Costly Sanctions and the Maximum Penalty Principle
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Keywords
Deterrence; optimal enforcement; moral hazard; maximal penalty; Rawl's criterion;All these keywords.
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- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
- K1 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAW-2000-01-11 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2000-01-11 (Microeconomics)
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