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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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Learning from Law Enforcement
Dusek, Libor - 2020
This paper studies how punishment for past offenses affects future compliance behavior and isolates deterrence effects mediated by learning. Using administrative data from speed cameras that capture the full driving histories of more than a million cars over several years, we evaluate responses...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866040
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Rules of proof, courts, and incentives
Demougin, Dominique M.; Fluet, Claude - 2007
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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Shocks, Frictions, and Inequality in US Business Cycles
Bayer, Christian - 2020
How much does inequality matter for the business cycle and vice versa? Using a Bayesian likelihood approach, we estimate a heterogeneous-agent New-Keynesian (HANK) model with incomplete markets and portfolio choice between liquid and illiquid assets. The model enlarges the set of shocks and...
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Will Destination-Based Taxes Be Fully Exploited When Available? An Application to the U.S. Commodity Tax System
Agrawal, David R. - 2019
-level policies that increase tax avoidance opportunities, the results of the empirical model broadly confirm our theory …
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Non-Linearities and Persistence in US Long-Run Interest Rates
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A.; … - 2021
This note examines the stochastic behaviour of US monthly 10-year government bond yields. Specifically, it estimates a fractional integration model suitable to capture both persistence and non-linearities, these being two important properties of interest rates. Two series are analysed, one from...
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The Short and the Long of it : Stock-Flow Matching in the US Housing Market
Smith, Eric; Xie, Zoe; Fang, Lei - 2022
This paper investigates the US housing market from just before the Great Recession onward (2006-2019) and assesses the viability of stock-flow matching in generating the observed outcomes. The paper documents that the probability a house sells declines sharply after listing for two weeks....
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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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