preserve of the American legal landscape, the class action device today transcends geographic...
There are plenty of noneconomic reasons to care whether victims are compensated in class actions. Th...
Nineteenth-century debate on punitive damages has led to an apparently un- bridgeable gap between Am...
This essay deals with the enforceability of U.S. opt-out class actions in Europe, with special atten...
Abstract: This entry concerns punitive damages. In considering the rationale for the award of puniti...
Punitive damages are a typical and settled feature of American law. The remedy can be described as a...
Justifications for the use of punitive damages refer to deterrence and punishment. After formulating...
For the civil proceduralist in the United States the most perplexing problems of recent years have b...