Law, Economics, and Compliance in the Times of COVID-19: A Behavioural Perspective

Doron Teichman

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-95876-3_1

Law, Economics, and Compliance in the Times of COVID-19: A Behavioural Perspective

Doron Teichman^*

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Abstract

This Article explores which tools the legal system should use to promote pro-social behaviour in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, the Article compares nudges (i.e., choice-preserving, behaviourally informed tools that encourage people to behave as desired) and mandates (i.e., obligations backed by sanctions that dictate to people how they must behave), and it argues that mandates rather than nudges should serve in most cases as the primary legal tool used to promote risk reduction during a pandemic. The Article nonetheless highlights the role nudges can play as complements to mandates, and surveys numerous nudges that were used by regulators around the world.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	3-30
Number of pages	28
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95876-3_1
State	Published - 2022

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Name	Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship
Volume	13
ISSN (Print)	2512-1294
ISSN (Electronic)	2512-1308

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Keywords

Behavioural economics
COVID-19
Compliance
Nudge
Social norms

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