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Exploring the Social and Economic Costs of Abuse in Later lIfe

Spencer, Charmaine - EconWPA - 2000

Abstract : Abuse and neglect of older adults (« elder abuse ») has a significant impact on the lives of the individuals involved. At the same time, it has a broader social and economic cost. Many of these are « hidden costs » in the sense that the cause of the underlying problem is not...

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Why the Japanese Taxpayer Always Loses

Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

The tax office wins most cases in Japan. We think about why this might be. We find that although judges who rule in favor of the taxpayer do not suffer in their future careers, if the loser-- whether governemnt or taxpayer--appeals and wins, the reversed judge's career does take a turn for the...

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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF A WEAK JUDICIARY: INSIGHTS FROM INDIA

Koehling, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002

This paper examines the empirical relationship between the quality of the Indian judiciary and the economic development of the Indian States and Union Territories. It evaluates this causality by analysing the development of the state-level per capita income and poverty rates. I define the...

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WTO Dispute Settlement at Ten: Evolution, Experiences, and Evaluation

Zimmermann, Thomas A. - EconWPA - 2005

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: On 1 January 1995, the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (DSU) entered into force. During its first ten years, the DSU has since been applied to 324 complaints – more cases than dispute settlement under the GATT 1947 had dealt with in...

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Rational Legal Decision-Making, Value Judgment and Efficient Precaution in Tort law

ZHENG, MINGLI; ANWAR, SAJID - EconWPA - 2005

By reinterpreting Savage axioms as axioms of the social rationality over resource allocations, we derive a social welfare function encompassing individual social values and a social attitude towards distributional inequality. Wealth maximization becomes the purpose of law only if individuals...

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Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Graham, Stuart J. H.; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - EconWPA - 2004

. At the same time patent litigation and its costs are rising. This paper explores the potential of a post- grant review … subsequent litigation. We argue that the welfare gains to such a system may be substantial. …

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Courts, firms and allocation of credit

Shvets, Julia - EconWPA - 2005

The paper investigates whether and how performance of regional commercial courts has affected external credit of Russian enterprises between 1995 and 2002. The results show that more reliable courts lead to higher bank lending to firms. This occurs predominantly through expansion of the number...

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Post-Issue Patent "Quality Control": A Comparative Study of US Patent Re-examinations and European Patent Oppositions

Graham, Stuart J. H.; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - EconWPA - 2003

We report the results of the first comparative study of the determinants and effects of patent oppositions in Europe and of re- examinations on corresponding patents issued in the United States. The analysis is based on a dataset consisting of matched EPO and US patents. Our analysis focuses on...

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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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