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Compensation in Personal Injury Cases : Mean or Median Income?
Danziger, Leif - 2019
percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …
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Spite in Litigation
Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023
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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Balanced Scorecards : A Relational Contract Approach
Kvaloy, Ola; Olsen, Trond E. - 2021
Reward systems based on balanced scorecards typically connect pay to an index, i.e. a weighted sum of multiple performance measures. We show that such an index contract may indeed be optimal if performance measures are non-verifiable so that the contracting parties must rely on self-enforcement....
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Relational Contracts and Trust in a High-Tech Industry
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2021
We study how informal buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry affect procurement. Using unique data from a survey focusing on these, we show that more trust, the belief that the trading partner acts to maintain the mutual relationship, is associated with both higher...
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Shareholder Liability and Bank Failure
Aldunate, Felipe; Jenter, Dirk; Korteweg, Arthur G.; … - 2021
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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Platform Liability and Innovation
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Lefouili, Yassine; Madio, Leonardo - 2022
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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Do Audits Improve Future Tax Compliance in the Absence of Penalties? Evidence from Random Audits in Norway
Hebous, Shafik - 2020
The Norwegian Tax Administration operated multi-year random audits of personal income tax returns. We exploit this exceptional randomized setup to estimate the effects of tax audits on future compliance explicitly distinguishing between dynamic responses of compliant and noncompliant audited...
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Compliance Effects of Risk-Based Tax Audits
Løyland, Knut - 2019
Tax administrations use machine learning to predict risk scores as a basis for selecting individual taxpayers for audit. Audits detect noncompliance immediately, but may also alter future filing behavior. This analysis is the first to estimate compliance effects of audits among high-risk wage...
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Reputations, relationships and the enforcement of incomplete contracts
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2006
This paper discusses the literature on the enforcement of incomplete contracts. It compares legal enforcement to enforcement via relationships and reputations. A number of mechanisms, such as the repeat purchase mechanism (Klein and Leffler (1981)) and efficiency wages (Shapiro and Stiglitz...
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Making sense of non-binding retail-price recommendations
Buehler, Stefan; Gärtner, Dennis L. - 2010
We model non-binding retail-price recommendations (RPRs) as a communication device facilitating coordination in vertical supply relations. Assuming both repeated vertical trade and asymmetric information about production costs, we show that RPRs may be part of a relational contract,...
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