Keith N Hylton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith N Hylton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith N |
| FAMILY NAME | Hylton |
| SIGNATURE | HYLTON K N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3416-3436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Economics of Appeals
This paper examines the incentive to appeal. While existing literature focuses on appeals as a mechanism for correcting errors or controlling judicial incentives, we explore individual litigants’ incentives in civil and criminal cases by modeling the opportunity cost of the trial court judgment for litigants when deciding whether to appeal. In civil trials, this causes a reluctance to appeal for plaintiffs and a bias in favor of appealing for def…
Originalism, Official History, and Perspectives versus Methodologies
This paper addresses a well-worn topic: originalism, the theory that judges should interpret the U.S. Constitution in a manner consistent with the intent of its framers. I am interested in the real-world effects of originalism. The primary effect advanced by originalists is the tendency of the approach to constrain the discretion of judges. However, I identify another effect of originalism: the creation of official histories, a practice that impo…
Selling and abandoning legal rights
Mutual optimism and risk preferences in litigation
Causation and Incentives with Updating Courts
This paper examines the negligence standard in the presence of intervening causal factors. The court observes the evidence and assigns a probability to the intervening factor in the course of evaluating the injurer's negligence. The court must, under the law, put a substantial weight on the facts in estimating the intervention probability. We allow the court to also put some weight on its own prior. Under such an adaptive approach to assessing ne…
Incentives to take care under contributory and comparative fault
The Law and Economics of Organ Procurement
This paper presents an economic analysis of the organ procurement system in the U.S. and examines proposals to alleviate the shortage of transplantable organs. The paper's principal conclusions are: (1) Although non‐market solutions deserve the highest priority, demand increases fueled by improvements in transplant technology will probably make some market‐based solution necessary in the future. (2) Quality deterioration and coercion will not nec…
The Law and Economics of Organ Procurement
This paper presents an economic analysis of the organ procurement system in the U.S. and examines proposals to alleviate the shortage of transplantable organs. The paper's principal conclusions are: (1) Although non‐market solutions deserve the highest priority, demand increases fueled by improvements in transplant technology will probably make some market‐based solution necessary in the future. (2) Quality deterioration and coercion will not nec…
The Law and Economics of Organ Procurement
This paper presents an economic analysis of the organ procurement system in the U.S. and examines proposals to alleviate the shortage of transplantable organs. The paper's principal conclusions are: (1) Although non‐market solutions deserve the highest priority, demand increases fueled by improvements in transplant technology will probably make some market‐based solution necessary in the future. (2) Quality deterioration and coercion will not nec…
Causation and Incentives with Updating Courts
This paper examines the negligence standard in the presence of intervening causal factors. The court observes the evidence and assigns a probability to the intervening factor in the course of evaluating the injurer's negligence. The court must, under the law, put a substantial weight on the facts in estimating the intervention probability. We allow the court to also put some weight on its own prior. Under such an adaptive approach to assessing ne…
Incentives to take care under contributory and comparative fault
Mutual optimism and risk preferences in litigation
Selling and abandoning legal rights
The Economics of Appeals
This paper examines the incentive to appeal. While existing literature focuses on appeals as a mechanism for correcting errors or controlling judicial incentives, we explore individual litigants’ incentives in civil and criminal cases by modeling the opportunity cost of the trial court judgment for litigants when deciding whether to appeal. In civil trials, this causes a reluctance to appeal for plaintiffs and a bias in favor of appealing for def…
Originalism, Official History, and Perspectives versus Methodologies
This paper addresses a well-worn topic: originalism, the theory that judges should interpret the U.S. Constitution in a manner consistent with the intent of its framers. I am interested in the real-world effects of originalism. The primary effect advanced by originalists is the tendency of the approach to constrain the discretion of judges. However, I identify another effect of originalism: the creation of official histories, a practice that impo…
Economics (5 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Incentive (3 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Actuarial science (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)