Victim or injurer, small car or SUV: Tort liability rules under role-type uncertainty

International Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 455-477

  Kim, Jeonghyun ^a   Feldman, Allan M ^b  

^a Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI)   (South Korea)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative negligence; Contributory negligence; Equal division rule; Motor vehicle collisions; Negligence; Role type uncertainty; Vehicle size

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947630866     PISSN: 01448188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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