This paper analyzes the effect of injunctions on royalty negotiations for standard essential patents. We develop a model in which courts grant injunctions only when they have sufficient evidence that the prospective licensee is unwilling, in line with the way we understand Courts to operate in...

Abstract: We analyze a monopolist’s pricing and product reliability problem when consumers are entitled to product replacement but have heterogeneous cost of exercising this right, and we assess the implications of a decrease in consumers’ claiming cost on reliability, pro?t, and welfare. We...

This paper concludes that, when offenders are wealth constrained and the government is resource constrained and can commit to a certain policy throughout the whole planning horizon, cost minimizing deterrence is decreasing, rather than increasing, in the number of offenses. By extending the...

Conflict is an everyday fact, part of our society and can be seen at every step, the stress and the "crisis" of time in which we life. The only "problem" that arises is how we manage these conflicts, so that our life is not very affected. We can go to court to judge, hoping thus we get "justice"...

Multiple studies find that plaintiffs who lose at trial and subsequently appeal are less successful on appeal than are losing defendants who appeal. The studies attribute this to a perception by appellate judges that trial courts are biased in favor of plaintiffs. However, at least two...

For a company that has financial difficulties it is best to enter an insolvency procedure. This process offers the possibility to asses the viability of the company and to find the proper solution for its situation. This study examines the peculiarities of the insolvency procedure. The stages of...

La codification est une des questions actuelles du droit moderne. Certaines domaines du droit, tels que le droit civil et le droit pénal, ont été codifiés il y a 200 ans. Plus difficile s’avere la situation du droit administratif, qui était né a ce moment. Quoi que durant ces deux...

An arbiter can decide a case on the basis of his priors, or the two parties to the conflict may present further evidence. The parties may misrepresent evidence in their favor at a cost. At equilibrium the two parties never testify together. When the evidence is much in favor of one party, this...

Hanns Prüttings Nutzen und Schaden der ZPO-Gesetzgebung" fasst die Bemü-hungen zu einer ökonomischen Evaluation der vielen Maßnahmen zur Reform des Zivilprozesses im Jahr 2002 zusammen. Eine befriedigende Evaluation muss dabei zunächst die ökonomischen Zielgrößen benennen, die durch das...