Alessandro Melcarne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4619738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Melcarne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Melcarne |
| SIGNATURE | MELCARNE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9336-1857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Supply-induced demand
Despite extensive literature focusing on the concept of supply-induced demand, there remains a notable dearth of contributions in law and economics. This paper seeks to address this gap by investigating the role of tax advisors in stimulating the demand for litigation in a specific case. To this aim, the paper analyses data from Italy concerning advisors who can push the client to litigate an allegation of the tax authority that could otherwise b…
Judicial enforcement as a worker discipline device
We develop an efficiency-wage model with firing costs, judicial delay, and judges’ pro-labor bias. When workers dismissed for personal reasons are not entitled to severance pay, a double moral hazard emerges: firms may disguise redundancies as disciplinary dismissals, and caught shirkers may litigate for wrongful termination. The impact of employment protection legislation—and its imperfect enforcement—on the efficiency wage depends on how the in…
Timely justice as a determinant of economic growth
We investigate how timeliness in enforcing legal contracts affects economic growth across countries. We focus on judicial timeliness as a proxy for courts’ performance in a large panel of 169 countries over the 2004–2019 period. We show that, by raising uncertainty and promoting opportunistic behaviors in business transactions, slower courts hinder economic development. The relationship is robust to diverse model specifications and appears strong…
Fake & original
This paper seeks to answer two main questions: whether restaurants using a national brand to capture customers in fact use original national ingredients for producing food and, in cases where original ingredients are not used, what is the economic rationale behind this choice? Specifically, the study focuses on Japanese restaurants in three Southeast Asian countries, using a theoretical model and an empirical investigation based on interviews and…
Prosecutors, judges and sentencing disparities
Democracy, technocracy and economic growth
Is justice delayed justice denied? An empirical approach
Justice Without Romance
Richard Posner’s “What Do Judges and Justices Maximize?” (1993b) is not, as usually believed, the first analysis of judges’ behaviors made by using the assumption that judges are rational and maximize a utility function. That analysis arrived at the end of a rather long process. This paper recounts the history of this process, from the “birth” of law and economics in the 1960s to 1993. We show that economic analyses of judges’ behavior were intro…
Bankruptcy delay and firms’ dynamics
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Justice Without Romance
Richard Posner’s “What Do Judges and Justices Maximize?” (1993b) is not, as usually believed, the first analysis of judges’ behaviors made by using the assumption that judges are rational and maximize a utility function. That analysis arrived at the end of a rather long process. This paper recounts the history of this process, from the “birth” of law and economics in the 1960s to 1993. We show that economic analyses of judges’ behavior were intro…
Bankruptcy delay and firms’ dynamics
Democracy, technocracy and economic growth
Is justice delayed justice denied? An empirical approach
Fake & original
This paper seeks to answer two main questions: whether restaurants using a national brand to capture customers in fact use original national ingredients for producing food and, in cases where original ingredients are not used, what is the economic rationale behind this choice? Specifically, the study focuses on Japanese restaurants in three Southeast Asian countries, using a theoretical model and an empirical investigation based on interviews and…
Prosecutors, judges and sentencing disparities
Supply-induced demand
Despite extensive literature focusing on the concept of supply-induced demand, there remains a notable dearth of contributions in law and economics. This paper seeks to address this gap by investigating the role of tax advisors in stimulating the demand for litigation in a specific case. To this aim, the paper analyses data from Italy concerning advisors who can push the client to litigate an allegation of the tax authority that could otherwise b…
Judicial enforcement as a worker discipline device
We develop an efficiency-wage model with firing costs, judicial delay, and judges’ pro-labor bias. When workers dismissed for personal reasons are not entitled to severance pay, a double moral hazard emerges: firms may disguise redundancies as disciplinary dismissals, and caught shirkers may litigate for wrongful termination. The impact of employment protection legislation—and its imperfect enforcement—on the efficiency wage depends on how the in…
Timely justice as a determinant of economic growth
We investigate how timeliness in enforcing legal contracts affects economic growth across countries. We focus on judicial timeliness as a proxy for courts’ performance in a large panel of 169 countries over the 2004–2019 period. We show that, by raising uncertainty and promoting opportunistic behaviors in business transactions, slower courts hinder economic development. The relationship is robust to diverse model specifications and appears strong…
Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic Justice (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Legal and Constitutional Studies (3 works) · Commercial law (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)