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| Title: | | Trust in the shadow of the courts if judges are no better  |
| Authors: | | Brennan, Geoffrey Güth, Werner Kliemt, Hartmut |
| Issue Date: | | 1997 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Papers, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes 1997,44 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | Trust relationships Evolutionary game theory Intrinsic motivation Court system Legal litigation Hobbesian problem of social order |
| JEL: | | A11 A13 C72 D74 K00 K12 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10064253 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Discussion Papers, SFB 373, HU Berlin
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