Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics
Submissions from 2002
Thinking Outside the Little Boxes, David A. Weisbach
The Fifth Circuit Gets It Wrong in Compaq v. Commissioner, David A. Weisbach and Daniel N. Shaviro
Submissions from 2001
Does Bogart Still Get Scale? Rights of Publicity in the Digital Age, Douglas G. Baird
Private Commercial Law in the Cotton Industry: Creating Cooperation through Rules, Norms, and Institutions, Lisa Bernstein
In and Out of Public Solution: The Hidden Perils of Property Transfer, Richard A. Epstein
The Allocation of the Commons: Parking and Stopping on the Commons, Richard A. Epstein
Statutory Foreign Affairs Preemption, Jack L. Goldsmith
What Has the Visual Arts Rights Act of 1990 Accomplished?, William M. Landes
Bankruptcy Decision Making, Edward Morrison and Douglas G. Baird
Pursuing a Remedy in Microsoft: The Declining Need for Centralized Coordination in a Networked World, Randal C. Picker
Controlling Agencies with Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Positive Political Theory Perspective, Eric A. Posner
Courts Should Not Enforce Government Contracts, Eric A. Posner
The Law and Economics of Consumer Finance, Eric A. Posner and Richard M. Hynes
The Political Economy of Property Exemption Laws, Eric A. Posner, Richard M. Hynes, and Anup Malani
Control Rights, Priority Rights, and the Conceptual Foundations of Corporate Reorganizations, Robert K. Rasmussen and Douglas G. Baird
The Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks, Alvin E. Roth, Richard A. Posner, Christopher Avery, and Christine Jolls
Throwing Good Money after Bad? Board Connections and Conflicts in Bank Lending, Philip E. Strahan and Randall S. Kroszner
Academic Fads and Fashions (with Special Reference to Law), Cass R. Sunstein
Probability Neglect: Emotions, Worst Cases, and Law, Cass R. Sunstein
Regulating Risks after ATA, Cass R. Sunstein
Social and Economic Rights? Lessons from South Africa, Cass R. Sunstein
Switching the Default Rule, Cass R. Sunstein
The Arithmetic of Arsenic, Cass R. Sunstein
The Laws of Fear, Cass R. Sunstein
Predictably Incoherent Judgments, Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, David Schkade, and Ilana Ritov
Financial Contract Design in the World of Venture Captial, George Triantis
Covenants Not to Compete from an Incomplete Contracts Perspective, George Triantis and Eric A. Posner
Ten Truths about Tax Shelters, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 2000
Simplicity and Complexity in Contracts, Karen Eggleston
The Dormant Commerce Clause and the Internet, Jack L. Goldsmith and Alan O. Sykes
Copyright, Borrowed Images, and Appropriation Art: An Economic Approach, William M. Landes
Conjunction and Aggregation, Saul Levmore
Puzzling Stock Options and Compensation Norms, Saul Levmore
Property Rights in Emerging Platform Technologies, Douglas Gary Lichtman
Strategic Disclosure in the Patent System, Douglas Gary Lichtman, Scott Baker, and Kate Kraus
Agency Models in Law and Economics, Eric A. Posner
Law and the Emotions, Eric A. Posner
Moral and Legal Rhetoric in International Relations: A Rational Choice Perspective, Eric A. Posner and Jack L. Goldsmith
An Economic Analysis of the Use of Citations in the Law, Richard A. Posner
Antitrust in the New Economy, Richard A. Posner
Harmless Error, Richard A. Posner and William M. Landes
Creating and Enforcing Norms, with Special Reference to Sanctions, Eric B. Rasmusen and Richard A. Posner
Boyd's Legacy and Blackstone's Ghost, Robert K. Rasmussen and Douglas G. Baird
Cost-Benefit Default Principles, Cass R. Sunstein
Human Behavior and the Law of Work, Cass R. Sunstein
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Relative Position, Cass R. Sunstein and Robert H. Frank
Statistics, Not Experts, Cass R. Sunstein and William Meadow
Deliberating about Dollars: The Severity Shift, Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade, and Daniel Kahneman
Solidarity in Consumption, Cass R. Sunstein and Edna Ullmann-Margalit
The Assault on Managed Care: Vicarious Liability, Class Actions, and the Patient's Bill of Rights, Alan O. Sykes and Richard A. Epstein
An Economic Analysis of Anti-Tax Avoidance Laws, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 1999
Shared Information Goods, Yannis Bakos, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Douglas Gary Lichtman
The Questionable Empirical Basis of Article 2's Incorporation Strategy: A Preliminary Study, Lisa Bernstein
Intellectual Property and the Academic Enterprise, Kenneth W. Dam
Deconstructing Privacy: And Putting It Back Together Again, Richard A. Epstein
Winning the Art Lottery: The Economic Returns to the Ganz Collection, William M. Landes
Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism, John Lott
Environmental Violations, Legal Penalties, and Reputation Costs, John Lott, Jonathan M. Karpoff, and Graeme Rankine
Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement, John Lott and William M. Landes
Optimal Timing and Legal Decisionmaking: The Case of the Liquidation Decision in Bankruptcy, Edward Morrison and Douglas G. Baird
Regulating Network Industries: A Look at Intel, Randal C. Picker
A Theory of Contract Law under Conditions of Radical Judicial Error, Eric A. Posner
Implementing Cost-Benefit Analysis when Preferences are Distorted, Eric A. Posner and Matthew D. Adler
Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis, Eric A. Posner and Matthew D. Adler
An Economic Approach to the Law of Evidence, Richard A. Posner
Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire, Richard A. Posner
The Theory and Practice of Citations Analysis, with Special Reference to Law and Economics, Richard A. Posner
Market Signaling of Personal Characteristics, Richard A. Posner and Gertrud M. Fremling
Status Signaling and the Law, with Particular Application to Sexual Harassment, Richard A. Posner and Gertrud M. Fremling
The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change, Richard A. Posner and Tomas J. Philipson
Do People Want Optimal Deterrence?, David Schkade, Cass R. Sunstein, and Daniel Kahneman
Cognition and Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cass R. Sunstein
Must Formalism Be Defended Empirically?, Cass R. Sunstein
Nondelegation Canons, Cass R. Sunstein
Private Broadcasters and the Public Interest: Notes Toward a 'Third Way', Cass R. Sunstein
The Law of Group Polarization, Cass R. Sunstein
Are Juries Less Erratic than Individuals? Deliberation, Polarization, and Punitive Damages, Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade, and Daniel Kahneman
Ironing Out the Flat Tax, David A. Weisbach
Should the Tax Law Require Current Accrual of Interest on Derivative Financial Instruments?, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 1998
Self-Help in the Digital Jungle, Kenneth W. Dam
Incentives and Social Capital: Are Homeowners Better Citizens?, Edward L. Glaeser and Denise DiPasquale
A Simple Explanation for Why Campaign Expenditures are Increasing: The Government is Getting Bigger, John Lott
Does a Helping Hand Put Others At Risk?: Affirmative Action, Police Departments, and Crime, John Lott
Punitive Damages: Their Determinants, Effects on Firm Value, and the Impact of Supreme Court and Congressional Attempts to Limit Awards, John Lott and Jonathan M. Karpoff
How Dramatically Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?, John Lott and Larry Kenny
A Theory of Customary International Law, Eric A. Posner and Jack L. Goldsmith
A Positive Theory of Chapter 11, Eric A. Posner and Kevin A. Kordana
Values and Consequences: An Introduction to Economic Analysis of Law, Richard A. Posner
Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, Michael E. Solimine, William M. Landes, and Lawrence Lessig
A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics, Cass R. Sunstein, Christine Jolls, and Richard H. Thaler
Second-Order Decisions, Cass R. Sunstein and Edna Ullmann-Margalit
Line Drawing, Doctrine, and Efficiency in the Tax Law, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 1997
The Hidden Virtues of Chapter 11: An Overview of the Law and Economics of Financially Distressed Firms, Douglas G. Baird
Contracts Small and Contract Large: Contract Law Through the Lens of Laissez-Faire, Richard A. Epstein
The Art of Law and Economics: An Autobiographical Essay, William M. Landes
Term Limits and Electoral Competitiveness: California's State Legislative Races, John Lott and Kermit Daniel
Simple Games in a Complex World: A Generative Approach to the Adoption of Norms, Randal C. Picker
Community, Wealth, and Equality, Richard A. Posner
Behavioral Analysis of Law, Cass R. Sunstein
Assessing Punitive Damages..., Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, and David Schkade
