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PAPERS FROM 2008
Abigail R. Moncrieff (February 29, 2008) Reincarnating the “Major Questions” Exception to Chevron Deference as a Doctrine of Non-Interference (Or Why Massachusetts v. EPA Got It Wrong).
Matthew C. Stephenson (February 15, 2008) THE PRICE OF PUBLIC ACTION: JUDICIAL DOCTRINE, LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENT COSTS, AND THE “EFFICIENT BREACH” OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
PAPERS FROM 2007
J. Mark Ramseyer and Yoshiro Miwa (December 17, 2007) The Good Occupation
Adrian Vermeule (December 17, 2007) Holmes on Emergencies
Matthew C. Stephenson (December 17, 2007) THE STRATEGIC SUBSTITUTION EFFECT:
Jed H. Shugerman Mr. (December 17, 2007) Fear, Filters, and Fidelity: Judicial Elections and the Making of American Tort Law
Angela K. Littwin (December 17, 2007) BEYOND USURY: A STUDY OF CREDIT CARD USE AND PREFERENCE AMONG LOW-INCOME CONSUMERS
Angela K. Littwin (December 17, 2007) Comparing Credit Cards: An Empirical Examination of Borrowing Preferences Among Low-Income Consumers
Matthew C. Stephenson (September 10, 2007) OPTIMAL POLITICAL CONTROL OF THE BUREAUCRACY
James Wawrzyniak (June 21, 2007) Rubin v. The Islamic Republic of Iran: a Struggle for Control of Persian Antiquities in America
Goutam U. Jois (May 4, 2007)  Looking Back and Looking Forward: Sarbanes-Oxley and the Future of Corporate Governance,
Goutam U. Jois (May 4, 2007) Affordable Housing and Civic Participation
Emmeline Babb (May 4, 2007) The Public Value and Legal Battles of a Single Donor Museum
Jennifer L. Carter (January 8, 2007) The Rise and Rise of the Specialty Journals at Harvard Law School
PAPERS FROM 2006
Goutam U. Jois (December 6, 2006) Can't Touch This! Private Property,Takings, and the Merit Goods Argument
Aaron S. Haas (December 6, 2006) Videoconferencing in Immigration Proceedings
Dean A. Floyd II (December 6, 2006) Irrational Basis: The Supreme Court, Inner Cities, and the New "Manifest Destiny"
Thomas Tso (December 6, 2006) Mastering the “Political Marketplace” Metaphor: The Labor-Centric Alternative
Aaron S. Haas (December 6, 2006) The Rationality of Law Students' Career Choices
Michael J. Fluhr (December 6, 2006) Unraveled: The Failure of Products Liability Markets
Nicholas Lee Townsend (December 6, 2006) Framing a Ceiling as a Floor: The Changing Definition of Learning Disabilities and the Conflicting Trends in Legislation Affecting Learning Disabled Students
Rebecca C. Mandel (December 6, 2006) The Evidence Is "Clear and Convincing": Santosky v. Kramer Is Harmful to Children.
Adrian Vermeule and Eric A. Posner (September 19, 2006) The Credible Executive
Goutam U. Jois (May 1, 2006) Marital Status as Property: Toward a New Jurisprudence for Gay Rights
Stavros Gkantinis (February 16, 2006) Regulation and Innovation: Comparing the U.S. and European Stock Trading Markets
PAPERS FROM 2005
Adam D J Balfour (March 1, 2005) Application of the European Convention on Human Rights by the European Court of Justice
PAPERS FROM 2004
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (December 3, 2004) Industrial Finance Before the Financial Revolution: Japan at the Turn of the Last Century
Lucian Bebchuk (December 3, 2004) The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power
Guhan Subramanian (December 3, 2004) Fixing Freezeouts
Sofie Cools (September 3, 2004) The Real Difference in Corporate Law between the United States and Continental Europe: Distribution of Powers
Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Allen Ferrell (September 3, 2004) What Matters in Corporate Governance?
Allen Ferrell (September 3, 2004) The Case for Mandatory Disclosure in Securities Regulation Around the World
Mark J. Roe (September 3, 2004) The Inevitable Instability of American Corporate Governance
Christine Jolls (September 3, 2004) On Law Enforcement with Boundedly Rational Actors
Christine Jolls and Cass R. Sunstein (September 3, 2004) Debiasing Through Law
Christine Jolls and J. J. Prescott (September 3, 2004) Disaggregating Employment Protection: The Case of Disability Discrimination
Christine Jolls (September 3, 2004) Identifying the Effects of the American with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects
Christine Jolls (September 3, 2004) The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws
Suzanne E. Majewski (August 29, 2004) How Do Consortia Organize Collaborative R&D? Evidence from the National Cooperative Research Act
Jared G. Kramer (August 29, 2004) When Should Contracts Be Assignable? An Economic Analysis
Steven Shavell (August 3, 2004) The Appeals Process and Adjudicator Incentives
Michal Barzuza (August 3, 2004) Price Considerations in the Market for Corporate Law
Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried (August 3, 2004) Stealth Compensation via Retirement Benefits
Mark J. Roe (August 3, 2004) The Institutions of Corporate Governance
David Rosenberg and Steven Shavell (August 3, 2004) A Solution to the Problem of Nuisance Suits: The Option to Have the Court Bar Settlement
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (July 29, 2004) Toward a Theory of Jurisdictional Competition: The Case of the Japanese FTC
Oren Bar-Gill and Chaim Fershtman (June 29, 2004) Public Policy with Endogenous Preferences
W. Kip Viscusi, Joel Huber, and Jason Bell (June 29, 2004) The Value of Regional Water Quality Improvements
Lucian Bebchuk and Alma Cohen (June 29, 2004) The Costs of Entrenched Boards
Alma Cohen and Rajeev Dehejia (June 29, 2004) The Effect of Automobile Insurance and Accident Liability Laws on Traffic Fatalities
Oren Bar-Gill and Gideon Parchomovsky (June 29, 2004) Intellectual Property Law and the Boundaries of the Firm
Oren Bar-Gill and Oren Gazal (June 29, 2004) Plea Bargains Only for the Guilty
Jahn K. Hakes and W. Kip Viscusi (May 29, 2004) The Rationality of Automobile Seatbelt Usage: The Value of a Statistical Life and Fatality Risk Beliefs
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (April 29, 2004) The Fable of the Keiretsu, and Other Tales of Japan We Wish Were True
Guhan Subramanian (April 29, 2004) Post-Siliconix Freeze-Outs: Theory, Evidence and Policy
W. Kip Viscusi (April 29, 2004) The Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards
Louis Kaplow (April 29, 2004) On the (Ir)Relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy
Joseph E. Aldy and W. Kip Viscusi (March 30, 2004) Age Variations in Workers' Value of Statistical Life
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (March 29, 2004) Deregulation and Market Response in Contemporary Japan: Administrative Guidance, Keiretsu, and Main Banks
Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar (March 29, 2004) Credible Coercion
Robert C. Pozen (March 29, 2004) Can European Companies Escape U.S. Listings?
Oliver Hart and John Moore (March 29, 2004) Agreeing Now to Agree Later: Contracts That Rule Out But Do Not Rule In
Guy Halfteck (March 29, 2004) The Class Action as a Financial Call Option
Patricia H. Born and W. Kip Viscusi (March 29, 2004) Damages Caps, Insurability, and the Performance of Medical Malpractice Insurance
Randy J. Kozel and David Rosenberg (March 29, 2004) Solving the Nuisance-Value Settlement Problem: Mandatory Summary Judgment
Louis Kaplow (March 29, 2004) On the Desirability of Commodity Taxation Even When Income Taxation is Not Optimal
Steven Shavell (February 29, 2004) Minimum Asset Requirements and Compulsory Liability Insurance as Solutions to the Judgment-Proof Problem
Oren Bar-Gill and Chaim Fershtman (February 29, 2004) Law and Preferences
W. Kip Viscusi and Richard J. Zeckhauser (February 29, 2004) Hindsight-Choice Bias in Combating Terrorism
Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, and James P. Ziliak (February 29, 2004) Life-Cycle Consumption and the Age-Adjusted Value of Life
Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (February 29, 2004) Notes on Welfarist Versus Deontological Principles
Lucian Bebchuk (February 29, 2004) Designing a Shareholder Access Rule
Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (January 29, 2004) Any Non-Welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle: Reply
PAPERS FROM 2003
John C. Coates IV (December 29, 2003) Ownership, Takeovers and EU Law: How Contestable Should EU Corporations Be?
Mark J. Roe (December 29, 2003) Political Determinants of Corporate Governance: Political Context, Corporate Impact
Guy Halfteck (December 29, 2003) The Effects of Incentives to Invest and the Level of Investment in Class Action Law Enforcement on the Magnitude of Liability for Harm
Allen Ferrell (December 29, 2003) Mandated Disclosure and Stock Returns: Evidence From the Over-the-Counter Market
Allen Ferrell (December 29, 2003) Why Continental European Takeover Law Matters
Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman (November 29, 2003) The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency Twenty Years Later: The Hindsight Bias
Joni Hersch (November 29, 2003) Jury Demands and Trials
Lucian Bebchuk (ed.) (November 29, 2003) Symposium on Corporate Elections
Joni Hersch, Alison F. Del Rossi, and W. Kip Viscusi (November 29, 2003) Voter Preferences and State Regulation of Smoking
W. Kip Viscusi (October 29, 2003) Tort Reform and Insurance Markets
Bruce Hay (October 29, 2003) Sting Operations, Undercover Agents, and Entrapment
Assaf Hamdani (October 29, 2003) Gatekeeper Liability
Howell Jackson (October 29, 2003) Accounting for Social Security and Its Reform
Mario Draghi and Robert Pozen (October 29, 2003) US-EU Regulatory Convergence: Capital Markets Issues
Steven Shavell (October 29, 2003) On the Writing and the Interpretation of Contracts
Louis Kaplow (September 29, 2003) Concavity of Utility, Concavity of Welfare, and Redistribution of Income
Joni Hersch (September 29, 2003) The New Labor Market for Lawyers: Will Female Lawyers Still Earn Less?
Guhan Subramanian (September 29, 2003) Bargaining in the Shadow of Takeover Defenses
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (September 14, 2003) Conflicts of Interest in Japanese Insolvencies: The Problem of Bank Rescues
Heather Mahar (September 14, 2003) Why Are There So Few Prenuptial Agreements?
Amitai Aviram and Avishalom Tor (August 14, 2003) Overcoming Impediments to Information Sharing
Lucian Bebchuk (August 14, 2003) Shareholder Access to the Ballot
Robert C. Pozen (August 14, 2003) Institutional Perspectives on Shareholder Nominations of Corporate Directors
W. Kip Viscusi (August 14, 2003) Principles for Cigarette Taxation in Africa
Jahn K. Hakes and W. Kip Viscusi (August 14, 2003) Dead Reckoning: Demographic Determinants of the Accuracy of Morality Risk Perceptions
Mark J. Roe (August 14, 2003) Delaware's Competition
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (August 14, 2003) Does Relationship Banking Matter? Japanese Bank-Borrower Ties in Good Times and Bad
Einer Elhauge (August 14, 2003) Defining Better Monopolization Standards
Louis Kaplow (July 14, 2003) The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion
Matthew C. Stephenson (June 14, 2003) Court of Public Opinion: Government Accountability and Judicial Independence
Louis Kaplow (June 14, 2003) Taxation and Redistribution: Some Clarifications
Louis Kaplow (June 14, 2003) Public Goods and the Distribution of Income
W. Kip Viscusi (May 14, 2003) The Value of Life: Estimates with Risks by Occupation and Industry
F. Scott Kieff (April 13, 2003) The Case for Registering Patents and the Law and Economics of Present Patent-Obtaining Rules
Jeffrey N. Gordon (April 13, 2003) Governance Failures of the Enron Board and the New Information Order of Sarbanes-Oxley
Oren Bar-Gill and Gideon Parchomovsky (April 13, 2003) The Value of Giving Away Secrets
W. Kip Viscusi (April 13, 2003) Racial Differences in Labor Market Values of a Statistical Life
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Matthew Stephenson (April 13, 2003) Legal Institutions and the Structure of Informal Networks
Lucian Bebchuk (April 13, 2003) Why Firms Adopt Antitakeover Arrangements
Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried (April 13, 2003) Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (March 13, 2003) Fairness versus Welfare: Notes on the Pareto Principle, Preferences, and Distributive Justice
Louis Kaplow (March 13, 2003) Transition Policy: A Conceptual Framework
Guhan Subramanian (March 13, 2003) The Drivers of Market Efficiency in Revlon Transactions
Allen Ferrell (March 13, 2003) If We Understand the Mechanisms, Why Don't We Understand Their Output?
Steven Shavell (February 13, 2003) Economic Analysis of Contract Law
Steven Shavell (February 13, 2003) Economic Analysis of Litigation and the Legal Process
Steven Shavell (February 13, 2003) Economic Analysis of Public Law Enforcement and Criminal Law
Jeffrey N. Gordon (February 13, 2003) An International Relations Perspective on the Convergence of Corporate Governance: German Shareholder Capitalism and the European Union, 1990-2000
Jeffrey N. Gordon (February 13, 2003) An American Perspective on the New German Anti-Takeover Law
Steven Shavell (February 13, 2003) Economic Analysis of the General Structure of the Law
Steven Shavell (February 13, 2003) Welfare Economics, Morality, and the Law
Lucian Bebchuk, John C. Coates IV, and Guhan Subramanian (February 13, 2003) The Trouble with Staggered Boards: A Reply to Georgeson's John Wilcox
W. Kip Viscusi and Richard J. Zeckhauser (January 13, 2003) Sacrificing Civil Liberties to Reduce Terrorism Risks
Jeremy D. Andersen (January 13, 2003) Victim Offender Settlements, General Deterrence, and Social Welfare
PAPERS FROM 2002
Lucian Bebchuk, John C. Coates IV, and Guhan Subramanian (December 12, 2002) The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Further Findings and a Reply to Symposium Participants
David Rosenberg (December 12, 2002) Avoiding Duplicative Litigation of Similar Claims: The Superiority of Class Action vs. Collateral Estoppel vs. Standard Claims Market
David Rosenberg (December 12, 2002) Deregulating Insurance Subrogation: Towards and Ex ante Market in Tort Claims
Steven Shavell (December 12, 2002) Economic Analysis of Accident Law
Lucian Bebchuk (December 12, 2002) Ex Ante Investments and Ex Post Externalities
Lucian Bebchuk (December 12, 2002) Asymmetric Information and the Choice of Corporate Governance Arrangements
Steven Shavell (December 12, 2002) Economic Analysis of Property Law
Lucian Bebchuk and Oren Bar-Gill (December 12, 2002) Misreporting Corporate Performance
Steven Shavell (November 12, 2002) Minimum Asset Requirements
Lucian Bebchuk (November 12, 2002) The Questionable Case for Using Auctions to Select Lead Counsel
Guhan Subramanian (November 12, 2002) The Disappearing Delaware Effect
W. Kip Viscusi and Joseph E. Aldy (November 12, 2002) The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World
Louis Kaplow (October 12, 2002) Why Measure Inequality?
W. Kip Viscusi and Richard J. Zeckhauser (October 12, 2002) The Denominator Blindness Effect: Accident Frequencies and the Misjudgment of Recklessness
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman (October 12, 2002) Property, Contract, and Verification: The Numerous Clausus Problem and the Divisibility of Rights
Vikramaditya S. Khanna (September 12, 2002) Should the Behavior of Top Management Matter?
Einer Elhauge (September 12, 2002) Why Above-Cost Price Cuts to Drive Out Entrants Do Not Signal Predation or Even Market Power - And the Implications for Defining Costs
Barak D. Richman (September 12, 2002) Community Enforcement of Informal Contracts: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (September 12, 2002) Capitalist Politicians, Socialist Bureaucrats? Legends of Government Planning from Japan
Oren Bar-Gill (July 12, 2002) The Success and Survival of Cautious Optimism: Legal Rules and Endogenous Perceptions in Pre-Trial Settlement Negotiations
Lucian Bebchuk and Assaf Hamdani (July 12, 2002) Vigorous Race or Leisurely Walk: Reconsidering the Debate on State Competition Over Corporate Charters
Oren Bar-Gill, Michal Barzuza, and Lucian Bebchuk (July 12, 2002) The Market for Corporate Law
Einer Elhauge (July 12, 2002) Preference-Estimating Statutory Default Rules
Einer Elhauge (July 12, 2002) Preference-Eliciting Statutory Default Rules
Mark J. Roe (July 12, 2002) Corporate Law's Limits
Mark J. Roe (July 12, 2002) Can Culture Ever Constrain the Economic Model of Corporate Law?
Oren Bar-Gill and Assaf Hamdani (July 11, 2002) Optimal Liability for Libel
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (July 11, 2002) The Legislative Dynamic: Evidence from the Deregulation of Financial Services in Japan
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (July 11, 2002) Who Appoints Them, What Do They Do?: Evidence on Outside Directors from Japan
John M. de Figueiredo and Rui J.P. de Figueiredo Jr. (June 11, 2002) The Allocation of Resources by Interest Groups: Lobbying, Litigation, and Administrative Regulation
John M. de Figueiredo and Rui J. de Figueiredo Jr (June 11, 2002) Managerial Decision-Making in Non-Market Environments: A Survey Experiment
Lucian Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, and David I. Walker (June 11, 2002) Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
Alma Cohen (June 11, 2002) The Disadvantages of Aggregate Deductibles
John M. de Figueiredo (June 11, 2002) Committee Jurisdiction and Internet Intellectual Property Protection
John M. de Figueiredo (June 11, 2002) Lobbying and Information in Politics
John M. de Figueiredo (June 11, 2002) Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying
Alma Cohen (June 11, 2002) Asymmetric Information and Learning in the Automobile Insurance Market
Joni Hersch and W. Kip Viscusi (May 11, 2002) Punitive Damages: How Judges and Juries Perform
Thomas J. Kniesner and W. Kip Viscusi (April 11, 2002) A Cost-Benefit Analysis: Why Relative Economic Position Does Not Matter
Bernard Black and Reinier Kraakman (April 11, 2002) Delaware's Takeover Law: The Uncertain Search for Hidden Value
Einer Elhauge (April 11, 2002) A Better Explanation for Why Pricing Above Cost Should Not Be Predatory - And the Implications For How to Define Costs
Lucian Bebchuk (April 11, 2002) The Case Against Board Veto in Corporate Takeovers
Lucian Bebchuk, John C. Coates IV, and Guhan Subramanian (March 11, 2002) The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence, and Policy
Sharon Hannes (March 11, 2002) The Hidden Virtue of Antitakeover Defenses
Vikramaditya Khanna (March 11, 2002) Toward a Functional Understanding of Standing
Barak Y. Orbach (March 11, 2002) The Law and Economics of Creativity in the Workplace
Henrik Lando and Steven Shavell (March 11, 2002) The Advantage of Focusing Law Enforcement Effort
Lucian Bebchuk and Allen Ferrell (March 11, 2002) On Takeover Law and Regulatory Competition
Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (February 11, 2002) Human Nature and the Best Consequentialist Moral System
Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (February 11, 2002) All Individuals May Be Made Worse Off Under Any Nonwelfarist Principle
Lucian Bebchuk and Alma Cohen (February 11, 2002) Firm's Decisions Where to Incorporate
Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Allen Ferrell (February 11, 2002) Does the Evidence Favor State Competition in Corporate Law?
Laura Nyantung Beny (January 11, 2002) The Political Economy of Inside Trading Legislation and Enforcement: International Evidence
PAPERS FROM 2001
Christine Jolls (December 11, 2001) Antidiscrimination and Accommodation
Laura Nyantung Beny (December 11, 2001) Do Shareholders Value Insider Trading Laws? International Evidence
Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar (December 11, 2001) Does Uncertainty Call for Comparative Negligence?
Lucian Bebchuk (December 11, 2001) Property Rights and Liability Rules: The Ex Ante View of the Cathedral
Lucian Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, and David I. Walker (November 11, 2001) Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?
Mark J. Roe (November 11, 2001) The Shareholder Wealth Maximization Norm and Industrial Organization
Steven Shavell (November 11, 2001) Law versus Morality as Regulators of Conduct
Alma Cohen and Liran Einav (November 11, 2001) The Effects of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws on Driving Behavior and Traffic Fatalities
Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (November 11, 2001) Moral Rules and the Moral Sentiments: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System
Lucian Bebchuk and Assaf Hamdani (November 11, 2001) Optimal Defaults for Corporate Law Evolution
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (October 11, 2001) Financial Malaise and the Myth of the Misgoverned Firm
Lucian Bebchuk and Oliver Hart (October 11, 2001) Takeover Bids vs. Proxy Fights in Contests for Corporate Control
Liran Einav and Barak Y. Orbach (October 11, 2001) Uniform Prices for Differentiated Goods: The Case of the Movie-Theater Industry
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (September 11, 2001) The Myth of the Main Bank: Japan and Comparative Corporate Governance
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (September 11, 2001) Directed Credit? Capital Market Competition in High-Growth Japan
Lucian Bebchuk and Allen Ferrell (August 11, 2001) Federal Intervention to Enhance Shareholder Choice
Laura N. Beny (July 8, 2001) U.S. Secondary Stock Markets: A Survey of Current Regulatory and Structural Issues and a Reform Proposal to Enhance Competition
Lucian Bebchuk (June 8, 2001) Ex Ante Costs of Violating Absolute Priority in Bankruptcy
Alon Klement and Zvika Neeman (June 8, 2001) Incentive Structures for Class Action Lawyers
Gavin Clarkson (June 8, 2001) Avoiding Sub-Optimal Behavior in Intellectual Asset Transactions: Economic and Organizational Perspectives on the Sale of Knowledge
Eric Rasmusen (May 8, 2001) An Economic Approach to Adultery Law
Eric Rasmusen (May 8, 2001) Agency Law and Contract Formation
Eric Rasmusen (May 8, 2001) A Model of Negotiation, Not Bargaining: Explaining Incomplete Contracts
Eric Rasmusen (May 8, 2001) Should Candidates Flip a Coin if the Difference in Their Votes is Small?
Oliver Hart (May 8, 2001) Norms and the Theory of the Firm
Oliver Hart (May 8, 2001) Financial Contracting
Abraham Bell and G. Parchomovsky (April 8, 2001) Givings
Lucian Bebchuk and J. M. Fried (April 8, 2001) A New Approach to Valuing Secured Claims in Bankruptcy
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (March 8, 2001) The Fable of the Keiretsu
Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard A. Posner, and Alvin E. Roth (March 8, 2001) The Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks
Keith Hylton and Vikramaditya Khanna (March 8, 2001) Toward an Economic Theory of Pro-Defendant Criminal Procedure
Lucian Bebchuk and Omri Ben-Shahar (March 8, 2001) Pre-Contractual Reliance
Alon Klement (February 8, 2001) Private Monitoring in Common Fund Class Actions
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (February 8, 2001) Property Rights and Indigenous Tradition Among Early 20th Century Japanese Firms
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (February 8, 2001) Chapter 1: Japanese Distribution: Background, Issues, Examples
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (February 8, 2001) Chapter 3: Apparel Distribution: Inter-firm Contracting and Intra-firm Organization
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (February 8, 2001) Does Ownership Matter? Evidence from the Zaibatsu Dissolution Program
Vikramaditya Khanna (February 8, 2001) How Does Double Jeopardy Help Defendants?
PAPERS FROM 2000
W. Kip Viscusi (December 8, 2000) The Challenge of Punitive Damages Mathematics
Nuno Garoupa and Fernando Gomez-Pomar (December 8, 2000) Punish Once or Punish Twice: A Theory of the Use of Criminal Sanctions in Addition to Regulatory Penalties
Lucian Bebchuk and Allen Ferrell (December 8, 2000) A New Approach to Takeover Law and Regulatory Competition
Lynn A. Stout (November 8, 2000) Stock Prices and Social Wealth
Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (November 8, 2000) Notions of Fairness versus the Pareto Principle: On the Role of Logical Consistency
Markus Berndt (November 8, 2000) Global Differences in Corporate Governance Systems Theory and Implications for Reforms
W. Kip Viscusi (November 8, 2000) Corporate Risk Analysis: A Reckless Act?
Joan Rovira, W. Kip Viscusi, Fernando Antoñanzas, Joan Costa, Warren Hart, and Irineu Carvalho (November 8, 2000) Smoking Risks in Spain: Part II - Perceptions of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Externalities
W. Kip Viscusi, Irineu Carvalho, Fernando Antoñanzas, Francisco Braña, and Fabiola Portillo (November 8, 2000) Smoking Risks in Spain: Part III - Determinants of Smoking Behavior
Joni Hersch and Leslie S. Stratton (October 8, 2000) Household Specialization and the Male Marriage Wage Premium
Joni Hersch (October 8, 2000) Gender, Income Levels, and the Demand for Cigarettes
Joni Hersch and Leslie S. Stratton (October 8, 2000) Housework and Wages
John C. Coates IV (September 8, 2000) Explaining Variation in Takeover Defenses: Failure in the Corporate Law Market
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (August 8, 2000) Banks and Economic Growth: Implications from Japanese History
W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch (August 8, 2000) Cigarette Smokers as Job Risk Takers
W. Kip Viscusi (August 8, 2000) Jurors, Judges, and the Mistreatment of Risk by the Courts
W. Kip Viscusi (August 8, 2000) Misuses and Proper Uses of Hedonic Values of Life
Fernando Antoñanzas, Francisco Braña, Irineu Carvalho, Fabiola Portillo, Joan Rovira, and W. Kip Viscusi (August 8, 2000) Smoking Risks in Spain: Part I - Perception of Risks to the Smoker
W. Kip Viscusi (August 8, 2000) Risk Equity
Wesley Magat, Joel Huber, W. Kip Viscusi, and Jason Bell (August 8, 2000) An Iterative Choice Approach to Valuing Clean Lakes, Rivers, and Streams
Lucian Bebchuk and David I. Walker (August 8, 2000) The Overlooked Corporate Finance Problems of a Microsoft Breakup
A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell (July 8, 2000) Corruption and Optimal Law Enforcement
Christine Jolls (June 8, 2000) Accommodation Mandates and Antidiscriminatino Law
Louis Kaplow (June 8, 2000) A Framework for Assessing Estate and Gift Taxation
Steven Shavell (June 7, 2000) Economic Analysis of Law
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman (June 7, 2000) The Essential Role of Organizational Law
Bruce Hay and David Rosenberg (June 7, 2000) The Individual Justice of Averaging
Allen Ferrell (April 7, 2000) The Allocation of Investors' Orders and Inefficient Market Competition: A Proposal
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer (April 7, 2000) Rethinking Relationship-Specific Investments: Subcontracting in the Japanese Automobile Industry
Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (March 7, 2000) Principles of Fairness versus Human Welfare: On the Evaluation of Legal Policy
Steven Shavell (March 7, 2000) On the Social Function and the Regulation of Liability Insurance
Louis Kaplow (March 7, 2000) Horizontal Equity: New Measures, Unclear Principles
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman (March 7, 2000) The End of History for Corporate Law
Joni Hersch (February 7, 2000) Marriage, Home Production, and Earnings
Michael E. Levine (February 7, 2000) Price Discrimination Without Market Power
Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (January 7, 2000) Should Legal Rules Favor the Poor? Clarifying the Role of Legal Rules and the Income Tax in Redistributing Income
Alon Klement (January 7, 2000) Threats to Sue and Cost Divisibility Under Asymmetric Information
John C. Coates IV and Guhan Subramanian (January 7, 2000) A Buy-Side Model of Lockups: Theory and Evidence
PAPERS FROM 1999
Dror Ben-Asher (December 7, 1999)