Expert Asymmetry: Evidence From Securities Litigation
ABSTRACT Modern litigation often involves two separate, extra‐legal features: (1) contingency fee arrangements with the plaintiff‐side attorney, and (2) a “battle of the experts” where the outcome of the case rests on conflicting expert witness testimony.
Adam Callister +2 more
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Reforming pensions in Africa: Addressing coverage, payout disparities, and dementia outcomes for sustainable aging. [PDF]
Mostert CM, Ajalo C, Andai D.
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We Value Your Privacy: Behavior‐Based Pricing Under Endogenous Privacy
ABSTRACT We study a duopoly model of behavior‐based pricing in which consumers can either disclose or hide their data. We contrast two data policies. Under an open data policy, disclosed data is shared with all firms. In the unique equilibrium, all consumers disclose, and firms price discriminate, leading to welfare losses from inefficient poaching ...
Friederike Heiny +2 more
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The Repeal of Noneconomic Damage Caps and Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums. [PDF]
Mizushima Y, Whaley C, Yu H.
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Incentive and Signaling Effects of Bonus Payments: An Experiment in a Company
ABSTRACT Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use may signal the prevalence of free‐riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis with an artefactual field experiment that assigns managers and employees from a large company to stylized roles ...
Marvin Deversi, Lisa Spantig
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Learn how to be effective: neural and computational insights into charity efficiency learning. [PDF]
He Y, Xu L, Li X, Li P.
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When attentive insider trading matters: Evidence from government investment
Abstract We examine whether insiders can exploit public information to increase their trading profitability. By exploiting, as a quasi‐natural experiment, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), announced in the U.S. in March 2021 and implemented in November 2021, we provide evidence that insiders earn higher profits when government investment plans ...
Dimitris Petmezas +3 more
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The power of ESG in shaping dividend policy: Illuminating the role of financial sustainability in an emerging market. [PDF]
Almulhim AA +4 more
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Bank geographic deregulation, new credit accounts, and consumer credit
Abstract The bank deregulation literature documents positive effects of intrastate branching—allowing expansion of bank‐branch network within a state—on real economic outcomes such as income growth, income insurance, income inequality, and homeownership.
Chintal Ajitbhai Desai
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Rural residents' preference for inclusive commercial health insurance in China: a discrete choice experiment. [PDF]
Zhang L, Zheng C, Sun Q, Yin J.
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