Pretrial bargaining with self-serving bias and asymmetric information

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 163-176

  Farmer, Amy ^a   Pecorino, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Civil litigation; Pre trial bargaining; Self serving bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036214151     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-2681(01)00236-0     Document Type: Article

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