The motives of judges: Empirical evidence from antitrust sentencing
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Judges are sensitive to incentives.
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From Human Decision Making with Machine Assistance: An Experiment on Bailing and Jailing (2019) · cites this paper as [16]
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- Authors
- Cohen, M. A.
- Affiliations
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cohen, Mark A.
- ORCID
- Cohen, Mark A.
- Venue
- International Review of Law and Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1992-03
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 13-30
- ISSN
- 0144-8188 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2170591095
- Cited by
- 67
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 3.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Review of Law and Economics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Social Sciences › Law › Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Merger and Competition Analysis
- Keywords
- sentencing discretion, judicial behavior, political influence on judges, judicial independence, competition law
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