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unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. The results have potentially important policy …
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We contrast alternative liability rules for social control of product risks when heterogeneous consumers considering …' mispredictions vary with the prevailing liability regime. We first characterize the consumers' purchasing decision and the … equilibrium levels of safety and activity from the product's usage under no liability, strict liability, and negligence rule. We …
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What is the appropriate lump-sum compensation for loss of work income in personal injury cases? Since generally future work income is not known with certainty, compensation for its loss must be based on statistical considerations. Typically, courts have based awards on mean or median work...
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We focus in this paper on the effects of court errors on the optimal sharing of liability between firms and financiers …, governments and courts we show, through numerical simulations, the distortions in liability sharing between firms and financiers … firm innocent of inappropriate care) errors. This role is considered in a context where liability sharing is already …
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hypothesis that locals will provide more tips to the enforcement agency when unemployment is high, we find that the number of … audits conducted grows with increased local unemployment. We also find that a congressman's party affiliation and its …
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various performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that … high taxes increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter …
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When enacting labor market regulation governments face courts that interpret and implement the legal code. We show that the incentives for governments for labor market reform increase with the uncertainty that is involved in the implementation of legal codes through courts. Given that judges...
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performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that high taxes … increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter employment protection …
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when the agent is protected by limited liability. In this paper, we investigate how the principal should construct the … globally incentive compatible under limited liability, if local incentive constraints are strictly satisfied. We identify …
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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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