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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school). Finally, it was found that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500181
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school).Finally, it was found that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320529
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Asymmetries and economic interaction between Israel and Palestine
Vaggi, Gianni; Baroud, Sara - 2005
and between the two economies involved. Palestine is currently afflicted with economic stagnation and structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326086
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Compensation and the Abandoned Property of the 1948 Palestinian Refugees: Assessment and Implications
Lewisf, Frank D - 2006
This paper extends the analysis of "Agricultural Property and the 1948 Palestinian Refugees: Assessing the Loss" (Lewis 1996) to non-agricultural property. The estimate is based mainly on the area of urban property abandoned by refugees, where valuations are based on contemporary transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940731
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Does the stock market punish corporate malfeasance?: A case study of Citigroup
Mizrach, Bruce; Zhang Weerts, Susan - 2005
This paper examines how well the market anticipates regulatory sanction. We look at key dates of SEC, NASD, FTC, Congressional and foreign investigations and their subsequent resolution. Our event study confirms that the settlements provide little new information to the market. In six major case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277197
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Gambling for the upper hand: Settlement negotiations in the lab
Miettinen, Topi; Ropponen, Olli; Sääskilahti, Pekka - 2011
We exploit a controlled frameless laboratory experiment to study settlement negotiations and the plaintiff's decision … and lowers the settlement rate. This latter finding goes against the received wisdom and earlier experimental evidence … (Ashenfelter et al. 1992) that greater risk in arbitration outcomes increases the settlement rate. We find that self-serving biases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281632
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Credit default swap auctions
Helwege, Jean; Maurer, Samuel; Sarkar, Asani; Wang, Yuan - 2009
The rapid growth of the credit default swap (CDS) market and the increased number of defaults in recent years have led to major changes in the way CDS contracts are settled when default occurs. Auctions are increasingly the mechanism used to settle these contracts, replacing physical transfers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283509
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Plaintiffs exploiting Plaintiffs
Stremitzer, Alexander - 2008
-it-or-leave-it settlement offers, we can show that they will actually be exploited by one of their fellow plaintiffs rather than by the … settlement even having complete information. This may explain why we observe derivative suits in the US but not in Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333784
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Double-Sided Moral Hazard, Efficiency Wages and Litigation
Gürtler, Oliver; Kräkel, Matthias - 2007
We consider a double-sided moral hazard problem where each party can renege on the signed contract since there does not exist any verifiable performance signal. It is shown that ex-post litigation can restore incentives of the agent. Moreover, when the litigation can be settled by the parties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333984
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Inside Post-Socialist Courts: The Determinants of Adjudicatory Outcomes in Slovenian Commercial Disputes
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2014
courts to examine the determinants of two salient adjudicatory outcomes: whether a case was resolved via trial or settlement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398581