Economic analysis of crime and criminal law addresses the question of individual welfare (utility) maximization through optimal allocation of resources and time in accordance to their relative returns. In this paper I first summarize the theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between...

Wir analysieren die Vertragswahl von Mandanten bei Auktionen, in denen niederländische Anwaltskanzleien um Fälle konkurrieren. Dabei können Anwälte Angebote mit der von ihnen bevorzugten Honorarregelung einreichen. Die Untersuchung bietet eindeutige Belege dafür, dass Angebote mit...

European policies imposed in the euro crisis have disabled democratic policy choices at the national level, while the present European euro-rescuing regime lacks democratic legitimacy. But policy choices might now become politicised in the Europe-wide competition of partisan candidates for the...

The current economic crisis makes harder to get a job. Also, certain groups have more difficult due to other factors such as social mistrust. It's the case of people who leave or are about to leave a prison. Therefore, we analyzed the employability of prisoners serving grade 3 in Galicia. Our...

Nach dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts müssen die Regelsätze für Hartz-IV-Empfänger neu berechnet werden. Wolfgang Franz, Zentrum für Europäische Wirt-schaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim, stellt klar, dass die Tragweite des Urteils des Bundesverfassungsgerichts in »umgekehrtem...

Am 9. Februar 2010 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht die Berechnung der Hartz-IV-Regelsätze für nicht konform mit der Verfassung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland befunden. In diesem Artikel wird die aktuelle Hartz-IV-Gesetzeslage dargelegt, die Kritik des Bundesverfassungsgerichts...

Few studies on federalism analyze the role of courts as safeguards of the federal arrangement, and those that do tend to be too optimistic about what courts can do. This article analyzes the effect of judicial review on the interaction between the central and a regional government in a...

We study the cost of breaching an implicit contract in a goods market. Young and Levy (2014) document an implicit contract between the Coca-Cola Company and its consumers. This implicit contract included a promise of constant quality. We offer two types of evidence of the costs of breach. First,...

This study was motivated by the quest to investigate how the interaction between corruption and institutional quality affects Nigeria's economic performance by testing the validity of the "sand the wheels" and "grease the wheels" corruption hypothesis through the Barro-type endogenous growth...