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A common view is that deposit rates are determined primarily by supply: depositors require higher deposit rates from risky banks, thereby creating market discipline. An alternative perspective is that market discipline is limited (e.g., due to deposit insurance and/or enhanced capital...
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currency and reduce net exports. Emerging market policy makers however believe that inflows lead to credit booms and rising … output, and the evidence appears to go their way. To reconcile theory and reality, we extend the set of assets included in …
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environment is conducive to countries experiencing credit bubbles that have large macroeconomic effects at home and are quickly … propagated abroad. In previous work, we built on the theory of rational bubbles to develop a framework to think about the origins … and domestic effects of these credit bubbles. This paper extends that framework to two-country setting and studies the …
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The purpose of this paper is to understand the effects of endogenous markups and trade costs on the pricing behavior of exporters when firms are heterogeneous in productivity. Using new analytical distributions for markups under Bertrand competition, we uncover Ricardian patterns of export...
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A basic principle of law is that damages paid by a liable party should equal the harm caused by that party. However, this principle is not correct when account is taken of litigation costs, because they too are part of the social costs associated with an injury. In this article we examine the...
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This paper presents the first systematic theoretical and empirical study of high-low agreements in civil litigation. A high-low agreement is a private contract that, if signed by litigants before the conclusion of a trial, constrains any plaintiff recovery to a specified range. Whereas existing...
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This note reexamines the theory of optimal public enforcement when litigation costs are incurred if the defendant is …
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When the cost of a suit exceeds the expected judgment, will a potential plaintiff be able to extract any amount in settlement from the defendant? If so, what is the source of the plaintiff's ability to extract a settlement? This essay discusses existing theories as to why (and when) plaintiffs...
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Under an offer of settlement' rule, a party to a lawsuit may make a special offer to settle with the other party, such that if the other party rejects this offer, then this offer (unlike an ordinary offer) becomes part of the record in the case and may affect the allocation of litigation costs....
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for commercial plastics. Commentators have suggested that the incumbents may have preserved the monopoly outcome by gaming … post-remedy years. Such inelastic demand is inconsistent with monopoly, suggesting the remedy may have been effective …
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