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Spite in litigation
Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023
the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and …This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under … settlement requests are higher for more spiteful participants. The relative increase in litigation expenditures due to spite is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013555697
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Rules of proof, courts, and incentives
Demougin, Dominique (contributor); Fluet, Claude (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498654
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Do judges hate speculators?
Hornuf, Lars; Klöhn, Lars - 2018 - This version: November 18, 2018
Historically, people have often expressed negative feelings toward speculators, a sentiment that might have even been reinforced since the latest financial crisis, during which taxpayer money was warranted or spent to bail out reckless investors. In this paper, we conjecture that judges may also...
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Comparative Analysis of Litigation Systems: An Auction-Theoretic Approach
Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; Vries, Casper G. de - 2000
A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781653
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Litigation and the timing of settlement : evidence from commercial disputes
Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2015
study how the timing of settlement is shaped by the stages and features of the litigation process. Using competing risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343069
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A model of the card payment system and the interchange fee
De Grauwe, Paul; Rinaldi, Laura - 2002
We analyse a card payment system to assess the economic impact of the interchange fee. This fee is paid by the bank of the merchant, the acquirer, to the bank of the consumer, the issuer. We build up a mode in order to explore whether the interchange fee can enhance the participation to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538993
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Tuition fees, as user prices, and private incentives
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2016
This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing tuition fees for public education services into a tax system with income and consumption taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in capital holdings. We show that the introduction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500172
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Tax competition, excludable public goods and user charges
Huber, Bernd; Runkel, Marco - 2004
This paper provides an economic explanation for the increasing reliance of the state on revenue from user charges on … country chooses a strictly positive price on the public good. With quasi-linear preferences, the reliance on user charges is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402456
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A theory of user-fee competition
Fuest, Clemens; Kolmar, Martin - 2004
centralized solution. In addition the regions have strategic incentives to set user charges. If the regional spillover goods are …
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Socially optimal royalty design and illegal logging under alternative penalty schemes
Amacher, Gregory S.; Koskela, Erkki; Ollikainen, Markku - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402671