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Competition and Confidentiality: Signaling Quality in a Duopoly when there is Universal Private Information
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-07)
How does the need to signal quality through price affect equilibrium pricing and profits, when a firm faces a similarly-situated rival? In this paper, we provide a model of non-cooperative signaling by two firms that compete ...
Found Money? Split-Award Statutes and Settlement of Punitive Damages Cases
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
We examine the effect of "split-award" statutes (wherein the State takes a share of a punitive damages award) on equilibrium settlements and the incentives to go to trial. We find that split-award statutes simultaneously ...
Hidden Talents: Partnerships with Pareto-Improving Private Information
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Can the presence of private information in a transaction yield a Pareto-improvement over complete information? In this paper we show that the combination of multi-agent simultaneous signaling of private information, and ...
Markets, Torts and Social Inefficiency
(Vanderbilt University, 2003)
In this paper we examine the nexus between product markets and the legal system. We examine a model wherein oligopolists produce differentiated products that also have a safety attribute. Consumption of these products may ...
Privacy, Publicity, and Choice
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
We develop and explore a new model of the economics of privacy. Previous work has focused on "privacy of type," wherein an agent privately knows an immutable characteristic. We consider "privacy of action," wherein privacy ...
Settlement
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
This survey of the modeling of pretrial settlement bargaining organizes current main themes and recent developments. The basic concepts used are outlined as core models and then several variations on these core models are ...
Secrecy and Safety
(Vanderbilt University, 2003)
We employ a simple two-period model to show that the use of confidential settlement as a strategy for a firm facing tort litigation leads to lower average product safety than that which would be produced if a firm were ...
Market Structure and the Demand for Free Trade
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
We explore the interplay of market structure and government trade policy in the context of a heterogenous goods duopoly model (allowing for goods to be substitutes or complements) wherein governments simultaneously and ...
Economic Theories of Settlement Bargaining
(Vanderbilt University, 2005)
We briefly review two basic models of settlement bargaining based on concepts from information economics and game theory. We then discuss how these models have been generalized to address issues that arise when there are ...
A Dynamic Model of Lawsuit Joinder and Settlement
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
In this paper we examine a dynamic model of the process by which multiple related lawsuits may be filed and combined; we also examine actions a defendant may employ that may disrupt the formation of a joint suit. Our initial ...