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Learning from Law Enforcement
Dusek, Libor - 2020
This paper studies how punishment for past offenses affects future compliance behavior and isolates deterrence effects mediated by learning. Using administrative data from speed cameras that capture the full driving histories of more than a million cars over several years, we evaluate responses...
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Spite in Litigation
Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023
This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and settlement requests are higher for more spiteful...
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Approximate Expected Utility Rationalization
Echenique, Federico - 2019
deviation (in beliefs, utility, or perceived prices) is within e of expected utility theory. The number e can then be used as a … distance to the theory. We apply our methodology to three recent large-scale experiments. Many subjects in those experiments …
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On the Causes and Consequences of Deviations from Rational Behavior
Zegners, Dainis - 2020
This paper presents novel evidence for the prevalence of deviations from rational behavior in human decision making – and for the corresponding causes and consequences. The analysis is based on move-by-move data from chess tournaments and an identification strategy that compares behavior of...
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Statute law or case law? /
Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Riboni, Alessandro - 2008
In a Case Law regime Courts have more flexibility than in a Statute Law regime. Since Statutes are inevitably incomplete, this confers an advantage to the Statute Law regime over the Case Law one. However, all Courts rule ex-post, after most economic decisions are already taken. Therefore, the...
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Rules of proof, courts, and incentives
Demougin, Dominique M.; Fluet, Claude - 2007
We analyze the design of legal principles and procedures for court decision-making in civil litigation. The objective is the provision of appropriate incentives for potential tort-feasors to exert care, when evidence about care is imperfect and may be distorted by the parties. Efficiency is...
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The weak rationality principle in economics
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2005
The weak rationality principle is not an empirical statement but a heuristic rule of how to proceed in social sciences …-foundation and, therefore, employ the rationality assumption in economic models. Then, with reference to the ?bounded rationality … a part of the rationality assumption. We conclude with some remarks on handling the problems of ?free will? as well as …
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Preliminary references: Analyzing the determinants that made the ECJ the powerful court it is
Hornuf, Lars; Voigt, Stefan - 2012
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is a very powerful court compared to other international courts and even national courts of last resort. Observers almost unanimously agree that it is the preliminary references procedure that made the ECJ the powerful court it is today. In this paper, we...
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Rationality in Economics: Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2018
We examine the various senses in which economist use the term “rationality” and then outline some of the commonly drawn …
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Are groups more rational than individuals? A review of interactive decision making in groups
Kugler, Tamar; Kausel, Edgar E.; Kocher, Martin G. - 2012
consistent in revealing that groups behave closer to the game-theoretical assumption of rationality and selfishness than …
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