NBER Papers in JEL Code K1: Law and Economics - Basic Areas of Law

2022
w29872 Jason Roderick Donaldson
Lukas Kremens
Giorgia Piacentino

Sovereign Bond Restructuring: Commitment vs. Flexibility
w29871 Hilary W. Hoynes
Nicole Maestas
Alexander Strand

Legal Representation in Disability Claims
w29836 Michael T. Cassidy
Janet Currie

The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court: Evidence from New York City's Universal Access Program
w29805 Nikolaj Broberg
Vincent Pons
Clemence Tricaud

The Impact of Campaign Finance Rules on Candidate Selection and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from France
w29706 Dhaval M. Dave
Yang Liang
Michael F. Pesko
Serena Phillips
Joseph J. Sabia

Have Recreational Marijuana Laws Undermined Public Health Progress on Adult Tobacco Use?
2021
w29429 Amalia R. Miller
Carmit Segal
Melissa K. Spencer

Effects of COVID-19 Shutdowns on Domestic Violence in US Cities
w29411 Martin Kulldorff
Jay Bhattacharya

A Child Support Framework Accounting for Parenting Time and Half-Siblings
w29332 Will S. Dobbie
Crystal Yang

The US Pretrial System: Balancing Individual Rights and Public Interests
w29150 Yotam Shem-Tov
Steven Raphael
Alissa Skog

Can Restorative Justice Conferencing Reduce Recidivism? Evidence From the Make-it-Right Program
w29038 Joseph J. Sabia
Dhaval M. Dave
Fawaz Alotaibi
Daniel I. Rees

Is Recreational Marijuana a Gateway to Harder Drug Use and Crime?
w28793 Simeon Djankov
Edward L. Glaeser
Valeria Perotti
Andrei Shleifer

Property Rights and Urban Form
w28789 Jesse Kalinowski
Matthew B. Ross
Stephen L. Ross

Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling
w28674 Alessandra Casella
Jeffrey Guo
Michelle Jiang

Minority Turnout and Representation under Cumulative Voting. An Experiment.
w28600 Amanda Y. Agan
Jennifer L. Doleac
Anna Harvey

Misdemeanor Prosecution
w28341 Robert C. Merton
Richard T. Thakor

No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions
2020
w28293 Jeffrey Grogger
Sean Gupta
Ria Ivandic
Tom Kirchmaier

Comparing Conventional and Machine-Learning Approaches to Risk Assessment in Domestic Abuse Cases
w28068 Amalia R. Miller
Carmit Segal
Melissa K. Spencer

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles
w27993 Michael Geruso
Dean Spears

The Risk of Narrow, Disputable Results in the U.S. Electoral College: 1836-2020
w27914 Renee Bowen
J. Lawrence Broz

Designing an International Economic Order: A Research Agenda
w27802 Ivan A. Canay
Magne Mogstad
Jack Mountjoy

On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making
w27750 Eric C. Edwards
Martin Fiszbein
Gary D. Libecap

Property Rights to Land and Agricultural Organization: An Argentina-United States Comparison
w27686 Cesare Righi
Timothy Simcoe

Patenting Inventions or Inventing Patents? Continuation Practice at the USPTO
w27400 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
John Joseph Wallis

Economic Crisis, General Laws, and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Transformation of American Political Economy
w27324 Tanaya Devi
Roland G. Fryer Jr

Policing the Police: The Impact of "Pattern-or-Practice" Investigations on Crime
w27279 Resul Cesur
Joseph J. Sabia
Erdal Tekin

Post-9/11 War Deployments Increased Crime among Veterans
w26779 Frank A. Sloan
Drinking and Driving
w26709 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Na’ama Shenhav

A Century of the American Woman Voter: Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship Since Women's Enfranchisement
2019
w26599 Riako Granzier
Vincent Pons
Clémence Tricaud

The Large Effects of a Small Win: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates
w26305 Alberto Galasso
Hong Luo

Risk-Mitigating Technologies: the Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices
w26247 Michael Geruso
Dean Spears
Ishaana Talesara

Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836-2016
w26245 David Frydlinger
Oliver D. Hart

Overcoming Contractual Incompleteness: The Role of Guiding Principles
w26220 Steven Shavell
On the Redesign of Accident Liability for the World of Autonomous Vehicles
w26083 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell

Deterrence and the Adjustment of Sentences During Imprisonment
w25861 Vivek Bhattacharya
Gaston Illanes
Manisha Padi

Fiduciary Duty and the Market for Financial Advice
w25833 Richard T. Holden
Anup Malani

Can Blockchain Solve the Hold-up Problem in Contracts?
w25715 Christian Dippel
Michael Poyker

Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing?
w25547 Nicholas Ryan
Contract Enforcement and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from the Bidding and Renegotiation of Power Contracts in India
w25530 Daniel Cerqueira
Danilo Santa Cruz Coelho
John J. Donohue
Marcelo Fernandes
Jony Arrais Pinto Jr.

A Panel-based Proxy for Gun Prevalence in the US
w25528 Brigham R. Frandsen
Lars J. Lefgren
Emily C. Leslie

Judging Judge Fixed Effects
w25503 Francesco Maria Esposito
Diego Focanti
Justine S. Hastings

Effects of Photo ID Laws on Registration and Turnout: Evidence from Rhode Island
w25443 Joshua S. Gans
The Fine Print in Smart Contracts
2018
w25322 Anat Bracha
Alma Cohen
Lynn Conell-Price

The Heterogeneous Effect of Affirmative Action on Performance
w25208 Michele Baggio
Alberto Chong
David Simon

Sex, Drugs, and Baby Booms: Can Behavior Overcome Biology?
w25095 Claudia M. Landeo
Kathryn E. Spier

Optimal Law Enforcement with Ordered Leniency
w25094 Claudia M. Landeo
Kathryn E. Spier

Ordered Leniency: An Experimental Study of Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting
w25068 Alberto Galasso
Hong Luo

When does Product Liability Risk Chill Innovation? Evidence from Medical Implants
w25007 David Yermack
FinTech in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Has Worked Well, and What Hasn't
w24802 Janet Currie
Michael Mueller-Smith
Maya Rossin-Slater

Violence while in Utero: The Impact of Assaults During Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes
w24726 Benjamin Feigenberg
Conrad Miller

Racial Divisions and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Southern State Courts
w24720 Sharon Belenzon
Honggi Lee
Andrea Patacconi

Towards a Legal Theory of the Firm: The Effects of Enterprise Liability on Asset Partitioning, Decentralization and Corporate Group Growth
w24705 Gary D. Libecap
Federal Lands, Opportunity Costs, and Bureaucratic Management
w24703 Steven Shavell
The Rationale for Motions in the Design of Adjudication
w24681 Daron Acemoglu
Alexander Wolitzky

A Theory of Equality Before the Law
w24615 Alma Cohen
Crystal Yang

Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
w24585 Gary D. Libecap
Douglass C. North: Transaction Costs, Property Rights, and Economic Outcomes
w24579 Amanda Agan
Matthew Freedman
Emily Owens

Is Your Lawyer a Lemon? Incentives and Selection in the Public Provision of Criminal Defense
w24544 Gary D. Libecap
Property Rights to Frontier Land and Minerals: US Exceptionalism
w24381 Joseph J. Sabia
Taylor Mackay
Thanh Tam Nguyen
Dhaval M. Dave

Do Ban the Box Laws Increase Crime?
w24186 Will Dobbie
Hans Grönqvist
Susan Niknami
Mårten Palme
Mikael Priks

The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration
2017
w23913 Cesare Righi
Timothy Simcoe

Patent Examiner Specialization
w23873 Shawn Kantor
Carl Kitchens
Steven Pawlowski

Civil Asset Forfeiture, Crime, and Police Incentives: Evidence from the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984
w23779 Angela K. Dills
Sietse Goffard
Jeffrey Miron

The Effects of Marijuana Liberalizations: Evidence from Monitoring the Future
w23762 Benjamin Hansen
Keaton Miller
Caroline Weber

Federalism, Partial Prohibition, and Cross-Border Sales: Evidence from Recreational Marijuana
w23691 Werner Troesken
Randall Walsh

Collective Action, White Flight, and the Origins of Formal Segregation Laws
w23535 Daniel McFadden
Foundations of Welfare Economics and Product Market Applications
w23510 John J. Donohue
Abhay Aneja
Kyle D. Weber

Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis
w23488 Susan Athey
Christian Catalini
Catherine Tucker

The Digital Privacy Paradox: Small Money, Small Costs, Small Talk
w23460 Vikas Mehrotra
Randall Morck

Governance and Stakeholders
w23446 Michael D. Frakes
Matthew B. Frank
Seth A. Seabury

The Effect of Malpractice Law on Physician Supply: Evidence from Negligence-Standard Reforms
w23436 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Paul N. Riskind

Deterrence and the Optimal Use of Prison, Parole, and Probation
w23426 Zhuang Hao
Benjamin Cowan

The Cross-Border Spillover Effects of Recreational Marijuana Legalization
w23421 David Arnold
Will Dobbie
Crystal S. Yang

Racial Bias in Bail Decisions
w23382 Andrew B. Ayres
Eric C. Edwards
Gary D. Libecap

How Transaction Costs Obstruct Collective Action: Evidence from California's Groundwater
w23364 Louis Kaplow
Optimal Multistage Adjudication
w23303 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell

Subrogation and the Theory of Insurance When Suits Can Be Brought for Losses Suffered
w23079 Kristin F. Butcher
Kyung H. Park
Anne Morrison Piehl

Comparing Apples to Oranges: Differences in Women's and Men's Incarceration and Sentencing Outcomes
w23026 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Prison Work Programs in a Model of Deterrence
2016
w23010 Gur Aminadav
Elias Papaioannou

Corporate Control around the World
w22980 Howard Bodenhorn
Blind Tigers and Red-Tape Cocktails: Liquor Control and Homicide in Late-Nineteenth-Century South Carolina
w22814 Francesco Decarolis
Giancarlo Spagnolo
Riccardo Pacini

Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes
w22701 A. Patrick Behrer
Edward L. Glaeser
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
Andrei Shleifer

Securing Property Rights
w22610 Samuel R. Bondurant
Jason M. Lindo
Isaac D. Swensen

Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime
w22511 Will Dobbie
Jacob Goldin
Crystal Yang

The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges
w22185 Bryan Leonard
Gary D. Libecap

Collective Action by Contract: Prior Appropriation and the Development of Irrigation in the Western United States
w22031 Eric Helland
Anupam B. Jena
Dan P. Ly
Seth A. Seabury

Self-insuring against Liability Risk: Evidence from Physician Home Values in States with Unlimited Homestead Exemptions
w21960 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
w21952 Peter Koudijs
Laura Salisbury

Bankruptcy and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850
2015
w21701 Charles F. Manski
John V. Pepper

How Do Right-To-Carry Laws Affect Crime Rates? Coping With Ambiguity Using Bounded-Variation Assumptions
w21456 Cristina Arellano
Andrew Atkeson
Mark Wright

External and Public Debt Crises
w21455 Bronwyn H. Hall
Christian Helmers
Georg von Graevenitz

Technology Entry in the Presence of Patent Thickets
w21170 Christopher S. Carpenter
D. Sebastian Tello-Trillo

Do 'Cheeseburger Bills' Work? Effects of Tort Reform for Fast Food
w21145 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
w21090 Alexander Galetovic
Stephen Haber
Ross Levine

An Empirical Examination of Patent Hold-up
w21067 James Rauch
Dynastic Entrepreneurship, Entry, and Non-Compete Enforcement
w21005 Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka
Oliver Hart

Short-term, Long-term, and Continuing Contracts
w20995 María José Abud Sittler
Bronwyn Hall
Christian Helmers

An Empirical Analysis of Primary and Secondary Pharmaceutical Patents in Chile
w20945 B. Zorina Khan
'To Have and Have Not': Are Rich Litigious Plaintiffs Favored in Court?
w20837 Howard Bodenhorn
Prison Crowding, Recidivism, and Early Release in Early Rhode Island
2014
w20747 Steven Shavell
A Simple Model of Optimal Deterrence and Incapacitation
w20731 B. Zorina Khan
Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System: Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations
w20557 Naci Mocan
Luiza Pogorelova

Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition
w20537 Hefei Wen
Jason M. Hockenberry
Janet R. Cummings

The Effect of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Use on Crime: Evidence from Public Insurance Expansions and Health Insurance Parity Mandates
w20492 Iain M. Cockburn
Jean O. Lanjouw
Mark Schankerman

Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs
w20484 Michael R. Roberts
The Role of Dynamic Renegotiation and Asymmetric Information in Financial Contracting
w20467 Richard Hornbeck
Daniel Keniston

Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
w20322 Lauren Cohen
Umit Gurun
Scott Duke Kominers

Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms
w20283 Derek Neal
Armin Rick

The Prison Boom and the Lack of Black Progress after Smith and Welch
w20243 Benjamin Hansen
Punishment and Deterrence: Evidence from Drunk Driving
w20162 Joshua S. Gans
"Selling Out" and the Impact of Music Piracy on Artist Entry
w20005 Eric Helland
Darius N. Lakdawalla
Anup Malani
Seth A. Seabury

Unintended Consequences of Products Liability: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market
w19879 Steven Shavell
Risk Aversion and the Desirability of Attenuated Legal Change
w19841 Michael Frakes
Anupam B. Jena

Does Medical Malpractice Law Improve Health Care Quality?
2013
w19695 Pedro Bordalo
Nicola Gennaioli
Andrei Shleifer

Salience Theory of Judicial Decisions
w19647 David S. Abrams
Ufuk Akcigit
Jillian Grennan

Patent Value and Citations: Creative Destruction or Strategic Disruption?
w19521 Megan MacGarvie
Petra Moser

Copyright and the Profitability of Authorship: Evidence from Payments to Writers in the Romantic Period
w19340 Patrick Hummel
Richard Holden

Optimal Primaries
w19256 Robert W. Staiger
Alan O. Sykes

How Important can the Non-Violation Clause be for the GATT/WTO?
w19153 Douglas Almond
Hongbin Li
Shuang Zhang

Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
w19001 Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka
Oliver D. Hart

More is Less: Why Parties May Deliberately Write Incomplete Contracts
w18749 Michael F. Lovenheim
Emily G. Owens

Does Federal Financial Aid Affect College Enrollment? Evidence from Drug Offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998
2012
w18594 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell

Costly Litigation and Optimal Damages
w18553 James R. Hines Jr.
How Important Are Perpetual Tax Savings?
w18418 Steven Shavell
A Fundamental Enforcement Cost Advantage of the Negligence Rule over Regulation
w18187 Chandler B. McClellan
Erdal Tekin

Stand Your Ground Laws, Homicides, and Injuries
w18134 Cheng Cheng
Mark Hoekstra

Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence? Evidence from Castle Doctrine
w17983 Bronwyn H. Hall
Christian Helmers
Mark Rogers
Vania Sena

The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property: A Literature Review
w17887 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes
w17773 Bronwyn H. Hall
Dietmar Harhoff

Recent Research on the Economics of Patents
w17765 Louis Kaplow
On the Optimal Burden of Proof
2011
w17666 Kristopher Gerardi
Lauren Lambie-Hanson
Paul S. Willen

Do Borrower Rights Improve Borrower Outcomes? Evidence from the Foreclosure Process
w17579 Roland Benabou
Jean Tirole

Laws and Norms
w17503 Joel Waldfogel
Copyright Protection, Technological Change, and the Quality of New Products: Evidence from Recorded Music since Napster
w17455 Charles F. Manski
John V. Pepper

Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections
w17309 Rafael Di Tella
Juan Dubra

Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals
w17091 Pol Antràs
C. Fritz Foley

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
w17059 William T. Harbaugh
Naci H. Mocan
Michael S. Visser

Theft and Deterrence
w17036 Scott A. Baker
Anup Malani

Does Accuracy Improve the Information Value of Trials?
w16961 Shawn D. Bushway
Emily G. Owens
Anne Morrison Piehl

Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors
w16929 Oliver D. Hart
Noncontractible Investments and Reference Points
w16920 Bronwyn H. Hall
Christian Helmers

Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology: Can Patent Commons Help?
w16882 Joel Waldfogel
Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie? The Supply of New Recorded Music Since Napster
2010
w16632 Rohan Pitchford
Mark L. J. Wright

Holdouts in Sovereign Debt Restructuring: A Theory of Negotiation in a Weak Contractual Environment
w16593 Anup Malani
Julian Reif

Accounting for Anticipation Effects: An Application to Medical Malpractice Tort Reform
w16551 Dongwoo Yoo
Richard H. Steckel

Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
w16519 Terry L. Anderson
Ragnar Arnason
Gary D. Libecap

Efficiency Advantages of Grandfathering in Rights-Based Fisheries Management
w16476 Anne Morrison Piehl
Geoffrey Williams

Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines
w16423 Christina Aperjis
Yali Miao
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Variable Temptations and Black Mark Reputations
w16366 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials
w16235 Steven Shavell
The Corrective Tax versus Liability As Solutions to the Problem of Harmful Externalities
w16234 Steven Shavell
Corrective Taxation versus Liability
w16203 R. Quentin Grafton
Clay Landry
Gary D. Libecap
Sam McGlennon
Robert O'Brien

An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets: Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
w16049 Lewis A. Kornhauser
W. Bentley MacLeod

Contracts between Legal Persons
w15945 Howard Bodenhorn
Carolyn Moehling
Gregory N. Price

Short Criminals: Stature and Crime in Early America
w15933 James E. Rauch
Joel Watson

Client-Based Entrepreneurship
w15841 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
The Effect of Malpractice Liability on the Specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology
w15820 Gary D. Libecap
Dean Lueck
Trevor O'Grady

Large Scale Institutional Changes: Land Demarcation Within the British Empire
w15797 R. Quentin Grafton
Clay Landry
Gary D. Libecap
Robert J. O'Brien

Water Markets: Australia's Murray-Darling Basin and the US Southwest
w15771 Lee J. Alston
Bernardo Mueller

Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil
w15697 Daniel Bogart
Gary Richardson

Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
w15651 Andrei Shleifer
Efficient Regulation
w15631 Charles Yuji Horioka
Shizuka Sekita

The Degree of Judicial Enforcement and Credit Markets: Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data
2009
w15571 Alison F. Del Rossi
W. Kip Viscusi

The Changing Landscape of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards
w15460 Giovanni Maggi
Robert W. Staiger

Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements
w15431 Philip J. Cook
Jens Ludwig
Adam Samaha

Gun Control after Heller: Litigating against Regulation
w15422 W. Kip Viscusi
Joni Hersch

Tobacco Regulation through Litigation: The Master Settlement Agreement
w15412 Daniel Carvell
Janet Currie
W. Bentley MacLeod

Accidental Death and the Rule of Joint and Several Liability
w15371 Ronen Avraham
Leemore S. Dafny
Max M. Schanzenbach

The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums
w15264 Lee J. Alston
Edwyna Harris
Bernardo Mueller

De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers
w15209 Lee J. Alston
Andrés A. Gallo

Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina
w15099 Howard Bodenhorn
Gregory Price

Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century: Was there a Relationship between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?
w15017 Hilary Sigman
Environmental Liability and Redevelopment of Old Industrial Land
w14980 Manolis Galenianos
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Nicola Persico

A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs
w14969 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
w14942 Gary D. Libecap
Dean Lueck

The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions
w14752 Joshua Schwartzstein
Andrei Shleifer

An Activity-Generating Theory of Regulation
2008
w14393 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830: A New Source for British History
w14283 Howard Bodenhorn
Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania
w14183 Yeon-Koo Che
Kathryn E. Spier

Strategic Judgment Proofing
w14107 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830
w14067 Giovanni Maggi
Robert W. Staiger

On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements
w14059 Efraim Benmelech
Nittai K. Bergman

Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from U.S. Airlines
w13960 Surajeet Chakravarty
W. Bentley MacLeod

Contracting in the Shadow of the Law
w13856 Anthony Niblett
Richard Posner
Andrei Shleifer

The Evolution of a Legal Rule
w13803 J.J. Prescott
Jonah E. Rockoff

Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?
w13784 Radha Iyengar
I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws
w13757 Gary Richardson
Dan Bogart

Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830
2007
w13564 Steven Shavell
Eminent Domain Versus Government Purchase of Land Given Imperpect Information About Owners' Valuation
w13563 Steven Shavell
On Optimal Legal Change, Past Behavior, and Grandfathering
w13540 Oliver Hart
Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
w13481 Oliver D. Hart
Reference Points and the Theory of the Firm
w13463 Stephen Cameron
Shubham Chaudhuri
John McLaren

Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: Theory
w13456 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Richard T. Holden

Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans
w13316 Kenneth Ayotte
Patrick Bolton

Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting
w13267 Oren Bar-Gill
Lucian A. Bebchuk

Consent and Exchange
w13186 Radha Iyengar
Does the Certainty of Arrest Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Mandatory and Recommended Arrest laws
w12913 Nicola Gennaioli
Andrei Shleifer

Overruling and the Instability of Law
w12903 Adeline Delavande
Dana Goldman
Neeraj Sood

Criminal Prosecution and HIV-related Risky Behavior
w12879 Christine Jolls
Behavioral Law and Economics
w12860 David H. Autor
William R. Kerr
Adriana D. Kugler

Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
2006
w12802 Dhammika Dharmapala
James R. Hines Jr.

Which Countries Become Tax Havens?
w12776 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell

Mandatory Versus Voluntary Disclosure of Product Risks
w12706 Oliver Hart
John Moore

Contracts as Reference Points
w12679 Nicola Gennaioli
Andrei Shleifer

Judicial Fact Discretion
w12641 Rafael Di Tella
Juan Dubra

Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"
w12631 Naci H. Mocan
R. Kaj Gittings

The Impact of Incentives on Human Behavior: Can We Make It Disappear? The Case of the Death Penalty
w12625 Ram Singh
On the Existence and Efficiency of Equilibria Under Liability Rules
w12607 Theodore J. Joyce
Further Tests of Abortion and Crime: A Response to Donohue and Levitt (2001,2004, 2006)
w12598 Gary D. Libecap
The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier: Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy
w12578 Darius Lakdawalla
Eric Talley

Optimal Liability for Terrorism
w12478 Janet Currie
W. Bentley MacLeod

First Do No Harm?: Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes
w12348 W. Kip Viscusi
Patricia Born

The Catastrophic Effects of Natural Disasters on Insurance Markets
w12086 Patricia Born
W. Kip Viscusi
Tom Baker

The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers' Ultimate Losses
w11982 John J. Donohue III
Justin Wolfers

Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
2005
w11783 Farley Grubb
The U.S. Constitution and Monetary Powers: An Analysis of the 1787 Constitutional Convention and Constitutional Transformation of the Nation's Monetary System Emerged
w11780 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell

The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law
w11738 Christine Jolls
Cass R. Sunstein

Debiasing through Law
w11674 Alessandra Casella
Thomas Palfrey
Raymond Riezman

Minorities and Storable Votes
w11284 Steven Shavell
Contracts, Holdup, and Legal Intervention
w11265 Nicola Gennaioli
Andrei Shleifer

The Evolution of Precedent
w11227 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Daniel L. Rubinfeld

A Damage-Revelation Rationale for Coupon Remedies
2004
w10972 Bruce Hay
Kathryn E. Spier

Manufacturer Liability for Harms Caused by Consumers to Others
w10943 Xinyu Hua
Kathryn E. Spier

Information and Externalities in Sequential Litigation
w10761 A. Mitchell Polinsky
The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment When Wealth is Unobservable
w10709 Katherine Baicker
Amitabh Chandra

The Effect of Malpractice Liability on the Delivery of Health Care
w10463 Li Gan
Roberton C. Williams III
Thomas Wiseman

A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation
w10341 Steven Shavell
Minimum Asset Requirements and Compulsory Liability Insurance As Solutions to the Judgment-Proof Problem
w10308 Michelle J. White
Asbestos and the Future of Mass Torts
w10234 Casey B. Mulligan
Andrei Shleifer

Population and Regulation
2003
w10046 Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Beau Kilmer

Marijuana and Crime: Is there a Connection Beyond Prohibition?
w9608 Simeon Djankov
Edward L. Glaeser
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silane
Andrei Shleifer

The New Comparative Economics
w9596 Louis Kaplow
Transition Policy: A Conceptual Framework
2002
w9362 Michelle J. White
Explaining the Flood of Asbestos Litigation: Consolidation, Bifurcation, and Bouquet Trials
w9335 Steven Shavell
Minimum Asset Requirements
w9302 Michelle J. White
The "Arms Race" on American Roads: The Effect of Heavy Vehicles on Traffic Safety and the Failure of Liability Rules
w9175 Josh Lerner
Jean Tirole

Efficient Patent Pools
w8890 Simeon Djankov
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silane
Andrei Shleifer

Courts: the Lex Mundi Project
2001
w8650 Edward L. Glaeser
Andrei Shleifer

The Rise of the Regulatory State
w8204 Ann Dryden Witte
Robert Witt

What We Spend and What We Get: Public and Private Provision of Crime Prevention
1999
w6960 Louis Kaplow
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