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percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …
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This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and settlement requests are higher for more spiteful...
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Does enhanced shareholder liability reduce bank failure? We compare the performance of around 4,200 state …-regulated banks of similar size in neighboring U.S. states with different liability regimes during the Great Depression. The distress … rate of limited liability banks was 29% higher than that of banks with enhanced liability. Results are robust to a diff …
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the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. For a given number of buyers, platform liability … interests between innovators and buyers. Furthermore, platform liability can have unintended consequences, which overturn the … intended effect on innovation. Platform liability tends to increase (decrease) innovation and consumer welfare when the …
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We analyze the design of legal principles and procedures for court decision-making in civil litigation. The objective is the provision of appropriate incentives for potential tort-feasors to exert care, when evidence about care is imperfect and may be distorted by the parties. Efficiency is...
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Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability. Risk-neutral managers may not when … acting as agents under contract and taking costly actions to acquire information before taking decisions. Limited liability …
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We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of mailings, leading to a substantial increase in...
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This paper addresses the role of product liability for the emergence and development of smart products such as … autonomous vehicles (AVs). We analyze how the liability regime affects innovative activities, as well as the timing of market … shifting more liability on the producers of AVs. First, while this improves the safety of AVs in the long run, the safety stock …
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the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. For a given number of buyers, platform liability … interests between innovators and buyers. Furthermore, platform liability can have unintended consequences, which overturn the … intended effect on innovation. Platform liability tends to increase (decrease) innovation and consumer welfare when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427770
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of...
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