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    • Contingent judicial deference: theory and application to usury laws 

      Guimarães, Bernardo de Vasconcellos; Salama, Bruno Meyerhof
      2017
      Legislation 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 ...