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Behavioral Law and Economics
Christine Jolls Yale Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 2006 Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 130 Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 342 Abstract: Behavioral economics has been a growing force in many fields of applied economics, including public economics, labor economics, health economics, and law and economics. This paper describes and assesses the current state of behavioral law and economics. Law and economics had a critical (though under-recognized) early point of contact with behavioral economics through the foundational debate in both fields over the Coase theorem and the endowment effect. In law and economics today, both the endowment effect and other features of behavioral economics feature prominently and have been applied in many important legal domains. The paper concludes with reference to a new emphasis in behavioral law and economics on "debiasing through law" - using existing or proposed legal structures in an attempt to reduce people's departures from the traditional economic assumption of unbounded rationality.
Keywords: Law and economics, behavioral economics JEL Classifications: A12, B00, D30, D61, D63, D91, J70, K00, K12, K13 Working Paper SeriesDate posted: January 29, 2007 ; Last revised: February 04, 2009Suggested CitationContact Information
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