Georgetown University)Costly Pretrial Agreements • July 22nd, 2018
Contract Type FiledJuly 22nd, 2018Abstract. Settling a legal dispute involves some costs that the parties have to incur ex-ante, for the pretrial negotiation and possible agreement to become feasible. Even in a full information world, if the distribution of these costs is sufficiently mismatched with the distribution of the parties’ bargaining powers, a pretrial agreement may never be reached even though actual Court litigation is overall wasteful.
Georgetown University)Costly Pretrial Agreements • July 14th, 2018
Contract Type FiledJuly 14th, 2018Abstract. Settling a legal dispute involves some costs that the parties have to incur ex-ante, for the pretrial negotiation and possible agreement to become feasible. Even in a full information world, if the distribution of these costs is sufficiently mismatched with the distribution of the parties’ bargaining powers, a pretrial agreement may never be reached even though actual Court litigation is overall wasteful.