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Predicting the litigation outcome of PPP project disputes between public authority and private partner using an ensemble model

Zheng, Xiaoxiao; Liu, Yisheng; Jiang, Jun; Thomas, Linda M. - In: Journal of Business Economics and Management (JBEM) 22 (2021) 2, pp. 320-345

Apart from the loss of time and money, disputes between public authority and private partner in China's public-private partnership (PPP) projects are destroying the government's image of PPP support and the private partner's investment confidence. This article aims to explore the main causes for...

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Competitive dynamics, IP litigation and acquisitions: The struggle for positional advantage in the emerging mobile internet

Seppälä, Timo; Kenney, Martin - 2012

incumbents and new entrants from internet that are vying for space in the new world of mobile internet. To understand the … contemporary industry of smart devices, we used the latest IP litigation data from the U.S. to illustrate how the world of … essential patents (i.e., the old incumbents in mobile telecommunications) and the world of platform patents (i.e., the new …

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Trade skirmishes and safeguards: A theory of the WTO Dispute Settlement Process

Beshkar, Mostafa - 2009

-reducing trade skirmishes. The DSP is interpreted as an impartial arbitrator that announces its opinion about the state of the world …

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The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts: a cross-country analysis

Voigt, Stefan - 2008

Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can...

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The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts: a cross-country analysis

Voigt, Stefan - 2008

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Jury discrimination in criminal trials

Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2010

This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique dataset of all felony trials in Sarasota County, Florida between 2004 and 2009. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random...

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Indisputably essential: The economics of dispute settlement institutions in trade agreements

Keck, Alexander; Schropp, Simon - 2007

Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains the initial balance of concessions and prevents...

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Use of the WTO trade dispute settlement mechanism by the Latin American countries: Dispelling myths and breaking down barriers

Torres, Raúl A. - 2012

their use of the DSM, especially when their use of the mechanism is compared to their participation in world trade. This …

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Litigation and settlement under court error

Ackermann, Philipp - 2010

Settlements are often considered to be welfare-enhancing because they save time and litigation costs. In the presence of court error, however, this conclusion may be wrong. Court decisions create positive externalities for future litigants which will not occur if a dispute is settled out of...

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The Impact of Representation Norms on the Quality of Judicial Decisions

Engel, Christoph - 2004

Judges are obliged to give reasons for their decisions. A set of formal and informal norms specifies how this is to be done. These norms serve a whole array of purposes. This paper shows that one substantial effect is on decision quality. The effect can even be demonstrated on an ad hoc basis....

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