Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2025
Journal Title
Review of Law & Economics
ISSN
1555-5879
DOI
10.1515/rle-2024-0117
Abstract
Real-time review systems are frequently used in various sports to monitor the decisions of referees and correct their mistakes. Interventions through these systems cause delays in games, which are perceived as being costly. This makes it optimal for these review systems to interfere with the decisions of the referee less frequently than would minimize the costs of decision errors, which I formalize through an analysis of the VAR system in football. This analysis also reveals that optimal review standards ought to be laxer when an important event (e.g., a goal) occurs between the position in which the potential error took place and the VAR intervention. In the near future, it may be possible to introduce similar review systems in the law enforcement context, e.g., by utilizing police officers’ body cameras. I compare optimal intervention standards in this context to their analogues in the sports context, and discuss implications.
First Page
1
Last Page
17
Num Pages
17
Publisher
De Gruyter
Rights
© 2025 the author(s), published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Murat C. Mungan,
Optimal Real-Time Review Standards: Implications for Law Enforcement and Competitive Games,
Rev. L. & Econ.
1
(2025).
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