Informational externalities in settlement bargaining: Confidentiality and correlated culpability

RAND Journal of Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 587-604

  Daughety, Andrew F ^a   Reinganum, Jennifer F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036990863     PISSN: 07416261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3087476     Document Type: Article

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