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Consensus and Ideology in Courts: An Application to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 法院的共识与意识形态:对枢密院司法委员会的应用
IF 0.3 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/rle-2022-0084
Sofia Amaral-Garcia, L. dalla Pellegrina, Nuno Garoupa
Abstract This article supports the view that, while judges suppress dissent when dissenting is too costly, the cost of dissenting depends on the political dimension of the issue broached. It contends that judges who disagree may nevertheless try to safeguard integrity and legitimacy in political disputes by presenting a public impression of unity. We muster evidence from the United Kingdom, specifically, votes from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) between 1998 and 2011. We demonstrate through statistical analysis that judges are likelier to suppress dissent in devolution cases, which are characterized to be more political in character, than in Commonwealth appeals, which are more mundane in nature. We find that, while consensus on domestic issues reflects the absence of disagreement across judicial ideologies, judges have stronger conflicting positions on issues concerning devolution, but tend to suppress their propensity to dissent. This finding confirms that the JCPC wants to appear cohesive to give an image of greater authority on decisions of predominantly political content.
本文支持这样的观点,即法官在异议成本过高的情况下压制异议,但异议的成本取决于所讨论问题的政治维度。它认为,持不同意见的法官可能会试图通过给公众留下团结一致的印象来维护政治争端中的正直和合法性。我们收集了来自英国的证据,特别是1998年至2011年间枢密院司法委员会(JCPC)的投票。我们通过统计分析证明,在权力下放案件中,法官更有可能压制异议,因为这些案件的特点是更具政治性,而在联邦上诉案件中,法官更有可能压制异议,因为联邦上诉案件本质上更世俗。我们发现,虽然在国内问题上的共识反映了司法意识形态之间没有分歧,但法官在权力下放问题上的冲突立场更强,但往往会抑制他们的异议倾向。这一发现证实,联合方案协调会希望在主要政治内容的决策中表现出更大的权威形象。
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引用次数: 1
Leniency Programs and Cartel Organization of Multiproduct Firms 宽大处理项目与多产品公司的卡特尔组织
IF 0.3 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-01-25 DOI: 10.1515/rle-2018-0060
Emilie Dargaud, Armel Jacques
Abstract When multi-product firms make simultaneous price-fixing agreements in different markets, they may compartmentalize these agreements by having different individuals manage them so as to avoid the contagion of antitrust authority investigations. Leniency programs can overcome this strategy but may also lead to procollusive effects for centralized firms. The introduction of US amnesty plus programs can have different competitive effects, and leniency programs may modify firms’ choice of internal structure.
摘要当多产品企业在不同市场同时达成价格垄断协议时,为了避免反垄断机构调查的传染,它们可能会通过由不同的人来管理这些协议,从而将这些协议分隔开来。宽大处理方案可以克服这种策略,但也可能导致集中化企业的前共谋效应。美国特赦加计划的引入可能会产生不同的竞争效应,而宽大计划可能会改变企业对内部结构的选择。
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引用次数: 3
Fairness Vs. Economic Efficiency: Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Analysis of Talmudic Bankruptcy Law 公平与经济效率:塔木德破产法跨学科分析的启示
IF 0.3 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-01-25 DOI: 10.1515/rle-2016-0070
Itay Lipschütz, Mordechai E. Schwarz
Abstract Bankruptcy problems are commonly associated with economic disasters, but can also emerge due to extraordinary economic performance The choice of a sharing rule has a significant potential effect on the economy’s general equilibrium. The economic literature hitherto neglected the search for an economically optimal bankruptcy solution and concentrated mainly on normative axiomatizations of sharing rules. However, its findings did not attract much attention of legal scholars. The purpose of this article is to create a symposium between the economic and legal literature on bankruptcy based on our interdisciplinary analysis of a fascinating polemic conducted by Jewish Law scholars over the course of fifteenth centuries about the appropriate bankruptcy solution.
破产问题通常与经济灾难有关,但也可能由于经济表现异常而出现,共享规则的选择对经济的一般均衡具有重要的潜在影响。迄今为止,经济学文献忽略了寻找经济上最优的破产解决方案,而主要集中在分享规则的规范性公理化上。然而,它的研究结果并没有引起法律学者的太多关注。本文的目的是在我们对15世纪犹太法律学者关于适当破产解决方案的引人入胜的争论进行跨学科分析的基础上,在破产的经济和法律文献之间建立一个研讨会。
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引用次数: 5
The Effects of Enforcement on Corporate Environmental Performance: The Role of Perceived Fairness 执法对企业环境绩效的影响:感知公平的作用
IF 0.3 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-01-24 DOI: 10.1515/rle-2019-0012
Dietrich H. Earnhart, Donna Ramirez Harrington, Robert L. Glicksman
Abstract Several empirical studies explore the effects of regulatory enforcement on environmental behavior and performance. Within this literature, extremely little empirical research examines the role of fairness, which we interpret broadly to include multiple dimensions, e. g. similar treatment of similarly situated regulated entities. Our study empirically examines the effect of perceived enforcement fairness on the extent of compliance with wastewater limits imposed on chemical manufacturing facilities regulated under the Clean Water Act. Our study also explores the influence of perceived fairness on the effectiveness of enforcement efforts – government inspections and enforcement actions – at inducing better compliance. For our analysis, we use a subjective measure of the degree of “fair treatment” of regulated facilities by environmental regulators, as perceived by facilities and reported as survey responses. Results reveal that a more (perceived) fair enforcement approach raises compliance, but only under limited enforcement conditions; in most instances, perceived more fair enforcement lowers compliance. As important, results show that greater perceived fairness improves the effectiveness of federal inspections and informal enforcement, but undermines the effectiveness of state inspections and formal non-penalty enforcement.
一些实证研究探讨了监管执法对环境行为和绩效的影响。在这些文献中,很少有实证研究考察了公平的作用,我们将其广义地解释为包括多个维度,例如。对处境相似的受监管实体给予类似待遇。我们的研究实证检验了感知执法公平对遵守《清洁水法》规定的化学制造设施的废水限制程度的影响。我们的研究还探讨了感知公平对执法工作——政府检查和执法行动——在诱导更好的合规方面的有效性的影响。在我们的分析中,我们使用了一种主观的衡量标准来衡量环境监管机构对受监管设施的“公平待遇”程度,这是设施所感知到的,并作为调查回应报告。结果表明,更公平的执法方法提高了合规,但仅在有限的执法条件下;在大多数情况下,认为更公平的执法会降低合规。同样重要的是,结果表明,更大的感知公平性提高了联邦检查和非正式执行的有效性,但破坏了州检查和正式非处罚执行的有效性。
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引用次数: 2
Free Speech in Public Employment: Has the Supreme Court Clarified Matters? An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Lane v Franks 公共就业中的言论自由:最高法院澄清了问题吗?莱恩诉弗兰克斯案影响的实证分析
IF 0.3 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-12-07 DOI: 10.1515/rle-2019-0030
J. Connolly, Lewis M. Wasserman
Abstract We employ a counterfactual treatment effect analysis to evaluate whether U.S. Courts of Appeals judges have changed their propensity to vote against plaintiffs in public employment free speech disputes following the Supreme Court’s 2015 Lane v Franks decision. In order to ensure a like-for-like comparison of votes before and after the Lane decision we employ a variant of the “straddle” approach, which entails identifying cases caught in the crosshairs of the upper court’s ruling and then comparing the votes with those of cases already decided. Our results underscore the importance of paying close attention to selection effects when evaluating the impact of legal changes on judicial behavior.
摘要本文采用反事实处理效应分析来评估美国最高法院2015年Lane v Franks案判决后,美国上诉法院法官是否改变了在公共就业自由言论纠纷中投票反对原告的倾向。为了确保对莱恩案判决前后的投票进行类似的比较,我们采用了一种“跨界”方法的变体,即确定处于最高法院裁决焦点的案件,然后将其与已判决案件的投票进行比较。我们的研究结果强调了在评估法律变化对司法行为的影响时密切关注选择效应的重要性。
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引用次数: 0
Thinking Like (Law-And-) Economists – Legal Rules, Economic Prescriptions and Public Perceptions of Fairness 像(法律和)经济学家一样思考——法律规则、经济处方和公众对公平的看法
IF 0.3 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-08-31 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2649489
David Chavanne
Abstract Using vignettes that are based on seminal cases in law and economics, I find that judicial decisions across different areas of the common law are considered to be fairer when they follow prescriptions for efficiency based on law-and-economic reasoning. Vignettes describe legal disputes and require respondents to rate the fairness of a judge’s resolution. For each vignette, fairness ratings are compared across a version that follows a particular economic prescription and a version that does not, with differences across versions generated by subtle changes in context that are motivated by the economic logic that either was used in the relevant case’s actual judicial opinion or has been applied to the case by scholars of law and economics. The results suggest that the economic logic that underlies the Coase theorem, the Hand rule and the foreseeability doctrine, and generates prescriptions for efficient use of strict product liability and efficient breach of contract, aligns with lay intuitions of fairness. The results also identify two areas, fugitive property and punitive damages, where law-and-economic prescriptions do not align with perceptions of fairness.
使用基于法律和经济学开创性案例的小片段,我发现普通法不同领域的司法裁决被认为是更公平的,当它们遵循基于法律和经济推理的效率处方时。小短文描述法律纠纷,并要求被访者评价法官裁决的公正性。对于每个小插曲,公平评级在遵循特定经济规定的版本和不遵循特定经济规定的版本之间进行比较,不同版本之间的差异是由上下文的微妙变化产生的,这些变化是由相关案件实际司法意见中使用的经济逻辑或法律和经济学学者应用于案件的经济逻辑所驱动的。研究结果表明,支撑科斯定理、汉德法则和可预见性原则的经济逻辑,以及为有效使用严格产品责任和有效违约开出的处方,与人们对公平的直觉一致。调查结果还确定了两个领域,逃亡财产和惩罚性损害赔偿,在这些领域,法律和经济处方与公平的看法不一致。
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引用次数: 1
Refounding Law and Economics: Behavioral Support for the Predictions of Standard Economic Analysis 重建法律与经济学:标准经济分析预测的行为支持
IF 0.3 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-08-26 DOI: 10.1515/rle-2019-0023
E. Zamir
Abstract Based on the premise that people are rational maximizers of their own utility, economic analysis has a fairly successful record in correctly predicting human behavior. This success is puzzling, given behavioral findings that show that people do not necessarily seek to maximize their own utility. Drawing on studies of motivated reasoning, self-serving biases, and behavioral ethics, this article offers a new behavioral foundation for the predictions of economic analysis. The behavioral studies reveal how automatic and mostly unconscious processes lead well-intentioned people to make self-serving decisions. Thus, the behavioral studies support many of the predictions of standard economic analysis, without committing to a simplistic portrayal of human motivation. The article reviews the psychological findings, explains how they provide a sounder, complementary foundation for economic analysis, and discusses their implications for legal policymaking.
基于人是自身效用的理性最大化者这一前提,经济分析在正确预测人类行为方面取得了相当成功的记录。这种成功令人费解,因为行为研究结果表明,人们不一定会寻求自身效用的最大化。通过对动机推理、自我服务偏见和行为伦理的研究,本文为经济分析的预测提供了一个新的行为基础。行为研究揭示了无意识的过程是如何导致善意的人做出自私的决定的。因此,行为研究支持了许多标准经济分析的预测,而不是将人类动机简单化。本文回顾了心理学上的发现,解释了它们如何为经济分析提供更健全、互补的基础,并讨论了它们对法律决策的影响。
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引用次数: 3
Optimal Resort to Court-Appointed Experts 法院指定专家的最佳选择
IF 0.3 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/RLE-2016-0029
Eve-Angéline Lambert, Yves Oytana
Departing from the observation that neutral experts are increasingly appointed by courts, this paper investigates the incentives of courts to appoint experts, and the interactions between the judge’s and the expert’s efforts to discover the truth about a given case. Judges seek to make correct decisions and may choose to appoint experts in order to do so. Experts are assumed to be guided by both reputational and truth-finding motives. We highlight the determinants of the judge’s and the expert’s effort levels and of the judge’s decision whether to appoint an expert. We find that the expert’s effort is decreasing in the judge’s effort, which implies potential freeriding from the judge. Moreover, we find that (i) the judge’s effort is generally suboptimal, and (ii) they might resort to an expert appraisal too frequently, thereby contributing to increased court congestion and higher costs for society. Our results therefore suggest that, under conditions that we discuss, it may be socially beneficial to apply a principle of proportionality to the use of expert testimony, depending on the complexity of the case.
从越来越多的中立专家被法院任命的观察出发,本文研究了法院任命专家的动机,以及法官和专家发现特定案件真相的努力之间的相互作用。法官力求作出正确的决定,并可为此选择任命专家。专家们被认为是由名誉和发现真相的动机所引导的。我们强调了法官和专家的努力水平和法官决定是否任命专家的决定因素。我们发现专家的努力在法官的努力中是递减的,这意味着法官可能会搭便车。此外,我们发现(i)法官的努力通常不是最优的,(ii)他们可能过于频繁地求助于专家评估,从而导致法院拥挤加剧,社会成本更高。因此,我们的结果表明,在我们讨论的条件下,根据案件的复杂性,将比例原则应用于专家证词的使用可能对社会有益。
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How Do Risk-Averse Litigants Set Contingent Fees for Risk-Neutral Lawyers? 规避风险的诉讼当事人如何为风险中立的律师设定或有费用?
IF 0.3 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/RLE-2016-0034
P. Sung-Hoon, Lee Sanghack
We examine a two-stage litigation in which risk-averse litigants set contingent fees strategically for risk-neutral lawyers. In the first stage of the litigation, each litigant sets a fixed fee and a contingent fee for his lawyer. In the second stage, each lawyer exerts effort to win a lawsuit on behalf of the litigant. Employing the subgame-perfect equilibrium as a solution concept, we obtain the following results. First, if a litigant sets a higher rate of contingent fee, then the opponent follows suit and the contingent fee fraction increases in the difference in litigant’s utility between winning and losing the case. Second, changes in a litigant’s initial endowment have different effects on the contingent fee fraction depending upon litigant preferences, while an increase in the prize of the case always increases the contingent fee fraction regardless of litigant preferences.
我们研究了一个两阶段的诉讼,其中风险厌恶的诉讼当事人为风险中立的律师战略性地设定或有费用。在诉讼的第一阶段,每个当事人为他的律师设定一笔固定费用和一笔或有费用。在第二阶段,每个律师都努力代表当事人赢得诉讼。采用子博弈完美均衡作为求解概念,我们得到了以下结果。首先,如果诉讼当事人设定较高的或有费比率,那么对手就会效仿,并且或有费比例会增加诉讼当事人在胜诉和败诉之间的效用差异。其次,诉讼当事人初始禀赋的变化对或有费用比例的影响取决于诉讼当事人的偏好,而案件奖金的增加总是会增加或有费用比例,而不管诉讼当事人的偏好如何。
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Gang Rivalry and Crime: A Differential Game Approach 帮派对抗与犯罪:一种差异博弈方法
IF 0.3 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/RLE-2018-0017
J. Faria, F. Mixon, A. Upadhyaya, K. Upadhyaya
This study contributes to the modern literature on the economics of crime by proposing and solving two models of a differential game that considers the dynamic strategic behavior of two gangs engaged in a territorial conflict. The police force acts as the leader in the game. In the first model, each gang is concerned solely by the actions of the other, thus leading to an equilibrium wherein the greater one gang’s criminal activity, the greater the rival gang’s criminal activity. In the second model both gangs account primarily for police activities aimed at maintaining law and order, thus leading to an equilibrium wherein the gangs respond directly to the law enforcement activities of the police force. Exploratory analyses employing gang-related crime and police activities in Los Angeles provide empirical support for the main features of both models of the differential game, such as how gang rivalry fuels criminal activity and how the role of police is crucial in reducing gang-related crime.
本研究提出并解决了两个差分博弈模型,考虑了参与领土冲突的两个帮派的动态战略行为,从而为现代犯罪经济学文献做出了贡献。警察部队在游戏中扮演领导者的角色。在第一个模型中,每个帮派只关心另一个帮派的行为,从而导致一个平衡,其中一个帮派的犯罪活动越大,敌对帮派的犯罪活动就越大。在第二种模式中,两个帮派主要负责维持法律和秩序的警察活动,从而导致帮派直接对警察部队的执法活动作出反应的平衡。采用洛杉矶帮派相关犯罪和警察活动的探索性分析为两种差异博弈模型的主要特征提供了经验支持,例如帮派竞争如何助长犯罪活动以及警察在减少帮派相关犯罪方面的作用如何至关重要。
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