The Reduced Form of Litigation Models and the Plaintiff’s Win Rate
提出诉讼选择模型的简化形式方法，通过联合分布、条件胜诉率函数和诉讼规则三个要素，统一分析不同结构模型，并证明关于原告胜诉率的反直觉结论。
This paper introduces the reduced-form approach to litigation selection models. A reduced form comprises a joint distribution of parties’ beliefs about the probability that a plaintiff would win in the event a dispute were litigated; a conditional win rate function giving the actual probability of a plaintiff’s win in the event of litigation, given the parties’ subjective beliefs; and a litigation rule that provides the probability that a dispute will be litigated given the two parties’ beliefs. Models with very different-looking structures can be understood in common reduced-form terms. The reduced form can be used to prove interesting and perhaps surprising results related to the plaintiff’s win rate in litigated cases.