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Experimental Criminal Law. A Survey of Contributions from Law, Economics and Criminology

Engel, Christoph - 2016

In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in experimental economics, and an experimental criminology. These three disciplines have surprisingly little interaction. The current paper surveys the rich evidence, and discusses the...

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The Methodology of the Behavioral Analysis of Law

Tor, Avishalom - 2009

behavioral decision scientists. This Part therefore reviews important behavioral findings, illustrating their application and … by behavioral decision researchers and the data required to resolve legal questions. Legal scholars should therefore be …

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Law and Economics - And Why New Zealand Needs it

Richardson, Ivor - 2015

The so-called Chicago School of law and economics, which emerged in the late 1970s, was regarded by many lawyers with considerable suspicion. Much of this suspicion was due to the artificial and unrealistic nature of the assumptions about human motivation that underpinned that School’s...

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African Development, Partnership and Rationality Challenge : An Exposition

Nwaobi, Godwin Chukwudum - 2013

Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa's economy is the least developed...

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A Probabilistic Ghost in the Experimental Machine

Jullien, Dorian; Vallois, Nicolas - Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion … - 2012

between the norms of rationality and the context in which rationality is exercised. … lens of another opposition in the philosophy of probability and in probability theory, between Bayesianism and frequentism … programs - Heuristics and Biases and Ecological Rationality - which play respective roles in the foundations of individual …

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Obligations and Cooperative Behaviour in Public Good Games

Galbiati, Roberto - 2008

Laws express rules of conduct ('obligations') enforced by the means of penalties and rewards ('incentives'). The role of incentives in shaping individual behaviour has been largely analysed in the traditional economic literature. On the contrary, very little is known about the specific role of...

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Behavioral Law and Economics

Jolls, Christine - 2009

economic assumption of unbounded rationality …

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Chapter 10. Lab in the Field : Measuring Preferences in the Wild

Gneezy, U.; Imas, A. - 2017

In this chapter, we discuss the “lab-in-the-field” methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We begin by examining how the methodology has been...

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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges

Capraro, Valerio - 2019

their economic incentives, the so-called “nudges”. Previous research has found that moral nudges (e.g., making norms salient …

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The effect of self-awareness and competition on dishonesty

Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021

-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the …

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