Prior research suggests that firms’ ability to benefit from their technologies is determined by the strength of intellectual property (IP) laws and inimitability technologies. We complement this explanation suggesting generation profits technology also driven how effectively firms engage in patent infringement litigation (i.e., take legal action against rivals) create isolating mechanisms prote...

This paper will explore the different steps market participants should take to make sure they are prepared when LIBOR is phased out in December 2021. Part I focus on actions do before going into negotiations that can increase their potential reach a consensual agreement. II what financial firms be for during negotiation process and claims may arise no agreement reached. The decision how handle ...

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Securities class action lawsuits just might be the schizophrenic stepchildren of our civil litigation system. They are expected to serve two masters at the same time. The first is the goal of obtaining compensation for wronged investors who have suffered losses at the hands of corporate wrongdoers. The second is filling the role of private attorneys general to sanction violators and deter futur...

OBJECTIVE To systematically review surveys of clinicians' attitudes to clinical practice guidelines. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, HealthStar, Embase and CINAHL were searched electronically for English-only surveys published from 1990 to 2000. STUDY SELECTION We included surveys with responses to one or more of seven propositions (see below). Studies were excluded if they had fewer than 100 respond...

Litigation is a sequential process. Litigants learn new information. They adjust their strategies in response to that information. The dominant economic models of litigation, however, assume that litigation is a single stage process, and that adjustments to the mean and variance of a lawsuit's payoffs are adequate to capture the implications of the learning, adaptation, and uncertainty that cha...