Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics
Submissions from 2014
The Costs and Benefits of Mandatory Securities Regulation: Evidence from Market Reactions to the JOBS Act of 2012, Dhammika Dharmapala and Vikramaditya S. Khanna
Economic Aspects of Bitcoin and Other Decentralized Public-Ledger Currency Platforms, David S. Evans
The Antitrust Analysis of Rules and Standards for Software Platforms, David S. Evans
Assessing Unfair Pricing under China's Anti-Monopoly Law for Innovation-Intensive Industries, David S. Evans and Vanessa Yanhua Zhang
Agglomerama, Lee Anne Fennell
Fairness in Law and Economics: Introduction, Lee Anne Fennell and Richard H. McAdams
Judicial Roles in Nonjudicial Functions, Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg
Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All? Amendment Cultures and the Challenges of Measuring Amendment Difficulty, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton
The Teaching/Research Tradeoff in Law: Data from the Right Tail, Tom Ginsburg and Thomas J. Miles
Nuisance Suits, William Hubbard
Do Judges Follow the Law? An Empirical Test of Congressional Control Over Judicial Behavior, William Hubbard and M. Todd Henderson
The Perceived Intrusiveness of Searching Electronic Devices at the Border: An Empirical Study, Matthew B. Kugler
Inequality in the Twenty-First Century (reviewing Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014)), Saul Levmore
Credible Threats, Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
Deference Mistakes, Jonathan Masur and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Does De Jure Judicial Independence Really Matter? A Reevaluation of Explanations for Judicial Independence, James Melton and Tom Ginsburg
A Welfarist Perspective on Lies, Ariel Porat and Omri Yadlin
A Welfarist Perspective on Lies, Ariel Porat and Omri Yadlin
How Do Bank Regulators Determine Capital Adequacy Requirements?, Eric A. Posner
Offsetting Benefits, Eric A. Posner and Ariel Porat
Voting Rules in International Organizations, Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulations: A Response to Criticisms, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Voting Squared: Quadratic Voting in Democratic Politics, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
A Study of the Risks of Contract Ambiguity, Preston Torbert
Distributionally-Weighted Cost Benefit Analysis: Welfare Economics Meets Organizational Design, David A. Weisbach
The Use of Neutralities in International Tax Policy, David A. Weisbach
Let the Right 'One' Win: Policy Lessons from the New Economics of Platforms, E. Glen Weyl and Alexander White
Have Inter-Judge Sentencing Disparities Increased in an Advisory Guidelines Regime? Evidence from Booker, Crystal S. Yang
Submissions from 2013
No Contract?, Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar
'Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment': A Conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt: The Second Session, Gary S. Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard E. Harcourt
Mandatory Arbitration and Distributive Equity: An Essay on Access to Justice, Omri Ben-Shahar
Regulation through Boilerplate: An Apologia, Omri Ben-Shahar
Merchant Law in a Modern Economy, Lisa Bernstein
Is There a Lingua Franca for the American Legal Academy?, Mary Anne Case
Bankruptcy Step Zero, Anthony Casey and Douglas G. Baird
Copyright in Teams, Anthony Casey and Andres Sawicki
Can Lawyers Stay in the Driver's Seat?, Daniel G. Currell and M. Todd Henderson
Attention to Rivalry among Online Platforms and Its Implications for Antitrust Analysis, David S. Evans
Economics of Vertical Restraints for Multi-Sided Platforms, David S. Evans
The Impact of the U.S. Debit Card Interchange Fee Caps on Consumer Welfare: An Event Study Analysis, David S. Evans, Howard H. Chang, and Steven Joyce
Forcings, Lee Anne Fennell
Just Enough, Lee Anne Fennell
Exactions Creep, Lee Anne Fennell and Eduardo Peñalver
Patent Invalidity versus Noninfringement, Roger Ford
Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism, Tom Ginsburg, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Zachary Elkins
The South African Constitutional Court and Socio-Economic Rights as 'Insurance Swaps', Tom Ginsburg and Rosalind Dixon
'We the Peoples': The Global Origins of Constitutional Preambles, Tom Ginsburg, Nick Foti, and Daniel Rockmore
Libertarian Paternalism, Path Dependence, and Temporary Law, Tom Ginsburg, Jonathan Masur, and Richard H. McAdams
Evidentiary Privileges in International Arbitration, Tom Ginsburg and Richard M. Mosk
Beccaria's 'On Crimes and Punishments': A Mirror on the History of the Foundations of Modern Criminal Law, Bernard E. Harcourt
Self-Regulation for the Mortgage Industry, M. Todd Henderson
Boards-R-Us: Reconceptualizing Corporate Boards, M. Todd Henderson and Stephen Bainbridge
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Shady Grove v. Allstate on Forum Shopping in the New York Courts, William Hubbard
A Theory of Pleading, William Hubbard
Innovation and Incarceration: An Economic Analysis of Criminal Intellectual Property Law, Jonathan Masur and Christopher Buccafusco
Raising the Stakes in Patent Cases, Jonathan Masur and Anup Malani
Policing Immigration, Thomas J. Miles and Adam B. Cox
Health and Financial Fragility: Evidence from Car Crashes and Consumer Bankruptcy, Edward Morrison, Arpit Gupta, Lenora Olson, and Lawrence Cook
Climate Impacts on Economic Growth as Drivers of Uncertainty in the Social Cost of Carbon, Elisabeth Moyer, Mark D. Woolley, Michael J. Glotter, and David A. Weisbach
Access and the Public Domain, Randal C. Picker
Personalizing Default Rules and Disclosure with Big Data, Ariel Porat and Lior Strahilevitz
Altruism Exchanges and the Kidney Shortage, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
A Winner's Curse?: Promotions from the Lower Federal Courts, Eric A. Posner, Mitu Gulati, and Stephen J. Choi
A Solution to the Collective Action Problem in Corporate Reorganization, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Benefit-Cost Paradigms in Financial Regulation, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Quadratic Voting as Efficient Corporate Governance, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Toward a Positive Theory of Privacy Law, Lior Strahilevitz
Audits as Signals, David A. Weisbach, Maciej H. Kotowski, and Richard Zeckhauser
Free at Last? Judicial Discretion and Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing, Crystal S. Yang
Submissions from 2012
Regulatory Techniques in Consumer Protection: A Critique of European Consumer Contract Law, Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar
Beneficial Victims, Oren Bar-Gill and Ariel Porat
Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault's 1979 'Birth of Biopolitics' Lectures, Gary S. Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard E. Harcourt
Do Exclusionary Rules Convict the Innocent?, Dhammika Dharmapala, Nuno Garoupa, and Richard H. McAdams
Excessive Litigation by Business Users of Free Platform Services, David S. Evans
Replacing the LIBOR with a Transparent and Reliable Index of Interbank Borrowing: Comments on the Wheatley Review of LIBOR Initial Discussion Paper, David S. Evans and Rosa M. Abrantes-Metz
The Antitrust Analysis of Multi-Sided Platform Businesses, David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee
Lumpy Property, Lee Anne Fennell
Picturing Takings, Lee Anne Fennell
Resource Access Costs, Lee Anne Fennell
Fantasies and Illusions: On Liberty, Order and Free Markets, Bernard E. Harcourt
On the American Paradox of Laissez Faire and Mass Incarceration, Bernard E. Harcourt
Punitive Preventive Justice: A Critique, Bernard E. Harcourt
Voice versus Exit in Health Care Policy, M. Todd Henderson
Becoming the Fifth Branch, M. Todd Henderson and William A. Birdthistle
Hiding in Plain Sight: Can Disclosure Enhance Insiders’ Trade Returns?, M. Todd Henderson, Alan Jagolinzer, and Karl Muller
Reverse Regulatory Arbitrage: An Auction Approach to Regulatory Assignments, M. Todd Henderson and Frederick Tung
Another Look at the Eurobarometer Surveys, William Hubbard
The Problem of Measuring Legal Change, with Application to Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, William Hubbard
Cliff Schmiff, Joseph Isenbergh
Unilateral Carbon Taxes, Border Tax Adjustments, and Carbon Leakage, Gita Kuhn Jush, Joshua Elliott, Ian Foster, Sam Kortum, and Todd Minson
Harmonization, Preferences, and the Calculus of Consent in Commercial and Other Law, Saul Levmore
Asymmetries and Incentives in Evidence Production, Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
Outsourcing Regulation: How Insurance Reduces Moral Hazard, Kyle D. Logue and Omri Ben-Shahar
The Role of Keyword Advertising in Competition among Rival Brands, Elisa V. Mariscal and David S. Evans
Costly Intellectual Property, Jonathan Masur and David Fagundes
On the Interpretability of Law: Lessons from the Decoding of National Constitutions, James Melton, Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, and Kalev Leetaru
Mistake under the Common European Sales Law, Ariel Porat
Negligence Liability for Non-Negligent Behavior, Ariel Porat
Balance-of-Powers Arguments and the Structural Constitution, Eric A. Posner
The Institutional Structure of Immigration Law, Eric A. Posner