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Article draws upon economic analyses of industrial organization and principal-agent theory to illuminate the tensions caused …
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We study the role of competition in customers' reactions to litigation against firms, using anonymized mobile phone location data. A class action lawsuit filing results in a 4% average reduction in customer visits to target firms' outlets in the following months. The effect strongly depends on...
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incentive to abstain from expending any effort and instead free-ride on the efforts of other members. Contest theory shows that … relative to the theory. We discuss potential explanations for such over-expenditure, including the utility of winning, bounded … support for the comparative statics predictions of the theory (with the exception of the “group size paradox”). Finally …
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We develop a model with asymmetric information, where the uninformed party makes the offer. When parties proceed to trial, their endogenous expenditures partially determine the outcome. The endogenous spending at trial can either strengthen or weaken the bargaining position of the uninformed...
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Confidence seems to replace certain knowledge and the necessity for specific information. It simplifies economical processes and procedures, it motivates investing, and obviously, it enhances welfare — if it was missing, innumerable dealings would not be made. Consequently, if confidence among...
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