Journal of Law & Economics

1969 - 2007

Edited by Dennis W. Carlton, Austan Goolsbee, Randall S. Krosner, Douglas Lichtman and Edward A. Snyder

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Volume 50, issue 1, 2007

Managerial Leverage Is Limited by the Extent of the Market: Hierarchies, Specialization, and the Utilization of Lawyers' Human Capital pp. 1-43

Luis Garicano and Thomas N Hubbard

The Law and Economics of Company Stock in 401(k) Plans pp. 45-79

Shlomo Benartzi, Richard H. Thaler, Stephen P Utkus and Cass R Sunstein

Does Public Scientific Research Complement Private Investment in Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry? pp. 81-104

Andrew A Toole

Independent Actor or Agent? An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of U.S. Interests on International Monetary Fund Conditions pp. 105-24

Axel Dreher and Nathan M. Jensen

Upstream Competition and Vertical Integration in Electricity Markets pp. 125-56

Erin T. Mansur

Economies of Density and Regulatory Change in the U.S. Railroad Freight Industry pp. 157-79

John D Bitzan and Theodore E Keeler

Monopoly Quality Degradation and Regulation in Cable Television pp. 181-219

Gregory S Crawford and Matthew Shum

Volume 49, issue 2, 2006

Reputational Penalties and the Merits of Class-Action Securities Litigation pp. 365-95

Eric Helland

The Jeffords Effect pp. 397-425

Seema Jayachandran

The Effectiveness of State Legislation in Mitigating Moral Hazard: Evidence from Automobile Insurance pp. 427-50

Robert E Hoyt, David B. Mustard and Lawrence S Powell

Perceived Criminality, Criminal Background Checks, and the Racial Hiring Practices of Employers pp. 451-80

Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael and Michael A Stoll

Abortion Legalization and Adolescent Substance Use pp. 481-505

Kerwin Kofi Charles and Stephens, Melvin,

Guns and Juvenile Crime pp. 507-31

Naci H. Mocan and Erdal Tekin

Do Teen Births Keep American Crime High? pp. 533-66

Jennifer Hunt

Court Decisions and Equity Markets: Estimating the Value of Copyright Protection pp. 567-96

Matthew Baker and Brendan M Cunningham

Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying pp. 597-625

John M de Figueiredo and Brian S Silverman

Evaluating the Performance of Merger Simulation: Evidence from the U.S. Airline Industry pp. 627-49

Craig Peters

Variation in the Monitoring Incentives of Outside Stockholders pp. 651-80

Kenneth A Borokhovich, Kelly Brunarski, Yvette S Harman and Robert Parrino

The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies pp. 681-706

Nauro F. Campos and Francesco Giovannoni

Volume 49, issue 1, 2006

File Sharing: Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction? pp. 1-28

Stan J Liebowitz

Piracy on the High C's: Music Downloading, Sales Displacement, and Social Welfare in a Sample of College Students pp. 29-62

Rafael Rob and Joel Waldfogel

Measuring the Effect of File Sharing on Music Purchases pp. 63-90

Alejandro Zentner

Impact of Legal Threats on Online Music Sharing Activity: An Analysis of Music Industry Legal Actions pp. 91-114

Sudip Bhattacharjee, Ram D Gopal, Kaveepan Lertwachara and James R Marsden

The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece pp. 115-46

Robert K Fleck and F Andrew Hanssen

Does Religion Really Reduce Crime? pp. 147-72

Paul Scott Heaton

Contract Duration: Evidence from Franchising pp. 173-96

James A Brickley, Sanjog Misra and R Lawrence Van Horn

Incentives in Corporations: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry pp. 197-227

Eric Hilt

Regulation and Incentives in European Aviation pp. 229-48

Philippe Gagnepain and Pedro L Marin

Neighborhood Crime and Young Males' Job Opportunity pp. 249-83

Keith R Ihlanfeldt

The Economics of Teacher Quality pp. 285-329

Darius Lakdawalla

Initial Public Offering Discount and Competition pp. 331-51

Shmuel Hauser, Uzi Yaari, Yael Tanchuma and Harold Baker

Plea Bargains Only for the Guilty pp. 353-64

Bar-Gill, Oren and Oren Gazal Ayal

Volume 48, issue 2, 2005

Aaron Director Remembered pp. 307-11

Stephen M Stigler

Aaron Director's Influence on Antitrust Policy pp. 313-30

Sam Peltzman

Why Is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in Housing Prices pp. 331-69

Edward L Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko and Raven Saks

Corporate Governance and Accounting Scandals pp. 371-406

Anup Agrawal and Sahiba Chadha

Evidence for the Possible Information Loss of Conforming Book Income and Taxable Income pp. 407-42

Michelle Hanlon, Stacie Kelley Laplante and Terry Shevlin

Company Stock in Pension Plans: How Costly Is It? pp. 443-74

Lisa Meulbroek

Do Corporate Control and Product Market Competition Lead to Stronger Productivity Growth? Evidence from Market-Oriented and Blockholder-Based Governance Regimes pp. 475-516

Jens Koke and Luc Renneboog

Control Premiums, Minority Discounts, and Optimal Judicial Valuation pp. 517-48

Kenton K. Yee

The Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Public versus Private Management pp. 549-89

Patrick Bayer and David E Pozen

Making the Crime Fit the Penalty: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion under Mandatory Minimum Sentencing pp. 591-625

David James Bjerk

Salaries, Plea Rates, and the Career Objectives of Federal Prosecutors pp. 627-51

Richard T Boylan and Cheryl X Long

The Reputational Penalties for Environmental Violations: Empirical Evidence pp. 653-75

Jonathan M Karpoff, Lott, John R, and Eric W Wehrly

The Effect of Local Competition on Admission Prices in the U.S. Motion Picture Exhibition Market pp. 677-708

Peter Davis

The Choice of Titling System in Land pp. 709-27

Benito Arruñada and Nuno Garoupa

Volume 48, issue 1, 2005

Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors pp. 1-39

Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman and Dimitriy V Masterov

Corporate Campaign Contributions, Repeat Giving, and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation pp. 41-71

Randall S Kroszner and Thomas Stratmann

Strength in Numbers: Group Size and Political Mobilization pp. 73-91

Oberholzer-Gee, Felix and Joel Waldfogel

Income Inequality and the Taste for Revolution pp. 93-123

Robert MacCulloch

"Read My Lips...": Does the Tax Rhetoric of Presidential Candidates Affect Security Prices? pp. 125-48

Benjamin C Ayers, C Bryan Cloyd and John R Robinson

An Examination of Market Power in the Intrastate Long-Distance Telephone Service Markets: Evidence from a Natural Experiment pp. 149-71

David E Burnstein

Disclosure as a Strategy in the Patent Race pp. 173-94

Scott Baker and Claudio Mezzetti

Drug Prices and Research and Development Investment Behavior in the Pharmaceutical Industry pp. 195-214

Carmelo Giaccotto, Rexford Santerre and John A Vernon

The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Illicit-Drug-Related Crimes pp. 215-34

Michael Edward Conlin, Dickert-Conlin, Stacy and John V. Pepper

Carrots, Sticks, and Broken Windows pp. 235-66

Hope Corman and Naci H. Mocan

Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime pp. 267-79

Jonathan Klick and Alexander Tabarrok

Estimating the Effect of America's Most Wanted: A Duration Analysis of Wanted Fugitives pp. 281-306

Thomas J Miles