Bryan C McCannon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5738875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan C McCannon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan C |
| FAMILY NAME | McCannon |
| SIGNATURE | MCCANNON B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does starting a Division III college football program benefit the institution
The right to counsel
We exploit a dataset of criminal trials in 19th century London to evaluate the impact of an accused's right to counsel on convictions. While lower‐level crimes had an established history of professional representation prior to 1836, individuals accused of committing a felony did not, despite the prosecution being conducted by professional attorneys. The Prisoners' Counsel Act 1836 remedied this and first introduced the right to counsel in common …
Experts and arbitration outcomes
We explore the use of experts in arbitration proceedings by analysing public procurement contract disputes in Italy. Balancing cost with accuracy, participants to a contract select arbitration when speedy dispute resolution is valued highly. Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms tend to give appointed arbitrators discretion in how to proceed. Consequently, principal‐agent problems can arise. Using an inverse‐probability‐weighted approach, we …
District attorney compensation and performance
Behavioral economics and public choice
Judicial Elections and Criminal Case Outcomes
We investigate judicial elections’ impact on criminal case handling. We argue that judges face a trade-off between criminal and civil cases when exerting time and effort. During reelection, when the importance of good decision-making is heightened, if civil cases are sufficiently more important, then error rates in criminal cases increase. This effect is reversed for those who have a greater intrinsic motivation or handle only criminal cases. We …
Psychological game theory in public choice
Microfinance and Prosocial Behaviors
Microfinance is an important component of the fight against poverty. We ask whether access to microfinance loans by the poor relates to their prosocial behaviors. A lab-in-the-field study in southern, rural Uganda is done. A public-good game is used to measure subjects' willingness to free-ride. We document higher levels of contributions by those who have previously received a microloan. We explore potential explanations such as differing social-…
Arbitration in classical Athens
Who pays taxes? Liturgies and the Antidosis procedure in Ancient Athens
Leadership and motivation for public goods contributions
Results from a leader–follower public goods game are presented. An individual, when randomly selected to make a contribution knowing others will observe the selection, gives more than in the simultaneous‐move public goods game. Followers adopt a quasi‐matching strategy where they systematically donate less than the leader, but contribute more when the leader does and contribute less when the leader free rides. The net result is increased provisio…
Endogenous competence and a limit to the Condorcet Jury Theorem
The effect of the election of prosecutors on criminal trials
Excessive Labour Raiding
Labour raiding refers to firms recruiting and hiring employed workers. The literature on labour raiding supports the idea that raiding sorts workers into their most productive positions. I present a model where an outside firm decides whether or not to pay to learn the match‐quality of an employed worker and the employer decides whether or not to pay its worker a high wage that pre‐empts the raiding. I show that the employer may pay a low wage an…
The effect of the election of prosecutors on criminal trials
Psychological game theory in public choice
Leadership and motivation for public goods contributions
Results from a leader–follower public goods game are presented. An individual, when randomly selected to make a contribution knowing others will observe the selection, gives more than in the simultaneous‐move public goods game. Followers adopt a quasi‐matching strategy where they systematically donate less than the leader, but contribute more when the leader does and contribute less when the leader free rides. The net result is increased provisio…
Endogenous competence and a limit to the Condorcet Jury Theorem
Behavioral economics and public choice
Excessive Labour Raiding
Labour raiding refers to firms recruiting and hiring employed workers. The literature on labour raiding supports the idea that raiding sorts workers into their most productive positions. I present a model where an outside firm decides whether or not to pay to learn the match‐quality of an employed worker and the employer decides whether or not to pay its worker a high wage that pre‐empts the raiding. I show that the employer may pay a low wage an…
The effect of the election of prosecutors on criminal trials
Endogenous competence and a limit to the Condorcet Jury Theorem
Who pays taxes? Liturgies and the Antidosis procedure in Ancient Athens
Leadership and motivation for public goods contributions
Results from a leader–follower public goods game are presented. An individual, when randomly selected to make a contribution knowing others will observe the selection, gives more than in the simultaneous‐move public goods game. Followers adopt a quasi‐matching strategy where they systematically donate less than the leader, but contribute more when the leader does and contribute less when the leader free rides. The net result is increased provisio…
Arbitration in classical Athens
Microfinance and Prosocial Behaviors
Microfinance is an important component of the fight against poverty. We ask whether access to microfinance loans by the poor relates to their prosocial behaviors. A lab-in-the-field study in southern, rural Uganda is done. A public-good game is used to measure subjects' willingness to free-ride. We document higher levels of contributions by those who have previously received a microloan. We explore potential explanations such as differing social-…
Judicial Elections and Criminal Case Outcomes
We investigate judicial elections’ impact on criminal case handling. We argue that judges face a trade-off between criminal and civil cases when exerting time and effort. During reelection, when the importance of good decision-making is heightened, if civil cases are sufficiently more important, then error rates in criminal cases increase. This effect is reversed for those who have a greater intrinsic motivation or handle only criminal cases. We …
Psychological game theory in public choice
Behavioral economics and public choice
District attorney compensation and performance
Experts and arbitration outcomes
We explore the use of experts in arbitration proceedings by analysing public procurement contract disputes in Italy. Balancing cost with accuracy, participants to a contract select arbitration when speedy dispute resolution is valued highly. Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms tend to give appointed arbitrators discretion in how to proceed. Consequently, principal‐agent problems can arise. Using an inverse‐probability‐weighted approach, we …
Does starting a Division III college football program benefit the institution
The right to counsel
We exploit a dataset of criminal trials in 19th century London to evaluate the impact of an accused's right to counsel on convictions. While lower‐level crimes had an established history of professional representation prior to 1836, individuals accused of committing a felony did not, despite the prosecution being conducted by professional attorneys. The Prisoners' Counsel Act 1836 remedied this and first introduced the right to counsel in common …
Economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (8 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (6 works) · Microeconomics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works)