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OECD indicators of structural policy show that policy changes in Italy since 1998 should have improved the environment for entrepreneurship significantly, but in the same period its economic performance has deteriorated noticeably. This may be partly because there is a difference between policy...
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A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of …
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A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278038
We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We use administrative data on judicial claims for health...
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Because judges exercise discretion in how they handle and decide cases, heterogeneity across judges can affect case outcomes and, thus, preferences among litigants for particular judges. However, selection obscures the causal mechanisms that drive these preferences. We overcome this challenge by...
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A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304385
This paper empirically examines the impact of entrepreneurial firm plaintiff litigation on the ability of … important, as both the costs of litigation and potential benefits are arguably more pronounced for start-ups relative to … established firms. We consider cases of litigation being initiated both before and during VC financing. The data indicate (1 …
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We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We use administrative data on judicial claims for health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609195
law and economics to offer a novel organizational perspective on litigation and private dispute resolution, and develop … hypotheses about the likelihood of litigation in different exchange settings. Our empirical analysis generates three sets of new … end of an exchange relationship, as firms frequently manage to avoid litigation and resolve their disputes privately, and …
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This paper empirically examines the interaction between entrepreneurial plaintiff firm litigation and venture capital …, and (5) when litigation occurs after VC financing, they are also less likely to be liquidated. The results are robust to …
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