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The Role of Discretion in the Criminal Justice System
Piehl, Anne Morrison; Kessler, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
Although a substantial body of research suggests that the discretion of discretion of actors in the criminal justice … generally hypothesize that discretion plays one of two roles: either it serves as the means by which changing broad social norms …. These spillovers are consistent with neither broad social norms nor internal social norms, so we conclude that discretion …
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD
Alston, Lee J.; Andersson, Krister - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
could reduce the full set of transaction costs and thereby improve the efficiency of the market-based approach for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836719
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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State
Levine, David; Modica, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their "exclusiveness" we find that these...
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Third-Party Opportunism and the Nature of Public Contracts
spiller, pablo t.; Moszoro, Marian W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The lack of flexibility in public procurement design and implementation reflects public agents' political risk adaptation to limit hazards from opportunistic third parties - political opponents, competitors, interest groups - while externalizing the associated adaptation costs to the public at...
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Private Returns to Public Office
Fisman, Raymond; Schulz, Florian; Vig, Vikrant - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We study the wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures required of all candidates since 2003. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points higher than runners-up. By performing a within-constituency comparison where both runner-up and winner...
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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.; Mishra, Prachi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly persistent over time....
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Education and the Quality of Government
Shleifer, Andrei; Botero, Juan; Ponce, Alejandro - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Generally speaking, better educated countries have better governments, an empirical regularity that holds in both dictatorships and democracies. We suggest that a possible reason for this fact is that educated people are more likely to complain about misconduct by government officials, so that,...
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Coase v. the Coasians
Johnson, Simon; Shleifer, Andrei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
The Coase theorem implies that, in a world of positive transaction costs, any of a number of strategies, including judicially enforced private contracts, judicially enforced laws, or even government regulation, may be the cheapest way to bring about efficient resource allocation. Unfortunately,...
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Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities
Levin, Jonathan; Tadelis, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
providers. We develop a model of this "make-or-buy" choice that highlights the trade-off between productive efficiency and the … for economic efficiency concerns, as well as politics, in contracting for government services. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830392
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Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements
Prescott, J.J.; Spier, Kathryn E.; Yoon, Albert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper presents the first systematic theoretical and empirical study of high-low agreements in civil litigation. A high-low agreement is a private contract that, if signed by litigants before the conclusion of a trial, constrains any plaintiff recovery to a specified range. Whereas existing...
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