Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series
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
Informative Jury Disagreement, Roy Baharad
The Uneasy Case for Copyright Disgorgement, Roy Baharad
Bankruptcy Minimalism, Douglas Baird
Fraudulent Transfer Law’s Forgotten Foundations, Douglas G. Baird
A Companion Guide to the Restatement of Consumer Contracts, Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar, and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
Safety Score Liability, Omri Ben-Shahar
Those Elusive Algorithmic Harms: A Comment on Bar-Gill and Sunstein, Algorithmic Harm, Omri Ben-Shahar
Ideological Concordance Between Students and Professors, Adam Bonica, Adam Chilton, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen
The Limits and Promise of Global Antitrust Law, Anu Bradford, Adam Chilton, and Katerina Linos
Precedent Terms, Vincent Buccola and David A. Hoffman
The Backstop Party, Vincent S.J. Buccola, Adi Marcovich Gross, and Matthew R. McBrady
Purdue Pharma and the New Bankruptcy Exceptionalism, Anthony Casey and Joshua Macey
The Evolution of Experiential Legal Education, Adam Chilton, Peter Joy, and Kyle Rozema
Forced Migration and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Rohingya Refugees, Adam Chilton, Katerina Linos, and Anup Malani
Constitutional Drafting Processes and Constitutional Success, Adam Chilton, Murat C. Mungan, and Mila Versteeg
Taxes and Reported versus True Income, Thomas S. Coleman and David A. Weisbach
Continuity and Change on Corporate Boards, Peter Cziraki and Adriana Robertson
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
Space Over Time: Housing for the Life Cycle, 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
Antitrust Analysis of Vertical Restraints in Labor Markets, Eric A. Posner
The Tom Sawyer Effect: Invisible Work and Labor Market Power, Eric A. Posner
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
Algorithmic Selection of Iconic Constitutions, Tejas Ramdas, Patrick Chung-Chia Huang, Nuno Garoupa, Martin T. Wells, Yun-chien Chang, and Tom Ginsburg
The Genesis of Constitutions: A Natural Language Processing Approach, Tejas Ramdas, Patrick Chung-Chia Huang, Nuno Garoupa, Martin T. Wells, Yun-chien Chang, and Tom Ginsburg
Pillar Two: Much Ado About Next to Nothing?, Julie Roin
Submissions from 2024
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 Courts, Curtis A. Bradley and Tara Leigh Grove
Trade Secrecy's Information Paradox, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur, and Deepa Varadarajan
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
A Commitment Rule for Insolvency Forum, Anthony Casey, Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez, and Robert K. Rasmussen
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
How Much Does U.S. Fiscal System Redistribute?, Thomas Coleman and David A. Weisbach
Property Moves: Assembling Service Streams, Lee Anne Fennell
Private Security and Public Police, Ben Grunwald, John Rappaport, and Michael Berg
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
Cash Substitution and Deferred Consumption as Data Breach Harms, Lisa Yao Liu and Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
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
Disclosure Puzzles in Patent Law, Jonathan S. Masur and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
The Common Political Foundations of Originalism and Cost-benefit Analysis, Jonathan S. Masur and Eric A. Posner
Control Rights and Chapter 11's Expanding Scope, Jared I. Mayer
Invisible Work and Labor Market Power; Or, Why Labor Should Be Commodified, Eric A. Posner
Labor Market Trap, 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
Restructuring Support Agreements: An Empirical Analysis, Katherine Waldock, Anthony Casey, and Frederick Tung
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
Privacy Protection, At What Cost? Exploring the Regulatory Resistance to Data Technology in Auto Insurance, Omri Ben-Shahar
A Primer on Option Valuation in Restructuring, Caroline Boone and Anthony Casey
The Flawed Arguments Against Bankruptcy Releases, Anthony Casey
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
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
Grid Reliability in the Electric Era, Joshua Macey, Shelley Welton, and Hannah Wiseman
Grid Reliability in the Electric Era, Joshua Macey, Shelley Welton, and Hannah Jacobs 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
