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Capasso, Salvatore; Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2018

corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual …

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Pools and cross-licensing in the shadow of patent litigation

Choi, Jay Pil - 2003

Most patent pools are formed in the shadow of patent litigation as an attempt to settle disputes in regard to conflicting infringement claims and the validity of patents. To reflect this reality, I develop a simple framework to analyze the incentives to form a patent pool or engage in...

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Dismissal disputes and endogenous sorting

Garibaldi, Pietro; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2015

Dismissal disputes occur mostly in recessions and often lead to long and costly contract termination procedures. This paper investigates how dispute procedures may affect the job-matching process. First we present a simple accounting framework that corresponds with general dismissal legislation,...

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Why are there strikes?

Chun, Kyung Nok; Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2020

Strikes, just as other types of conflict, used to be difficult to explain from an economic perspective. Initially, it was thought that they were a result of mistakes or irrationality. Then, during the 1980s an explosion of research brought asymmetric information to prominence as a significant...

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Labour disputes and the game of legal representation

Fraisse, Henri - 2010

This paper explores the prisoner's dilemma that may result when workers and firms are involved in labour disputes and must decide whether to hire a lawyer to be represented at trial. Using a representative data set of labour disputes in the UK and a large population of French unfair dismissal...

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Punitive police? : agency costs, law enforcement, and criminal procedure

Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - 2015 - Revised version: April 2015

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … hire punitive police agents, while providing suspects with strong criminal procedure protections, thereby empowering other …

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The cost of binge drinking

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2015

of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation …

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Gender, crime and punishment : evidence from women police stations in India

Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Prakash, Nishith - 2021

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …

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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force

Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved. …

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Collective bargaining and police misconduct : evidence from Florida

Dharmapala, Dhammika; McAdams, Richard H.; Rappaport, John - 2019 - This version: May 2019

agencies between 1996 and 2015, we implement a difference-in-difference approach in which police departments (which were … rights led to a substantial increase in violent incidents of misconduct among SOs, relative to police departments. The effect …

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