Unpacking Negligence Liability: Experimentally Testing the Governance Effect

Eisenberg, Theodore; Engel, Christoph

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Unpacking Negligence Liability: Experimentally Testing the Governance Effect

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Engel, Christoph
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Max Planck Society;

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jels.12099/abstract
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Eisenberg, T., & Engel, C. (2016). Unpacking Negligence Liability: Experimentally Testing the Governance Effect. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 13(1), 116-152.

Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0029-B226-3

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Arguably, if a court holds a defendant liable for negligently inflicting harm on the plaintiff, this intervention combines three effects: (1) the court specifies the normative expectation, (2) the court expresses dissatisfaction with the plaintiff's behavior, for example, her level of activity, and (3) the court obliges the defendant to compensate the plaintiff. In the field, it would be close to impossible to disentangle the three effects, or to investigate how they interact with intrinsic reticence to inflict harm on a passive outsider. We therefore go to the lab. We do not find an effect of intrinsic morality. However, the intervention has a separate significant effect on each of the three channels.