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We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …
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Absent efficiency-cultivating judges, is selective litigation alone enough to drive the common law to efficiency? To address this question, the common law is viewed as an evolving network of precedents. Litigants nominate the most inefficient precedents for re-adjudication and judges modify...
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We construct a database of U.S. federal court decisions pertaining to copyright and changes in federal statutory copyright law, and use this database to assemble indices measuring changes in the breadth of copyright protection. We combine our indices with information on excess returns to equity...
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We investigate two alternative explanations why men may hold more stocks than women. Apart from a gender difference in … risk aversion, gender differences in either optimism or in perceived risk of financial markets might cause men to hold more … issues, including the economy and the stock market. After taking differences in optimism into account systematic gender …
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