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Litigation Costs and Returns to Experience

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001
We develop a model linking maximum damage awards available to plaintiffs in wrongful termination lawsuits, workers' propensity to sue as a function of experience, and returns to experience. Using Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data on protected-worker discrimination complaints and labor-market data from the Current Population Survey, we ...
Paul Oyer, Scott Schaefer
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The Private Costs of Patent Litigation

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
This paper estimates the total cost of patent litigation to alleged infringers. We use a large sample of stock market event studies around the date of lawsuit filings for US public firms from 1984-99. We find that the total costs of litigation are much greater than legal fees and costs are large even for lawsuits that settle.
James E. Bessen, Michael J. Meurer
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Predicting the costs of litigation

Planning Review, 1978
Because of their strategic nature and the large amounts of money at stake, decisions to merge with, acquire, or take over other companies and decisions to invest in major new product development are usually accompanied by thorough analyses of expected business consequences.
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Litigation Cost Strategies from Economics

2009
Starting with a simple economic model of the value of civil litigation from each side’s perspective, this paper analyses a wide range of potential litigation cost strategies, settlement offers and negotiations, together with relevant applications and insights from game theory.
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The increasing cost of litigation

Engineering Management, 2005
The cost of litigating is going to increase dramatically and companies will need to start accounting for this and trade associations have already been warning about the likely rise in insurance premiums, particularly in the employer's liability field. However, there are steps that companies can take.
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Escalating health care costs: costs of litigation.

Comprehensive therapy, 1998
Although controlling the risks and costs of litigation is difficult, that goal is worth pursuing. Trumped-up malpractice claims, direct litigation costs, and defensive medicine contribute to the accelerating costs of U.S. health care but are not their driving force.
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Costs, Fees, and Expenses in Litigation

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1933
EVEN the author of a legal dissertation likes to proceed with some literary grace from known facts, through sound reasoning, to practical and logical conclusions. Unfortunately, with the present subject this is impossible. Perhaps there are fields in the law more complex in their elements and problems, and about which less is known, than the subject of
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The personal cost of medical litigation

Medical Journal of Australia, 2004
Charles D Kerr, Paul Nisselle
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High and rising economic costs of biological invasions worldwide

Nature, 2021
Christophe A Diagne, Boris Leroy, Anne-Charlotte Vaissière   +2 more
exaly  

Expert elicitation survey predicts 37% to 49% declines in wind energy costs by 2050

Nature Energy, 2021
Ryan Wiser, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel
exaly