On Law Enforcement with Boundedly Rational Actors

20 Pages Posted: 7 Dec 2004

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Christine Jolls

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Yale Law School

Date Written: September 2004

Abstract

This essay, prepared for The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior (Francesco Parisi and Vernon Smith, eds., 2004), examines implications of bounded rationality for traditional economic analysis of public law enforcement. A brief application to the enforcement of employment discrimination laws by public agents is offered.

JEL Classification: K14, K42

Suggested Citation

Jolls, Christine and Jolls, Christine, On Law Enforcement with Boundedly Rational Actors (September 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=631222 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.631222

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