The Selection Hypothesis and the Relationship between Trial and Plaintiff Victory
检验了Priest和Klein的选择假说，发现审判率与原告胜诉率之间的关系支持该假说，并利用法官数据估计了合同、产权和侵权三类案件的决策标准、利益不对称程度和不确定性参数。
This paper develops implications of the selection hypothesis of George L. Priest and Benjamin Klein (1984) for the relationship between trial rates and plaintiff win rates. The author finds strong evidence for the selection hypothesis in estimated relationships between trial rates and plaintiff win rates at trial across case types and judges. He then structurally estimates the model on judge data, yielding estimates of the model's major parameters (the decision standard, the degree of stake asymmetry, and the uncertainty parameter) for each of three major case types, contracts, property rights, and torts. Copyright 1995 by University of Chicago Press.