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2009
w15537 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Michael S. Weisbach

The State of Corporate Governance Research

w15535 Richard T. Boylan
Naci H. Mocan

Intended and Unintended Consequences of Prison Reform

w15529 Stephen Brown
William Goetzmann
Bing Liang
Christopher Schwarz

Trust and Delegation

w15472 Wenli Li
Michelle J. White

Mortgage Default, Foreclosure, and Bankruptcy

w15431 Philip J. Cook
Jens Ludwig
Adam Samaha

Gun Control after Heller: Litigating against Regulation

w15422 W. Kip Viscusi
Joni Hersch

Tobacco Regulation through Litigation: The Master Settlement Agreement

w15412 Daniel Carvell
Janet Currie
W. Bentley MacLeod

Accidental Death and the Rule of Joint and Several Liability

w15371 Ronen Avraham
Leemore S. Dafny
Max M. Schanzenbach

The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums

w15355 Raquel Fernández
Women's Rights and Development

w15354 Dave E. Marcotte
Sara Markowitz

A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends

w15347 Kenneth Kovash
Steven D. Levitt

Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League

w15337 Lawrence H. Goulder
Mark R. Jacobsen
Arthur A. van Benthem

Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations: The Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-per-Mile Limits

w15264 Lee J. Alston
Edwyna Harris
Bernardo Mueller

De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers

w15304 Sharon Belenzon
Tomer Berkovitz
Patrick Bolton

Intracompany Governance and Innovation

w15246 Raj Chetty
The Simple Economics of Salience and Taxation

w15220 Andrew Gelman
Nate Silver
Aaron Edlin

What is the probability your vote will make a difference?

w15209 Lee J. Alston
Andrés A. Gallo

Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

w15183 Seth M. Freedman
Melissa Schettini Kearney
Mara Lederman

Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls

w15139 Bruce Ian Carlin
Simon Gervais
Gustavo Manso

When Does Libertarian Paternalism Work?

w15129 Nicholas Bloom
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

The organization of firms across countries

w15100 Haitao Yin
Howard Kunreuther
Matthew White

Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort: Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?

w15061 Ryan L. Lampe
Petra Moser

Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

w15053 John M. de Figueiredo
Integrated Political Strategy

w15045 Efraim Benmelech
Jennifer Dlugosz

The Credit Rating Crisis

w15017 Hilary Sigman
Environmental Liability and Redevelopment of Old Industrial Land

w14980 Manolis Galenianos
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Nicola Persico

A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

w14969 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

w14940 Nisvan Erkal
Suzanne Scotchmer

Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it or Bank it

w14929 Thomas Philippon
Philipp Schnabl

Efficient Recapitalization

w14892 Eric Hilt
Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis: The Panic of 1826

w14885 Peter Arcidiacono
Esteban M. Aucejo
Hanming Fang
Kenneth I. Spenner

Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence

w14841 Trevon Logan
Manisha Shah

Face Value: Information and Signaling in an Illegal Market

w14825 Alberto F. Alesina
Paola Giuliano

Preferences for Redistribution

w14823 Ajay Mahal
Brendan O'Flaherty
David E. Bloom

Needle Sharing and HIV Transmission: A Model with Markets and Purposive Behavior

w14798 Orley C. Ashenfelter
Daniel Hosken
Matthew Weinberg

Generating Evidence to Guide Merger Enforcement

w14752 Joshua Schwartzstein
Andrei Shleifer

Litigation and Regulation

w14703 Simeon Djankov
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Andrei Shleifer

Disclosure by Politicians

w14655 Nuno Limăo
Patricia Tovar

Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from Commitment via International Trade Agreements

w14654 Patrick Bolton
Antoine Faure-Grimaud

Satisficing Contracts

w14634 Guy David
Sara Markowitz
Seth Richards

The Effects of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Promotion on Adverse Drug Events and Regulation


2008
w14613 Oliver Hart
Bengt Holmstrom

A Theory of Firm Scope

w14604 Peter Blair Henry
Conrad Miller

Institutions vs. Policies: A Tale of Two Islands

w14557 C. Fritz Foley
Robin Greenwood

The Evolution of Corporate Ownership After IPO: The Impact of Investor Protection

w14549 Michelle J. White
Bankruptcy: Past Puzzles, Recent Reforms, and the Mortgage Crisis

w14527 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

w14508 Ernesto Dal Bó
Marko Terviö

Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing

w14501 Ernst Fehr
Oliver D. Hart
Christian Zehnder

Contracts as Reference Points - Experimental Evidence

w14464 Suzanne Scotchmer
Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies

w14412 Eric Hilt
Katharine E. O'Banion

The Limited Partnership in New York, 1822-1853: Partnerships without Kinship

w14393 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830: A New Source for British History

w14371 Mark Duggan
Randi Hjalmarsson
Brian A. Jacob

The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas

w14346 Betsey Stevenson
Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply

w14331 Phillip Leslie
Paul Oyer

Managerial Incentives and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity

w14283 Howard Bodenhorn
Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania

w14279 Timothy Brezina
Erdal Tekin
Volkan Topalli

"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime

w14276 Jesse Rothstein
Albert H. Yoon

Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?

w14275 Jesse Rothstein
Albert Yoon

Mismatch in Law School

w14152 Pablo T. Spiller
An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts: Regulatory Implications

w14220 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Happiness Inequality in the United States

w14183 Yeon-Koo Che
Kathryn E. Spier

Strategic Judgment Proofing

w14179 Michelle J. White
Ning Zhu

Saving Your Home in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy

w14170 Louis Kaplow
Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences

w14167 Price V. Fishback
Rebecca Holmes
Samuel Allen

Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era

w14147 Sheila M. Olmstead
Robert N. Stavins

Comparing Price and Non-Price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation

w14140 Ulrike Malmendier
Geoffrey Tate

Superstar CEOs

w14115 Claudia M. Landeo
Kathryn E. Spier

Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities

w14107 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830

w14074 C. Fritz Foley
Welfare Payments and Crime

w14062 Michael D. Grubb
Paul Oyer

Who Benefits from Tax-Advantaged Employee Benefits?: Evidence from University Parking

w14059 Efraim Benmelech
Nittai K. Bergman

Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from U.S. Airlines

w14045 James E. Anderson
Does Trade Foster Contract Enforcement?

w14041 Patricia M. Danzon
Andrew J. Epstein

Effects of Regulation on Drug Launch and Pricing in Interdependent Markets

w13989 Forest L. Reinhardt
Robert N. Stavins
Richard H. K. Vietor

Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens

w13968 Edward Miguel
Sebastián M. Saiegh
Shanker Satyanath

National Cultures and Soccer Violence

w13961 Armin Falk
David Huffman
W. Bentley MacLeod

Institutions and Contract Enforcement

w13960 Surajeet Chakravarty
W. Bentley MacLeod

Contracting in the Shadow of the Law

w13895 Edward J. Kane
Regulation and Supervision: An Ethical Perspective

w13859 Orley Ashenfelter
Daniel Hosken

The Effect of Mergers on Consumer Prices: Evidence from Five Selected Case Studies

w13856 Anthony Niblett
Richard Posner
Andrei Shleifer

The Evolution of a Legal Rule

w13803 J.J. Prescott
Jonah E. Rockoff

Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?

w13822 Sumit Agarwal
John C. Driscoll
Xavier Gabaix
David Laibson

Learning in the Credit Card Market

w13809 Aron Balas
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Andrei Shleifer

The Divergence of Legal Procedures

w13781 Philip J. Cook
Assessing Urban Crime And Its Control: An Overview

w13759 Angela K. Dills
Jeffrey A. Miron
Garrett Summers

What Do Economists Know About Crime?

w13757 Gary Richardson
Dan Bogart

Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830

w13752 Alma Cohen
Asymmetric Learning in Repeated Contracting: An Empirical Study

w13733 Robert P. Inman
Daniel L. Rubinfeld

Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition: Learning from South Africa

w13727 Uri Gneezy
Kenneth L. Leonard
John A. List

Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society

w13718 Gordon Dahl
Stefano DellaVigna

Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?


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