What Is Forensic Economics?

This chapter provides an overview of forensic economics by discussing four
questions about its domain. The first question asks whether forensic economics
is a practical or academic enterprise, or both. The second one concerns the
types of legal decisions that forensic economics informs, including three
separate stages of law enforcement and the distinction between questions of
fact and law. The third question relates to the fields of law to which forensic
economics applies with special attention to tort damages and antitrust. And
the fourth one considers the position of the people who carry out the forensiceconomic
analyses outside of or within an enforcement body.