Abstract Introduction to the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract The 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) was held September 14-16, 2006 in Madrid, Spain. Five papers have survived a strictly anonymous refereeing procedure of the highest standard as the ones to be published here in the Review of Law and...

Existe evidencia empírica de que se da una asociación positiva entre el número de abogados por habitante y el número de litigios entre países. Por ejemplo, España cuenta con más litigios y más abogados por habitante que la mayoría de los países de la OCDE. ¿Cómo interpretar esta...

This research inspects the general implications of considering duration of confinement as a deduction to the convicted consumer-worker time endowment. Even if analytically simple, the model is able to shed some light on the expected wage profile of criminals, and the pattern of their...

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...