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Lawyers as agents of the devil in a prisoner's dilemma game: Evidence from long run play
Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David E.; Dahl, Gordon Boyack - 2013
in wage disputes that were settled by final-offer arbitration in New Jersey. The paper also reports briefly on similar … agreeing not to hire lawyers is cheaper and does not appear to alter arbitration outcomes. …
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The Impact of Compulsory Arbitration on Bargaining Behavior: An Experimental Study
Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2005
A series of experiments compares bargaining behavior under three different settings: no arbitration, conventional and … final offer arbitration. Under no arbitration disputes with zero payoffs were around 10%, while the pie was equally split in … less than half of the cases. Under conventional arbitration - where the arbitrator is free in choosing his award - every …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297233
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Arbitration and Mediation: An Economic Perspective
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2002
This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262705
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The Timing of Out-of-Court Settlements Revisited: Theory and Cross- Sectional Evidence from Texas since 1988
Zhou, Jun - 2010
Legal institutions play an important role in affecting delay in settlement. But little research has investigated the institutional causes of delay. The empirical literature is ambiguous regarding the impact of trial-court delay on settlement delay. I analyze the timing of bargaining and the...
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Determinants of Noneconomic Damages in Medical Malpractice Settlements and Litigations: Evidence from Texas since 1988
Zhou, Jun - 2010
There have long been claims that compensations for noneconomic damages are random because tort law does not provide clear guidance regarding these compensations. I investigate, in both settled and tried medical malpractice cases, whether noneconomic damage payments are arbitrary and what...
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Optimal litigation strategies with signaling and screening
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2008
This paper examines the strategic effects of case preparation in litigation. Specifically, it shows how the pretrial efforts incurred by one party may alter its adversary's incentives to settle. We build a sequential game with one-sided asymmetric information where the informed party first...
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Are all labor regulations equal? Evidence from Indian manufacturing
Ahsan, Ahmad; Pagés, Carmen - 2008
Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor laws: employment protection and labor dispute resolution legislation. We find that laws that increase employment protection or the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce...
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Bedeutungsverlust staatlicher Zivilgerichte: Einem empirischen Nachweis auf der Spur
Hoffmann, Hermann; Maurer, Andreas - 2010
Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit behauptet, der ein Bedeutungsverlust der staatlichen Gerichte gegenüberstehe ('The Vanishing Trial'). Im Folgenden …, especially arbitration ('The Vanishing Trial'). We will try to explore this thesis on an empirical basis. For this purpose we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302733
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Collective Bargaining under Non-binding Contracts
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - 2011
We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over wages in a non-binding contract setting. Our main result is the equivalence between the non-binding collective equilibrium wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract...
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Konflikteskalation in Tarifverhandlungen: Methode, Indikatoren und empirische Befunde
Lesch, Hagen - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 24 (2017) 1, pp. 31-53
die Tarifverhandlungen in Deutschland nach wie vor als „Konfliktpartnerschaft“ beschrieben werden können. Dabei lassen …
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