
Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics
Submissions from 2025
StubHub for Courts? Technology, Markets, and New Solutions to Court Congestion, Ronen Avraham and William H. J. Hubbard
Contract Remedies and Search Efforts, Roy Baharad
The Uneasy Case for Copyright Disgorgement, Roy Baharad
Bankruptcy Minimalism, Douglas Baird
A Companion Guide to the Restatement of Consumer Contracts, Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar, and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
Precedent Terms, Vincent Buccola and David A. Hoffman
The Backstop Party, Vincent S.J. Buccola, Adi Marcovich Gross, and Matthew R. McBrady
Taxing Corporate Payouts, Neil Dokurno and David A. Weisbach
Introducing the Corporate Restructuring Machine: An Open Platform Approach, Horst Eidenmüller and Jared I. Mayer
From WTP to WTF: Valuation and Distributive Discourse, Lee Anne Fennell
Can Consumers Protect Themselves Against Privacy Dark Patterns?, Matthew B. Kugler, Lior Strahilevitz, Marshini Chetty, and Chirag Mahapatra
The Economics of Healthcare Fraud, Jetson Leder- Luis and Anup Malani
Reorganization By Force, Jared I. Mayer
Can AI Hold Office Hours?, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Amy R. Motomura, Jason Reinecke, and Jonathan S. Masur
The Anatomy of Marital Happiness, Sam Peltzman
Judge AI: Assessing Large Language Models in Judicial Decision-Making, Eric A. Posner and Shivam Saran
The Silicon Valley No-Poach Conspiracy, Eric A. Posner and Ruth Zheng
Submissions from 2024
Uncovering the Role of Hubs: A Network Science Perspective on Platform Competition, Raz Agranat
Uncovering the Role of Hubs: A Network Science Perspective on Platform Competition, Raz Agranat
Which Constitutional Provisions are Most Important?, Richard Albert, Netta Barak-Corren, Daniel M. Brinks, Adam Chilton, Rosalind Dixon, Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, Ran Hirschl, David Landau, Ashley Moran, Yvonne Tew, and Mila Versteeg
Price Discipline for Non-Price Loan Terms, Adam Badawi, Vincent S.J. Buccola, and Greg Nini
Ideological Concordance Between Students and Professors, Adam Bonica, Adam Chilton, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen
Disfavored Supreme Court Precedent in the Lower Federal CourtsDisfavored Supreme Court Precedent in the Lower Federal Courts, Curtis A. Bradley and Tara Leigh Grove
Getting to Yes: The Role of Coercion in Debt Renegotiations, Vincent S.J. Buccola and Marcel Kahan
Lessons from Mediation in United States Chapter 11 Cases, Anthony Casey
Silicon Valley Bank: A Case Study in Post-Crisis Bank Failures, Anthony Casey
The Curious Case of Corp Group Banking and the Problem of Private Criminal Enforcement, Anthony J. Casey
A Commitment Rule for Insolvency Forum: A Response to Critics, Anthony J. Casey, Aurelio Gurrea Martínez, and Robert K. Rasmussen
Bankruptcy by Another Name, Anthony Casey and Joshua Macey
Deconstructing the Senior Creditor, Anthony Casey and Andrew Verstein
Colonial Experiences and Contemporary Laws, Yun-chien Chang, Adam Chilton, Nuno Garoupa, and Mila Versteeg
Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the Legal Profession, Adam Chilton, Jacob Goldin, Kyle Rozema, and Sarath Sanga
The Limits of Diplomacy by Treaty: Evidence from China’s Bilateral Investment Treaty Program, Adam Chilton and Weijia Rao
How Much Does U.S. Fiscal System Redistribute?, Thomas Coleman and David A. Weisbach
Does Paying to Pollute Make Pollution Seem Less Bad?, Hajin Kim
Lost Time: Paying for Delays Associated with Labor Strikes and Traffic Jams, Saul Levmore
Predictability and Adaptation in Law and Other Markets, Saul Levmore
Predictability and Adaptation in Law and other Markets (chapter in a coming book: Research Handbook on Law and Time), Saul Levmore
Simplicity and Complexity in Law and in Markets, Saul Levmore
A New Measure of Surviving Children that Sheds Light on Long-term Trends in Fertility, Anup Malani and Ari Jacob
Evaluating and Pricing Health Insurance in Lower-Income Countries: A Field Experiment in India, Anup Malani, Cynthia Kinnan, Gabriella Conti, Kosuke Imai, Morgen Miller, Shailender Swaminathan, Alessandra Voena, and Bartek Woda
Labor Market Trap, Eric A. Posner
Labor Market Traps, Eric A. Posner
Matching Markets and Labor Monopsony: A Comment on the Priest/Roth DebateEric A. Posner, Eric A. Posner
Should Unions Play a Role in Merger Review?, Eric A. Posner
Noisy Factors in Law, Adriana Z. Robertson, Pat Akey, and Mikhail Simutin
The Additionality Double Standard, James Salzman and David A. Weisbach
An APA for Tax, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 2023
Privacy Protection, At What Cost? Exploring the Regulatory Resistance to Data Technology in Auto Insurance, Omri Ben-Shahar
Insolvency courts: General principles for systems design, Anthony Casey and Joshua Macey
How Progressive is the U.S. Tax System?, Thomas Coleman and David A. Weisbach
Overview of the Characteristics of Tax Havens, Dhammika Dharmapala
Strategic Subdelegation, Brian D. Feinstein and Jennifer Nou
Property as Service Streams, Lee Anne Fennell
Residents Against Housing, Lee Anne Fennell
Toward Principled Background Principles in Takings Law, Rebecca Hansen and Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
Expecting Corporate Prosociality, Hajin Kim
Does ESG Crowd Out Support For Government Regulation?, Hajin Kim, Joshua Macey, and Kristen Underhill
Distributing Deterrence Fairly: A New Rationale for Decoupling Tort Liability, H. Javier Kordi
Hidden Value Transfers in Public Utilities, Aneil Kovvali and Joshua Macey
The Corporate Governance of Public Utilities, Aneil Kovvali and Joshua A. Macey
Cross-Border Influencers: Democracy and Externalities, Saul Levmore
Simplicity and Complexity in Law and in Markets, Saul Levmore
Sharing where Bargains are Impossible, Saul Levmore and Andrew Verstein
Sharing Where Bargains are Impossible, Saul Levmore and Andrew Verstein
Grid Reliability in the Electric Era, Joshua Macey, Shelley Welton, and Hannah Wiseman
Real-World Prior Art, Jonathan S. Masur and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Labor Mobility and the Problems of Modern Policing, Jonathan S. Masur, Aurélie Ouss, and John Rappaport
No-Poach Antitrust Litigation in the United States, Eric A. Posner and Sarah Hammond Roberts
Timing the Regulatory Tightrope, Adriana Z. Robertson
When Bill Rolls Off: Continuity and Change on Corporate Boards, Adriana Z. Robertson and Peter Cziraki
Duplicative Taxation Among the States: a Problem Not Worth Solving?, Julie Roin
Against Anti-Tax Exceptionalism, David A. Weisbach
Constrained Income Redistribution and Inequality: Legal Rules Compared to Taxes and Transfers, David A. Weisbach
Regulatory Trading, David A. Weisbach
Climate Change Policy in the International Context: Solving the Carbon Leakage Problem, David A. Weisbach and Samuel S. Kortum
Trade, Leakage, and the Design of a Carbon Tax, David A. Weisbach, Samuel S. Kortum, Michael Wang, and Bella Yao
Submissions from 2022
Civil Procedure as the Regulation of Externalities: Toward a New Theory of Civil Litigation, Ronen Avraham and William H.J. Hubbard
The Promise and Perils of Open Finance, Dan Awrey and Joshua Macey
Nonparty Interests in Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar, David A. Hoffman, and Cathy Hwang
Managerial Contracting: A Preliminary Study, Lisa E. Bernstein and Brad Peterson
Competition and Congestion in Trademark Law, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur, and Mark P. McKenna
Screening Meaning, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur, and Mark P. McKenna
Foreword (The Economic Structure of Corporate Law at Thirty: A Retrospective on the Work of Easterbrook & Fischel), Anthony J. Casey, Hajin Kim, and Joshua Macey
In Defense of Chapter 11 for Mass Torts, Anthony J. Casey and Joshua C. Macey
The Bankruptcy Tribunal, Anthony J. Casey and Joshua C. Macey
The Expanding Universe of Bilateral Labor Agreements, Adam Chilton and Bartosz Woda
The Consequences of the TCJA’s International Provisions: A Conceptual Framework and Survey of the Evidence, Dhammika Dharmapala
SPACs and PIPEs as Efficient Tools for Corporate Growth, Frank Fagan and Saul Levmore
Submerged Independent Agencies, Brian D. Feinstein and Jennifer Nou
Optional Price Discrimination, Lee Anne Fennell
Streaming Property, Lee Anne Fennell
Countercyclical Corporate Governance, Aneil Kovvali
Stark Choices for Corporate Reform, Aneil Kovvali
Toward a "Tender Offer" Market for Labor Representation, Aneil Kovvali and Jonathan R. Macey
The Win-Win That Wasn’t: Managing to the Stock Market’s Negative Effects on American Workers and Other Corporate Stakeholders, Aneil Kovvali and Leo E. Strine
SPACs, PIPEs, and Common Investors, Saul Levmore and Frank Fagan
Horizontal Collusion and Parallel Wage-Setting in Labor Markets, Jonathan S. Masur and Eric A. Posner
Regulatory Diffusion, Jennifer Nou and Julian Nyarko