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then go over the many carve-outs from it. First, I discuss the limits of rationality and of human cognitive abilities and … of reference used by lawyers, without it, legal theory, in particular in the private law field, will be incomplete while …
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just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all …
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This paper provides a theoretical analysis regarding the rationality of suicide attacks from an economist’s point of … psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why … – although predicted by standard economic theory – defection is a phenomenon rarely observed. We finally present some policy …
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Despite the advances in New Institutional Economics about the economic consequences of institutions and legal rules, up to now we have only limited knowledge about the mechanisms of the evolution of law. By combining the main ideas of Evolutionary Economics and New Institutional Economics this...
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"spatial value number" reveals the incompatibility of rationality and aesthetics: the individual urban experience cannot be …
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Leniency programmes reduce sanctions for law violators that self-report. We focus on their ability to deter cartels and organised crime in general by increasing incentives to "cheat" on partners. Moderate leniency programmes that reduce/cancel sanctions for the reporting party cannot affect...
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Zunehmend erfährt die auf den Annahmen der neoklassischen Ökonomie ruhende Analyse des Rechts Kritik und Konkurrenz durch andere sozialwissenschaftliche Disziplinen. Die vorderste Front bilden dabei die klassischen Verhaltenswissenschaften, insbesondere die kognitive Psychologie. Ihre Kritik...
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, authoritative statements of fact, output and outcome are taken up in turn. Definitions rely on mathematical set theory, and on basic …
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While various liability rules of tort law provide efficient incentives to invest, breach remedies of contract law are claimed to be distortive. Since, at least in Germany, obligations law provides general rules for both contractual and tort relationships such discrepancy seems puzzling. The...
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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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