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Settlement of litigation may increase or decrease deterrence and social welfare

Shavell, Steven - 2026

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Beyond approval : the Delaware Court of Chancery's role in settlements of fiduciary litigation

Prestipino, Gilda Sophie - 2025

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Legal aid eligibility and court outcomes : a design-based double-machine-learning approach

Martinenghi, Fabio I. - 2024

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Auctioning class action representation

Klement, Alon; Neeman, Zvika; Ofir, Moran - 2022

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Auctioning class action representation

Klement, Alon; Neeman, Zvika; Ofir, Moran - 2023

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The Real Cost of Litigation : Evidence From Security Class Actions and M&As

Kaufmann, Mattheo; Kolaric, Sascha - 2023

We investigate the influence of ongoing security class action lawsuits (SCAs) on takeover premiums, M&A announcement returns, and the likelihood of deal completion. Targets subject to an SCA receive between 7.6 and 10.2 percentage points lower takeover premiums, with this negative effect...

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Financial market reactions to patent litigation : an event study of litigation in Korea

Oh, Junbyoung; Sun, Zhen; Choo, Kineung - 2023

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Securities class actions and conditional conservatism : evidence from two legal events

Chen, Xiaomeng; Lu, Meiting; Shan, Yaowen; Zhang, Yizhou - 2023

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Spite in litigation

Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023

This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and settlement requests are higher for more spiteful...

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Litigation Costs and Before-the-Event Insurance : The Key to Access to Justice?

Lewis, Richard - 2023

The cost of civil litigation is a key factor in determining the extent of access to justice. Following cuts in legal aid attention has focused upon finding alternative methods of assisting litigants without producing costs which are out of proportion to the damages obtained. The recent report by...

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Optional fee-shifting

Emons, Winand; Lenhard, Severin; Parisi, Francesco - 2025

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Litigation with negative expected value suits : an experimental analysis

Deck, Cary A.; Pecorino, Paul; Solomon, Michael - 2022

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Litigation with Negative Expected Value Suits : An Experimental Analysis

Deck, Cary A.; Pecorino, Paul; Solomon, Michael - 2022

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The Effect of offer-of-Settlement Rules on the Terms of Settlement

Bebchuk, Lucian A.; Chang, Howard F. - 2022

Under an offer of settlement' rule, a party to a lawsuit may make a special offer to settle with the other party, such that if the other party rejects this offer, then this offer (unlike an ordinary offer) becomes part of the record in the case and may affect the allocation of litigation costs....

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The Effect of Offer-of-Settlement Rules on the Terms of Settlement

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2000

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Cash Bail and Trial Outcomes in an Early Twentieth-Century Southern Police Court

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2024

Studies of modern misdemeanor adjudication find that courts set bail higher than is required to reasonably assure that nonviolent defendants who pose no immediate threat to the community will appear for trial. Some defendants languish in jail for extended periods during which time they lose...

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How trial preparation factors influence audit litigation outcomes : insights from audit litigators

Maksymov, Eldar; Peecher, Mark E.; Pickerd, Jeffrey; … - 2024

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The economics of litigation financing

Emons, Winand; Parisi, Francesco - 2024

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Legal Expertise and the Role of Litigation Risk in Firms’ Conservatism Choices

Black, Jonathan; Ham, Charles (Chad); Kimbrough, Michael D. - 2021

Firms face a greater risk of lawsuits for overstated rather than understated earnings or net assets, suggesting conservatism can reduce firms’ expected legal costs. Because managers with legal expertise are more likely than other managers to recognize the legal benefits of conservatism, this...

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A Note on Optimal Public Enforcement with Settlements and Litigation Costs

Polinsky, Alan Mitchell; Rubinfeld, Daniel L. - 2021

This note reexamines the theory of optimal public enforcement when litigation costs are incurred if the defendant is prosecuted at trial, and when an out-of-court settlement is possible. Using a numerical example, it is shown that settlements and litigation costs can substantially alter the...

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A Note on Optimal Public Enforcement with Settlements and Litigation Costs

Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 1986

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Judicial Scrutiny of Third Party Litigation Funding Agreements in Canadian Class Actions

Malone, Matt - 2021

The emergence of third party litigation funding agreements — contracts by third parties funding litigation in which they have no direct stake or claim, usually in exchange for a percentage of the recovery — has animated vigorous debate about some of the most fundamental issues in the legal...

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Negative expected value suits

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 1998

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Negative expected value suits

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 1997

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Negative Expected Value Suits

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2021

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Negative Expected Value Suits

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 1998

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Research Paper #3 - Class Actions and Litigation Funding Reform : The Views of Class Action Practitioners

Cashman, Peter Kenneth; Simpson, Amelia - 2021

In this paper, we provide qualitative data on the class actions regime and commercial litigation funding in Australia, based on interviews with experienced legal practitioners from the Federal Court Class Action Users’ Committee and the Law Council Class Actions Sub-Committee. Participants...

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Libel bullies, defamation victims, and litigation incentives

Acheson, David J.; Wohlschlegel, Ansgar - 2021

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An integrated theory of litigation and legal standards

Bustos, Álvaro - 2020

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The economics of class action waivers

Choi, Albert H.; Spier, Kathryn E. - 2021

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The economics of class action waivers

Choi, Albert H.; Spier, Kathryn E. - 2020

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Litigating Crashes? Insights from Security Class Actions

Ni, Xiaoran - 2020

Investors tend to litigate large stock price declines, i.e., file “stock-drop lawsuits”. Enterprising plaintiffs' attorneys seek to take advantage of the stock market declines that have accompanied the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020 by filing class action lawsuits. However, it is less clear...

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Distributing Attorney Fees in Multidistrict Litigation

FitzPatrick, Brian T. - 2020

As consolidated multidistrict litigation (MDL) has come to dominate the federal civil docket, the problem of how to divide attorney fees among participating firms has become the source of frequent and protracted litigation. For example, in the NFL Concussion Litigation, the judge awarded the...

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Fee-shifting bylaws : an empirical analysis

Dammann, Jens C. - 2022

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Fee-Shifting Bylaws : An Empirical Analysis

Dammann, Jens C. - 2020

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Misstatement verifiability and managers' earnings warning decisions

Bae, Jihun; Yu, Jaeyoon - 2023

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On the propensity to settle or litigate in laboratory disputes

Migheli, Matteo; Saraceno, Margherita - 2023

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The extensive reach of the FCPA beyond American borders : is a bad deal always better than a good trial?

Bienenstock, Sophie; Kopp, Pierre - 2023

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Litigating crashes? : insights from security class actions

Zhang, Huilin; Ni, Xiaoran; Jin, Qi - 2023

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Case resolutions in the shadow of court-ordered litigation costs : comment

Hazelton, Morgan L. W. - 2023

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The role of legal presumptions in patent litigation

Guerra, Alice; Kundu, Tapas - 2019

We formally analyze the effects of legal presumptions in patent litigation. We set up a novel contest model to study litigation outcomes, judgement errors, and resource dissipation under three alternative presumption criteria: a presumption that the patent is valid; a presumption that the patent...

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Class actions and private antitrust litigation

Choi, Albert H.; Spier, Kathryn E. - 2022

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Class actions and private antitrust litigation

Choi, Albert H.; Spier, Kathryn E. - 2019

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Litigation Finance and the Problem of Frivolous Litigation

Abramowicz, Michael - 2019

Litigation finance companies have some incentives to screen plaintiffs applying for financing based on the strength of their claims, but a company may still have incentives to provide financing when the probability that a plaintiff would prevail at litigation is low. The result is that...

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Insurers and Lenders as Monitors During Securities Litigation : Evidence from D&O Insurance Premiums, Interest Rates and Litigation Costs

Donelson, Dain C. - 2019

This study examines whether directors' and officers' (D&O) insurers and lenders effectively monitor securities litigation and respond through pricing before case outcomes are known. By “monitoring,” we refer to tracking case progress and obtaining information from the insured (defendant)...

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The Impact of Legislation on the Outcomes of Civil Litigation : An Empirical Analysis of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012

Fenn, Paul - 2019

The Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) came into force in England and Wales in 2013, Part 2 of which brought a number of reforms to the costs and conduct of civil litigation. The current paper seeks to provide the first empirical evaluation of LASPO Part 2. We begin by...

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Distortion of justice : how the inability to pay bail affects case outcomes

Stevenson, Megan T. - 2018

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Distortion of Justice : How the Inability to Pay Bail Affects Case Outcomes

Stevenson, Megan T. - 2019

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Comparing all-or-nothing and proportionate damages : a rent-seeking approach

Mot, Jef de; Miceli, Thomas J. - 2015

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Comparing all-or-nothing and proportionate damages : a rent seeking approach

Mot, Jef de; Miceli, Thomas J. - 2014

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Why do member countries choose not to participate in the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement body?

Grey, Felicia A. - 2019

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Litigation and the product rule : a rent seeking approach

Mot, Jef de; Miceli, Thomas J. - 2019

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Contingent fees and endogenous timing in litigation contests

Park, Sung-Hoon - 2022

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Judicial hellholes and other differential characteristics : is state-level legal risk reflected in audit fee pricing?

Hansen, James C.; Murray, Susan M.; Park, Sang Hyun; … - 2022

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Patent thickets, stock returns, and conditional capm

Hsu, Po-Hsuan; Lee, Hsiao-Hui; Zhou, Tong - 2022

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Litigation finance investing : alternative investment returns in the presence of information asymmetry

Healey, Thomas J.; McDonald, Michael B., IV; Haley, Thea S. - 2022

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Strategic and economic behavior of a sued company in patent litigation

Seo, Kyung; Kim, Yeonbae; Kim, Kyunam - 2022

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Financially-constrained lawyers: an economic theory of legal disputes

Landeo, Claudia; Nikitin, Maksim I. - 2018

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Financially-constrained lawyers : an economic theory of legal disputes

Landeo, Claudia; Nikitin, Maksim I. - 2018

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Costly pretrial agreements

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni - 2018

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Costly pretrial agreements

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni - 2018

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Costly pretrial agreements

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni - 2018

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Litigation Migrants

Alexander, Charlotte - 2018

Civil law is primarily enforced via private litigation. One characteristic of private enforcement is that litigation levels tend to cycle between booms and busts. This Article builds a theory for explaining this fluctuation, proposing that plaintiffs' attorneys can be understood as economic...

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Fee-Shifting and Shareholder Litigation

Choi, Albert H. - 2018

A fee-shifting provision, in a corporate charter or bylaws, requires the plaintiff-shareholder to reimburse the litigation expenses of the defendant-corporation when the plaintiff is not successful in litigation. After the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that such a provision is enforceable in...

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Legal Opportunism, Litigation Risk, and IPO Underpricing

Walker, Thomas - 2018

We consider the importance of legal opportunism as an explanation for observed litigation following a large sample of initial public offerings (IPOs). We characterize legal opportunism as litigation based on the potential to recover losses after negative stock price developments rather than the...

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