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Economics seminar to discuss lawsuit dynamics
[09.23.2010]

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Department of Economics will host Professor Andrew F. Daughety of Vanderbilt University Sept. 24. Daughety will discuss his work “A Dynamic Model of Lawsuit Joinder and Settlement.” The paper examines a model of the process in which multiple related lawsuits are filed and combined as well as the effects of preemptive settlement offers.

The event will be held 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in BSN 115.

Daughety is a professor of economics and professor of law (by courtesy). His fields of specialty are industrial organization, law and economics and microeconomics. Daughety is the associate editor of the RAND Journal of Economics, co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and the associate editor of the Economics Bulletin.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

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