Behaviour in economic games is not only noisy. One has reason to believe that heterogeneity is patterned. A prominent application is the linear public good. It is widely accepted that choices result from participants holding discernible types. Proposed types, like freeriders or conditional...

Doctrine is a protective tool. It shields individual lawyers from political vulnerability. They are only executing the legislator's will, or they are embedded in the legal system when relying on precedents. All lawyers know that there is an element of fiction in this narrative. Doctrine usually...

Should government be allowed to spend tax payers' money on public relations? If one frames the question that way, the negative answer suggests itself. Yet government communication serves more purposes. These purposes may be analysed in terms of behavioural economics and psychology. In moral...

This volume brings together academic economists and lawyers to evaluate and compare the regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany and the United States. The unifying theme in all of the papers is that the goal of public policy in this area should be to make the broadest and most...