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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system
Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016
The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...
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Is transparency an anti-corruption myth?
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Schaffner, Markus - 2017
We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …
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Reputation and credit market formation : how relational incentives and legal contract enforcement interact
Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - 2009
The evidence suggests that relational contracting and legal rules play an important role in credit markets but on the basis of the prevailing field data it is difficult to pin down their causal impact. Here we show experimentally that relational incentives are a powerful causal determinant for...
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Accidental death and the rule of joint and several liability
Carvell, Daniel; Currie, Janet M.; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2009
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The changing landscape of blockbuster punitive damages awards
DelRossi, Alison F.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2009
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Consent and exchange
Bar-Gill, Oren; Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2007
In some cases, the law permits a party that unilaterally provides a benefit to another party to recover the estimated value of this benefit. Despite calls for expanding the set of cases to which such a restitution rule applies, the law commonly applies a mutual consent rule under which a party...
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Losers and losers : some demographics of medical malpractice tort reforms
Friedson, Andrew I.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2011
Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort...
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On the interaction of memory and procrastination : implications for reminders
Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli - 2014
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A damage-revelation rationale for coupon remedies
Polinsky, Alan Mitchell; Rubinfeld, Daniel L. - 2005
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First do no harm? : Tort reform and birth outcomes
Currie, Janet M.; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2006
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