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 …

litigation. Litigation events, while significant, arerare.I suggest that this degree of order is, at least partly,attributable to … 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 …

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 …

. 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 … examines whether managers usefinancial policy strategically when facing an increased risk of litigation claims. I find …

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 …