Eric B Rasmusen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4103938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric B Rasmusen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric B |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasmusen |
| SIGNATURE | RASMUSEN E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ostracism in Japan
Informal social sanctions such as ostracism are the primary means of controlling deviance in communities. Formal legal sanctions are a costly back-up. Yet outside of university laboratories, studies of ostracism barely exist. We examine legal cases brought by targets of ostracism in Japan, encompassing nearly all the non-trivial reported opinions. The cases do not involve villagers who actually offended their community. Instead, most plaintiffs a…
Lowering the Bar to Raise the Bar
By easing the difficulty of the Japanese bar-exam equivalent, recent changes increased the quality of young lawyers. The result is counterintuitive, but a relaxation in a licensing standard can have this effect if it lowers the costs to taking a test enough to increase the number and quality of the people willing to go to the trouble of sitting for it. We explore the theoretical circumstances under which this phenomenon can occur and discuss the …
The Uneasy Case for the Flat Tax
Creating and enforcing norms, with special reference to sanctions
Lowering the Bar to Raise the Bar
By easing the difficulty of the Japanese bar-exam equivalent, recent changes increased the quality of young lawyers. The result is counterintuitive, but a relaxation in a licensing standard can have this effect if it lowers the costs to taking a test enough to increase the number and quality of the people willing to go to the trouble of sitting for it. We explore the theoretical circumstances under which this phenomenon can occur and discuss the …
Creating and enforcing norms, with special reference to sanctions
The Uneasy Case for the Flat Tax
Lowering the Bar to Raise the Bar
By easing the difficulty of the Japanese bar-exam equivalent, recent changes increased the quality of young lawyers. The result is counterintuitive, but a relaxation in a licensing standard can have this effect if it lowers the costs to taking a test enough to increase the number and quality of the people willing to go to the trouble of sitting for it. We explore the theoretical circumstances under which this phenomenon can occur and discuss the …
Ostracism in Japan
Informal social sanctions such as ostracism are the primary means of controlling deviance in communities. Formal legal sanctions are a costly back-up. Yet outside of university laboratories, studies of ostracism barely exist. We examine legal cases brought by targets of ostracism in Japan, encompassing nearly all the non-trivial reported opinions. The cases do not involve villagers who actually offended their community. Instead, most plaintiffs a…
Business (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Bar (unit) (1 work) · Counterintuitive (1 work) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (1 work) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Finance (1 work) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (1 work) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (1 work)