Experimental Law and Economics

Experimental Law and Economics

ISBN-10:
1845427122
ISBN-13:
9781845427122
Pub. Date:
12/31/2008
Publisher:
Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN-10:
1845427122
ISBN-13:
9781845427122
Pub. Date:
12/31/2008
Publisher:
Edward Elgar Publishing
Experimental Law and Economics

Experimental Law and Economics

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Overview

During the last two decades researchers in the field of experimental law and economics have made significant contributions to our knowledge of human behaviour and its interaction with legal and regulatory environments. This collection of previously published papers examines the use of laboratory experiments to test and develop these theories about how people behave, including their responses to legal rules.

An important resource for judges, policymakers and scholars alike, the articles presented are drawn from diverse disciplines such as economics, law and psychology. The editors' comprehensive introduction provides expert analysis and insightful discussion of new directions in the field. Also included is an extended bibliography of additional articles to further aid readers' study.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845427122
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date: 12/31/2008
Series: Economic Approaches to Law series , #20
Pages: 784
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.70(h) x 2.40(d)

About the Author

Edited by Jennifer H. Arlen, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law; Director, Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement; and Director, Center for Law, Economics and Organization, New York University School of Law, US and Eric L. Talley, Columbia Law School, US

Table of Contents

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction Jennifer H. Arlen and Eric L. Talley

PART I EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE COASE THEOREM
1. Elizabeth Hoffman and Matthew Spitzer (1982), ‘The Coase Theorem: Some Experimental Tests’
2. Stewart Schwab (1988), ‘A Coasean Experiment on Contract Presumptions’
3. Rachel Croson and Jason Scott Johnston (2000), ‘Experimental Results on Bargaining Under Alternative Property Rights Regimes’

PART II LOSS AVERSION: ENDOWMENT EFFECTS, FRAMING EFFECTS, STATUS QUO BIAS
A Endowment Effects
4. Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch and Richard H. Thaler (1990), ‘Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem’
5. Jennifer Arlen, Matthew Spitzer and Eric Talley (2002), ‘Endowment Effects within Corporate Agency Relationships’
6. Charles R. Plott and Kathryn Zeiler (2005), ‘The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap, the “Endowment Effect”, Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations’

B Framing Effects
7. Edward J. McCaffery, Daniel J. Kahneman and Matthew L. Spitzer (1995), ‘Framing the Jury: Cognitive Perspectives on Pain and Suffering Awards’
8. Russell Korobkin and Chris Guthrie (1997), ‘Psychology, Economics, and Settlement: A New Look at the Role of the Lawyer’

PART III SETTLEMENT BEHAVIOUR, SELF-SERVING BIAS AND THE ROLE OF LAWYERS
9. Linda Babcock, George Loewenstein, Samuel Issacharoff and Colin Camerer (1995), ‘Biased Judgments of Fairness in Bargaining’
10. George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore (2004), ‘When Ignorance is Bliss: Information Exchange and Inefficiency in Bargaining’
11. Linda Babcock, George Loewenstein and Samuel Issacharoff (1998), ‘Creating Convergence: Debiasing Biased Litigants’
12. Greg Pogarsky and Linda Babcock (2001), ‘Damage Caps, Motivated Anchoring, and Bargaining Impasse’

PART IV FAIRNESS, TRUST AND CROWDING OUT
13. Elizabeth Hoffman, Kevin McCabe, Keith Shachat and Vernon Smith (1994), ‘Preferences, Property Rights, and Anonymity in Bargaining Games’
14. Elizabeth Hoffman, Kevin McCabe and Vernon L. Smith (1996), ‘Social Distance and Other-Regarding Behavior in Dictator Games’
15. Robert H. Frank, Thomas Gilovich and Dennis T. Regan (1993), ‘Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?’
16. Ernest Fehr, Alexander Klein and Klaus M. Schmidt (2007), ‘Fairness and Contract Design’
17. Iris Bohnet, Bruno S. Frey and Steffen Huck (2001), ‘More Order with Less Law: On Contract Enforcement, Trust, and Crowding’
18. Daylian M. Cain, George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore (2005), ‘The Dirt on Coming Clean: Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest’

PART V REASONING ABOUT RISK AND LOSS
A Legal Rules and Deterrence
19. Lewis Kornhauser and Andrew Schotter (1990), ‘An Experimental Study of Single-Actor Accidents’
20. Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini (2000), ‘A Fine Is a Price’

B Assessment of Risk by Judges and Juries
21. Kim A. Kamin and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski (1995),’ Ex Post ≠ Ex Ante: Determining Liability in Hindsight’
22. Alison C. Smith and Edith Greene (2005), ‘Conduct and its Consequences: Attempts at Debiasing Jury Judgments’
23. W. Kip Viscusi and Richard J. Zeckhauser (2004), ‘The Denominator Blindness Effect: Accident Frequencies and the Misjudgment of Recklessness’

C Impact of Decision Rules on Juries
24. Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich (2001), ‘Inside the Judicial Mind’
25. David Schkade, Cass R. Sunstein and Daniel Kahneman (2000), ‘Deliberating About Dollars: The Severity Shift’
26. Serena Guarnaschelli, Richard D. McKelvey and Thomas R. Palfrey (2000), ‘An Experimental Study of Jury Decision Rules’

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