Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93762 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 160
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
The legal notion of damages requires to compare the actual value of the creditor's assets with the hypothetical value that would have prevailed if the debtor had met his obligation. Moreover, values and causation may be uncertain. If nature's contribution is modelled as a random move then the interaction between debtor and nature can be described in normal form which, in turn, allows to capture causality and legal damages in a consistent way. In practice, such random moves of nature are rarely observable. Yet, statistical inference may reveal sufficient information to test for causation and to estimate legal damages on average over observable events as the present paper will establish.
Subjects: 
estimating legal damages
liability for torts
liability for breach of contracts
JEL: 
K13
K12
D62
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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