In this paper we investigate empirically the determinants of judicial behavior at the Philippine Supreme Court in the period 1986-2010. Our results show some alignment between individual Justices and the interests of the presidential appointers, although it varies across presidential terms. We...

Abstract Introduction to the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract The 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) was held September 14-16, 2006 in Madrid, Spain. Five papers have survived a strictly anonymous refereeing procedure of the highest standard as the ones to be published here in the Review of Law and...

Mandatory prosecution is inefficient according to legal economists. We argue that when prosecutors are fairly insulated from their performance or are highly risk-averse mandatory prosecution is better than selective prosecution. This result has important implications for comparative law. We use...