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• TITLE: Re-election Concerns and the Failure of Plea Bargaining

  AUTHORS: Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Bryan C. McCannon

  KEYWORDS: Plea Bargaining; Re-Election; Prosecutor

  JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.3 No.5B, September 30, 2013

  ABSTRACT: In this note, we provide a new explanation for the “failure” of plea bargaining. We show in a model of asymmetric information that a public prosecutor facing re-election takes cases to the courtroom to signal quality even when her welfare (absent retention motivation) is always higher from plea bargaining.