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Report of the Secretary for 2010
Proceedings of the One Hundred Twenty-Third Annual Meeting: Denver, CO January 6–9, 2011
The American Economic Association
The front matter of the December 2010 issue contains the Table of Contents
Appendix for "Forced Sales and House Prices"
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2010
Optimal Proof Burdens, Deterrence, and the Chilling of Desirable Behavior
The optimal stringency of the burden of proof is characterized in a model in which relaxing the proof burden enhances deterrence but also chills desirable behavior. The result are strikingly different from those in prior work that uses a simpler model in which individuals only choose whether to commit a harmful act (so only deterrence is at stake). Moreover, the qualitative differences between the optimal rule and the familiar preponderance of the evidence rule—and related rules that look to Bayesian posteriors—are great, much more so than revealed by prior work.
The American Economic Review
The front matter of the October 2011 issue contains the Table of Contents