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Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India
Dougherty, Sean - 2011
) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in India. Identification of the effect of EPL follows from a …
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Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation
Agrawal, Ajay - 2008
The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its …-location and diaspora effects for accessing knowledge. Then, using patent citation data associated with inventions from India, we … access, on average. However, knowledge access conferred by the diaspora is particularly valuable in the production of India …
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The Market Value of R&D in Weak Innovation Regimes : Evidence from India
Kanwar, Sunil - 2015
We revisit the relationship between market value and innovation in the context of manufacturing firms in a developing …
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Most-Favored Entry Clauses in Drug Patent Litigation Settlements as a Potential Reverse Payment
Drake, Keith M.; McGuire, Thomas G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Settlements of drug patent disputes that involve a potential payment from the brand to the generic signal a possible collusive profit split with a threat to competition, and have undergone intensive scrutiny in the literature on law and economics. A common feature of these brand-generic...
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State-building on the Margin : An Urban Experiment in Medellin
Blattman, Christopher; Duncan, Gustavo; Lessing, Benjamin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Medellin's government wanted to raise its efficacy, legitimacy, and control. The city identified 80 neighborhoods with weak state presence and competing armed actors. In half, they increased non-police street presence tenfold for two years, offering social services and dispute resolution. In...
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An Analysis of the Selection of Arbitrators
Bloom, David E. - 1986
This paper analyses data on union and employer rankings of different panels of arbitrators in an actual arbitration system. A random utility model of bargainer preferences is developed and estimated. The estimates indicate that unions and employers have similar preferences, in favor of lawyers,...
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Dancing With Activists
Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2019
An important milestone often reached in the life of an activist engagement is entering into a "settlement" agreement between the activist and the target's board. Using a comprehensive hand-collected data set, we analyze the drivers, nature, and consequences of such settlement agreements....
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Disputes in International Investment and Trade
Ossa, Ralph - 2020
International investment agreements employ dispute settlement procedures that differ markedly from their counterparts in trade agreements along three key dimensions: standing (i.e., the right to file grievances), the nature of the remedy, and the remedial period. In the state-to-state dispute...
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Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game
Ashenfelter, Orley - 1993
The goal of this paper is to explore the possibility that the costs and benefits of legal representation are structured so that each individual party seeks legal representation in the hope of exploiting the other party, while knowing full well that failing to do so will open up the possibility...
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Engineering Informal Institutions : Long-run Impacts of Alternative Dispute Resolution on Violence and Property Rights in Liberia
Hartman, Alexandra C. - 2018
Informal institutions govern property rights and disputes when formal systems are weak. Well-functioning institutions should help people reach and maintain bargains, minimizing violence. Can outside organizations engineer improvements and reduce violent conflicts? Will this improve property...
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