Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics
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
Submissions from 1996
Transaction Costs and Property Rights, Or, Do Good Fences Made Good Neighbors?, Richard A. Epstein
Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns, David B. Mustard and John Lott
The Economics of Legal Disputes Over the Ownership of Works of Art and Other Collectibles, Richard A. Posner and William M. Landes
Judicial Independence in Civil Law Regimes: Econometrics from Japan, Eric B. Rasmusen and J. Mark Ramseyer
Health-Health Tradeoffs, Cass R. Sunstein
Social Norms and Social Roles, Cass R. Sunstein
The Cost-Benefit State, Cass R. Sunstein
Submissions from 1995
The Law and Economics of Contract Damages, Douglas G. Baird
Freedom of Contract, Richard Craswell
Intellectual Property in an Age of Software and Biotechnology, Kenneth W. Dam
Explaining Deviations from the Fifty Percent Rule: A Multimodal Approach to the Selection of Cases for Litigation, Daniel P. Kessler, Thomas Meites, and Geoffrey P. Miller
Das Kapital: Solvency Regulation of the American Business Enterprise, Geoffrey P. Miller
Public Choice, J. Mark Ramseyer
The Market for Children: Evidence from Early Modern Japan, J. Mark Ramseyer
Budget Deficits and the Intergenerational Distribution of Lifetime Consumption, Daniel N. Shaviro
Submissions from 1994
Some Economic Considerations in the Intellectual Property Protection of Software, Kenneth W. Dam
The Ubiquity of the Benefit Principle, Richard A. Epstein
Counterclaims: An Economic Analysis, William M. Landes
Settlement Escrows, Geoffrey P. Miller and Robert H. Gertner
An Introduction to Game Theory and the Law, Randal C. Picker
Rules and Rulelessness, Cass R. Sunstein
Submissions from 1993
The Economic Way of Looking at Life, Gary S. Becker
The Economic Underpinnings of Patent Law, Kenneth W. Dam
Bankruptcy Rules, Managerial Entrenchment, and Firm-Specific Human Capital, Randal C. Picker and Lucian Arye Bebchuk
What Do Judges and Justices Maximize? (The Same Things Everyone Else Does), Richard A. Posner
The Economics of Anticipatory Adjudication, Richard A. Posner and William M. Landes
Credibly Committing to Efficiency Wages: Cotton Spinning Cartels in Imperial Japan, J. Mark Ramseyer
Explicit Reasons for Implicit Contracts: The Legal Logic to the Japanese Main Bank System, J. Mark Ramseyer
Endogenous Preferences, Environmental Law, Cass R. Sunstein
An Introduction to Regression Analysis, Alan O. Sykes
Submissions from 1992
Reconstructing Contracts, Douglas G. Baird
Revisiting Auctions in Chapter 11, Douglas G. Baird
Sequential versus Unitary Trials: An Economic Analysis, William M. Landes
Security Interests, Misbehavior, and Common Pools, Randal C. Picker
Blackmail, Privacy, and Freedom of Contract, Richard A. Posner
The Influence of Economics on Law: A Quantitative Study, Richard A. Posner and William M. Landes
Optimal Regulation of AIDS, Richard A. Posner and Tomas J. Philipson
The Welfare Economics of Immigration Law: A Theoretical Survey With An Analysis of U.S. Policy, Alan O. Sykes
Submissions from 1991
The Path to The T. J. Hooper: The Theory and History of Custom in the Law of Tort, Richard A. Epstein
Copyright Protection of Letters, Diaries and Other Unpublished Works: An Economic Approach, William M. Landes
On Property and Constitutionalism, Cass R. Sunstein