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2008

2008-117 An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts: Regulatory Implications
Pablo T. Spiller, Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Business and Technology, and Professor of Business and Public Policy, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

2008-116 Does Descriptive Race Representation Enhance Institutional Legitimacy? The Case of the U.S. Courts
Nancy Scherer, Assistant Professor, Wellesley College, Department of Political Science

2008-115 Did Disfranchisement Laws Help Elect President Bush? A Closer Look at the Characteristics and Preferences of Florida's Ex-Felons
Traci Burch, Assistant Professor Northwestern University, Department of Political Science, and American Bar Foundation

2008-114 Did a Switch in Time Save Nine?
Daniel E. Ho, Assistant Professor of Law and Robert E. Paradise Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and Research, Stanford Law School

2008-113 Direct Democracy and Public Choice
Elizabeth Garrett, Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, Political Science, and Policy, Planning, and Development, USC Gould Law School

2008-112 Financial Innovation and the New Chapter 11
Douglas Baird, Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

2008-111 Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis
Michael Weisbach, Ralph Kurtz Professor of Finance, Ohio State University, Department of Finance

2008-110 Reforming the Taxation and Regulation of Mutual Funds: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis
John Coates, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School

2008-109 The Market for CEO Talent: Implications for CEO Compensation
Yaniv Grinstein, Associate Professor of Finance, Cornell University, The Johnson School

2008-108 Corporate Voting vs. Market Price Setting
Yair Listokin, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School

2008-107 Contract Design and the Structure of Contractual Intent
Jody S. Kraus, Robert E. Scott Professor of Law, University of Virginia

2008-106 Crime, Punishment, and Myopia
Justin McCrary, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

2008-105 The Identity Commons
Richard Brooks, Professor of Law, Yale Law School

2008-104 Elves or Trolls? The Role of Non-Practicing Patent Owners in the Innovation Economy
Damien Geradin, Professor of Competition Law and Economics, University of Tilburg, Law & Economics Center

2008-103 Innovation Policy and Friends of the Court: Intellectual Property Advocacy Before the U.S. Supreme Court
David Orozco, Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University
James Conley, Clinical Professor of Technology, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

2008-102 Innovation by Monopsony
Reiko Aoki, Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

2008-101 Why Don't Inventors Patent?
Petra Moser, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University

2008-100 Is There a Market For Ideas?
Scott Stern, Associate Professor of Management & Strategy, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

2008-099 Does Intellectual Property Protection Raise the Price or Increase Quantity?
Stan Liebowitz, Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas

2008-098 What Gives You the Right? Consumption Data Access Rights and Retail Competition in the Electric Power Industry
Lynne Kiesling, Northwestern University, Department of Economics and Kellogg School of Management

2008-097 Demsetz Goes Digital: Innovation, Rent-Seeking, And Patent Law Reform
Robert Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

2008-096 Irrelevant Intellectual Property Angst
David Haddock, Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-095 Culture and Entrepreneurship Law, Networks and Relationships
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-094 Information Costs in Property, Intellectual Property, and Organizations
Henry E. Smith, Fred A. Johnston Professor of Property & Environmental Law, Yale Law School

2008-093 Coercive Power and Distinct Trajectories of Market Development
Avner Greif, Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences, Department of Economics, Stanford University

2008-092 Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth
Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences & Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University

2008-091 What is the Settlement Rate and Why Should We Care?
Theodore Eisenberg, Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

2008-090 Bell Atlantic v. Twombly and the Future of Pleading in the Federal Courts: A Normative and Empirical Analysis
Lee Epstein, Henry Wade Rogers Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
Martin H. Redish, Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-089 Growing Out of Trouble? Legal Liability and Corporate Responses to Adversity
Todd Gormley, Assistant Professor of Finance, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis
David A. Matsa, Assistant Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-088 Changes in the Demand for Physician Services Subsequent to Negligence: Volume and Composition Effects
David Dranove, Walter McNerney Professor of Health Industry Management; Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management , Northwestern University
Yasutora Watanabe, Assistant Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-087 Does Medmal Reform Improve Access to Care in Under-Served Communities?
Jonathan Klick, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Senior Economist, The RAND Corporation

2008-086 The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer Health Insurance Premiums
Ronen Avraham, Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Leemore Dafny, Assistant Professor of Management & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Max Schanzenbach, Benjamin Mazur Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-085 Judicial Ideology and the Transformation of Voting Rights Jurisprudence
Thomas J. Miles, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

2008-084 Huans Judging Humans: Attribution and Blame in Trial Judges
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

2008-083 What Drives the Passage of Damage Caps?
Catherine Sharkey, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

2008-082 Comparing the Judicial Treatment of Noneconomic Compensatory Damages in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Ronald J. Allen, John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Alexia Brunet, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-081 An Empirical Analysis of Post-Trial Settlement and Appeal
Seth Seabury, Economist, RAND Corporation

2008-080 Revisiting the Cost of Wrongful-Discharge Laws: The Role of Employer and Worker Expectations
Anup Malani, Professor of Law and Aaron Director Research Scholar, University of Chicago Law School

2008-079 The Political Evolution of Contract Law: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Promissory Estoppel
Emerson H. Tiller, Stanford Clinton Sr. Research Professor of Law
Jason Snyder, Assistant Professor, Anderson School of Management, UCLA

2008-078 The Screening Effect of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
Adam C. Pritchard, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

2008-077 The End of Objector Blackmail?
Brian Fitzpatrick, Assistant Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School

2008-076 Is there a Flight from Arbitration?
Christopher R. Drahozal, John M. Rounds Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law

2008-075 Why ADR Programs Aren't More Appealing: An Empirical Perspective
Michael Heise, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

2008-074 Attorneys as Arbitrators
Stephen J. Choi, Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

2008-073 Some Welfare Analytics of Aftermarkets
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

2008-072 Addressing Endogenous Product Choice in an Empirical Analysis of Merger Effects
Michael J. Mazzeo, Associate Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-071 Policy Timing under Uncertainty: Ex Ante versus Ex Post Merger Control
Marco Ottaviani, Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Abraham L. Wickelgren, Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-070 Boundedly Rational Bargaining in Option Demand Markets : An Empirical Application
David Dranove, Walter McNerney Professor of Health Industry Management and Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Mark Satterthwaite, A.C. Buehler Professor in Hospital & Health Services Management and Professor of Strategic Management and Managerial Economics, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Andrew Sfekas, Research Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-069 Assessing the Anticompetitive Effects of Multiproduct Pricing
Patrick Greenlee, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
Dennis W. Carlton, Professor of Business Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Michael Waldman, Johnson Graduate School of Managment, Cornell University

2008-068 Appropriate Antitrust Policy Towards Single-Firm Conduct
Dennis W. Carlton, Professor of Business Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

2008-067 Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry
Leemore Dafny, Assistant Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Mark Duggan, University of Maryland, NBER
Subramaniam Ramanarayanan, University of California, at Los Angeles

2008-066 Antitrust Implications of Demand Accumulation
Igal Hendel, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
Aviv Nevo, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University

2008-065 Antitrust Evaluation of Horizontal Mergers: An Economic Alternative to Market Definition
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California-Berkeley
Carl Shapiro, Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy, Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group Director, Institute of Business and Economics Research (IBER) and Professor in Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

2008-064 The Intrinsic Social Cost of Public Goods: Revising (Downward) the Optimal Size of Government
Martin Zelder, Senior Lecturer of Economics, Northwestern University

2008-063 The Federal Trust Responsibility in the Age of Tribal Self Determination: Examining the Practical Ramifications of Federal Review of Tribal Economic Decisions in Indian Gaming in the Modern Era
Kevin K. Washburn, Distinguished Rosenstiel Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

2008-062 Global Warming, Biofuels, and Agriculture: Is Encouraging Corn-Based Ethanol Production in the United States a Bad Public Good?
Robert Thompson, Gardner Chair in Agricultural Policy; University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

2008-061 Why Good Managers Do Bad Things: The Case of Superfund
Richard Stroup, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Montana State University, Visiting Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University, and PERC

2008-060 Disaster Relief as a Bad Public Good
William F. Shughart II, F. A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Mississippi, Department of Economics

2008-059 Competition in Higher Education: Does It Mitigate the “Quis Custodiet” Problem?
Jane Shaw, President, J.W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, and PERC

2008-058 Tragic Iterations: Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism
Clark McCauley, Professor of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College

2008-057 The Bureau of Reclamation: Public Good Provider or Rent Transferring Agency?
P. J. Hill, George F. Bennett Professor of Business and Economics, Wheaton College, and PERC

2008-056 CAFE – the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Mandate
David D. Haddock , Professor of Law & Economics, Northwestern University, and PERC
(co-authored with Federico Boffa and Stefania Porporato)

2008-055 The History of U.S. Alternative Energy Development Programs: A Study of Government Failure
Peter Z. Grossman, Clarence Efroymson Professor of Economics, Butler University College of Business Administration

2008-054 The Many Virtues of a Market In Transplant Organs
Lloyd Cohen, Professor of Law, George Mason University

2008-053 Forest Policy Up in Smoke: Fire Suppression in the United States
Alison Berry, Research Fellow, PERC

2008-052 The War On Drugs: A Public Bad
Bruce L. Benson , DeVoe L. Moore Professor and Distinguished Research Professor, and Chair, Florida State University Department of Economics

2008-051 Legality and Venture Governance Around the World
Douglas Cumming, Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, and Ontario Research Chair, York University Schulich School of Business
Uwe Walz, Professor, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/ Main

2008-050 A Law and Economics Perspective on Entrepreneurship in China's Marketizing Economy
Linda Yueh, Fellow in Economics, University of Oxford

2008-049 American Indian Entrepreneurs: Unique Challenges, Unlimited Potential
Robert J. Miller, Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School

2008-048 Group Status and Entrepreneurship
Simon C. Parker, Head of Department, Department of Economics & Finance, Durham University
C. Mirjam van Praag, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam

2008-047 Relational Contract and Replaceability
Yuk-fai Fong, Assistant Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Jin Li, Senior Lecturer/Donald P. Jacobs Scholar, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Peter Andrew Schnabl, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Department of Economics

2008-046 The Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers: Stars, Slugs, and the Small Firm Effect
Daniel W. Elfenbein, Assistant Professor of Organization and Strategy, Washington University in St. Louis

2008-045 Scarcity of Ideas and Options to Invest in R&D
Nisvan Erkal, Assistant Professor, University of Melbourne, Department of Economics

2008-044 Bureaucratic Start-Up Costs, Entrepreneurial Capital, and Sectoral Growth
Christian Fons-Rosen, London School of Economics

2008-043 Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction
Milo Bianchi, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Paris School of Economics

2008-042 Rent Seeking, Market Structure and Growth
Daniel Brou, Ph.D Candidate, Economics, Columbia University

2008-041 Schumpterian Law: Rethinking the Role of Law in Fostering Entrepreneurship
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

2008-040 The Effect of Litigation on Venture Capitalist Reputation
Vladimir Ivanov, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas School of Business

2008-039 Law and Entrepreneurial Opportunities
D. Gordon Smith, Glen L. Farr Professor of Law, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
Darian M. Ibrahim, Associate Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona

2008-038 Financing Start-Ups, Joaquin Poblete, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-037 Venture Capital Exit Rights
Carsten Bienz, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance and Management, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
Uwe Walz, Professor, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main

2008-036 Competition between Informed Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs' Fund-Raising Strategy
Carole Haritchabalet, Toulouse School of Economics

2008-035 Market Share Liability in Personal Injury and Public Nuisance Litigation: An Economic Analysis
George L. Priest, John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics, Yale Law School

2008-034 The Economics of Public Nuisance Law and the New Enforcement Actions
Keith N. Hylton, Paul J. Liacos Scholar in Law, Boston University School of Law

2008-033 The Mismatch Between Public Nuisance Law and Global Warming
David A. Dana, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-032 Private Contingent Fee Lawyers and Public Power: Constitutional and Political Implications
Martin H. Redish, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-031 Optional Federal Chartering of Insurance: Design of a Regulatory Strucutre
Hal S. Scott, Harvard Law School

2008-030 A Single-License Approach to Regulating Insurance
Henry N. Butler, Northwestern University School of Law
Larry E. Ribstein, University of Illinois College of Law

2008-029 The Impact of Tort Reform on Intensity of Treatment: Evidence from the Heart Patients
Ronen Avraham, Northwestern University School of Law
Max Schanzenbach, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-028 How Tort Reform Affects Insurance Markets
Martin F. Grace, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
J. Tyler Leverty, Henry B. Tippie College of Business-University of Iowa

2008-027 Tort Reform as Carrot-and-Stick
Lee A. Harris, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law

2008-026 Influences on Organizational Form on Medical Malpractice Insurer Operations
Joan Schmit, Actuarial Science Risk Management and Insurance Department, University of Wisconsin
Yu Lei, Barney School of Business, University of Hartford

2008-025 Do Insurer Pricing Strategies Explain Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Fluctuations?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level
Charles Silver, University of Texas School of Law
Kathryn Zeiler, Georgetown Law Center

2008-024 Risk Retention Groups in Medical Malpractice Insurance: A Test of the Federal Chartering Option
M. Martin Boyer, Department of Finance, Université de Montréal
Patricia Born, Department of Finance, Real Estate & Insurance, California State University, Northridge

2008-023 Government Support for the Terrorism Insurance Industry: Where Do We Go From Here?
Jeffrey Ellis Thomas, University of Missouri-KC-School of Law
Thomas Russell, Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business

2008-022 Regulating the Market for Terrorism Insurance
Alexia Brunet, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-021 A Simple Mechanism for Improving Insurance Regulation
Abraham L. Wickelgren, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-020 The Past and Future of Insurance Regulation: The McCarran-Ferguson Act and Beyond
Martin F. Grace, Department of Risk Management, Georgia State University
Robert W. Klein, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University

2008-019 Reinsurance: The Silent Regulator?
Aviva Abramovsky, Syracuse University College of Law

2008-018 Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?
Leemore S. Dafny, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-017 Rate Regulation, Uninsured Driving and the Cost of Automobile Accidents
Sharon Tennyson, Cornell University
Mary Weiss, Fox School of Business, Temple University

2008-016 The Fatal Flaw of Proposals to Federalize Insurance Regulation
Elizabeth F. Brown, University of St. Thomas School of Law

2008-015 Consumer Harm Acts? An Economic Analysis of State Consumer Protection Acts
Henry N. Butler, Northwestern University School of Law
Jason S. Johnston, University of Pennsylvania Law School

2008-014 Comparing Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation and Renewable Energy
Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC

2008-013 Was That Really Necessary? Some Implications of Trade Law for Alternative Energy
Andrew Green, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

2008-012 Trade, Technology and the Environment: Why Do Poorer Countries Regulate Sooner?
David C. Popp, Maxwell School , Syracuse University

2008-011 Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards? An Empirical Investigation
Thomas P. Lyon, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

2008-010 Enabling Research or Unfair Competition? De Jure and De Facto Research Use Exceptions in Major Technology Countries
Sean O'Connor, University of Washington School of Law

2008-009 The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays
Scott Stern, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-008 Spectrum Policy Reform and the Next Frontier of Property Rights
Philip J. Weiser, University of Colorado Law School

2008-007 Incentives to Invent with Competition and Asymmetric Information
Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-006 Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue
Alan O. Sykes, Stanford Law School

2008-005 Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
Oliver Hart, Harvard University, Department of Economics

2008-004 Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Betsey Stevenson, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School

2008-003 When is a Willful Breach Willful?
Richard Craswell, Stanford Law School

2008-002 Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?
Leemore S. Dafny, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-001 The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting
Edward B. Rock, University of Pennsylvania School of Law

2007

2007-025 Unlocking Technology: Antitrust and Innovation
Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2007-024 On the Importance to Economic Success of Property Rights in Finance and Innovation
F. Scott Kieff, Washington University School of Law

2007-023 Microsoft: Understanding the Aftermath
John E. Lopatka, Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University

2007-022 Mandatory Contracting Remedies in the Microsoft Cases
William H. Page, Levin College of Law, University of Florida

2007-021 Aided and Abetted: Lawyers' Rents and Government Policy
Clifford Winston, The Brookings Institution

2007-020 Lifesaving Regulation: Enhancing the Role of Benefit-Cost Analysis
John D. Graham, Dean, Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School

2007-019 The Complex Climate Change Incentives of China and the United States
Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School

2007-018 An Ethical Benefit-Cost Analysis
Richard O. Zerbe, Jr., Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington

2007-017 Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms
Jesse M. Fried, University of California, Berkeley-Boalt Hall School of Law

2007-016 Which Countries Become Tax Havens?
James R. Hines Jr., University of Michigan

2007-015 Congressional Agency Control: The Impact of Statutory Partisan Requirements on Regulation
Daniel E. Ho, Stanford Law School

2007-014 Retail Electricity Deregulation: Prospects and Challenges for Dynamic Pricing and Enabling Technologies
Lynne Kiesling, Northwestern University, Department of Economics

2007-013 Health Care Regulation: The Year in Review
David Hyman, University of Illinois College of Law, and Robin Fretwell Wilson, Washington and Lee University Law School

2007-012 Explaining American Litigiousness: A Product of Politics, Not Just Law
Tonja Jacobi, Northwestern University School of Law

2007-011 Do Institutions Really Matter? Assessing the Impact of State Judicial Structures on Citizen Litigiousness
Paul Brace, Rice University
Jeff Yates, University of Georgia

2007-010 Justice Judges and Juries
Eric A. Helland, Claremont McKenna College; Institute for Civil Justice, RAND Corporation

2007-009 An Empirical Study of the Impact of Tort Reforms on Medical Malpractice Settlement Payments
Ronen Avraham, Northwestern University School of Law

2007-008 Learning and Bargaining in Dispute Resolution: Theory and Evidence from Medical Malpractice Litigation
Yasutora Watanabe, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2007-007 The Impact of Tort Reform on Health Insurance Coverage
Max Schanzenbach, Northwestern University School of Law

2007-006 Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award? Post-Verdict Haircuts in Texas Medical Malpractice Cases, 1988–2003
David Hyman, University of Illinois College of Law

2007-005 An External Perspective on the Nature of Non-Economic Compensatory Damages and Their Regulation
Ronald J. Allen, Northwestern University School of Law

2007-004 Crossing the Punitive-Compensatory Divide
Catherine M. Sharkey, Columbia University School of Law

2007-003 The Unexpected Effect of Tort Reform: Do Caps Delay Settlements? Evidence From Medical Malpractice Cases
Ronen Avraham, Northwestern University School of Law

2007-002 “Health Courts” and Accountability for Patient Safety
Michelle Mello, Harvard School of Public Health

2007-001 Contract Design in the Shadow of Costly Verification
George Triantis, Harvard Law School

2006

2006-008 The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies
Thomas N. Hubbard, Kellogg School of Management , Northwestern University

2006-007 Discouraging Patent Holdouts through Reciprocal Commitment
Doug Lichtman, University of Chicago

2006-006 Bargaining Around Bankruptcy: Small Business Distress and State Law
Edward Morrison, Columbia University

2006-005 The Demographics of Tort Reform: Winners and Losers
Joanna Shepherd, Emory University

2006-004 Asset-Backed Securities: Costs and Benefits of Bankruptcy Remoteness
Kenneth Ayotte, Columbia University

2006-003 Jurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of the Common Law
Dan Klerman, University of Southern California

2006-002 Crash and Learn: Consumption Externalities and the Reduction of Aircraft Accidents
Eric Helland, Claremont McKenna

2006-001 Mandatory Versus Voluntary Disclosure of Product Risks
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Stanford University