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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 participants. The relative increase in litigation expenditures due to spite is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260383
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Bargaining and Conflict with Up-Front Investments: How Power Asymmetries Matter
Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2019
We examine settings - such as litigation, labor relations, or arming and war - in which players first make non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179829
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Socially-tolerable discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2008
History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status, academic performance, health status, volume of market transactions, religion, sexual orientation, etc. However, these forms of discrimination are not equally tolerable. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264357
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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 participants. The relative increase in litigation expenditures due to spite is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290200
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Conflict, settlement, and the shadow of the future
McBride, Michael; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2009
finding, discuss its applicability in war, litigation, and other settings, and test it in a laboratory experiment. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267048
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International Trade and Stable Resolutions of Resource Disputes
Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2022
We consider a dynamic setting in which two sovereign states with overlapping ownership claims on a resource/asset first arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute violently through war or peacefully through settlement. Both approaches depend on the states’ military capacities, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243081
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Trade, Insecurity, and the Costs of Conflict
Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2022
Typically, economics assumes that property rights over productive resources or goods are perfectly defined and costlessly enforced. The costs of insecurity and the resultant conflict are, however, real and often economically significant. In this paper, we examine how international trade regimes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243087
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A new approach to solving production-appropriation games with many heterogeneous players
Cornes, Richard; Hartley, Roger; Tamura, Yuji - 2010
We set out a model of production and appropriation involving many players, who differ with respect to both resource endowments and productivities. We write down the model in a novel way that permits our analysis to avoid the proliferation of dimensions associated with the best response function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270524
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Conflicts with multiple battlefields
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2010
This paper examines conflicts in which performance is measured by the players' success or failure in multiple component conflicts, commonly termed 'battlefields'. In multi-battlefield conflicts, behavioral linkages across battlefields depend both on the technologies of conflict within each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274746
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The attack and defense of weakest-link networks
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2010
This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker's objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender's objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274929