TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Screening accident victims
JO  - International review of law and economics
A1  - Friehe, Tim
SP  - 272
EP  - 280
VL  - 29
IS  - 3
N2  - This paper considers victim heterogeneity in harm levels in a bilateral-care model, where harm is private information. In practice, resources are expended on the verification of damages suffered. We establish a sufficient condition for the possibility to accurately deduce the harm level from the observable care choice without spending on verification. For cases in which this condition does not hold, this paper sets out a simple screening mechanism that induces victims to reveal their type truthfully and induces optimal care in equilibrium without verification costs.<p /> 
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SN  - 0144-8188
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2009.03.002
ID  - ref1
ER  -