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about the extent to which conventional arbitration decisions are fashioned as mechanical compromises of the parties' final … in the arbitration decisions, this evidence of mechanical compromise behavior should be viewed as characterizing the … overall operation of conventional arbitration mechanisms and not the behavior of individual arbitrators in any particular case …
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of wage settlements negotiated without arbitration using a panel of contracts between teachers and school boards in the …
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This paper examines the sharing of risk under three different remedies for breach of contract. The risk considered …. By means of a numerical example, it is shown that use of the prevailing remedy for breach of contract -- the expectation …
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controlling the contract price is preferable, as that policy can reduce the problems of holdup but still allow contracts to be …
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the heterogeneity of the effect of entry, contract enforcement regulation, and financial development on both the decision … businesses in countries with higher levels of entry and contract enforcement regulation …
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Regulation of economic activity is ubiquitous around the world, yet standard theories predict it should be rather … information, as by the failure of courts to solve contract and tort disputes cheaply, predictably, and impartially. The approach …
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Recent research on the economics of patents is surveyed. The topics covered include theoretical and empirical evidence on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and what we know about the design of patent systems. We also...
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We provide a simple but novel model of trade agreements that highlights the role of transaction costs, renegotiation and dispute settlement. The model allows us to characterize the appropriate remedy for breach and whether the agreement should be structured as a system of "property rights" or...
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This paper examines how the prospect of foreign retaliation affects the antidumping (AD) process in the United States. We separate the capacity for retaliation into two channels: (i) the capacity for foreign government retaliation under the dispute settlement procedures of the GATT/WTO system,...
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This paper analyzes GATT and its dispute settlement procedure (DSP) in the context of a supergame model of international trade featuring both explicit and implicit agreements. An explicit agreement, such as GATT, may be violated at some positive cost in addition to retaliatory actions that might...
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