When will judgment proof injurers take too much precaution?

International Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 336-354

  Dari Mattiacci, Giuseppe ^a,b   De Geest, Gerrit ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Insolvency; Judgment proof; Liability; Over precaution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847057621     PISSN: 01448188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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