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Contingent judicial deference: theory and application to usury laws
Guimarães, Bernardo de Vasconcellos; Salama, Bruno Meyerhof
2017Legislation that seems unreasonable to courts is less likely to be followed. Building on this premise, we propose a model and obtain two main results. First, the enactment of legislation prohibiting something raises the ... -
Permitting prohibitions
Guimaraes, Bernardo; Salama, Bruno Meyerhof
We propose a model where the probability that courts will enforce a statute is endogenous to the statute itself. We obtain, rst, that the enactment of legislation prohibiting something might raise the probability that ...


