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May 2009, Volume 25, Issue 1
- 55-79 A Principal-Agent Theory of En Banc Review
by Tom S. Clark - 80-106 Why Divorce Laws Matter: Incentives for Noncontractible Marital Investments under Unilateral and Consent Divorce
by Abraham L. Wickelgren - 107-133 Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis
by Eric Talley - 134-156 Accuracy Versus Falsification Costs: The Optimal Amount of Evidence under Different Procedures
by Claude Fluet - 157-182 An Economic Model of Whistle-Blower Policy
by Sandeep Kapur - 183-210 Has Devolution Injured American Workers? State and Federal Enforcement of Construction Safety
by Alison D. Morantz - 211-234 Optimal Vertical Arrangements When Resale Is Possible
by Mariano Selvaggi - 235-261 Least-Cost Avoidance: The Tragedy of Common Safety
by Nuno Garoupa - 262-284 Judicial Independence Under a Divided Polity: A Study of the Rulings of the French Constitutional Court, 1959--2006
by Raphaël Franck
October 2008, Volume 24, Issue 2
- 247-272 Corporate Boards of Directors: In Principle and in Practice
by Oliver E. Williamson - 273-306 Incentives in Markets, Firms, and Governments
by Atif Mian - 307-318 Urban Extremism
by Amihai Glazer - 319-355 An Economic Analysis of Color-Blind Affirmative Action
by Tolga Yuret - 356-370 Infectious Ethics: How Upright Employees Can Ease Concerns of Tacit Collusion
by Brian Mittendorf - 371-406 Democracy, Credibility, and Clientelism
by Razvan Vlaicu - 407-433 Trust in Transition: Cross-Country and Firm Evidence
by Utku Teksoz - 434-457 Environmental Liability in Transboundary Harms: Law and Forum Choice
by Henry van Egteren - 458-475 Cashing by the Hour: Why Large Law Firms Prefer Hourly Fees over Contingent Fees
by Fernando Gomez-Pomar - 476-488 Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
by Alois Stutzer
May 2008, Volume 24, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editor's Note
by Ian Ayres - 2-21 Abortion Access and Risky Sex Among Teens: Parental Involvement Laws and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
by Thomas Stratmann - 22-44 The Effects of the Fourth Amendment: An Economic Analysis
by Sue H. Mialon - 45-71 Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator
by Michael W. Toffel - 72-94 Evidentiary Arbitrage: The Fabrication of Evidence and the Verifiability of Contract Performance
by George Triantis - 95-119 Ministerial Weights and Government Formation: Estimation Using a Bargaining Model
by Yasutora Watanabe - 120-137 Optimal Contracts When a Worker Envies His Boss
by Amihai Glazer - 138-162 Relational Contracts, Multitasking, and Job Design
by Anja Schöttner - 163-183 A Theory of Brinkmanship, Conflicts, and Commitments
by Konstantin Sonin - 184-214 Commitment, Exchange Autonomy, and the Boundary of the Hierarchical Firm
by Nadav Levy - 215-246 Competition, Contractibility, and the Market for Donors to Nonprofits
by Jeremy Thornton
October 2007, Volume 23, Issue 3
- 519-546 Fee-Shifting Rules in Litigation with Contingency Fees
by Jue-Shyan Wang - 547-579 Bargaining over an Uncertain Value: Arbitration Mechanisms Compared
by Amy Farmer - 580-597 The Effect on Divorce of Legislated Net-Wealth Transfers
by Douglas W. Allen - 598-626 Do the Merits Matter Less After the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act?
by Stephen J. Choi - 627-652 Do the Merits Matter More? The Impact of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
by AC Pritchard - 653-661 A Damage-Revelation Rationale for Coupon Remedies
by Daniel L. Rubinfeld - 662-684 Courts of Law and Unforeseen Contingencies
by Andrew Postlewaite - 685-709 Agency Structure and Firm Culture: OSHA, EPA, and the Steel Industry
by Wayne B. Gray - 710-730 Sale-Backs in Bankruptcy
by Rajdeep Singh - 731-742 Motivating Through Delegating Tasks or Giving Attention
by Bauke Visser - 743-771 Cultural Inertia and Uniformity in Organizations
by Denis Gromb
June 2007, Volume 23, Issue 2
- 276-302 Bargaining and Opinion Assignment on the US Supreme Court
by Charles M. Cameron - 303-325 The Judicial Common Space 1
by Chad Westerland - 326-345 Legal Doctrine and Political Control
by Emerson H. Tiller - 346-364 Presidents, Justices, and Deference to Administrative Action
by Joseph L. Smith - 365-385 Assessing Preference Change on the US Supreme Court
by Kevin M. Quinn - 386-420 Directing Retribution: On the Political Control of Lower Court Judges
by Sanford C. Gordon - 421-441 Panel Composition and Judicial Compliance on the US Courts of Appeals
by Jonathan P. Kastellec - 442-468 Resurrecting Lochner: A Defense of Unprincipled Judicial Activism
by Georg Vanberg - 469-498 Bureaucratic Decision Costs and Endogenous Agency Expertise
by Matthew C. Stephenson - 499-518 Estimating the Effect of Redistricting on Minority Substantive Representation
by David Park
April 2007, Volume 23, Issue 1
- 1-23 Partisan Roll Rates in a Nonpartisan Legislature
by Keith Krehbiel - 24-56 Strategic Judging Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines: Positive Political Theory and Evidence
by Max M. Schanzenbach & Emerson H. Tiller - 57-97 Deterrence, Lawsuits, and Litigation Outcomes Under Court Errors
by Claudia M. Landeo & Maxim Nikitin & Scott Baker - 98-126 Litigation with Symmetric Bargaining and Two-Sided Incomplete Information
by Daniel Friedman & Donald Wittman - 127-140 The Limitations of Buyer-Option Contracts in Solving the Holdup Problem
by Abraham L. Wickelgren - 141-160 Common and Exclusive Agencies and Partial Delegation
by Kevin Siqueira - 161-185 Bankruptcy and Entrepreneurship: The Value of a Fresh Start
by Kenneth Ayotte - 186-207 Finding "Lost" Profits: An Equilibrium Analysis of Patent Infringement Damages
by James J. Anton & Dennis A. Yao - 208-241 A Human Capital-Based Theory of Postmarital Residence Rules
by Matthew J. Baker & Joyce P. Jacobsen - 242-273 Network Effects in the Governance of Strategic Alliances
by David T. Robinson & Toby E. Stuart
October 2006, Volume 22, Issue 2
- 289-314 On the Writing and the Interpretation of Contracts
by Steven Shavell - 315-339 Gangs and Crime Deterrence
by Abdala Mansour & Nicolas Marceau & Steeve Mongrain - 340-365 The Demand for Corporate Law: Statutory Flexibility, Judicial Quality, or Takeover Protection?
by Marcel Kahan - 366-413 Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea
by Bernard S. Black & Hasung Jang & Woochan Kim - 414-441 On Public versus Private Provision of Corporate Law
by Gillian Hadfield & Eric Talley - 442-458 Regulating Wages in Kind: Theory and Evidence from Britain
by Elaine S. Tan - 459-489 How do Regulators Regulate? Enforcement of the Pure Food and Drugs Act, 1907--38
by Marc T. Law - 490-507 The Evolution and Persistence of Optimism in Litigation
by Oren Bar-Gill - 508-522 Durable-Goods Warranties and Social Welfare
by Atsuo Utaka - 523-547 On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
by Dirk Sliwka
April 2006, Volume 22, Issue 1
- 1-29 Political Control and the Power of the Agent
by Terry M. Moe - 30-69 Marriage Markets and Divorce Laws
by Imran Rasul - 70-86 Bayesian Juries and The Limits to Deterrence
by Ezra Friedman & Abraham L. Wickelgren - 87-114 Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil
by Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller - 115-136 Discrimination in Hiring Versus Retention and Promotion: An Empirical Analysis of Within-Firm Treatment of Players in the NFL
by Michael Conlin & Patrick M. Emerson - 137-167 Incentives, Sorting and Productivity along the Career: Evidence from a Sample of Top Economists
by Tom Coupé & Valérie Smeets & Frédéric Warzynski - 168-183 The Inefficiency of Contractually-Based Liability with Rational Consumers
by Abraham L. Wickelgren - 184-212 Coworker Complementarity and the Stability of Top-Management Teams
by Rachel M. Hayes & Paul Oyer & Scott Schaefer - 213-233 Using Hostages to Support Exchange: Dependence Balancing and Partial Equity Stakes in Japanese Automotive Supply Relationships
by Christina Ahmadjian & Joanne Oxley - 234-257 Specificity Revisited: The Role of Cross-Investments
by Matthew Ellman - 258-288 Sources of Bureaucratic Delay: A Case Study of FERC Dam Relicensing
by Lea-Rachel D. Kosnik
October 2005, Volume 21, Issue 2
- 285-314 Against Compromise: A Mechanism Design Approach
by Alon Klement & Zvika Neeman - 315-329 Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced?
by Patrick W. Schmitz - 330-358 Understanding MACs: Moral Hazard in Acquisitions
by Ronald J. Gilson & Alan Schwartz - 359-387 Adverse Selection, Political Parties, and Policy Delegation in the American Federal System
by George A. Krause & Ann O'M. Bowman - 388-416 Should Tort Damages be Multiplied?
by Keith N. Hylton & Thomas J. Miceli - 417-440 Agency Problems and the Corporate Charter
by David Mayers & Clifford W. Smith - 441-466 Reputational Dynamics and Political Careers
by Scott Ashworth - 467-500 Mediation in Situations of Conflict and Limited Commitment
by Kay Mitusch & Roland Strausz - 501-523 Strategic Plaintiffs and Ideological Judges in Telecommunications Litigation
by John M. de Figueiredo - 524-546 Banks and Enterprise Privatization in China
by Loren Brandt & Hongbin Li & Joanne Roberts - 547-575 Contractual Disputes and the Channels for Interfirm Communication
by William Pyle
April 2005, Volume 21, Issue 1
- 1-19 The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate
by Edward L. Glaeser - 20-56 The Scope of Open Source Licensing
by Josh Lerner - 57-75 Ex-Post Egalitarianism and Legal Justice
by Alon Harel - 76-102 Dominant Investors and Strategic Transparency
by Enrico C. Perotti - 103-135 Self-Enforcing Federalism
by Rui J. P. de Figueiredo - 136-152 Loggers versus Campers: Compensation for the Taking of Property Rights
by Ron Giammarino - 153-178 Why Roll Calls? A Model of Position-Taking in Legislative Voting and Elections
by James M. Snyder - 179-204 Career Concerns of Bargainers
by John Fingleton - 205-227 Does the Structure and Composition of the Board Matter? The Case of Nonprofit Organizations
by Katherine O'Regan - 228-255 An Examination of the Presence of Ownership Effects in Mixed Markets
by Jeffrey P. Ballou - 256-283 Organizational Beliefs and Managerial Vision
by Eric Van den Steen
October 2004, Volume 20, Issue 2
- 261-298 Order with Some Law: Complementarity versus Substitution of Formal and Informal Arrangements
by Sergio G. Lazzarini - 299-330 Institutional Dynamics on the U.S. Court of Appeals: Minority Representation Under Panel Decision Making
by Sean Farhang - 331-352 Law and Preferences
by Oren Bar-Gill - 353-378 On the Composition of Committees
by Klaas J. Beniers - 379-399 Court of Public Opinion: Government Accountability and Judicial Independence
by Matthew C. Stephenson - 400-414 Using Job Rotation to Extract Employee Information
by Anil Arya - 415-437 The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties
by Suzanne Scotchmer - 438-457 Separation of Powers and Appointee Ideology
by David C. Nixon - 458-483 Influencing Agencies Through Pivotal Political Institutions
by Guy L. F. Holburn - 484-526 The Cost of Misaligned Governance in R&D Alliances
by Rachelle C. Sampson - 527-557 Bankruptcy "Reform" in Congress: Creditors, Committees, Ideology, and Floor Voting in the Legislative Process
by Stephen Nunez
April 2004, Volume 20, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editor's Note
by Ian Ayres - 2-31 The Law and Economics of Costly Contracting
by Alan Schwartz - 32-59 The Disappearing Delaware Effect
by Guhan Subramanian - 60-101 Do CEOs in Mergers Trade Power for Premium? Evidence from "Mergers of Equals"
by Julie Wulf - 102-124 Incentive Structures for Class Action Lawyers
by Alon Klement - 125-147 Ex Post Inefficiencies in a Property Rights Theory of the Firm
by Niko Matouschek - 148-169 Buyer-Option Contracts Restored: Renegotiation, Inefficient Threats, and the Hold-Up Problem
by Thomas P. Lyon - 170-191 Golden Parachute as a Compensation-Shifting Mechanism
by Albert Choi - 192-206 Dynamic Law Enforcement with Learning
by Nuno Garoupa - 207-229 Relationships and Hybrid Contracts: An Analysis of Contract Choice in Information Technology
by Arturs Kalnins - 230-260 The Effect of Repeated Interaction on Contract Choice: Evidence from Offshore Drilling
by Kenneth S. Corts
October 2003, Volume 19, Issue 2
- 245-280 Who Cares About Shareholders? Arbitrage-Proofing Mutual Funds
by Eric Zitzewitz - 281-306 The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: A Transactions Approach with Application to Argentina
by Pablo T. Spiller - 307-342 Regulating Slavery: Deck-Stacking and Credible Commitment in the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
by Scott J. Basinger - 343-372 Augmenting the Value of Ownership by Protecting It Only Partially: The "Market-Overt" Rule Revisited
by Barak Medina - 373-400 Municipalizing American Waterworks, 1897--1915
by Werner Troesken - 401-444 Property Enforcement as Organized Consent
by Benito ArruÒada - 445-490 Are You Being Served? Political Accountability and Quality of Government
by AlÌcia Adserý - 491-516 Coming to the Nuisance: An Economic Analysis from an Incomplete Contracts Perspective
by Rohan Pitchford - 517-542 Contingency Fees, Settlement Delay, and Low-Quality Litigation: Empirical Evidence from Two Datasets
by Eric Helland - 543-570 National Judicial Power and the Dormant Commerce Clause
by Clifford Carrubba
April 2003, Volume 19, Issue 1
- 1-23 On the Transaction Cost Determinants of Vertical Integration
by Michael D. Whinston - 24-44 Jury Size and the Free Rider Problem
by Kaushik Mukhopadhaya - 45-63 Mandatory Versus Voluntary Disclosure in Markets with Informed and Uninformed Customers
by Michael J. Fishman & Kathleen M. Hagerty - 64-82 Bargaining with Voluntary Transmission of Private Information: Does the Use of Final Offer Arbitration Impede Settlement?
by Amy Farmer & Paul Pecorino - 83-105 Can Latent Groups Influence Policy Decisions? The Case of Telecommunications Policy
by Dino Falaschetti - 106-118 Caring About Sunk Costs: A Behavioral Solution to Holdup Problems with Small Stakes
by Lorne Carmichael & W. Bentley MacLeod - 119-140 Sabotage in Promotion Tournaments
by Kong-Pin Chen - 141-175 Why Are the Levels of Control (So) Different in German and U.K. Companies? Evidence from Initial Public Offerings
by Marc Goergen & Luc Renneboog - 176-217 Privatization and Management Incentives: Evidence from the United Kingdom
by Michael I. Cragg & I. J. Alexander Dyck - 218-244 Land Reform, the Market for Protection, and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: Theory and Evidence
by Oriana Bandiera
October 2002, Volume 18, Issue 2
- 295-323 Settlement with Multiple Plaintiffs: The Role of Insolvency
by Kathryn E. Spier - 324-361 Survivorship and the Economic Grim Reaper
by George P. Baker & Robert E. Kennedy - 362-384 Contractual Intermediaries
by Garey Ramey & Joel Watson - 385-410 Securities Market Macrostructure: Property Rights and the Efficiency of Securities Trading
by Craig Pirrong - 411-427 Rethinking Political Bargaining: Policymaking with a Single Proposer
by David M. Primo - 428-454 An Experimental Bribery Game
by Klaus Abbink & Bernd Irlenbusch & Elke Renner - 455-487 Two Economic Applications of Sympathy
by David Sally - 488-510 Does Partisan Heritage Matter? The Case of the Federal Reserve
by Dino Falaschetti - 511-535 Royalty Rates and Upfront Fees in Share Contracts: Evidence from Franchising
by James A. Brickley - 536-555 Expertise, Subversion, and Bureaucratic Discretion
by Sean Gailmard
April 2002, Volume 18, Issue 1
- 1-38 The Role of Political Parties in the Organization of Congress
by John R. Boyce - 39-66 An Economic Analysis of "Riding to Hounds": Pierson v. Post
by Dhammika Dharmapala - 67-94 Verifiability and Contract Enforcement: A Model with Judicial Moral Hazard
by Murat Usman - 95-116 Transaction Cost Economics, Antitrust Rules, and Remedies
by Paul L. Joskow - 117-139 Integrating Punishment and Efficiency Concerns in Punitive Damages for Reckless Disregard of Risks to Others
by Peter Diamond - 140-154 Does Party Matter? An Historical Test Using Senate Tariff Votes in Three Institutional Settings
by David Brady & Judith Goldstein - 155-186 Credible Commitment in Early Modern Europe: North and Weingast Revisited
by David Stasavage - 187-220 Delegating Power to Bureaucracies: Evidence from the States
by Craig Volden - 221-277 Courts and Relational Contracts
by Simon Johnson & John McMillan - 278-294 Governance Alternatives and Pricing in the U.S. Electric Power Industry
by John E. Kwoka, Jr.
October 2001, Volume 17, Issue 2
- 285-318 Working and Shirking: Equilibrium in Public-Goods Games with Overlapping Generations of Players
by Dickson, Eric S & Shepsle, Kenneth A - 319-355 The President versus the State: Appointments in the American System of Separated Powers and the Federal Reserve
by Chang, Kelly H - 356-372 Bankruptcy Decision Making
by Baird, Douglas G & Morrison, Edward R - 373-396 Legislative Organization under Separate Powers
by Epstein, David & O'Halloran, Sharyn - 397-412 Project-Specific External Financing and Headquarters Monitoring Incentives
by Laux, Christian - 413-448 Political Resource Allocation: Benefits and Costs of Voter Initiatives
by Matsusaka, John G & McCarty, Nolan M - 449-476 On the Regulation of Social Norms
by Kubler, Dorothea - 477-506 Comparing Presidents, Senators, and Justices: Interinstitutional Preference Estimation
by Bailey, Michael & Chang, Kelly H - 507-520 The Phantom Profits of the Opera: Nonprofit Ownership in the Arts as a Make-Buy Decision
by Kuan, Jennifer
April 2001, Volume 17, Issue 1
- 1-33 A Model of a Predatory State
by Moselle, Boaz & Polak, Benjamin - 34-61 Political Denials: The Policy Effect of Intercameral Partisan Differences in Bicameral Parliamentary Systems
by Heller, William B - 62-82 Using Credible Advice to Overcome Framing Effects
by Druckman, James N - 83-120 Do IPO Charters Maximize Firm Value? Antitakeover Protection in IPOs
by Daines, Robert & Klausner, Michael - 121-148 Damages for Breach of Contract: Should the Government Get Special Treatment?
by Wickelgren, Abraham L - 149-167 Prosecutorial Resources, Plea Bargaining, and the Decision to Go to Trial
by Baker, Scott & Mezzetti, Claudio - 168-200 Empirical Effects of Performance Contracts: Evidence from China
by Shirley, Mary M & Xu, Lixin Colin - 201-238 Earnouts: The Effects of Adverse Selection and Agency Costs on Acquisition Techniques
by Datar, Srikant & Frankel, Richard & Wolfson, Mark - 239-256 Violator Avoidance Activities and Self-Reporting in Optimal Law Enforcement
by Innes, Robert - 257-284 Contractual Allocation of Decision Rights and Incentives: The Case of Automobile Distribution
by Arrunada, Benito & Garicano, Luis & Vazquez, Luis
October 2000, Volume 16, Issue 2
- 269-305 The American System of Shared Powers: The President, Congress, and the NLRB
by Snyder, Susan K & Weingast, Barry R - 306-333 Runaway Judges? Selection Effects and the Jury
by Helland, Eric & Tabarrok, Alexander T - 334-364 The Institutional Environment for Multinational Investment
by Henisz, Witold J - 365-394 On the Economics of Trials: Adversarial Process, Evidence, and Equilibrium Bias
by Daughety, Andrew F & Reinganum, Jennifer F - 395-423 Contract Renegotiation and Options in Agency Problems
by Edlin, Aaron S & Hermalin, Benjamin E - 424-448 Legislative Organization and Congressional Review of Agency Regulations
by Balla, Steven J - 449-477 The Directors' and Officers' Insurance Premium: An Outside Assessment of the Quality of Corporate Governance
by Core, John E - 478-502 Rackets, Regulation, and the Rule of Law
by Frye, Timothy & Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - 503-533 The WTO Dispute Settlement System: First Assessment from an Economic Perspective
by Butler, Monika & Hauser, Heinz - 534-571 Independent Courts and Administrative Agencies: An Empirical Analysis of the States
by Hanssen, F Andrew
April 2000, Volume 16, Issue 1
- 1-49 A Theory of Legal Presumptions
by Bernardo, Antonio E & Talley, Eric & Welch, Ivo - 50-73 Experimental Results on Bargaining Under Alternative Property Rights Regimes
by Croson, Rachel & Johnston, Jason Scott - 74-101 Common Law Exceptions to Employment at Will and U.S. Labor Markets
by Miles, Thomas J