can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … respondent has a formal funeral cover increases with income and banking status. However, it is lower for individuals receiving … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …

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 …

framework that corresponds with general dismissal legislation, but is sufficiently flexible to accommodate country …-specific legislation. Detailed information from a sample of 2,191 disputes that occurred in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2009 is used …