Stand and stare

Why Stare Decisis?∗

All Courts rule ex-post, after most economic decisions are sunk. This can generate a time-inconsistency problem. From an ex-ante perspective, Courts will have the ex-post temptation to be excessively lenient. This observation is at the root of the rule of precedent, known as stare decisis. Stare decisis forces Courts to weigh the benefits of leniency towards the current parties against the bene...

Stare Decisis and the Rule of Law: A Layered Approach

STARE operations experience and its data quality control

The STARE instrument was the first to detect the transits of an extrasolar planet in 1999. To date it has performed one of the longest running searches for transits, being in nearly continous operations since July 2001 at Teide Observatory, Tenerife. We describe the instrumental setup and the scheme that is used for data acquisition, handling and analysis. To this end, we first review the condi...

STARE velocities: 2. Evening westward electron flow

Four evening events and one morning event of joint EISCAT/STARE observations during ∼22 h are considered and the differences between observed STARE line-ofsight (l-o-s) velocities and EISCAT electron drift velocities projected onto the STARE beams are studied. We demonstrate that the double-pulse technique, which is currently in use in the STARE routine data handling, typically underestimates t...

An Ecomomic Perspective on Stare Decisis