Game Theory and the Law

Author(s):  
Jon Hanson ◽  
Kathleen Hanson ◽  
Melissa Hart
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Author(s):  
Marco Fabbri ◽  
Matteo Rizzolli ◽  
Antonello Maruotti

Abstract In all legal systems, possession and property are inextricably linked. Game theory captures this relationship in the Hawk–Dove game: players competing for an asset are better off when the possessor plays Hawk and the intruder plays Dove (the bourgeois strategy) so that property can emerge as a spontaneous convention. This theory has been supported by large experimental evidence with animals. This paper presents a lab experiment where possession is manipulated to study the emergence of the property convention with human subjects. We show that the highest coordination emerges when possession is achieved meritoriously and that possession induces only bourgeois coordination (never antibourgeois).


1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Dau-Schmidt ◽  
Eric Rasmusen ◽  
Jeffrey Evans Stake ◽  
Robert H. Heidt ◽  
Michael Alexeev ◽  
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1996 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 1839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen W. Salant ◽  
Theodore S. Sims ◽  
Douglas G. Baird ◽  
Robert H. Gertner ◽  
Randal C. Picker
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Space Policy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan F. Galloway

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-174
Author(s):  
Randy Amsyari ◽  
Fajrin Satria Dwi Kesumah

Insurance for the workers means a guarantee of safety for their works on the workplaces. It is necessarily crucial as workers need such a policy that can protect them from the loss. Indonesian government declare a policy that enact the act about National Social Security System (SJSN). The companies are the subject of this regulation, despite the fact at the initial implementation of this law enforcement brought to the pros and cons. Hence, the regulation also regulates for those who betray the policy will have to pay some certain amount of fine which in turn can harden them. The companies on the other side have a choice either to register or not their workers to SJSN as they still consider the premium they have to pay. This study aims to analyze the payoffs for both government and companies to be better off from the law enforcement. Game theory perspective is applied for the methodology of the study, particularly Subgame Perfection Nash Equilibrium (SPNE) and Bayesian Nash Equilibrium (BNE). The results present that in condition of an effective law enforcement at p, the firms will be beneficial from the SJSN policy by registering their workers and pay the premium, because if they do not pay the premium they have to pay additional amount of fine. On the other hand, if the policy is not effective with 1-p, the firms will have an advantage by not registering their employees to the SJSN as the law enforcement is not effective. Also, the government does not necessarily conduct an investigation as the cost is higher than the return that they will get.


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Andrew Millie
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This chapter focuses on normative and legal rules that are implemented in the attempt to make a more ordered society. Politicians continually stress their support for people who ‘play by the rules’. However, the extent to which individuals actually stick to the rules is debated. Furthermore, this chapter considers whether it is always right to adhere to the normative and legal rules imposed in society. If the rules are prejudice or discriminatory then is it actually immoral to adhere to them. The view argued here is that society’s laws are to some extent based upon some form of morality, even if that morality is sometimes mistaken or misguided. The law itself operates through a system of excerptions therefore it is not equally applied to all situations. This is discussed alongside game theory where rules are used in order to suit an individual advantage.


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