evidence. The parties may misrepresent evidence in their favor at a cost. At equilibrium the two parties never testify together …. When the evidence is much in favor of one party, this party testifies. When the evidence is close to the prior mean, no … party testifies. We compare this outcome under a purely adversarial procedure with the outcome under a purely inquisitorial …

In this paper we axiomatically characterize two recursive procedures for defining a social group. The first procedure … of the second procedure is the set of all individuals who define themselves as members of the social group. Both …

This research aims to draw a radiograph of the use of evidence by senior bureaucrats of the federal government, from a … public policies: the use and non-use of evidence by the federal bureaucracy", the study explores questions about the … constraints and purposes of the use of scientific evidence by senior bureaucrats, in comparison with the results of a survey …

evidence at the centre of their decision-making. For evidence 'optimists', this is a much-needed corrective to past practice … whether evidence shapes policymaking, but into how it does so, and whose evidence matters most. The paper seeks to address … these questions through an analytical framework that highlights the process of contestation between evidence agendas against …

economics of copyright in the digital age, with a particular focus on the available empirical evidence. First, we discuss the … give special attention to empirical evidence on online copyright enforcement, changes in the supply of works due to digital …