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The evolution of citizenship : economic and institutional determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor);  … - 2006
We investigate the origin and evolution of the legal institution of citizenship from a political economy perspective. We compile a new data set on citizenship laws across countries of the world which documents how these institutions have evolved in the postwar period. We show that, despite a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003522985
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Producer protection legislation and termination damages in the presence of contracting frictions
Wu, Steven - 2009
This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894440
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The economics of credence goods : on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … efficiency, we find that liability has a crucial, but verifiability only a minor effect. Allowing sellers to build up reputation … higher efficiency as long as liability is violated. -- Credence goods ; experiment ; liability ; verifiability ; reputation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814341
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Compensation in personal injury cases : mean or median income?
Danziger, Leif; Katz, Eliakim - 2019
percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034365
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Contracts between legal persons
Kornhauser, Lewis A.; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2010
; contract theory ; incomplete contracts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312933
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Ancestral norms, legal origins, and female empowerment
Brodeur, Abel; Mabeu, Marie Christelle; Pongou, Roland - 2020
A large literature documents persistent impacts of formal historical institutions. However, very little is known about how these institutions interact with ancestral traditions to determine long-term economic and social outcomes. This paper addresses this question by studying the persistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199043
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379672
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The role of lawyer-legislators in shaping the law : evidence from voting behavior on tort reforms
Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law than legislators with a different professional background. This finding is based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488138
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How do insurers price medical malpractice insurance?
Black, Bernard S.; Traczynski, Jerey; Udalova, Victoria - 2022
Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we …
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To segregate or to integrate : education politics and democracy
De la Croix, David (contributor);  … - 2007
public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635035