Este trabajo realiza algunas reflexiones en torno a los resultados de la política de concesiones en la infraestructura de transporte de uso público en Perú, con énfasis en las posteriores renegociaciones de los contratos de concesión otorgados desde mediados de los años 90s. A partir de...

Entrepreneurship is usually indentified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This...

Il contributo rilegge criticamente il rapporto tra presidio pubblico della concorrenza e azioni di danno promosse dalle vittime di illeciti antitrust. L'impostazione tradizionale assumeva che il compito di arginare deviazioni monopolistiche corrispondesse a un interesse pubblico e dovesse, di...

In this contribution, we investigate whether prison sentences for environmental crime are indeed used in practice, how they are used and whether they imply a real threat to violators. To this end we examine previous studies on the role of imprisonment and confront these models with some...

Allowing the plaintiff and defendant to choose the order in which they invest effort into trial, we show that the timing of litigation efforts is critically dependent on the level of defendant fault. For a high (low) level of defendant fault, the plaintiff invests after (before) the...

This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive or negative emotions emerge when litigants either win or lose at trial and depend in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...