Enforcing Contracts: Should Courts Seek the Truth?
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- Claude Fluet, 2003. "Enforcing Contracts: Should Courts Seek the Truth?," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 159(1), pages 49-64, March.
- Claude Denys Fluet, 2002. "Enforcing Contracts: Should Courts Seek the Truth?," CIRANO Working Papers 2002s-76, CIRANO.
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Keywords
adjudication; contract; enforcement; rules of evidence; standard of proof; value of information.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
- K4 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2003-04-13 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-LAW-2003-04-13 (Law and Economics)
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