American Law and Economics Review

1999 - 2009

Edited by Hon. Richard A. Posner

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Economic Conditions, Deterrence and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from Micro Data pp. 319-349: Naci H. Mocan and Daniel I. Rees
Deterrence and Origin of Legal System: Evidence from 1950–1999 pp. 350-378: Michael L. Smith
What Do Prosecutors Maximize? Evidence from the Careers of U.S. Attorneys pp. 379-402: Richard T. Boylan
Optimal Trust Design in Mass Tort Bankruptcy pp. 403-438: Kenneth Ayotte and Yair Listokin
Limited Liability in California 1928–31: It’s the Lawyers pp. 439-483: Mark I. Weinstein
The (Legal) Value of Chance: Distorted Measures of Recovery in Private Law pp. 484-522: Omri Ben-Shahar and Robert A. Mikos
The Hand Rule and United States v. Carroll Towing Co. Reconsidered pp. 523-543: Allan M. Feldman and Jeonghyun Kim

The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from Eighteenth Century England pp. 1-27: Daniel M. Klerman
Legal Regime and Contractual Flexibility: A Comparison of Business's Organizational Choices in France and the United States during the Era of Industrialization pp. 28-61: Naomi R. Lamoreaux
American Civil Law Origins: Implications for State Constitutions pp. 62-84: Daniel Berkowitz
Conscription as Regulation pp. 85-111: Casey Mulligan
150 Years of Patent Office Practice pp. 112-143: Josh Lerner
Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence pp. 144-183: Laura Nyantung Beny
Governing Stock Markets in Transition Economies: Lessons from China pp. 184-210: Katharina Pistor
Law and Firms' Access to Finance pp. 211-252: Thorsten Beck and Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Bankruptcy around the World: Explanations of Its Relative Use pp. 253-283: Stijn Claessens and Leora F. Klapper
Laws for Sale: Evidence from Russia pp. 284-318: Irina Slinko, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya and Evgeny Yakovlev

Protection for Whom? Creditor Conflict and Bankruptcy pp. 249-284: Stanley D. Longhofer
Alcohol Prohibition and Cirrhosis pp. 285-318: Angela K. Dills
Toward a Signaling Explanation of the Private Choice of Corporate Law pp. 319-344: Edward M. Iacobucci
Comparative Causation pp. 345-368: Francesco Parisi
Agency Law and Contract Formation pp. 369-409: Eric Rasmusen
Punish Once or Punish Twice: A Theory of the Use of Criminal Sanctions in Addition to Regulatory Penalties pp. 410-433: Nuno Garoupa
Comment on "Aligning the Interests of Lawyers and Clients" pp. 434-439: Abraham L. Wickelgren
Using Stationarity Tests in Antitrust Market Definition pp. 441-464: Mario Forni
Discussion of "Using Stationarity Tests in Antitrust Market Definition" pp. 465-475: Daniel Hosken and Christopher T. Taylor
Comment on Forni's "Using Stationarity Tests in Antitrust Market Definition" pp. 476-478: David Genesove

Publish or Paris? Evidence of How Judges Allocate Their Time pp. 1-27: Ahmed E. Taha
Detecting Manipulation in Futures Markets: The Ferruzzi Soybean Episode pp. 28-71: Craig Pirrong
The Denominator Blindness Effect: Accident Frequencies and the Misjudgment of Recklessness pp. 72-94: W Kip Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser
Mandatory Arbitration and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the West pp. 95-134: Albert Yoon
Was the Antitrust Action that Broke Up the Movie Studios Good for the Movies? Evidence from the Stock Market pp. 135-153: Arthur De Vany and Henry McMillan
Delivering Legality on the Internet: Developing Principles for the Private Provision of Commercial Law pp. 154-184: Gillian K. Hadfield
Penalty Enhancement for Hate Crimes: An Economic Analysis pp. 185-207: Dhammika Dharmapala and Nuno Garoupa
Filing a Nuisance Claim to Induce Successive Lawsuits pp. 208-216: Jeong-Yoo Kim
Protecting Homemakers' Marriage-Specific Investments under No-Fault Divorce: A Model for Restructuring Alimony in Civil Law Countries pp. 217-247: Aspasia Tsaoussis

The Law and Economics of Immigration Policy pp. 271-317: Michael J. Trebilcock
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence pp. 318-343: Lawrence F. Katz, Steven Levitt and Ellen Shustorovich
Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Postmoratorium Panel Data pp. 344-376: Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd
Justifying Imprisonment: On the Optimality of Excessively Costly Punishment pp. 377-411: Abraham L. Wickelgren
How Do the Laws of Probability Constrain Legislative and Judicial Efforts to Stop Racial Profiling? pp. 412-432: Jeff Dominitz
The Uneasy Case for Comparative Negligence pp. 433-469: Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar
Exceptions to Employment at Will: Raising Firing Costs or Enforcing Life-Cycle Contracts? pp. 470-504: Max Schanzenbach

The Condorcet Jury Theorem and the Expressive Function of Law: A Theory of Informative Law pp. 1-31: Dhammika Dharmapala and Richard H. McAdams
Do Publicly Traded Firms Price Differently from Private Firms? pp. 32-60: Ernesto Schargrodsky
Lay Juries, Professional Arbitrators, and the Arbitrator Selection Hypothesis pp. 61-93: Donald Wittman
The Government as Litigant: Further Tests of the Case Selection Model pp. 94-133: Theodore Eisenberg and Henry Farber
Found Money? Split-Award Statutes and Settlement of Punitive Damages Cases pp. 134-164: Andrew F Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum
Aligning the Interests of Lawyers and Clients pp. 165-188: A. Mitchell Polinsky and Daniel L. Rubinfeld
Fly by Night or Face the Music? Premature Dissolution and the Desirability of Extended Liability pp. 189-232: James W. Boyd and Daniel E. Ingberman
What Determines Judicial Prestige? An Empirical Analysis for Judges of the Federal Court of Australia pp. 233-262: Russell Smyth and Dr Mita Bhattacharya
Property Rights and the Creation of Wealth pp. 263-269: Roger van den Bergh