Tools of social media are becoming the most prevalent venues for online content sharing and creation worldwide. Both the manner in which the online social interaction of individuals and groups is targeted through marketing based on Internet behavioral tracking, and the use of the resulting data...

We still know very little about the incentives of police, often due to data constraints and the underlying policy environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I am able to shed light on enforcement behavior. I...

In the public sector, using incentives as a motivational tool is more constrained than in the private sector, and a lack of promotion incentives may dampen morale, performance, and talent retention. I study how bureaucrats' on-the-job performance and career decisions respond to changes in...

The prevailing aid orthodoxy works well enough in stable environments, but is ill-equipped to navigate contexts of volatility and fragility. The orthodox approach is adept at solving straightforward technical or logistical problems (paving roads, building schools, immunizing children), but often...

Peer-to-peer technology has made massive music piracy possible, which, in turn, has arguably had a significant economic impact on the recording industry. Record labels have responded to online piracy with litigation and are also considering self-help measures. It is currently not obvious whether...

Often we think “due process” as a procedural requirement that a government must comply with before it imposes restraints or sanctions on an individual. In USA jurisprudence, in particular, due process also takes a substantive form. A limitation on liberty by government must also comply with...

Based on governance-related criteria, this article provides an empirical jurimetric verification of how, where, when and why alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms provide efficiency-enhancing channels to redress grievances in less developed countries. Based on data collected in 16...

This paper is part of a five-country study. It applies an objective indicators' approach to identify the links between access to justice and poverty and the governance-related factors blocking the access to justice among the poorest segments of the population, by using case study analysis

This book analyses access to public and private dispute resolution mechanisms within a sample of low/middle human development index (HDI) nations by using a law and economics approach that takes into account supply and demand-related factors. An empirical model is proposed and tested covering 18...

This paper analyses public policy choices in the security economy from an economic perspective. It discusses the role of public goods for national and global security and identifies the importance of the first- and second-order indirect effects of insecurity on economic activity, which include...