The volume focuses on litigation damages, economic and non-economic, including punitive damages; their definitions, calculations, and assignments in the US and EU. The objective is to examine areas of convergence and divergence in the academic and practical treatment of damages issues in the US...

The transformation of Ireland from one of the poorer countries in Western Europe to one of the best performing is one of the most remarkable economic success stories in recent times. The ten papers in this collection were presented at a conference at Lehigh University in March 2001. Written from...

For over fifty years, Eli Schwartz has inspired generations of students and economists through his many publications and dedication to teaching. In 2008, the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise at Lehigh University invited prominent academics and practitioners--including Nobel...

My Favorite Two Corporate Finance Puzzles -- The Solvency of Federal Welfare Entitlement Programs: Social Security and Medicare -- The Corporate Sector as a Net Exporter of Funds: Additional Evidence -- Piscal Folicy 101-Economic Policy Meets Partisan Politics -- A Taxonomy of Utility Functions...

Litigation economics / Patrick A. Gaughan, Robert J. Thornton -- Recent developments in the measurement of labor market activity / Gary R. Skoog, James E. Ciecka -- Research and practice issues in personal injury and wrongful death damages analysis / Frank Slesnick, James Payne, Robert J....

The first chapter in the volume, by George A. Barrett and Michael L. Brookshire, is entitled “The Forensic Economics of Medical Monitoring Damages in the United States.” It focuses on a relatively new category of compensatory damages, the measurement of the costs of monitoring the medical...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the patterns and determinants of excess labour turnover (churning) in the Luxembourg labour market using a rich employer‐employee matched data set. Design/methodology/approach – The paper formulates a model to explain churning rates...