This article develops a simple model using the economist’s tool kit to analyze the mechanism of judicial proof. The survey focuses on the notions of burden of proof, legal presumptions, standard of proof, on legal procedure and on the judge’s role during the proceedings. The rules of proof...

A well-known result in the theoretical literature on income tax evasion states that higher tax rates reduce tax evasion, in contrast to common sense beliefs on the matter. When tax evasion is interpreted in terms of the allocation of one's work effort between a "registered" and an "unregistered"...

Under the tort law strict liability rule, a potentially judgment proof agent will take suboptimal care in the conduct of risk generating activities, thereby imposing excessive risks on third parties. The more common negligence rule can alleviate this problem by conditioning liability on the...

This paper presents an estimate of the growth in total factor productivity, on the basis of gross production, in Quebec manufacturing industries from 1967 to 1978. The purpose of the paper is to characterize the distribution of the productivity gains between the various economic parties involved...

This paper is a review article of a recent book by Jean-Pascal Bénassy on the disequilibrium approach in macroeconomics. Ce texte est une revue critique d’un ouvrage récent de Jean-Pascal Bénassy consacré à l’approche du déséquilibre en macroéconomie.