When decision-makers overemphasize salient features under limited attention, biased decisions can result in settings in which decisions should be unbiased. We exploit a sudden shock in the salience of individuals of Moroccan descent in the Netherlands to test the vulnerability of decisions of...

Die Strafrechtsschutzversicherung für Unternehmen dient der Absicherung von Unternehmen und Unternehmensangehörigen vor Kostenrisiken in Straf- und Ordnungswidrigkeitenverfahren. Anhand marktüblicher Versicherungsbedingungen wird dieses - bisher in Literatur und Rechtsprechung kaum behandelte...

For many decades, courts across the United States have experimented with administering justice in virtual spaces. But the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those experiments in some jurisdictions and forced other jurisdictions to adopt new technologies to process cases. While trials, particularly...

Over the last three decades, plea bargaining procedures have been adopted by a large number of jurisdictions worldwide. However, a comprehensive account of the current adoption and use of such procedures is still missing. We survey 174 jurisdictions, finding that 101 of them have a formalized...

Zeigen sich in Deutschland Entwicklungen bei den Statistiken zu Strafsachen, die möglicherweise auf Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie und der staatlichen Maßnahmen zu ihrer Bekämpfung zurückzuführen sind? Der Artikel stellt hierfür zunächst mögliche Effekte dar, die in den...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between patenting, innovation, and federal antitrust enforcement towards firms in the manufacturing sector. I examine whether the likelihood of antitrust litigation is influenced by patent histories and R&D expenditures, after...

Racial minorities are disproportionately imprisoned in the United States. This disparity is unlikely to be due solely to differences in criminal behavior. Behavioral science research has documented that prosecutors harbor unconscious racial biases. These unconscious biases play a role whenever...

The Criminal Justice System should be inexpensive, speedy and efficient. This is essential for the smooth growth of the society as it is the primary duty of the state to administer inexpensive and speedy justice to its subjects. In Pakistan the criminal justice system has become expensive and...

Zeigen sich in Deutschland Entwicklungen bei den Statistiken zu Strafsachen, die möglicherweise auf Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie und der staatlichen Maßnahmen zu ihrer Bekämpfung zurückzuführen sind? Der Artikel stellt hierfür zunächst mögliche Effekte dar, die in den...

This paper presents a model of prosecutors' decision-making processes in which prosecutors (both federal and state) internalize some of the benefits of reducing crime, but also care about developing their own human capital. Since U.S. attorneys make their decision first, they have the...