
Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics
Submissions from 2013
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
The Questionable Basis of the Common European Sales Law: The Role of an Optional Instrument in Jurisdictional Competition, Eric A. Posner
The Dynamics of Contract Evolution, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
Unemployment and Regulatory Policy, Eric A. Posner and Jonathan Masur
Aggregation and Law, Eric A. Posner and Ariel Porat
International Paretianism: A Defense, Eric A. Posner and David A. Weisbach
Absolute Preferences and Relative Preferences in Property Law, Lior Strahilevitz
International Law and the Limits of Macroeconomic Cooperation, Alan O. Sykes and Eric A. Posner
Attributes of Ownership, Reid Thompson and David A. Weisbach
Should Environmental Taxes Be Precautionary?, David A. Weisbach
Should Environmental Taxes Be Precautionary?, David A. Weisbach
An FDA for Financial Innovation: Applying the Insurable Interest Doctrine to Twenty-First-Century Financial Markets, E. Glen Weyl and Eric A. Posner
A Proposal for Limiting Speculation on Derivatives: An FDA for Financial Innovation, E. Glen Weyl and Eric A. Posner
Submissions from 2011
Car Trouble, Douglas G. Baird
Does Accuracy Improve the Information Value of Trials?, Scott Baker and Anup Malani
A Critical Look at a Critical Look – Reply to Sanchirico, Joseph Bankman and David A. Weisbach
Fixing Unfair Contracts, Omri Ben-Shahar
Reversible Rewards, Omri Ben-Shahar and Anu Bradford
Governing Bad Behavior by Users of Multi-Sided Platforms, David S. Evans
The Antitrust Economics of Free, David S. Evans
Implicit Bias in Legal Interpretation, Ward Farnsworth, Dustin F. Guzior, and Anup Malani
Ostrom's Law: Property Rights in the Commons, Lee Anne Fennell
Property and Precaution, Lee Anne Fennell
Hybrid Judicial Career Structures: Reputation v. Legal Tradition, Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg
Designing Agencies, Jacob Gersen
An Economic Interpretation of the Pastunwalli, Tom Ginsburg
Reducing Mass Incarceration: Lessons from the Deinstitutionalization of Mental Hospitals in the 1960s, Bernard E. Harcourt
Commensurability and Agency: Two Yet-to-Be-Met Challenges for Law and Economics, Alon Harel and Ariel Porat
Pay for Regulator Performance, M. Todd Henderson and Frederick Tung
Reconsidering Racial and Partisan Gerrymandering, Richard T. Holden and Adam B. Cox
Last Chance, America, Joseph Isenbergh
Discount Rates, Judgments, Individuals’ Risk Preferences, and Uncertainty, Louis Kaplow and David A. Weisbach
The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community, Brian Leiter
Bargaining with Double Jeopardy, Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
Accounting for Anticipation Effects: An Application to Medical Malpractice Tort Reform, Anup Malani and Julian Reif
Present Bias and Criminal Law, Richard H. McAdams
Empiricism and the Rising Incidence of Coauthorship in Law, Thomas J. Miles and Tom Ginsburg
Judicial Takings or Due Process?, Eduardo Peñalver and Lior Strahilevitz
After Google Book Search: Rebooting the Digital Library, Randal C. Picker
Misalignments in Tort Law, Ariel Porat
Political Risk and Sovereign Debt Contracts, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
Delegation in Immigration Law, Eric A. Posner and Adam B. Cox
The Law and Policy of Judicial Retirement, Eric A. Posner, G. Mitu Gulati, and Stephen J. Choi
Regulation, Unemployment, and Cost-Benefit Analysis, Eric A. Posner and Jonathan Masur
Privatization and the Sale of Tax Revenues, Julie Roin
Regulation for the Sake of Appearance, Adam M. Samaha
Better Mistakes in Patent Law, Andres Sawicki
The FTC’s Proposal for Regulationg IP through SSOs Would Replace Private Coordination with Government Holdups, Daniel F. Spulber, F. Scott Kieff, and Richard A. Epstein
Efficient Breach of International Law: Optimal Remedies, “Legalized Noncompliance,” and Related Issues, Alan O. Sykes and Eric A. Posner