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<title>On the Judicial Interest Rate: A Comparative Law and Economics Perspective</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 13:13:56 PDT</pubDate>
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	<p>Although all legal systems use some form of pre-judgment or post-judgment interest, there is no substantive law & economics literature providing for a comprehensive theory on the impact, functioning and assessment of the judicial interest rate. Mainstream legal scholarship has usually dealt with it as having neutral effects on private and social costs.  In this paper we show that the issue is theoretically-wise far more complex and it has a definite influence on legal policy. Due to asymmetric opportunity costs for plaintiff and defendant, judicial interest rates may bring about improper delay of proceedings and/or decouple damages from recovery. Both effects influence the number of settlements and suits.  On this ground, we compare different institutional settings from an economic perspective and conclude that the appropriate mechanism depends on the alternative available policy instruments, namely rules of procedure, court fees or appropriate setting of damages. Moreover, we will suggest that abolishing the statutory setting of pre-judgment interest may be a worth considering proposal.</p>

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<title>Conductas que transgreden objetivamente el Derecho en el Derecho de Daños</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:23:54 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Fórmulas Empleadas por la Jurisprudencia Argentina Para Cuantificar Indemnizaciones por Incapacidades y Muertes</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:51:20 PDT</pubDate>
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	<p>En la praxis judicial argentina pueden distinguirse dos tendencias extremas en relación al procedimiento para cuantificar el daño patrimonial derivado de la muerte o la incapacidad de personas. Una de estas líneas emplea fórmulas para esa finalidad; la opuesta, sencillamente, las rechaza. Entre ambos polos, se dan algunas posibilidades intermedias y mixtas. Como suele ocurrir en el mundo del derecho continental cuando se trata de cuestiones que rozan la economía, una imperfecta comprensión de la nociones e instrumentos implicados y sus alcances, suele ser tanto fuente de incorrecta aplicación (por quienes los emplean) cuando de crítica general (por quienes los rechazan. En ese marco, el objeto de este trabajo consiste en intentar explicar el significado y relaciones subyacentes en las fórmulas empleadas para cuantificar ese tipo de indemnizaciones. Sobre la base de las premisas que se exponen, concluimos que el empleo de fórmulas no importa una restricción a la legítima discrecionalidad judicial, sino a la arbitrariedad, en cuanto la exposición de esa clase de razonamientos determinativos mediante fórmulas, no encorseta indebidamente las facultades judiciales, sino que simplemente expone sus fundamentos de un modo claro y abierto a la crítica racional. Y por ello, resulta generalmente preferible a la exposición meramente retórica (y en general, incompleta o fuertemente indeterminada) de dichas bases de decisión.</p>

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<title>Social Norms and Behavior. An experiment on the influence of social norms on the choices involved in the Ultimatum Game</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:29:44 PDT</pubDate>
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	<p>Change in social norms involves some peculiarities and dimensions not fully explored by conventional Law & Economics. Authors usually assume that their change is characteristically slow and incremental. However, there is not a clear consensus on the causes of those features. A possible explanation might point to computational constraints that prevent or at least hamper, taking into account, swiftly, any change. Experimental conclusions on the Ultimatum Game suggest that socialization influences the players’ behavior, making their choices differ from those predictable according usual (and simple) grounds of individual rationality.  By means of an experiment on the basis of the Ultimatum Game, the aim of this work consists in studying the type of response given by a set of participants facing a simulated pattern of others individuals’ choices, which is shown to them as real. Regarding their behavior in the light of the “new” norm implicit in that pattern, we suggest some conclusions.</p>

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<author>Hugo A. Acciarri et al.</author>


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<title>Redundancy of Legal Rules and Efficiency</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:12:26 PDT</pubDate>
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	<p>Redundancy of legal rules has bad press. Traditional legal literature usually regards any sort of redundancy as a flaw of legal systems. Scholars on Law and Economics accept, instead, some kinds of regulatory redundancy, but focus more on the redundancy of the sources of regulation (agencies) than on the pure effect of redundant rules whatever their source might be. Hence, the underlying issue remains: even on an efficiency basis, redundancy is primarily perceived as an undesirable feature of the legal system. At first sight, this perception may be deemed sound, since e.g., adding a sentence or a paragraph to any kind of statutory law expressing the same obligation carried out by a previous legal text, seems useless and improperly costly. The aim of this paper consists in challenging this far-reaching commonplace certitude. By studying the underlying relationships on the matter, we sketch a benchmark to analyze, from an efficiency point of view, the conditions under which rule-redundancy is either desirable or not.  In doing so, we state two theorems. One of them shows the conditions on which a selecting equilibrium (an equilibrium regarding only a “selected” conduct or event of the world) can be reached at the efficient level of normative redundancy. The other, shows a covering equilibrium on a group of events and the conditions to reach the efficient level of normative redundancy.</p>

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<title>La Ley de Defensa del Consumidor y el Análisis Económico del Derecho</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 14:28:54 PDT</pubDate>
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<author>Hugo A. Acciarri et al.</author>


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<title>La Relación de Causalidad y las Funciones del Derecho de Daños. Reparación, prevención, minimización de costos sociales</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 14:23:19 PDT</pubDate>
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	<p>La aplicación de las directivas teóricas construidas en torno de la relación de causalidad suele ser una de las principales fuentes de incertidumbre y dificultad en el derecho de daños. Categorías y argumentos de autoridad que se reiteran de modo escasamente crítico, modas y prejuicios intelectuales, contribuyen a no pocos desencuentros terminológicos y conceptuales en esta materia.  Este trabajo analiza las razones fundamentales de esos desencuentros e intenta contribuir a la tarea de adoptar las mejores decisiones posibles en esta área. El re-examen de las categorías conceptuales usuales constituye su punto de partida. En ese marco, procura distinguir qué hay de descubrimiento y qué, de decisión (legislativa y judicial) a la hora de tener por verificados vínculos causales con relevancia jurídica. En el primer campo, estudia los instrumentos más adecuados para revelar, en el ámbito del proceso judicial, las relaciones fácticas relevantes. En el segundo, procura hacer explícitas las consecuencias sociales que pueden seguirse de adoptar una u otra decisión jurídica en cada uno de los puntos críticos de ese procedimiento.</p>

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<title>Elementos de Análisis Económico del Derecho de Daños</title>
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	<p>El Derecho de Daños es una de las áreas es una de las áreas de mayor desarrollo en las últimas décadas. Ese crecimiento se observa tanto en la cantidad y diversidad de casos individuales llevados a los tribunales, cuanto en la cantidad de estudios referidos al tema. Para el movimiento del Law & Economics, es, también, el área de la cual partieron los estudios fundaciones en la década de 1960 y en cuyo campo se inscribe, desde entonces, una prolífica literatura. En los países de la Europa Continental, en los de lengua hispana en general, y en los latinoamericanos en especial, no obstante, la producción de estudios de análisis económico sobre su propio derecho, ha sido sensiblemente menor que en los países anglosajones. Esa circunstancia puede llevar a una doble posibilidad de error: por un lado, se puede pensar que esa modalidad de análisis únicamente se adecua de modo satisfactorio a las peculiaridades de aquellos sistemas jurídicos; por otro -y en un sentido divergente al anterior-, a asumir que el análisis efectuado sobre categorías estándar en aquellos sistemas, puede trasladarse íntegramente a países y realidades diferentes, sin mayores variaciones. Este libro procura lidiar con ambos géneros de problemas. Por una parte intenta explicar las bases comunes para el estudio del área en diversos tipos de sistemas jurídicos, desde esa perspectiva. Por otro, y sobre aquellas bases, procura estudiar cómo inciden ciertas variantes en los sistemas o en la realidad social implicada, en los resultados, e introducir algunos aportes sobre la teoría básica tendientes a comprender con mayor profundidad algunos aspectos particularmente relevantes.</p>

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<title>Un nuevo códigto civil para el siglo XXI: un ejercicio académico</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:20:35 PDT</pubDate>
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	<p>Legal scholars in the Anglo-American common law can overlook the connection between particular ordinances and the underlying framework of justice or order. A concrete embodiment of the fruits of basic law and economics scholarship, in a codified system of rules, may be necessary for the economic approach to be fully appreciated by legal scholars grounded in the civil law. A new-generation law and economics code will restate, and squarely face the need to deconstitutionalize, private law in Latin American countries within a tried and tested legal framework of Roman law.</p>

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<author>Juan Javier del Granado et al.</author>


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<title>La Fórmula De Hand y el  Cheapest Cost Avoider en el Derecho de Daños Argentino</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:09:06 PST</pubDate>
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	<p>A través del análisis de una sentencia de un tribunal argentino se advierte que algunos criterios de decisión típicamente incluidos en el campo del Law & Economics tienen alguna incidencia en la motivación de algunas decisiones de los tribunales argentinos, en la actualidad. A veces, se integran a las decisiones de un modo implícito y de manera intuitiva. Otras, como ocurre en la sentencia objeto de este comentario, de un modo mucho más explícito y central.</p>

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<title>Causa de los Actos Jurídicos, Redundancia y Eficiencia</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:32:47 PST</pubDate>
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	<p>Una rápida intuición vincula redundancia a mayor dificultad de acceso y comprensión de cualquier conjunto de textos legales, y probablemente haya algo de verdad en esta percepción. En términos económicos la redundancia, constituiría una fuente de ineficiencia. No obstante, es posible analizar con más cuidado y desafiar esta afirmación. Este pequeño trabajo sugiere que no es correcto pensar que todos los casos de redundancia en los textos legales incrementen el tiempo o esfuerzo necesario para acceder a la información normativa contenida en los mismos, ni que incrementen las posibilidades de error en el manejo de dicha información. A la inversa, procura sentar algunas bases para juzgar qué tipo de redundancias podrían comportar desventajas desde el punto de vista de la eficiencia. Todo ello, sobre la base de una sentencia judicial que decide un caso sobre el controvertido tema de la necesidad (y alcance) de una “causa” para los actos jurídicos.</p>

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<author>Hugo A. Acciarri</author>


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<title>Law &amp; Economics y Derecho Comparado, El diseño de doctrinas jurídicas óptimas</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:34:17 PST</pubDate>
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<author>Gerrit  De Geest</author>


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<title>La Obligación de Seguridad</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:50:26 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Intereses en las Obligaciones de Dinero. Un ensayo sobre clases jurídicas y criterios instrumentales para abordar la cuestión</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:41:16 PST</pubDate>
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	<p>Most legal literature on money interest assumes a set of distinctions in order to describe the problems included in that area and to propose preferable normative choices. Those distinctions, often implicitly, are deemed objective and natural rather than merely instrumental. Legal scholars are used to think, e. g, that certain interest rate must be considered excessive in relation to every case in which issues of certain kind of interests are involved, neglecting every discussion about the classification criteria employed to construct that reasoning. This works aims to discuss the so supposed objectivity and naturalness of the distinction between several classes of interest and to analyze the general criteria useful to deal with diverse individual cases implying problems traditionally included in the scope of the money interest.</p>

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<title>On Causal Apportioning and Efficiency in Tort Law</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:09:42 PST</pubDate>
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	<p>Mainstream economic analysis of tort law takes for granted that efficiency cannot be reached by allocating liability according to causal apportioning. In this paper we will present some ways to escape from the full scope of this claim. We start by reviewing the standard conception of causality in the economic analysis of tort law, to show how some underlying assumptions influence the currently held view on the relation between causal apportioning and efficiency. Then, we revisit those assumptions to see how plausible they actually are. In the light of this discussion we introduce an alternative framework of causal reasoning in tort law. We will show how our model yields a way of allocating liability in terms of a causal apportioning rule. The outcomes obtained through this procedure are closer to efficiency than those prescribed by the mainstream.</p>

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<title>Mandatory Third Party Insurance: God, the Devil, and the Details</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:40:38 PST</pubDate>
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	<p>The study of mandatory insurance systems may be carried out on two different levels. On the one hand, it is possible to analyze theoretical relations between some properties or elements belonging to that class of systems. On the other, given a set of relevant conditions (which determines a particular structure of transaction costs), empirical outcomes of individual systems can be foreseen. Theoretical relations are instrumentally useful in that process. However, although the mandatory purchase of liability insurance is the property or element which characterizes that kind of systems, the theoretical relations derived only from that property or element are not enough to judge the merits of each individual mandatory insurance system as a whole. Furthermore, from a purely theoretical viewpoint, the duty of insuring brings about fewer consequences than those frequently attributed to such system's element. For example, neither a significant rise in the amount of insured cars, nor internalization of third party losses, nor lesser delay in paying victims compensations must necessarily follow from that isolated duty. Therefore, it is much more accurate to relate some of those effects to other characteristics of the systems, finer-grained than the legal obligation of contracting insurance coverage. Moreover, associating the duty of insuring with some empirical outcomes in the oversimplified way referred to above, has often been used as one of the arguments to support or reject some public policies of car accident control, which would introduce, at least, some vagueness or inaccuracy. This work studies a few theoretical relations between some fine-grained elements of mandatory insurance systems underlying the obligation to purchase coverage, from a transaction costs perspective. We conclude that, in relation to a set of empirical conditions typically related to developing societies, it is possible to find relatively preferable an individual system including that kind of obligation. However, this statement does not mean that every individual systems imposing mandatory insurance are adequate for that type of real realms, or that the duty of insuring should be discarded for societies of a different kind.</p>

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<title>Torts and Social Costs: The Judgment Proof Problem as a Matter of Rational Choice </title>
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	<p>The Judgment Proof Problem has usually been analyzed as an issue concerning a type of agents. This paper explores the possibility of dealing with the same class of situations as an alternative of rational choice available for any agent with some assets, instead. The basic model drawn up for that aim assumes that becoming a Judgment Proof is a costly choice as well as the relation between its cost and the level of goods actually shielded depends on the  institutional framework implied.</p>

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<title>El Análisis Económico del Derecho de Daños. Responsabilidad Civil y Eficiencia Económica</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:41:58 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>El Análisis Económico del Derecho de Daños. Elementos Para Una Aproximación</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:38:41 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>¿Por qué Esforzarse por Mejorar? Un comentario sobre la evaluación docente formal, sus efectos y alternativas</title>
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