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Experimental Criminal Law. A Survey of Contributions from Law, Economics and Criminology
Engel, Christoph - 2016
In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in …
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Self-Interest and Equity Concerns : A Behavioural Allocation Rule for Operational Problems
Osório C., António M. - 2017
In many economic situations, individuals with different bargaining power must agree on how to divide a given resource. For instance, in the dictator game the proposer has all the bargaining power. In spite of it, the majority of controlled experiments show that she shares an important amount of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964228
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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
charity donations to humanitarian organisations in a large (N=1,800) crowdfunding campaign. We find that, in this context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900728
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Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered
Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - 2006 - This version: 8 August 2006
While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than individuals, Cason and Mui (1997) report that teams are more altruistic than individuals in a dictator game. Using a within-subjects design we re-examine group polarization by...
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An Economic Analysis of the Criminal Law as a Preference-Shaping Policy
Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn - 2005
from tort law. My analysis suggests that society will make an activity a crime whenever the social benefits of changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065254
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Social Stigma, Heuristics and Criminal Law
Escresa, Laarni; Palestini, Arsen - 2011
This paper explores under what conditions social stigma exists as an additional sanction in criminal law from a behavioral law and economics perspective. A distinction is made between the court as an institution specialized at discovering and assigning blame and the rest of the society that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014043557
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Using Bounded Rationality to Fight Crime
Pi, Daniel - 2013
punishment, and probability of punishment. Gary Becker’s (1968) seminal essay suggested that optimizing on the benefits of crime … deterrence). However, this model has been attacked on two fronts. First, criminological data on crime rates fails to show a … strong correlation between the predictions of economic models and crime rates in the real world. Second, developments in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014161087
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On the construction of social preferences in lab experiments
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - 2010
donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303003
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Judicial Errors and Crime Deterrence : Theory and Experimental Evidence
Rizzolli, Matteo; Stanca, Luca - 2013
The standard economic theory of crime deterrence predicts that the conviction of an innocent (type-I error) is as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205882
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Crime, Punishment, and Legal Error : A Review of the Experimental Literature
Zeiler, Kathryn - 2018
studies the effects of legal errors on crime and punishment rates, and to critically review studies that report on experiments …-determination errors affect crime and punishment rates. Part 3 summaries, synthesizes and critiques experimental studies designed to test …
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