Rasmusen, Eric; Raghav, Manu; Ramseyer, Mark - In: American Law and Economics Review 11 (2009) 1, pp. 47-78
It is natural to suppose that a prosecutor's conviction rate--the ratio of convictions to cases prosecuted--is a sign of his competence. Prosecutors, however, choose which cases to prosecute. If they prosecute only the strongest cases, they will have high conviction rates. Any system that pays...