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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...
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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...
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Mandatory disclosure of evidence and double jeopardy are considered to be among the most important bulwarks against …
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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...
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A general rule of international trade arbitration is that all the parties have to prove their affirmations. Moreover …, it is a consecrated right of the arbitral tribunal to ask for any other evidence in a determined period of time. The … regulations referring to the administration of evidence stipulate that these should remain at the discretion of the arbitral …
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Theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence; optimal tax theory; the effect of …
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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 …
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While cities are important emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG), they are also vulnerable to the impacts of climate change; at the same time they constitute innovation hubs for climate action. For cities to fulfil their potential for global climate action, a thorough understanding of the governance...
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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 …
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