The (Economic) Effects of Lay Participation in Courts - A Cross-Country Analysis [PDF]
Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood.
Stefan Voigt
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Optimal Sequential Investigation Rules in Competition Law [PDF]
Although both in US antitrust and European competition law there is a clear evolution to a much broader application of "rule of reason" (instead of per-se rules), there is also an increasing awareness of the problems of a case-by-case approach.
Georg von Wangenheim +2 more
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Determinants of European Stock Market Integration [PDF]
We analyse the determinants of stock market integration among EU member states for the period 1999–2007. First, we apply bivariate DCC-MGARCH models to extract dynamic conditional correlations between European stock markets, which are then explained by ...
Bernd Hayo, David Büttner
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Long-term Care Insurance Facilities and Interregional Migration of the Elderly in Japan [PDF]
Using municipality-level data of Japan, this paper empirically examines how the capacity of long-term care insurance facilities impacts interregional migration of the elderly. We construct net-migration data of the elderly population in each municipality
Akihiro Kawase, Katsuyoshi Nakazawa
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Mode of International Investment and Endogenous Risk of Expropriation [PDF]
In this paper, we develop a politico-economic model to analyze the relationship between the mode of international investment and institutional quality in a non-democratic capital importing country.
Oliver Lorz, Ramin Dadasov
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Transparent entscheiden im moralischen Dilemma: Ethische Entscheidungsempfehlungen zu Besuchsregelungen im Krankenhaus während der COVID-19-Pandemie. [PDF]
Procare, 2022 Rogge A +6 more
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A Historical Note on the Beauty Contest [PDF]
Alain Ledoux, who was one of over 6,000 chess players taking part in Bühren and Frank´s (2012) online Beauty Contest experiment, turned out to be the forgotten inventor of that game. We reconstruct the birth of the Beauty Contest.
Björn Frank +2 more
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Does Arbitration Blossom when State Courts are Bad? [PDF]
It is often conjectured that non-state dispute resolution blossoms when state courts are not independent or are perceived as low-quality courts. This conjecture implies a substitutive relationship between state and non-state dispute resolution.
Stefan Voigt
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Participation and Decision Making: A Three-person Power-to-take Experiment [PDF]
It is often conjectured that participatory decision making may increase acceptance even of unfavorable decisions. The present paper tests this conjecture in a three-person power-to-take game.
Max Albert, Vanessa Mertins
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Inefficient but Effective? A field experiment on the effectiveness of direct and indirect transfer mechanisms [PDF]
We conduct a field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms. It shows that people are willing to donate significantly more if the donation is indirect, i.e., it is tied to the purchase of a good with a price premium, rather than made ...
Günther G. Schulze, Hannes Koppel
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