-it-or-leave-it settlement offers, we can show that they will actually be exploited by one of their fellow plaintiffs rather than by the … settlement even having complete information. This may explain why we observe derivative suits in the US but not in Europe. …

monetary poverty and inequality. Intra-household gender discrimination has been widely shown to shape expenditure decisions …. Using recent developments in intrahousehold bargaining modelling, this paper constructs non-cooperative allocation rules … dominated by gender discrimination among household members. Estimates for Chile show a substantial worsening of poverty and …

In this article, we investigate the relevance of the glass ceiling hypothesis in France, according to which there exist … larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail of the wage distribution. Using a matched worker-firm data set of about 1 30 000 … information specific to the firms. Our different results show that accounting for firm-related characteristics reduces the gender …

strengthening financial infrastructure. The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) contributed to this process through …

economy is examined. Also the return migration and its ramification for settlement are highlighted. Finally while summarising …

bargaining position, and an information effect, which means that litigants will take into account pretrial how the information … twofold: First, it establishes a workhorse model of settlement and litigation in the shadow of appeals which may be used in …

's punitive damage award, on litigants' beliefs and bargaining outcomes. In addition, we study the formation of litigants' beliefs … litigants' background beliefs (elicited before a role is assigned and after commitment to a choice at the pretrial bargaining …' beliefs about fairness and lower out-of-court settlement amounts. …