Arbeitspapier

Trust in the shadow of the courts if judges are no better

Can a court system conceivably control opportunistic behavior if judges are selected from the same population as ordinary citizens and thus are no better than the rest of us? This paper provides a new and, as we claim, quite profound rational choice answer to that unsolved riddle. Adopting an indirect evolutionary approach with endogenous preference formation the complex interactions between moral intrinsic motivation to behave non-opportunistically and extrinsic formal controls of opportunism are analysed. Under the assumption that judges are no better than ordinary citizens it is shown that introducing a court system can nevertheless prevent that the more trustworthy are driven out. It cannot be excluded, though, that courts may themselves crowd out trustworthiness under certain circumstances.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SFB 373 Discussion Paper ; No. 1997,44

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Role of Economics; Role of Economists; Market for Economists
Relation of Economics to Social Values
Noncooperative Games
Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
Law and Economics: General
Contract Law
Thema
Trust relationships
Evolutionary game theory
Intrinsic motivation
Court system
Legal litigation
Hobbesian problem of social order

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Brennan, Geoffrey
Güth, Werner
Kliemt, Hartmut
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
1997

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10064253
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Brennan, Geoffrey
  • Güth, Werner
  • Kliemt, Hartmut
  • Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes

Entstanden

  • 1997

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