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dc.contributor.author Fernández, Patricio A.
dc.contributor.author Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.
dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:51:03Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-26T10:51:03Z
dc.date.issued 2009-03-01
dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1361
dc.identifier.citation Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 28 (2), 313-336, 2012
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/20740
dc.description.abstract Stare decisis allows common law to develop gradually and incrementally. We show how judge-made law can steadily evolve and tend to increase efficiency even in the absence of new information. Judges' opinions must argue that their decisions are consistent with precedent: this is the more costly, the greater the innovation they are introducing. As a result, each judge effects a cautious marginal change in the law. Alternative models in which precedents are either strictly obeyed or totally discarded would instead predict abrupt large swings in legal rules. Thus we find that the evolution of case law is grounded not in binary logic fixing judges' constraints, but in costly rhetoric shaping their incentives. We apply this finding to an assessment of the role of analogical reasoning in shaping the joint development of different areas of law.
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dc.language.iso eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1361
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dc.title Stare decisis: Rhetoric and substance
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:15:10Z
dc.subject.keyword Macroeconomics and International Economics
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