study how the timing of settlement is shaped by the stages and features of the litigation process. Using competing risk …

A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of …

We examine settings - such as litigation, labor relations, or arming and war - in which players first make non …

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 …