in the explosive growth of business to business (b2b) electronic trades, electronic markets have received a great deal of attention recently. the obtained profit of trading in e-b2b market encourage market participants to remain in the market. market participants consist of: sellers, buyers, and market owner. in this paper the expected profit function for each market participant has been define...

We theorize a multi-dimensional picture of jurisdictional competition for corporate litigation. We test this theory by examining merger litigation in a hand-collected sample of I 117 takeovers from 2005 to 20I I. We find evidence of state competition for merger litigation. Entrepreneurial plaintiffs' attorneys drive this competition by bringing suits in jurisdictions which have previously award...