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Do judicial assignments matter? : evidence from random case allocation

Ganglmair, Bernhard; Helmers, Christian; Love, Brian J. - 2024

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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Comparative Analysis of Litigation Systems: An Auction-Theoretic Approach

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - Abteilung "Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und industrieller … - 2000

A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of …

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Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth Century Castile

Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2005

The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...

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Comparative Analysis of Litigation Systems: An Auction-Theoretic Approach

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, … - 2004

A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of …

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Small claims litigation in Italy

Fantini, Paolo; Giacomelli, Silvia; Palumbo, Giuliana; … - Banca d'Italia - 2011

Despite accounting for a significant fraction of total litigation in Italy, small claims litigation has so far received … provides a thorough description of the time trend and geographical distribution of small claims litigation in Italy in the … period 2001-2008. Further, it empirically evaluates the impact of different socio-economic variables on litigation. We find …

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The dynamics of one-sided incomplete information in motor disputes

Ayuso, Mercedes; Bermúdez, Lluís; Santolino, Miguel - In: International Review of Law and Economics 41 (2015) C, pp. 77-85

The paper examines the distribution function of settlements over time in an attempt to explain the time it takes to negotiate the claim compensation in the context of motor disputes. Competing risk models are applied to a Spanish motor insurance database. The empirical analysis yielded two main...

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Indemnisation des préjudices et fréquence des procès en présence d'une asymétrie d'informaion sur l'aversion au risque des parties

Langlais, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The paper addresses the issue of the impact of asymmetric information on risk aversion of litigant parties in a model à la Bebchuk. First we study the case where the plaintif is the informed party, and characterize the equilibrium with and without a pretrial negociation round. Then, we focuse...

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Comparative Analysis of Litigation Systems: An Auction-Theoretic Approach

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of …

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Chapter 5 Empirical Study of the Civil Justice System

Kessler, Daniel P.; Rubinfeld, Daniel L. - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 343-402). 2007

litigation process. We begin with a review of studies of aggregate empirical trends and the important issues involving contracts …

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Empirical Study of the Civil Justice System

Kessler, Daniel P.; Rubinfeld, Daniel L. - In: Handbook of Law and Economics

litigation process. We begin with a review of studies of aggregate empirical trends and the important issues involving contracts …

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