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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"settlement outcomes"”.
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Essays on Strategic Behavior and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Retirement Saving, Insurance, and Intergenerational Contexts
… of strategic behavior in automobile insurance settlements. Using administrative data on bodily injury liability claims from Korea, this study examines whether dispute filing influences settlement outcomes. To address endogenous selection into dispute filing, we exploit exogenous variation in …
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Unheard stories : narrative inquiry of the cross-cultural adaptation experiences of refugee women in metro Vancouver
… refugee (GAR) women experience in settlement. Using a narrative inquiry approach, I elicited the stories of fourteen GAR women of diverse origins who have lived in Metro Vancouver for one to six years. Discourse analysis of the narratives shared within focus groups and individual …
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Sustainability and biofuels: Reconciling social and environmental criteria with WTO law
… The thesis identifies a core challenge: dispute settlement mechanisms to identify de facto discrimination risk including regulations that exhibit particular characteristics. EU criteria exemplify these characteristics, which also seem likely to apply to sustainability regulation more broadly. …
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The initial post-arrival adjustment process of recently arrived humanitarian entrants : a case study of entrants from Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan in Sydney, Australia
… countries, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Resettlement was examined from social, economic and health perspectives, with the determinants influencing the settlement process being identified as a precursor to understanding the long-term adjustment process. A literature review on settlement …
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Partisan politics and the resolution of international economic disputes
Why do some states settle investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) claims more frequently than others? Prior research suggests that ISDS claim type and domestic political events influence a respondent state’s decision to settle. This dissertation investigates how government partisanship shapes …