percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We study compliance dynamics generated by a large set of behavioral rules describing social interaction in a population … cheating-auditing occurs: Intensive monitoring induces compliance, but with high compliance there is incentive for lax … monitoring; with less monitoring, compliance starts decreasing, and then there is an incentive to intensify monitoring. Thus, the …

We examine whether changes of government influence compliance with international agreements. We investigate compliance …