disputes.This has two consequences. First, firms facing low status ambiguityare less likely to be involved in patent litigation … than are firmsfacing high status ambiguity. Patent litigation events representfailures to resolve patent disputes out of … industry manage uncertain andfrequently overlapping patent rights. In practice, patent rightsare highly imperfect legal …

This paper is a theoretical analysis of incentive setting via civil litigation, with a focus on incentives for care in …. In most existing research, litigation is modeled in reduced form, as a sort of costly audit, without explicit …

impact on financial policy. Chapter 1 discusses prior research,including theory and empirical results, related to firm …. Chapter 2 examines the wealth effects of litigation events on the firms involved, as wellas on their industry peers. I find … that litigation events have a strong negative effect on boththe firms sued, as well as their competitors. Chapter 3 …

In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service …. We find strong evidence of an inverse relationship between the Forest Service's litigation success rate and the …

This dissertation examines the litigation and legal liability exposure of auditors related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of … 2002 (SOX). Three separate studies were conducted to examine how auditor s litigation exposure is evaluated by potential … examines whether the auditor s SOX Section 404 reporting decisions influence lawyers assessments of their litigation exposure …

empirical evidence of a cross-country positive association between the number of lawyers per capita and the extent of litigation …. For instance, Spain has more litigation and more lawyers per capita than most OECD countries. How should this association …

will benefit the manager on multiple key performance indicators (KPIs). Consistent with persuasion theory, differences in … common persuasion tactics in the consulting setting, specifically social proof and scarcity (Cialdini 1993; 2001), which are … the persuasion tactics of social proof or scarcity, and that the consultant applies these tactics based on the manager …