CRADLE's open-access paper series covers various fields of law and economics, with an emphasis on international development and governance, digital technology, and behavioral economics.
Priority Topics
Law and economics of international development and governance invites papers on new laws, charters, and conventions needed for a globalized world. As nations are increasingly linked through trade, capital and labor flows, and supply chains across multiple national boundaries, we need to think creatively about laws for this new world.
Law and economics of digital technology invites tech-related submissions, including antitrust law, intellectual property, intermediary liability, content moderation, privacy, cybercrimes, and regulation of blockchains and AI, as laws and regulations influence the new digital economy.
Behavioral economics and the law invites papers focusing on research in this newer field of economics that draws on psychological research to understand how norms impact economic development and growth and the need to be sensitive to these if we want our laws to be fair and effective.
This paper deals with a complex problem, that of aggregating conditionally independent signals to reach a final opinion. The authors show how people have a propensity not to realize that two weak positive signals of a rare event can constitute strong evidence for the event having occurred. This seemingly abstract problem spills over, in important ways, into the court room and has implications for decisions taken by judges and jury.
This paper studies the self-control problem of a morally committed bureaucrat in choosing the optimal level of discretion. They show a novel tradeoff in the official’s moral commitment: more discretion allows the official to lower red-tape which is socially beneficial, but it also makes bribery more tempting.
In this paper, the authors argue that Section 512(c) notice-and-takedown regime provides a natural setting to study the signaling aspect of pretrial bargaining. A strong signal is short, easy to read, and more specific. Interestingly, how the lawyers draft a notice may compromise the settlement effect of legal representation. Lawyers prefer long sentences, big words, and more terminology, whereas an effective notice is much more concise.
This paper is an attempt to demystify Keynes and give concrete shape to some expressions that Keynes used when writing about investment and capital without adequate explanation. The paper brings together positive axioms and normative imperatives under a unifying conceptual umbrella, referred to as a “Capital Commons” model. The model suggests a pathway to socialize investment while being attentive to private sector and public sector advantages.
