Add to ORKGWitnesses often gain by slanting testimony. Courts try to elicit the truth with perjury rules. Perjury is not truth-revealing; truth-revelation is, however, possi-ble. With a truth-revealing mechanism the judge will get little testimony because the defendant will not present witnesses with unfavorable news; yet testimony is of high quality. Under perjury the court gets a different amount of testimony with lower informational content. A court striving for precision prefers truth-revelation to perjury; chances for the defendant to prevail are the same. Truth-revelation thus dominates perjury even when the different quantity of testimony is accounted for. (JEL: D82, K41, K42
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In trials witnesses often slant their testimony in order to advance their own interests. To obtain t...
In trials witnesses often gain by slanting their testimony. The law tries to elicit the truth from w...
In trials witnesses often gain by slanting their testimony. The law tries to elicit the truth from w...
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Committing perjury is frequently treated as closely related-if not equivalent-to lying. Both legal s...
The relationship between legal offenses and punishment is well studied by scholars of sociology, eco...
An arbiter can decide a case on the basis of his priors or he can ask for further evidence from the ...
Defensive dishonesty in criminal investigations has increasingly been prosecuted without standards f...
Injustice in criminal cases often takes root before trial begins. Overworked criminal judges must re...
Legal rules severely restrict payments to fact witnesses, though the government can often offer plea...
An arbiter can decide a case on the basis of his priors, or the two parties to the conflict may pres...
We discuss the relationship between principles of rule of law, such as due process, and transitional...
In trials witnesses often slant their testimony to advance their interests. To obtain truthful testi...
In trials witnesses often slant their testimony in order to advance their own interests. To obtain t...
In trials witnesses often gain by slanting their testimony. The law tries to elicit the truth from w...
In trials witnesses often gain by slanting their testimony. The law tries to elicit the truth from w...
“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?” There are few legal ph...
The relationship between legal offenses and punishment is well studied by scholars of sociology, eco...
This article focuses on the inconsistent statement provision of the Federal False Declaration Statut...
Committing perjury is frequently treated as closely related-if not equivalent-to lying. Both legal s...
The relationship between legal offenses and punishment is well studied by scholars of sociology, eco...
An arbiter can decide a case on the basis of his priors or he can ask for further evidence from the ...
Defensive dishonesty in criminal investigations has increasingly been prosecuted without standards f...
Injustice in criminal cases often takes root before trial begins. Overworked criminal judges must re...
Legal rules severely restrict payments to fact witnesses, though the government can often offer plea...
An arbiter can decide a case on the basis of his priors, or the two parties to the conflict may pres...
We discuss the relationship between principles of rule of law, such as due process, and transitional...