AbstractIt has become common to view credit as problematic for present-biased consumers, who are tempted to incur too much debt because of its deferred costs. But while this

view is generally valid when debt is used to finance current consumption, the picture becomes much more nuanced when credit is used to fund the purchase of durable [...]

AbstractThe myriad uncertainties common to the process of adjudication—concerning evidence that opposing parties will present, legal issues that will become relevant, illness

of witnesses, and the like—lead to two social problems. First, when unanticipated events occur, the information that parties will be able to provide to courts may [...]

Unlocking synergies while avoiding trade-offs between climate and air pollution mitigation is key to policy effectiveness and cost-efficiency. For maximum effect, these policies

must be integrated not only horizontally within a governance level but also vertically across them. [...]

The development of disaster management governance in Indonesia: a legal and regulatory reviewPuspa Salsabila; Arwanto Harimas Ginting; Sulthon RohmadinInternational Journal

of Public Law and Policy, Vol. 12, No. 6 (2026) pp. 1 - 11Indonesia's geographical and socio-environmental conditions make disaster management a critical aspect of [...]

Common Law World Review, Ahead of Print. This article undertakes a comparative doctrinal analysis of the patentability of artificial-intelligence (AI)-related inventions under

Indian and UK patent law. Between 2023 and early 2026, the Delhi High Court, in a series of decisions culminating in... [...]

AbstractWe provide quasi-experimental evidence of the effects of municipal budget rules on the level of local economic activity exploiting the fact that, in 1999, the Italian

government imposed a balanced-budget fiscal rule on all municipal governments but in 2001 exempted municipalities below 5,000 inhabitants. [...]

AbstractConsiderable evidence suggests that people are internally motivated to keep their promises. But it is unclear whether such internal motivations create a meaningful

level of commitment in economically relevant situations where promisors have strong self-interested reasons to break their promises. [...]