Inside the Bankruptcy Judge's Mind

Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey John Rachlinski, Andrew J. Wistrich

2006-01-01articleBoston University law review66 citationsclosed

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Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics Corporate Insolvency and Governance Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems

Abstract

INTRODUCTION 1227 I. METHODOLOGY 1231 A. Participating Judges 1231 B. Procedure 1232 II. RESULTS 1233 A. Anchoring 1233 B. Framing 1237 C. Omission Bias 1241 D. Race 1245 E. Apologies and Terror Management 1248 CONCLUSION 1256 APPENDIX A 1260

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