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Damage Measures for Inadvertant Breach of Contract


Ivan P. L. Png


National University of Singapore

Lucian A. Bebchuk


Harvard Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 19, 1999

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We analyze situations of inadvertant rather than deliberate breach and consider the role of alternative damages remedies. Expectation damages induce excessive reliance, while reliance damages induce excessive reliance and under-efficient precaution. Overall, expectation damages are Pareto-superior to reliance damages.

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Date posted: March 29, 2000  

Suggested Citation

Png, Ivan P. L. and Bebchuk, Lucian A., Damage Measures for Inadvertant Breach of Contract. International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 19, 1999. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=192488

Contact Information

Ivan P. L. Png (Contact Author)
National University of Singapore ( email )
Singapore, 117543
Singapore
+65 6516-6807 (Phone)
HOME PAGE: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ipng/
Lucian A. Bebchuk
Harvard Law School ( email )
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
617-495-3138 (Phone)
617-496-3119 (Fax)
HOME PAGE: http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/bebchuk/
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
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