For psychologists, bounded rationality reflects the presence of cognitive dissonance and/or inconsistency, revealing that people use heuristics (Tversky and Kahneman (1974)) rather than sophisticated processes for the assessment of their beliefs. Recent research analyzing litigations and...

Parties engaged in a litigation generally enter the discovery process with different informations regarding their case and/or an unequal endowment in terms of skill and ability to produce evidence and predict the outcome of a trial. Hence, they have to bear different legal costs to assess the...

There exist evidence that asymmetrical information do exist between litigants: not in a way supporting Bebchuk (1984)'s assumption that defendants' degree of fault is a private information, but more likely, as a result of parties' predictive power of the outcome at trial (Osborne, 1999). In this...

The purpose of this note is to investigate the optimal enforcement of the penal code when criminals invest in a specific class of avoidance activities termed dissembling activities (i.e. self-protection efforts undertaken by criminals to hedge their illegal gains in case of detection and...

Introducing minimal assumptions on the individual preferences, I show that the Willingness To Pay for both a FSD and SSD reduction of risk may always be described as the sum of a mean effect, a pure risk effect and a wealth effect. As a result, the WTP of a risk-averse decision maker may be...

In this paper we deal with the basic two-period consumption saving problem where the first and second period consumption utility, respectively v and u is assumed to be concave as usually. Considering the usual assumption of identity of u and v, we show that prudence is fully characterized by the...

Introducing minimal assumptions on the individual preferences, I show that the Willingness To Pay for both a FSD and SSD reduction of risk may always be described as the sum of a mean effect, a pure risk effect and a wealth effect. As a result, the WTP of a risk-averse decision maker may be...

This paper presents a general rent-seeking model in which participants decide on entry before choosing their levels of efforts. The conventional wisdom in the rent-seeking literature suggests that the rent dissipation increases with the number of potential participants and with their...

We endogenize location/product specification choices in a spatial Cournot duopoly on the linear market when firms' output entails an accidental harm to the environment. Under a strict liability regime, the equilibrium involves no differentiation if the expected harm is low enough. This outcome...