Goran Dominioni

Dublin City University | DCU · School of Law and Government

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is considering the implementation of a carbon pricing instrument in international shipping. One of the most contentious point of debate on the implementation of carbon pricing in the sector concerns how to ensure an equitable transition. This article analyzes in-depth the advantages and disadvantages of...

International shipping accounts for nearly three percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. If no further action is taken, these emissions are set to grow significantly. Apart from reducing emissions, there is a strong call for shipping’s decarbonization to be equitable. In this light, the International Maritime Organization is considering a price...

Policy work in both the United States and the European Union (“EU”) is underway on how best to structure border carbon adjustment (“BCA”) mechanisms to protect the competitiveness of domestic industries while these enterprises make investments in reducing their greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions. Often, these investments are costly for domestic indus...

The Next Generation EU plan has significantly invested into the digital and green transitions to increase the resilience and boost the recovery of the European Union after the Covid-19 pandemic. The recent geopolitical developments following the Russian invasion of Ukraine have provoked an energy crisis in the EU. This chapter aims to analyse the E...

Green recovery' is one of the key themes of the stimulus packages implemented around the world in response to the Covid-19-related economic downturn. Recent research points to the potential role of regulation that becomes less stringent during recessions (ie countercyclical regulation) as an instrument to stimulate a quicker recovery. When this arg...

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is currently considering developing market-based measures to meet the objectives of its Initial Strategy on the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions from Ships (Initial IMO GHG Strategy). While market-based measures are to reduce GHG emissions from international shipping as a matter of priority,...

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is currently considering developing market-based measures to meet the objectives of its Initial Strategy on the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions from Ships (Initial IMO GHG Strategy). While market-based measures are to reduce GHG emissions from international shipping as a matter of priority,...

Analysts agree that public opposition is one of the main factors that hinder ambition in many countries' carbon pricing policy agenda. This article argues that motivated reasoning contributes to this opposition by inducing the public to underestimate the effectiveness of carbon pricing to mitigate climate change and yield co-benefits. This article...

Closing the gap between current climate change mitigation policies and those needed to deliver on the Paris Agreement’s temperature targets requires significant scaling up of policy ambition. This article argues that policy action that aims to reach a minimum level of effective carbon prices can increase countries’ ability to implement ambitious cl...

Implicit racial biases are shifts in judgment caused by automatic and/or unconscious attitudes/stereotypes held towards a racial group. In this context, “automatic” means that the bias occurs without any need for attention and that it is difficult to control, whereas “unconscious” means that introspection does not reveal the attitude/stereotype.

Mass media routinely present data on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) diffusion with graphs that use either a log scale or a linear scale. We show that the choice of the scale adopted on these graphs has important consequences on how people understand and react to the information conveyed. In particular, we find that when we show the number of C...

A fundamental issue underlying the regulation of human societies via law is whether and to what extent we are able to accurately describe and predict how legal rules affect behavior. When drafting laws, legislators can (and hopefully do) take into account how the law will affect the behavior of the relevant population. In doing so, they may (and, a...

Goran Dominioni argues that research in behavioral economics, psychology, and neurosciences can offer novel insights on whether court decisions are accurate, non-discriminatory, and maximize social welfare. The author also shows that insights from these areas of research can help to improve trial outcomes if carefully applied to craft trial rules a...

The previous Chapter has analyzed the issue of racial discrimination at trial by looking at the role of IRBs. This Chapter expands the analysis of the behavioral law and economics of discrimination at trial by looking at the role of race and gender based statistical tables. In relation to accuracy, this Chapter refers to the law and economics of ac...

Truth, in either one or both of its forms - accuracy and coherence - is widely considered a major aim of adjudication. In legal scholarship, institutional settings are therefore often evaluated, compared, and sometimes reformed on the basis of whether they help and compel adjudicators to reach truthful decisions. These evaluations and reforms have...

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As discussed in the previous Chapter, studies on the FAE had a prominent influence on tort law scholarship. Several authors have raised concerns that judges may systematically misattribute fault to the detriment of accuracy as well as lead to unwarranted developments of legal rules and practices. Despite this importance, existent empirical studies...

Mass media routinely present data on COVID-19 diffusion using either a log scale or a linear scale. We show that the scale adopted on these graphs has important consequences on how people understand and react to the information conveyed. In particular, we find that when we show the number of COVID-19 related deaths on a logarithmic scale, people ha...

Mass media routinely present data on COVID-19 diffusion using either a log scale or a linear scale. We show that the scale adopted on these graphs has important consequences on how people understand and react to the information conveyed. In particular, we find that when we show the number of COVID-19 related deaths on a logarithmic scale, people ha...

The fundamental purpose of a tort trial is to allocate responsibility. However, attributing fault is difficult, and decades of research in psychology have shown that human beings are prone to make systematic errors in performing this task. What can be done about this? The United States and countries in continental Europe adopt diametrically opposed...

There is a lively debate among scholars and policymakers on whether either consumers or producers should be seen as responsible for pollution caused in the production and consumption of traded goods. In this article, we argue that, in conformity with intuitive conceptions of causation, the economic incidence of a Pigouvian tax can be seen as a meas...

In this article, we study spillovers in political trust between the national parliaments of 15 Member States and the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Central Bank in the period 2000-2015. We show that in most instances spillovers between the national parliaments and the European Commission and the European Parliament ar...

Increasing public acceptability of carbon pricing could close the gap between current carbon pricing levels and those required to deliver the Paris Agreement. Building on research in behavioral sciences, in this article we propose a revenue recycling scheme that aims to foster public support for carbon taxes. The scheme has two main strengths: i) i...

This report provides an up-to-date overview of existing and emerging carbon pricing instruments around the world, including international, national and subnational initiatives. It also investigates trends surrounding the development and implementation of carbon pricing instruments and how they could accelerate the delivery of long-term mitigation g...

In this article, we apply an integrable nonautonomous Lotka-Volterra model to study the relationship between oil and renewable energy stock prices between 2006 and 2016. The advantage of this innovative approach is that it allows us to study the simultaneous interaction among n stock indices at any point in time. In line with previous studies, we f...

Globalization and migratory fluxes are increasing the ethnic and racial diversity within many countries. Therefore, describing social dynamics requires models that are apt to capture multi-groups interactions. Building on the assumption of a relationship between multi-racial dynamics and socioeconomic status (SES), we introduce an aggregate, contex...

Current U.S. tort law incentivizes potential tortfeasors to target members of underprivileged social groups by using gender and race-based statistical tables (life expectancy; work-life expectancy and average wage) to award damages. Legal scholars have long criticized this practice from the point of view of distributive justice but supported it on...

Although the existing literature identifies a fuel levy imposed by means of a global agreement as the most efficient policy for carbon pricing in the maritime sector, scholars and policy makers have debated the possibility for regional measures to be introduced in case a global agreement cannot be achieved. This debate has highlighted several econo...

A large body of research in implicit social cognition indicates that implicit racial biases affect human decision-making. Building on these findings, legal scholars have explored how and under which circumstances implicit racial biases affect the functioning of trial systems. This entry reviews this literature. First, it provides an overview of the...

Among academics and policymakers, it is generally agreed that implicit tax subsidies for maritime fuels — which are currently granted around the world — are inefficient, but that their abolishment requires a unanimous international agreement. Such an agreement is deemed indispensable because any unilateral action would be impossible due to massive...