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Optimal Tax Compliance and Penalties When the Law is Uncertain

Logue, Kyle D. - 2007

This article examines the optimal level of tax compliance and the optimal penalty for noncompliance in circumstances in which the substance of the tax law is uncertain that is, when the precise application of the Internal Revenue Code to a particular situation is not clear. In such situations, a...

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Sentencing Guidelines, Tis Legislation, and Bargaining Power

Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; Shepherd, Joanna - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of political and institutional factors on the enactment of sentencing guidelines and truth-in-sentencing legislation by US states. First, we develop a model of strategic interaction among the judiciary, parole boards and state legislators, to analyze the...

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The Theory of Penalties and the Economics of Criminal Law

Hylton, Keith N. - 2005

This paper presents a model of penalties that reconciles the conflicting accounts optimal punishment by Becker, who …

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Punitive Damages : How Judges and Juries Perform

Hersch, Joni; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2012

A substantial recent literature has documented the inability of jurors to make sound decisions with respect to punitive damages, particularly for health, safety, and environmental torts. Included in this literature are experimental studies documenting the better performance of judges than jurors...

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A Retributive Argument Against Punishment

Roebuck, Greg; Wood, David Alan Russell - 2011

This paper proposes a retributive argument against punishment, where punishment is understood as going beyond … condemnation or censure, and requiring hard treatment. The argument sets out to show that punishment cannot be justified. The … argument does not target any particular attempts to justify punishment, retributive or otherwise. Clearly, however, if it …

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Creating and Enforcing Norms, with Special Reference to Sanctions

Posner, Richard A.; Rasmusen, Eric Bennett - 2000

Two central puzzles about social norms are how they are enforced and how they are created or modified. The sanctions for the violation of a norm can be categorized as automatic, guilt, shame, informational, bilateral-costly, and multilateral-costly. The choice of sanction is related to problems...

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Reporting Suicide : Safety Isn't Everything

King, Mike - 2019

New Zealand youth suicide rates are among the worst in OECD countries. Given that this age group is considered to be particularly vulnerable to peer pressure and ‘copycat' behaviour, it is perhaps no surprise that significant attention is being paid to media reporting on suicide. Most of this...

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Chapter 17 Employment Law

Jolls, Christine - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1349-1386). 2007

Legal rules governing the employer-employee relationship are many and varied. Economic analysis has illuminated both the efficiency and the effects on employee welfare of such rules, as described in this chapter. Topics addressed below include workplace safety mandates, compensation systems for...

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Injury In Fact, Transformed

Sunstein, Cass R. - 2022

Over the course of the last half-century, the “injury in fact” test has been radically transformed. It began as a bold and essentially lawless effort, led by Justice William O. Douglas, to expand the category of persons entitled to bring suit, and in the process to open federal courts to a...

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Institutional investor activism and employee safety : the role of activist and board political ideology

Shi, Wei; Xia, Chongwu; Meyer-Doyle, Philipp - In: Organization science 33 (2022) 6, pp. 2404-2420

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