Informal experimentation in economics goes back at least as far as Bernoulli (1738)(in
connection with the Petersburg game), and formal reports of laboratory experiments as such …

This is a survey of legal liability for accidents. Three general aspects of accident liability are
addressed. The first is the effect of liability on incentives, both whether to engage in activities …

Environmental policies are increasingly informed by behavioral economics insights.'Green
nudges' in particular have been suggested as a promising new tool to encourage …

Law and Economics (2-downloads) Page 1 SIXTH EDITION Law& Economics ROBERT
COOTER University of California, Berkeley THOMAS ULEN University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign …

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how
emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people …

MosT CURRENT economic models assume that people pursue only their own material self-
interest and do not care about" social" goals. One exception to self-interest which has …

We designed an experiment to study trust and reciprocity in an investment setting. This
design controls for alternative explanations of behavior including repeat game reputation …

In Order without Law, Robert Ellickson shows that law is far less important than is generally
thought. He demonstrates that people largely govern themselves by means of informal rules …

JusT AS it is often useful to neglect friction in elementary mechanics, there may be good
reasons to assume that firms seek their maximal profit as if they were subject only to legal …

The traditional assumption that fairness is irrelevant to economic analysis is questioned.
Even profit-maximizing firms will have an incentive to act in a manner that is perceived as …