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The People’s Hired Guns? Experimentally Testing the Inclination of Prosecutors to Abuse the Vague Definition of Crimes
Engel, Christoph; Pluta, Alicja - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2011
Legal realists expect prosecutors to be selfish. If they get the defendant convicted, this helps them advance their careers. If the odds of winning on the main charge are low, prosecutors have a second option. They can exploit the ambiguity of legal doctrine and charge the defendant for vaguely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226923
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The people's hired guns? Experimentally testing the inclination of prosecutors to abuse the vague definition of crimes
Engel, Christoph; Pluta, Alicja - 2011
Legal realists expect prosecutors to be selfish. If they get the defendant convicted, this helps them advance their careers. If the odds of winning on the main charge are low, prosecutors have a second option. They can exploit the ambiguity of legal doctrine and charge the defendant for vaguely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286722
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The people's hired guns? : experimentally testing the inclination of prosecutors to abuse the vague definition of crimes
Engel, Christoph; Pluta, Alicja - 2011
Legal realists expect prosecutors to be selfish. If they get the defendant convicted, this helps them advance their careers. If the odds of winning on the main charge are low, prosecutors have a second option. They can exploit the ambiguity of legal doctrine and charge the defendant for vaguely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009161317
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The People’s Hired Guns? Experimentally Testing the Inclination of Prosecutors to Abuse the Vague Definition of Crimes
Engel, Christoph; Pluta, Alicja Katarzyna - 2011
Legal realists expect prosecutors to be selfish. If they get the defendant convicted, this helps them advance their careers. If the odds of winning on the main charge are low, prosecutors have a second option. They can exploit the ambiguity of legal doctrine and charge the defendant for vaguely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180104
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The Social Function of Property
Engel, Christoph - 2004
Deserves property protection? Some feel it is up to the legislator to decide. Others feel that this is none of the law's business. Both extreme positions overstate their cases. Property is an institution. Like any institution, it must be useful for a socially defined purpose. And it must do a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115120
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How to protect entitlements : an experiment
Bar-Gill, Oren; Engel, Christoph - 2017
usually have incomplete information about fairness norms held by the other party - fairness norms that affect the other party …'s willingness to pay (WTP) or willingness to accept (WTA). Importantly, these fairness norms may depend on how strongly the … participants can be divided into three groups corresponding to three different fairness norms: negative types whose WTP and WTA are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011633871
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How to protect entitlements: An experiment
Bar-Gill, Oren; Engel, Christoph - 2017
usually have incomplete information about fairness norms held by the other party - fairness norms that affect the other party …'s willingness to pay (WTP) or willingness to accept (WTA). Importantly, these fairness norms may depend on how strongly the … participants can be divided into three groups corresponding to three different fairness norms: negative types whose WTP and WTA are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662178
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How to protect entitlements : an experiment
Bar-Gill, Oren; Engel, Christoph - 2017
usually have incomplete information about fairness norms held by the other party – fairness norms that affect the other party …'s willingness to pay (WTP) or willingness to accept (WTA). Importantly, these fairness norms may depend on how strongly the … participants can be divided into three groups corresponding to three different fairness norms: negative types whose WTP and WTA are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011673948
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Tax Morale and Fairness in Conflict - An Experiment
Engel, Christoph; Mittone, Luigi; Morreale, Azzurra - 2019
Arguably, for many citizens the perceived expected disutility from sanctions is smaller than the monetary gain from tax evasion. Nevertheless most people pay their taxes most of the time. In a lab experiment, we show that the willingness to pay taxes even absent enforcement is indeed pronounced....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014107943
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How do households allocate risk?
Engel, Christoph; Fedorets, Alexandra; Gorelkina, Olga - 2018
Individuals often have to decide to which degree of risk they want to expose others, or how much risk to accept if their choice has an externality on third parties. One typical application is a household. We run an experiment in the German Socio-Economic Panel with two members from 494...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110570