The Behavioural Economics of Inheritance Litigation

澳大利亚人正在见证历史上最大的代际财富转移。不幸的是，越来越多的家庭因遗产问题诉诸法庭。这些纠纷使家庭四分五裂，并使家庭和法院承担了过高的费用。本项目应用法律的、行为经济学和统计学方法研究继承权之争。它试图产生关于继承诉讼驱动因素的新知识，以使其具有成本效益。其预期成果包括继承诉讼的行为经济模型，以预测降低成本的策略将发挥作用;一个大型的现实世界继承案件数据库，以测试这些预测;以及强有力的法律改革建议，以降低诉讼成本。

Australians are witnessing the greatest intergenerational wealth transfer in history. Unfortunately, more and more families are going to court over inheritance. These disputes tear families apart and impose excessive costs on families and the courts. This project applies legal, behavioural economic and statistical methods to study inheritance battles. It seeks to generate new knowledge about the drivers of inheritance litigation, in order to make it cost-effective. Its expected outcomes include behavioural economic models of inheritance litigation to predict what cost-reduction strategies will work; a large database of real-world inheritance cases to test these predictions; and robust law-reform recommendations to reduce litigation costs.