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On the relationship between social distance and threat

Buba, Astrid C.; Hoog, Natascha de - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We investigated the dependence of threat perception and reaction on social distance estimation. Social identity threat …, ingroup and outgroup (OSIO, Schubert and Otten, 2002) as a measure of social distance either before or after the threat … manipulation. Results show significantly differing social distance estimations as a reaction towards the threatening comment …

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Informational Externalities and Information Sharing in Class Action Suits

Deffains, Bruno - 2009

When several plaintiffs file individually a lawsuit against the same tortfeasor, the resolution of the various cases through repeated trials produces positive informational externalities, which benefit to the later plaintiffs (since there exist precedents, jurisprudence...). Thus, the first...

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Institutions Matter! Why the Herder Problem is Not a Prisoner's Dilemma

Cole, Daniel H. - 2008

In the game theory literature, Garrett Hardin's famous allegory of the tragedy of the commons has been modeled as a variant of the Prisoner's Dilemma, labeled the Herder Problem (or, sometimes, the Commons Dilemma). This brief paper argues that important differences in the institutional...

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Boardroom Brawls : An Empirical Analysis of Disputes Involving Directors

Agrawal, Anup - 2008

This paper examines the nature, incidence, and consequences of boardroom disputes. Using a novel, hand-collected dataset of internal disputes in publicly traded U.S. companies over 1995-2006 that come to light upon the occurrence of director resignations, we find that such conflicts typically...

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Supranational Agency : A Solution for Conflict in International Mergers?

Singh, Poonam - 2008

Conflict between national antitrust or competition laws is likely to increase with the increase in global integration. In this paper we develop a two-country, three-firm model to analyze the possibilities of conflict between national antitrust authorities, using the welfare criteria. We show...

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Effects of Friendship in Transactions in an Emerging Market : Empirical Evidence from Brazil

Mendes-Da-Silva, Wesley - 2008

In the emerging field of behavioral finance, including human behavior aspects and implications of cognitive phsychology and anthropology in decisions are considered. The formulated hypotheses were tested by way of 400 questionairres answered by students enrolled in MBA programs. The principal...

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An Economic Theory of Political Institutions : Foreign Intervention and Overseas Investments

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2008

We present a theory of endogenous political regimes that emphasizes overseas investments and that foreign governments may either induce regime transitions or promote regime consolidations. In our theory, foreign intervention is driven by the interaction between strategic foreign investments and...

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The Impact of Terrorism on the Defense Industry

Berrebi, Claude - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of terrorism on Israeli companies related to the defense, security or anti-terrorism industries, relative to its impact on the rest of the companies. The authors match every Israeli company to the American company with the closest expected return among all the...

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Corporate Rent-Seeking and the Managerial Soft-Budget Constraint

Apreda, Rodolfo - 2008

This paper seeks to expand on two topical strands in Government Finance and Political Science literature, rent-seeking and the soft-budget constraint, so as to bring forth a strong linkage between them in corporate governance environments. It hopes to accomplish this target by setting up a...

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Appraisal Reviews and Their Importance

MacCrate, James R. - 2007

Many articles have been written on the art of reviewing appraisal reports by professional real estate appraisers for bank lending and litigation purposes. This article explains why attorneys, Judges, IRS, assessors and other individuals that obtain appraisal reports from third parties should...

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