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Delegation in a multi-tier court system : are remands in the U.S. federal courts driven by moral hazard?
Sarel, Roee; Demirtas, Melanie - 2019 - Version: October 28, 2019
We analyze the countervailing incentives that mid-level appellate judges face when deciding whether to remand a case back to the lower court. Although appellate courts' ability to remand cases can mitigate moral hazard problems, by restraining trial court judges, it may sometimes instead...
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Priming ideology : why presidential elections affect U.S. judges
Chen, Daniel L. - 2016
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Legitimizing policy
Chen, Daniel L.; Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2020
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Ideological perfectionism
Chen, Daniel L.; Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2016
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The German Constitutional Court : activist, but not partisan?
Engel, Christoph - 2024
The German Constitutional Court has powers that are no weaker than the powers of the US Supreme Court. Justices are openly selected by the political parties. Nonetheless, public and professional perception are strikingly different. Justices at the German court are not believed to be guided by...
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Judicial Hierarchies and the Rule-Individual Tradeoff
Mialon, Hugo M.; Rubin, Paul H.; Schrag, Joel L. - 2012
We analyze decision-making in a simple model of the judicial hierarchy. We assume that trial court judges are more …
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A theory of judicial retirement
Bustos, Álvaro; Jacobi, Tonja - 2014
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Measuring judicial ideology using law clerk hiring
Bonica, Adam; Chilton, Adam S.; Goldin, Jacob; Rozema, Kyle - 2016
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Consensus and Ideology in Courts : An Application to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia - 2020
This article argues that judges suppress dissent when it is costly to do so, and that the cost of dissent depends on the political dimension of the issue broached. It contends that judges who disagree may nevertheless try to safeguard integrity and legitimacy in political disputes by presenting...
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Federal Judge Ideology : A New Measure of Ex-Ante Litigation Risk
Huang, Allen - 2019
litigation risk measure: federal judge ideology. We find that judge ideology complements existing measures of litigation risk … based on industry membership and firm characteristics. Firms in liberal circuits (the third quartile in ideology) are 33 … ideology). This result is stronger after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Tellabs case. We next show that the effect of …
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