Состоялось очередное заседание научного семинара "Политическая экономика"

Докладчик:  Andrei Gomberg (ITAN) 
Тема: "Legal evidence and rational inattention"

Consider a decision-maker (a judge) who repeatedly issues binary (Guilty or Innocent) verdicts in a series of ex ante similar cases. Suppose we observe, besides the verdict, a record of evidence, testifying to the facts of the case, based on which the determination is made. Such record, would allow us to associate with each verdict an event observed by the decision-maker. We provide a theoretical characterization of restrictions on such data consistent with a simple evidence-based Bayesian model of judicial decision-making and use the data to reveal the underlying parameters of the model. We then proceed to study the empirical implications for such data set of various models of costly attention. We then apply our results to an empirical data set derived from a sample of case files produced by an administrative labor court in Mexico.

Заседание состоялось 08 .07.2014 в 18.15    по  адресу: г. Москва, улица Шаболовка, дом 26, корпус 4, аудитория  4322.