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Punitive Damages and the Processing of Tort Claims

Eaton, Thomas A.; Mustard, David B.; Talarico, Susette M. - EconWPA - 2005

Punitive damages are one of the most controversial aspects of tort litigation and have been the subject of various … litigation processes. In particular, Polinsky (1997) argues that the uncertainty and unpredictability that punitive damage claims …. With one of the largest and most comprehensive data sets of tort litigation (over 25,000 cases filed from 1994 through 1997 …

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Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth Century Castile

Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2005

The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...

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Why Every Economist Should Learn Some Auction Theory

Klemperer, Paul - EconWPA - 2000

This is an Invited paper for the World Congress of the Econometric Society held in Seattle in August 2000. We discuss the strong connections between auction theory and "standard" economic theory, and argue that auction-theoretic tools and intuitions can provide useful arguments and insights in a...

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Settlement finality as a public good in large-value payment systems

Humphrey, David; Pages, Henri - EconWPA - 2005

Target is a real time gross settlement (RTGS) large value payment network operated by European central banks that … eliminates systemic risk. Euro1 is a privately operated delayed net settlement (DNS) network that reduces substantially systemic …

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Central counterparty clearing: constructing a framework for evaluation of risks and benefits

Ripatti, Kirsi - EconWPA - 2005

pan-European financial infrastructure for payments and securities clearing and settlement. Central counterparty clearing …’s securities market infrastructure – clearing and settlement. Because of the importance of its role, a CCP must have sound risk …-benefit analysis in a Finnish/Nordic-Baltic clearing and settlement infrastructure that incorporates a CCP solution. This is an updated …

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Advertising, Pricing & Market Structure in Competitive Matching Markets

Bataille, Edner; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers. Sellers' expenditure on directly informative advertising attracts consumers only probabilistically. Consumers who happen to observe advertisements randomize over the advertised...

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A Note on Firms' Strategic Behaviour During an IPO

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2002

When potential shareholders cannot observe the business conditions of the firms, the latter desiring to acquire capital by an IPO and operating under less favourable business conditions have a strong incentive to appear more successful.

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Characterizing Asymmetric Information in International Equity Markets

Albuquerque, Rui; Bauer, Gregory; Schneider, Martin - EconWPA - 2004

This paper studies the international portfolio flows of US investors to examine the information structure of international equity markets. We use an empirical model of portfolio flows with both public and private information to extract measures of trades due to private information. We find that...

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Low Information Games - Experimental Evidence on Learning in Ultimatum Bargaining

Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 1999

This paper reports experimental evidence on behaviour in an Ultimatum Game where responders have low structural information and feedback so that they have to learn the nature of the game during repeated play. The results lend support to the view that certain learning conditions are less...

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Can Markets Learn to Avoid Bubbles?

Miller, Ross M. - EconWPA - 2002

One of the most striking results in experimental economics is the ease with which market bubbles form in a laboratory setting and the difficulty of preventing them. This article re-examines bubble experiments in light of the results of an earlier series of market experiments that examine how...

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