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Confirmation: What's in the evidence?
Kataria, Mitesh - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper, I discuss the difference between accommodated evidence (i.e. when evidence is known first and a … hypothesis is the proposed to explain and fit the observations) and predicted evidence (i.e., when evidence verifies the … prediction of a hypothesis formulated before observing the evidence) from a behavioral as well as a statistical perspective …
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Confirmation: What's in the evidence?
Kataria, Mitesh - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014
The difference between accommodated evidence (i.e. when evidence is known first and a hypothesis is proposed to explain … and fit the observations) and predicted evidence (i.e., when evidence verifies the prediction of a hypothesis formulated … before observing the evidence) is investigated. According to Bayesian confirmation theory, accommodated and predicted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019097
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In Dubio Pro Reo. Behavioral explanations of pro-defendant bias in procedures
Nicita, Antonio; Rizzolli, Matteo - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2012
The standard model of optimal deterrence predicts that the probability of wrongful conviction of the innocent is, at the margin, as detrimental to deterrence as the wrongful acquittal of guilty individuals. We extend the model in several directions: using expected utility as well as nonexpected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552859
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Why Pro-Defendant Criminal Procedure Might Hurt the Innocent
Rizzolli, Matteo; Garoupa, Nuno - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2008
Mandatory disclosure of evidence and double jeopardy are considered to be among the most important bulwarks against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005198709
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In Dubio Pro Reo. Behavioral explanations of pro-defendant bias in procedures
Nicita, Antonio; Rizzolli, Matteo - Facoltà di Economia / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2013
The standard model of optimal deterrence predicts that the probability of wrongful conviction of the innocent is, at the margin, as detrimental to deterrence as the probability of wrongful acquittal of guilty individuals. We extend the model in several directions: using expected utility as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897151
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Better that X guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer
Rizzolli, Matteo; Saraceno, Margherita - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2009
The principle that it is better to let some guilty individuals be set free than to mistakenly convict an innocent person is generally shared by legal scholars, judges and lawmakers of modern societies. The paper shows why this common trait of criminal procedure is also efficient. It extends the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964411
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Eine allgemeine Theorie der Bestände
Faber, Malte; Frank, Karin; Klauer, Bernd; Manstetten, … - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2003
Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird ein Begriffskonzept entwickelt, das zum besseren Verständnis des Zusammenspiels der Dynamiken von Ökosystemen und Wirtschaft dient: das Konzept des Bestandes. Der Bestandsbegriff wird allgemein mengentheoretisch formuliert. Die zentrale Eigenschaft eines Bestandes...
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