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details of liability regulation and taxation rules which German entrepreneurs face when choosing a particular legal form for … as forced liquidation. Firms under limited liability are characterized by higher growth and higher insolvency rates than … comparable firm under full liability. We also confirm the previously found negative relationship between employment growth and …
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expected harm. We find that, even with customers being perfectly informed about product variants' safety, product liability can … discrimination. In this context, strict liability has to be accompanied by a defense of product misuse, but reasonable use of the …
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We analyze the extent to which private defensive litigation insurance deters patent assertion by non-practicing entities (NPEs). We study the effect that a patent-specific defensive insurance product, offered by a leading litigation insurer, had on the litigation behavior of insured patents’...
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Because judges exercise discretion in how they handle and decide cases, heterogeneity across judges can affect case outcomes and, thus, preferences among litigants for particular judges. However, selection obscures the causal mechanisms that drive these preferences. We overcome this challenge by...
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This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity … involves risk. On the one hand, the risk of firm owners is limited if their liability is limited. On the other hand credits … will be more difficult to receive if liability is limited. The paper first discusses these issues theoretically and then …
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We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a number from one to six with there being a payoff associated with each number. They can...
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