Alessandro De Chiara
Biographic Data
| ID | 9534014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro De Chiara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | De Chiara |
| SIGNATURE | DE CHIARA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barcelona School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7951-7189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Courts’ Decisions, Cooperative Investments, and Incomplete Contracts
Buyers may try to motivate their sellers to make relationship-specific investments to reduce the probability that the design of the goods they procure is defective. In some countries, courts examine how much real authority the seller had in performing the work in their assignment of liability for a design failure. I show that the approach followed by courts induces the sellers to underinvest and the buyers to underspecify the design of the goods.…
Car accidents in the age of robots
In this paper, we compare liability rules in a world where human-driven and fully-autonomous cars coexist. We develop a model where a manufacturer can invest to improve the safety of autonomous cars. Human drivers may decide to purchase a fully-autonomous car to save precaution costs to avoid road accidents and shift liability to the car manufacturer. As compared to the negligence rule, a strict liability regime on both human drivers and car manu…
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Car accidents in the age of robots
In this paper, we compare liability rules in a world where human-driven and fully-autonomous cars coexist. We develop a model where a manufacturer can invest to improve the safety of autonomous cars. Human drivers may decide to purchase a fully-autonomous car to save precaution costs to avoid road accidents and shift liability to the car manufacturer. As compared to the negligence rule, a strict liability regime on both human drivers and car manu…
Courts’ Decisions, Cooperative Investments, and Incomplete Contracts
Buyers may try to motivate their sellers to make relationship-specific investments to reduce the probability that the design of the goods they procure is defective. In some countries, courts examine how much real authority the seller had in performing the work in their assignment of liability for a design failure. I show that the approach followed by courts induces the sellers to underinvest and the buyers to underspecify the design of the goods.…
Business (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (2 works) · Liability (2 works) · Accident (philosophy) (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Computer security (1 work) · Economics (1 work)