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Signaling, Learning and Screening Prior to Trial: A Theory of Preliminary Injunctions

@inproceedings{Jeitschko2009SignalingLA,
  title={Signaling, Learning and Screening Prior to Trial: A Theory of Preliminary Injunctions},
  author={Thomas D. Jeitschko and Byung-Cheol Kim},
  year={2009}
}
The decision to request a preliminary injunction-a court order that bans a party from certain behavior until its lawfulness is ascertained in a final court ruling at trial-is an important litigation instrument in many areas of the law including antitrust, copyright, patents, trademarks, employment and labor relations as well as contracts. The process of filing for a preliminary injunction and the court's ruling on such a request generates information that can affect possible settlement… 
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Signalling in Deterministic and Stochastic Settings: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation
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In the stochastic variant, there is more signalling behavior than with deterministic signals, and less frequent types distort their signals relatively more, which means the degree of congruence between equilibrium and subject behavior is greater in stoChastic settings compared to the deterministic variant.

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