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A Comparison of Formal and Informal Dispute Resolution in Medical Malpractice

Farber, Henry S.; White, Michelle J. - 2021

In this study we examine the experience of a single large hospital with an informal pre-litigation "complaint" process that resolves some cases outside of the legal system. The empirical results are generally consistent with an information structure where patients are poorly informed about the...

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Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game : Evidence from Long Run Play

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2013

Do the parties in a typical dispute face incentives similar to those in the classic prisoner's dilemma game? In this paper, we explore whether the costs and benefits of legal representation are such that each party seeks legal representation in the hope of exploiting the other party, while...

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Disputes in International Investment and Trade

Ossa, Ralph; Staiger, Robert W.; Sykes, A. O. - 2022

International investment agreements employ dispute settlement procedures that differ markedly from their counterparts in trade agreements along three key dimensions: standing (i.e., the right to file grievances), the nature of the remedy, and the remedial period. In the state-to-state dispute...

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Is the WTO Passé?

Bagwell, Kyle - 2015

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...

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Dancing with Activists

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2019

An important milestone often reached in the life of an activist engagement is entering into a “settlement” agreement between the activist and the target's board. Using a comprehensive hand-collected data set, we analyze the drivers, nature, and consequences of such settlement agreements....

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An Analysis of the Selection of Arbitrators

Bloom, David E. - 2007

This paper analyses data on union and employer rankings of different panels of arbitrators in an actual arbitration system. A random utility model of bargainer preferences is developed and estimated. The estimates indicate that unions and employers have similar preferences, in favor of lawyers,...

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The Promise and Pitfalls of Conflict Prediction : Evidence from Colombia and Indonesia

Bazzi, Samuel - 2019

Policymakers can take actions to prevent local conflict before it begins, if such violence can be accurately predicted. We examine the two countries with the richest available sub-national data: Colombia and Indonesia. We assemble two decades of fine-grained violence data by type, alongside...

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Mediating Conflict in the Lab

Casella, Alessandra; Friedman, Evan; Perez Archila, Manuel - 2022

the treatment with direct communication) or to the mediator (in the mediation treatment), before making their demands or … a computer implementing the optimal mediation program. While the theoretical result refers to the best (i.e. most … peaceful) equilibrium under mediation, multiple equilibria exist, and the best equilibrium is particularly vulnerable to small …

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Worker Empowerment and Subjective Evaluation : On Building an Effective Conflict Culture

MacLeod, William Bentley; Valle Lara, Victoria; … - 2022

Although conflicts typically lead to a waste of resources, organizations may still benefit from a corporate culture that tolerates or even encourages conflicts. The reason is that coordinated conflicts may help to enforce informal contracts and foster cooperation. In this paper we report results...

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