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2010, Volume 12, Issue 1
- 181-203 The Economics of Injunctive and Reverse Settlements
by Keith N. Hylton & Sungjoon Cho - 204-244 Do Independent Prosecutors Deter Political Corruption? An Empirical Evaluation across Seventy-eight Countries
by Anne van Aaken & Lars P. Feld & Stefan Voigt - 245-261 Externalities from Recycling Laws: Evidence from Crime Rates
by Bevin Ashenmiller
2009, Volume 12, Issue 1
- 1-38 Municipal Bond Ratings and Citizens' Rights
by John Yinger - 39-68 Auditor Independence and the Quality of Information in Financial Disclosures: Evidence for Market Discipline versus Sarbanes--Oxley Proscriptions
by James R. Brown & Dino Falaschetti & Michael J. Orlando - 69-94 Influence and Deterrence: How Obstetricians Respond to Litigation against Themselves and Their Colleagues
by David Dranove & Yasutora Watanabe - 95-115 Strategic Statutory Interpretation by Administrative Agencies
by Yehonatan Givati - 116-161 The Changing Landscape of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards
by Alison F. Del Rossi & W. Kip Viscusi
2009, Volume 11, Issue 2
- 249-309 Estimating the Impact of the Death Penalty on Murder
by John J. Donohue & Justin Wolfers - 370-398 Statistical Variability and the Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty
by Paul R. Zimmerman - 399-450 Property Rights and Contract Form in Medieval Europe
by Alexander Volokh - 451-497 The Deterrent Effect of Death Penalty Eligibility: Evidence from the Adoption of Child Murder Eligibility Factors
by Michael Frakes & Matthew Harding - 498-529 Potential Savings from Abolition of the Death Penalty in North Carolina
by Philip J. Cook - 530-574 Reassessing the Cost of the Death Penalty Using Quasi-Experimental Methods: Evidence from Maryland
by John K. Roman & Aaron J. Chalfin & Carly R. Knight - 575-607 A Loan Modification Approach to the Housing Crisis
by Eric A. Posner & Luigi Zingales - 608-635 Corporate Voting versus Market Price Setting
by Yair Listokin
2009, Volume 11, Issue 1
- 1-23 Bankruptcy: Past Puzzles, Recent Reforms, and the Mortgage Crisis
by Michelle J. White - 24-46 The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing
by John J. Donohue & Jeffrey Grogger & Steven D. Levitt - 47-78 Convictions versus Conviction Rates: The Prosecutor's Choice
by Eric Rasmusen & Manu Raghav & Mark Ramseyer - 79-111 Long-Term Contracts and Short-Term Commitment: Price Determination for Heterogeneous Freight Transactions
by Scott E. Masten - 112-133 Do Masculine Names Help Female Lawyers Become Judges? Evidence from South Carolina
by Bentley Coffey & Patrick A. McLaughlin - 134-161 Comparative Vigilance
by Allan M. Feldman & Ram Singh - 162-208 Who Wins in Settlement Negotiations?
by Russell Korobkin & Joseph Doherty
2008, Volume 11, Issue 2
- 310-334 Does Capital Punishment have a "Local" Deterrent Effect on Homicides?
by Randi Hjalmarsson - 335-369 Model Uncertainty and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
by Ethan Cohen-Cole & Steven Durlauf & Jeffrey Fagan & Daniel Nagin
2008, Volume 11, Issue 1
- 209-248 Crime and Expected Punishment: Changes in Perceptions at the Age of Criminal Majority
by Randi Hjalmarsson
2008, Volume 10, Issue 2
- 159-184 Management Always Wins the Close Ones
by Yair Listokin - 185-245 Defense Costs and Insurer Reserves in Medical Malpractice and Other Personal Injury Cases: Evidence from Texas, 1988--2004
by William M. Sage - 246-302 Does Post-Accident Drug Testing Reduce Injuries? Evidence from a Large Retail Chain
by Alexandre Mas - 303-350 Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship
by John Armour & Douglas Cumming - 351-387 Evidentiary Standards and Information Acquisition in Public Law
by Matthew C. Stephenson - 388-423 The Optimal Penalty for Sexually Transmitting HIV
by Andrew M. Francis & Hugo M. Mialon - 424-453 The Economics of US Civil War Conscription
by Timothy J. Perri - 454-506 Global Market Surveillance
by Sofia Johan
2008, Volume 10, Issue 1
- 1-60 The Economics of the Bill of Rights
by Hugo M. Mialon & Paul H. Rubin - 61-89 How Important is State Enforcement for Trade?
by Peter T. Leeson - 90-109 Interpreting Empirical Estimates of the Effect of Corporate Governance
by Yair Listokin - 110-141 Case Dismissed: Police Discretion and Racial Differences in Dismissals of Felony Charges
by Jahn K. Hakes - 142-158 Patent--Secret Mix in Complex Product Firms
by Elisabetta Ottoz & Franco Cugno
2007, Volume 9, Issue 2
- 305-329 Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer? The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defendant Guilt is Uncertain
by David Bjerk - 330-369 Tort Liability Litigation Costs for Commercial Claims
by Joni Hersch & W. Kip Viscusi - 370-383 Bundled Discounts, Leverage Theory, and Downstream Competition
by Abraham L. Wickelgren - 384-407 Amended Final-offer Arbitration Outperforms Final-offer Arbitration
by Dao-Zhi Zeng - 408-434 Successor Liability and Asymmetric Information
by Albert H. Choi
2007, Volume 9, Issue 1
- 1-29 Do Harsher Prison Conditions Reduce Recidivism? A Discontinuity-based Approach
by Jesse M. Shapiro - 30-47 Sidgwick's Utilitarian Analysis of Law: A Bridge from Bentham to Becker?
by Steven G. Medema - 48-71 On Understanding the Increase in U.S. Patent Litigation
by Joseph P. Cook - 72-134 An Economic Analysis of State and Individual Responsibility Under International Law
by Eric A. Posner & Alan O. Sykes - 135-159 Is There An Expressive Function of Law? An Empirical Analysis of Voting Laws with Symbolic Fines
by Patricia Funk - 160-174 A Bargaining Model of Holdouts and Takings
by Thomas J. Miceli & Kathleen Segerson - 175-194 Optimal Discretion in the Application of Rules
by Steven Shavell - 195-303 Should Legal Empiricists Go Bayesian?
by Jeff Strnad
2006, Volume 8, Issue 3
- 439-475 The Economic Consequences of Accounting Fraud in Product Markets: Theory and a Case from the U.S. Telecommunications Industry (WorldCom)
by Gil Sadka - 476-522 Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary Between Antitrust Law and Patent Law
by Stephen M. Maurer & Suzanne Scotchmer - 523-561 Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information: Exclusive Versus Optional Remedies
by Ronen Avraham & Zhiyong Liu - 562-614 Uncovering Discrimination: A Comparison of the Methods Used by Scholars and Civil Rights Enforcement Officials
by Stephen L. Ross & John Yinger - 615-626 Freakonomics: Scholarship in the Service of Storytelling
by John DiNardo
2006, Volume 8, Issue 2
- 181-182 Prefatory Note
by Cecilia Elena Rouse - 183-212 School Quality, Neighborhoods, and Housing Prices
by Thomas J. Kane & Stephanie K. Riegg & Douglas O. Staiger - 213-248 Evaluating the Role of Brown v. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans
by Orley Ashenfelter & William J. Collins & Albert Yoon - 249-281 The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade
by Roland G. Fryer & Steven D. Levitt - 282-311 Race, Income, and College in 25 Years: Evaluating Justice O'Connor's Conjecture
by Alan Krueger & Jesse Rothstein & Sarah Turner - 312-346 Capitalizing on Segregation, Pretending Neutrality: College Admissions and the Texas Top 10% Law
by Marta Tienda & Sunny Xinchun Niu - 347-389 Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of "Resegregation" in Southern Schools
by Charles T. Clotfelter & Jacob L. Vigdor & Helen F. Ladd - 390-409 Social Background and Academic Performance Differentials: White and Minority Students at Selective Colleges
by Douglas S. Massey - 410-436 Diversity and Discontent: The Relationship Between School Desegregation and Perceptions of Racial Justice
by Richard R. W. Brooks
2006, Volume 8, Issue 1
- 1-19 Corporation and Contract
by Henry Hansmann - 20-32 Playing It Safe with Low Conditional Fees versus Being Insured by High Contingent Fees
by Winand Emons - 33-61 Information, Litigation, and Common Law Evolution
by Keith N. Hylton - 62-80 Statistics of Legal Infrastructures: A Review of the Law and Finance Literature
by Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos - 81-115 The Duel of Honor: Screening For Unobservable Social Capital
by Douglas W. Allen & Clyde G. Reed - 116-142 Does the Threat of the Death Penalty Affect Plea Bargaining in Murder Cases? Evidence from New York's 1995 Reinstatement of Capital Punishment
by Ilyana Kuziemko - 143-180 Pensions, Politics, and Judicial Tenure: An Empirical Study of Federal Judges, 1869--2002
by Albert Yoon
2005, Volume 7, Issue 2
- 319-349 Economic Conditions, Deterrence and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from Micro Data
by H. Naci Mocan & Daniel I. Rees - 350-378 Deterrence and Origin of Legal System: Evidence from 1950–1999
by Michael L. Smith - 379-402 What Do Prosecutors Maximize? Evidence from the Careers of U.S. Attorneys
by Richard T. Boylan - 403-438 Optimal Trust Design in Mass Tort Bankruptcy
by Kenneth Ayotte & Yair Listokin - 439-483 Limited Liability in California 1928–31: It’s the Lawyers
by Mark I. Weinstein - 484-522 The (Legal) Value of Chance: Distorted Measures of Recovery in Private Law
by Omri Ben-Shahar & Robert A. Mikos - 523-543 The Hand Rule and
United States v. Carroll Towing Co. Reconsidered
by Allan M. Feldman & Jeonghyun Kim
2005, Volume 7, Issue 1
- 1-27 The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from Eighteenth Century England
by Daniel M. Klerman - 28-61 Legal Regime and Contractual Flexibility: A Comparison of Business's Organizational Choices in France and the United States during the Era of Industrialization
by Naomi R. Lamoreaux - 62-84 American Civil Law Origins: Implications for State Constitutions
by Daniel Berkowitz - 85-111 Conscription as Regulation
by Casey B. Mulligan - 112-143 150 Years of Patent Office Practice
by Josh Lerner - 144-183 Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence
by Laura Nyantung Beny - 184-210 Governing Stock Markets in Transition Economies: Lessons from China
by Katharina Pistor - 211-252 Law and Firms' Access to Finance
by Thorsten Beck & Asli Demirguc-Kunt - 253-283 Bankruptcy around the World: Explanations of Its Relative Use
by Stijn Claessens & Leora F. Klapper - 284-318 Laws for Sale: Evidence from Russia
by Irina Slinko & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya & Evgeny Yakovlev
2004, Volume 6, Issue 2
- 249-284 Protection for Whom? Creditor Conflict and Bankruptcy
by Stanley D. Longhofer - 285-318 Alcohol Prohibition and Cirrhosis
by Angela K. Dills - 319-344 Toward a Signaling Explanation of the Private Choice of Corporate Law
by Edward M. Iacobucci - 345-368 Comparative Causation
by Francesco Parisi - 369-409 Agency Law and Contract Formation
by Eric Rasmusen - 410-433 Punish Once or Punish Twice: A Theory of the Use of Criminal Sanctions in Addition to Regulatory Penalties
by Nuno Garoupa - 434-439 Comment on "Aligning the Interests of Lawyers and Clients"
by Abraham L. Wickelgren - 441-464 Using Stationarity Tests in Antitrust Market Definition
by Mario Forni - 465-475 Discussion of "Using Stationarity Tests in Antitrust Market Definition"
by Daniel Hosken & Christopher T. Taylor - 476-478 Comment on Forni's "Using Stationarity Tests in Antitrust Market Definition"
by David Genesove
2004, Volume 6, Issue 1
- 1-27 Publish or Paris? Evidence of How Judges Allocate Their Time
by Ahmed E. Taha - 28-71 Detecting Manipulation in Futures Markets: The Ferruzzi Soybean Episode
by Craig Pirrong - 72-94 The Denominator Blindness Effect: Accident Frequencies and the Misjudgment of Recklessness
by W. Kip Viscusi & Richard J. Zeckhauser - 95-134 Mandatory Arbitration and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the West
by Albert Yoon - 135-153 Was the Antitrust Action that Broke Up the Movie Studios Good for the Movies? Evidence from the Stock Market
by Arthur De Vany & Henry McMillan - 154-184 Delivering Legality on the Internet: Developing Principles for the Private Provision of Commercial Law
by Gillian K. Hadfield - 185-207 Penalty Enhancement for Hate Crimes: An Economic Analysis
by Dhammika Dharmapala & Nuno Garoupa - 208-216 Filing a Nuisance Claim to Induce Successive Lawsuits
by Jeong-Yoo Kim - 217-247 Protecting Homemakers' Marriage-Specific Investments under No-Fault Divorce: A Model for Restructuring Alimony in Civil Law Countries
by Aspasia Tsaoussis
August 2003, Volume 5, Issue 2
- 271-317 The Law and Economics of Immigration Policy
by Michael J. Trebilcock - 318-343 Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence
by Lawrence Katz & Steven D. Levitt & Ellen Shustorovich - 344-376 Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Postmoratorium Panel Data
by Hashem Dezhbakhsh & Paul H. Rubin & Joanna M. Shepherd - 377-411 Justifying Imprisonment: On the Optimality of Excessively Costly Punishment
by Abraham L. Wickelgren - 412-432 How Do the Laws of Probability Constrain Legislative and Judicial Efforts to Stop Racial Profiling?
by Jeff Dominitz - 433-469 The Uneasy Case for Comparative Negligence
by Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar - 470-504 Exceptions to Employment at Will: Raising Firing Costs or Enforcing Life-Cycle Contracts?
by Max Schanzenbach
2003, Volume 5, Issue 1
- 1-31 The Condorcet Jury Theorem and the Expressive Function of Law: A Theory of Informative Law
by Dhammika Dharmapala & Richard H. McAdams - 32-60 Do Publicly Traded Firms Price Differently from Private Firms?
by Ernesto Schargrodsky - 61-93 Lay Juries, Professional Arbitrators, and the Arbitrator Selection Hypothesis
by Donald Wittman - 94-133 The Government as Litigant: Further Tests of the Case Selection Model
by Theodore Eisenberg & Henry Farber - 134-164 Found Money? Split-Award Statutes and Settlement of Punitive Damages Cases
by Andrew F. Daughety & Jennifer F. Reinganum - 165-188 Aligning the Interests of Lawyers and Clients
by A. Mitchell Polinsky & Daniel L. Rubinfeld - 189-232 Fly by Night or Face the Music? Premature Dissolution and the Desirability of Extended Liability
by James Boyd & Daniel E. Ingberman - 233-262 What Determines Judicial Prestige? An Empirical Analysis for Judges of the Federal Court of Australia
by Russell Smyth & Mita Bhattacharya - 263-269 Property Rights and the Creation of Wealth
by Roger van den Bergh
2002, Volume 4, Issue 2
- 227-257 Law versus Morality as Regulators of Conduct
by Steven Shavell - 258-294 No-Fault for Motor Vehicles: An Economic Analysis
by Yu-Ping Liao & Michelle J. White - 295-313 The Deterrence Hypothesis and Picking Pockets at the Pickpocket's Hanging
by David A. Anderson - 314-340 Self-Interest and Altruism in the Deterrence of Transnational Bribery
by Kevin E. Davis - 341-370 The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Tort Awards
by Eric Helland & Alexander Tabarrok - 371-375 Comment on " 'These Boots Are Made for Walking': Why Most Divorce Filers Are Women"
by Erik D. Craft - 376-379 " 'These Boots Are Made for Walking' ": A Reply
by Margaret F. Brinig & Douglas W. Allen - 380-423 Event Studies and the Law: Part II: Empirical Studies of Corporate Law
by Sanjai Bhagat & Roberta Romano
January 2002, Volume 4, Issue 1
- 1-17 On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation
by Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell - 18-43 Welfare Implications of Costly Litigation under Strict Liability
by Keith N. Hylton - 44-87 The Effects of Product Liability Litigation on the Value of Firms
by David W. Prince & Paul H. Rubin - 88-115 An Economic Analysis of Anti-Tax-Avoidance Doctrines
by David A. Weisbach - 116-140 Optimal Law Enforcement with a Rent-Seeking Government
by Nuno Garoupa & Daniel Klerman - 141-168 Event Studies and the Law: Part I: Technique and Corporate Litigation
by Sanjai Bhagat & Roberta Romano - 168-207 The Law and Economics of Consumer Finance
by Richard Hynes & Eric A. Posner - 208-226 The Law and Economics of Conflict of Laws
by Michael E. Solimine
Fall 1999, Volume 1, Issue 1-2
- 3-25 The Normativity of Law
by Kornhauser, Lewis A - 26-62 How Do Judges Think about Risk?
by Viscusi, W Kip - 63-77 The Conflict between Notions of Fairness and the Pareto Principle
by Kaplow, Louis & Shavell, Steven - 78-114 Violence and the U.S. Prohibitions of Drug and Alcohol
by Miron, Jeffrey A - 115-157 Behavioral Law and Economics: A Progress Report
by Sunstein, Cass R - 158-189 Stampede to Judgment: Persuasive Influence and Herding Behavior by Courts
by Daughety, Andrew F & Reinganum, Jennifer F - 190-238 The Erosion of Rights by Past Breach
by Ben-Shahar, Omri - 239-275 The Appraisal Remedy and Merger Premiums
by Mahoney, Paul G & Weinstein, Mark - 276-312 Criminal Law and Behavioral Law and Economics: Observations on the Neglected Role of Uncertainty in Deterring Crime
by Harel, Alon & Segal, Uzi - 313-385 Governmental Liability for Breach of Contract
by Fischel, Daniel R & Sykes, Alan O - 386-435 Empirical Methods in Antitrust Litigation: Review and Critique
by Baker, Jonathan B & Rubinfeld, Daniel L - 436-470 Nondiscretionary Concealed Weapons Laws: A Case Study of Statistics, Standards of Proof, and Public Policy [Review Article]
by Ayres, Ian & Donohue, John J, III - 471-480 An Important Portrait of Affirmative Action [Review Article]
by Eisenberg, Theodore