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Understanding the Time to Court Case Resolution : A Competing Risks Analysis Using Belgian Data
Bielen, Samantha - 2017
Court delays are a frequent concern, yet what explains court case duration remains incompletely understood. We study the time to court case resolution by drawing on a detailed case-level dataset of civil suits filed at a major Belgian court. We utilize the competing risks regression framework to...
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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2013
We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these … situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non …-competitive effect on charity selection, raising the value of charity provision per dollar of funding …
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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force
Friebel, Guido - 2017
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...
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Emotions in Litigation Contests
Baumann, Florian - 2011
This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge when litigants win (lose) at trial and are dependent in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...
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Frand Royalties and Injunctions for Standard Essential Patents
Choi, Jay Pil - 2014
I develop a stylized model of court procedures that resolve disputes concerning FRAND-encumbered standard essential patents (SEPs). I analyze the effects of injunctions and potential court-imposed FRAND rates on negotiated royalty rates. The SEP-holders' ability to hold-up is constrained by the...
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Optimal Litigation Strategies with Signaling and Screening
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2021
This paper examines the strategic effects of case preparation in litigation. Specifically, it shows how the pretrial efforts incurred by one party may alter its adversary's incentives to settle. We build a sequential game with one-sided asymmetric information where the informed party first...
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Contests as Selection Mechanisms : The Impact of Risk Aversion
March, Christoph - 2017
We investigate how individual risk preferences affect the likelihood of selecting the more able contestant within a two-player Tullock contest. Our theoretical model yields two main predictions: First, an increase in the risk aversion of a player worsens her odds unless she already has a...
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Dynastic Entrepreneurship, Entry, and Non-Compete Enforcement
Rauch, James E. - 2015
We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs. Without finance constraints, enforcement of non-compete agreements unambiguously improves social welfare outcomes, and even increases the rate of spinoffs from original firms....
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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-Profit Provision and Charity Selection
Perroni, Carlo - 2015
We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...
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Lift and Shift : The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2017
their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly …Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943156