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Working Papers

2023

1. Doing It by the Book: Political Contestability and Public Contract Renegotiations
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Doing It by the Book: Political Contestability and Public Contract Renegotiations, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Oxford University Press (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2021

2. Contractual Rigidity and Political Contestability: Revisiting Public Contract Renegotiations
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2019

3. Political Contestability and Public Contracting
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Political contestability and public contracting, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory (2019) View citations (5) (2019)

2018

4. Implications of Third Parties for Contract Design
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
   See also Journal Article Implications of Third Parties for Contract Design, Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer (2018) (2018)

2016

5. Coase and the Transaction Cost Approach to Regulation
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (2)
   See also Chapter Coase and the transaction cost approach to regulation, Chapters, Edward Elgar Publishing (2016) View citations (1) (2016)
6. Rigidity of Public Contracts
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (11)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Rigidity of Public Contracts, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, John Wiley & Sons (2016) View citations (6) (2016)

2015

7. Political Bonds: Political Hazards and the Choice of Municipal Financial Instruments
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2014

8. Third-Party Opportunism and the Theory of Public Contracts: Operationalization and Applications
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (5)

2012

9. Third-Party Opportunism and the Nature of Public Contracts
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (27)

2011

10. Transaction Cost Regulation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Transaction cost regulation, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2013) View citations (32) (2013)

2008

11. An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts: Regulatory Implications
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (51)
    See also Chapter An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts: Regulatory Implications, Chapters, Edward Elgar Publishing (2009) View citations (13) (2009)

2007

12. Strategic Judicial Decision Making
    Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine View citations (5)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations (5)
13. The Organizational Implications of Creativity: The US Film Industry in Mid-XXth Century
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

2006

14. Buy, Lobby or Sue: Interest Groups' Participation in Policy Making - A Selective Survey
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)

2005

15. Damage Valuation of Indirect Expropriation in Public Services
    Industrial Organization, University Library of Munich, Germany
16. Decentralized Investment and Quality Decisions In Common-Pool Networks
    Public Economics, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (3)
17. Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation, American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press (2006) View citations (8) (2006)

2004

18. Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law, Constitutional Interpretation. Argentina 1935-1998
    Working Papers, Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia
19. The Institutions of Regulation
    Working Papers, Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia View citations (21)

2003

20. Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes, and Policy Outcomes. An Intertemporal Transactions Framework
    Working Papers, Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia View citations (47)

2002

21. Amateur Legislators-Professional Politicians: The Argentine Congress
    Working Papers, Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia View citations (20)
22. Judicial Decision Making in Unstable Environments, Argentina 1935-1998
    Working Papers, Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia View citations (24)
23. Modeling Supreme Court Strategic Decision Making: Congressional Constraint
    Documentos de Trabajo (working papers), Department of Economics - dECON View citations (4)

2000

24. Diseno de las instituciones regulatorias colombianas
    Informes de Investigación, Fedesarrollo
25. The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: A Transactions Approach with Application to Argentina
    Working Papers, Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia View citations (15)
    See also Journal Article The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: A Transactions Approach with Application to Argentina, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Oxford University Press (2003) View citations (95) (2003)

1997

26. The Evolution of Advanced Large Scale Information Infrastructure in the United States
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)

1996

27. Airline Hubs: Costs, Markups and the Implications of Customer Heterogeneity
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (44)
28. Estimating the Welfare Effects of Digital Infrastructure
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (19)

1995

29. Regulation and Private Sector Development in Latin America
    Reports, World Bank Latin America and the Caribean Region Department View citations (2)

1994

30. Regulation, institutions, and commitment in the British telecommunications sector
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)

1993

31. Regulation Without Commitment: Price Regulation of UK Utilities
    Working Papers, Boston University - Industry Studies Programme View citations (1)
32. Regulation without Commitment: Price Regulation of UK Utilities (with Special Emphasis on Telecommunications)
    Working Papers, Boston University - Industry Studies Programme View citations (1)
33. Regulation, institutions and commitment: the Jamaican telecommunications sector
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)

1990

34. Congressional Control or Judicial Independence: The Determinants of U.S. Supreme Court Labor Relations Decisions, 1949-1988
    Working Papers, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
    See also Journal Article Congressional Control or Judicial Independence: The Determinants of U.S. Supreme Court Labor-Relations Decisions, 1949-1988, RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation (1992) View citations (16) (1992)

1980

35. Uncertain Availability, Spatial Location, and Regulation: An Application to the Airline Industry
    Working Papers, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State

Journal Articles

2023

1. Doing It by the Book: Political Contestability and Public Contract Renegotiations
   The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2023, 39, (1), 281-308 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Doing It by the Book: Political Contestability and Public Contract Renegotiations, MPRA Paper (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2019

2. Political contestability and public contracting
   Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2019, 21, (5), 945-966 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Political Contestability and Public Contracting, MPRA Paper (2019) View citations (6) (2019)

2018

3. Implications of Third Parties for Contract Design
   Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 2018, 45, (1), 5-16
   See also Working Paper Implications of Third Parties for Contract Design, MPRA Paper (2018) (2018)

2016

4. Rigidity of Public Contracts
   Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2016, 13, (3), 396-427 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Rigidity of Public Contracts, MPRA Paper (2016) View citations (11) (2016)

2015

5. Introduction
   The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2015, 31, (suppl_1), i1-i2

2014

6. The impact of consumer advocates on regulatory policy in the electric utility sector
   Public Choice, 2014, 161, (1), 157-181 View citations (9)

2013

7. Editor's Note
   The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2013, 29, (6), 1183-1183
8. Transaction cost regulation
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 89, (C), 232-242 View citations (32)
   See also Working Paper Transaction Cost Regulation, NBER Working Papers (2011) View citations (2) (2011)

2012

9. Editor's Note
   The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2012, 28, (2), 185-185

2007

10. Introduction: Courts and Judges
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35, (2), 253-(null)

2006

11. Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
    American Political Science Review, 2006, 100, (1), 85-97 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation, NBER Working Papers (2005) View citations (3) (2005)

2003

12. The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: A Transactions Approach with Application to Argentina
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2003, 19, (2), 281-306 View citations (95)
    See also Working Paper The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: A Transactions Approach with Application to Argentina, Working Papers (2000) View citations (15) (2000)
13. Toward A Positive Theory of State Supreme Court Decision Making
    Business and Politics, 2003, 5, (1), 7-43
    Also in Business and Politics, 2003, 5, (1), 1-39 (2003)

2001

14. Introduction
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2001, 10, (1), 3-5

2000

15. The Choices Justices Make. By Lee Epstein and Jack Knight. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1998. $21.95 paper
    American Political Science Review, 2000, 94, (4), 943-944

1999

16. An Informational Perspective on Administrative Procedures
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1999, 15, (1), 283-305 View citations (29)
17. Strategic Instruments: Legal Structure and Political Games in Administrative Law
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1999, 15, (2), 349-77 View citations (12)

1998

18. What's in the Air: Interlicense Synergies in the Federal Communications Commission's Broadband Personal Communication Service Spectrum Auctions
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1998, 41, (2), 677-716 View citations (18)

1997

19. Decision Costs and the Strategic Design of Administrative Process and Judicial Review
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 1997, 26, (2), 347-70 View citations (16)
20. Product Complementarities, Capabilities and Governance: A Dynamic Transaction Cost Perspective
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1997, 6, (3), 561-94 View citations (12)
21. The Frontier of Telecommunications Deregulation: Small Countries Leading the Pack
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1997, 11, (4), 127-138 View citations (50)
22. The Institutional Foundations of Regulatory Commitment in the UK: The Case of Telecommunications
    Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 1997, 153, (4), 607- View citations (18)
23. The introduction of direct access in New Zealand's electricity market
    Utilities Policy, 1997, 6, (2), 97-105

1996

24. Folk Theorems on Transmission Access: Proofs and Counterexamples
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1996, 10, (1), 5-23 View citations (55)
25. Institutions and Commitment
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1996, 5, (2), 421-52 View citations (227)
26. Invitations to override: Congressional reversals of supreme court decisions
    International Review of Law and Economics, 1996, 16, (4), 503-521 View citations (6)

1995

27. Modern Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Activity: An Empirical Investigation
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1995, 4, (4), 647-65 View citations (41)
28. Nodal prices and transmission rights: A critical appraisal
    The Electricity Journal, 1995, 8, (3), 24-35 View citations (31)
29. The Effect of Incentive regulation on Infrastructure Modernization: Local Exchange Companies' Deployment of Digital Technology
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 1995, 4, (2), 187-236 View citations (47)
30. Where Is the Sin in Sincere? Sophisticated Manipulation of Sincere Judicial Voters (With Applications to Other Voting Environments)
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1995, 11, (1), 32-63 View citations (3)

1994

31. Economies of Traffic Density in the Deregulated Airline Industry
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1994, 37, (2), 379-415 View citations (176)
32. Political appointees vs. career civil servants: A multiple principals theory of political bureaucracies
    European Journal of Political Economy, 1994, 10, (3), 465-497 View citations (21)
33. The Institutional Foundations of Regulatory Commitment: A Comparative Analysis of Telecommunications Regulation
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1994, 10, (2), 201-46 View citations (256)

1993

34. Analysis of R&D failure
    Research Policy, 1993, 22, (2), 113-113
    Also in Research Policy, 1977, 6, (3), 254-275 (1977) View citations (5)

1992

35. Buyer's Strategies, Entry Barriers, and Competition
    Economic Inquiry, 1992, 30, (3), 418-36 View citations (20)
36. Congressional Control or Judicial Independence: The Determinants of U.S. Supreme Court Labor-Relations Decisions, 1949-1988
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1992, 23, (4), 463-492 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper Congressional Control or Judicial Independence: The Determinants of U.S. Supreme Court Labor Relations Decisions, 1949-1988, Working Papers (1990) (1990)
37. Fare Determination in Airline Hub-and-Spoke Networks
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1992, 23, (3), 309-333 View citations (132)
38. Judicial Choice of Legal Doctrines
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1992, 8, (1), 8-46 View citations (15)
39. Rationality, decision rules, and collegial courts
    International Review of Law and Economics, 1992, 12, (2), 186-190 View citations (6)
40. Strategyand Transaction Costs: The Organizationofdistributioninthecarbonatedsoftdrinkindustry
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 1992, 1, (1), 83-128 View citations (31)
41. The Economics and Politics of Administrative Law and Procedures: An Introduction
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1992, 8, (1), 1-17 View citations (8)
42. The political economy of supreme court constitutional decisions: The case of Roosevelt's court-packing plan
    International Review of Law and Economics, 1992, 12, (1), 45-67 View citations (27)

1991

43. Competition and mergers in airline networks
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1991, 9, (3), 323-342 View citations (103)

1990

44. A Rational Choice Theory of Supreme Court Statutory Decisions with Applications to the State Farm and Grove City Cases
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1990, 6, (2), 263-300 View citations (51)
45. Politicians, Interest Groups, and Regulators: A Multiple-Principals Agency Theory of Regulation, or "Let Them Be Bribed."
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1990, 33, (1), 65-101 View citations (78)

1989

46. A note on pricing of hub-and-spoke networks
    Economics Letters, 1989, 30, (2), 165-169 View citations (7)
47. Competition and Entry in Small Airline Markets
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1989, 32, (2), S179-202 View citations (74)
48. Empirical Approaches to Market Power: Introduction
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1989, 32, (2), S3-10 View citations (1)

1988

49. Arbitrage during the Dollar-Sterling Gold Standard, 1899-1908: An Economic Approach
    Journal of Political Economy, 1988, 96, (4), 882-92 View citations (13)
50. Incentive schemes with multiple agents and bankruptcy constraints
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1988, 44, (1), 156-167 View citations (22)
51. La economía política de regulaciones a las industrias: un informe con implicaciones para estudios de regulaciones en países en desarrollo
    Estudios de Economia, 1988, 15, (3 Year 1988), 419-470 View citations (1)
52. The estimation of transaction costs in arbitrage models
    Journal of Econometrics, 1988, 39, (3), 309-326 View citations (30)

1987

53. Entry barriers and multiproduct oligopolies: Do they forebear or spoil?
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1987, 5, (1), 101-113 View citations (33)
54. Geographic Market Definition under the U.S. Department of Justice Merger Guidelines
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1987, 30, (1), 123-47 View citations (41)
55. Managing Supplier Switching
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1987, 18, (1), 77-97 View citations (44)

1986

56. Futures Market Backwardation under Risk Neutrality
    Economic Inquiry, 1986, 24, (3), 429-41 View citations (7)
57. On the Extent of the Market: Wholesale Gasoline in the Northeastern United States
    Journal of Industrial Economics, 1986, 35, (2), 131-45 View citations (60)
58. Trade liberalization in oligopolistic industries: The quota case
    Journal of International Economics, 1986, 20, (1-2), 65-81 View citations (10)

1985

59. Comments on Easterbrook and Snyder [Detrebling Antitrust Damages] [Efficient Assignment of Rights to Sue for Antitrust Damages]
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1985, 28, (2), 489-94
60. On Vertical Mergers
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1985, 1, (2), 285-312 View citations (13)
61. Tobin's q and monopoly power: A capital asset pricing perspective
    Economics Letters, 1985, 18, (2-3), 261-263

1984

62. Assessing the profitability effects of airline deregulation
    Economics Letters, 1984, 14, (2-3), 263-267
63. The Effects of Entry Regulation on Oligopolistic Interaction: The Uruguayan Banking Sector
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1984, 15, (2), 244-254 View citations (49)

1983

64. A political economy of Uruguay since 1870: M.H.J. Finch, (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1981)
    Journal of Development Economics, 1983, 13, (3), 399-401
65. Product Diversity, Economies of Scale, and International Trade
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1983, 98, (1), 63-83 View citations (46)
66. The Differential Impact of Airline Regulation on Individual Firms and Markets: An Empirical Analysis
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1983, 26, (3), 655-89 View citations (6)

1982

67. On adjusting for risk changes when assessing the profitability effects of regulatory changes
    Economics Letters, 1982, 10, (3-4), 369-374

1977

68. Some methodological aspects of innovation research
    Omega, 1977, 5, (4), 415-424 View citations (1)

Books

2011

1. El juego político en América Latina: ¿Cómo se deciden las políticas públicas?
   IDB Publications (Books), Inter-American Development Bank View citations (2)

2008

2. Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies
   IDB Publications (Books), Inter-American Development Bank View citations (33)

1999

3. Can Privatization Deliver?: Infrastructure for Latin America
   IDB Publications (Books), Inter-American Development Bank

Edited books

1999

1. Spilled Water: Institutional Commitment in the Provision of Water Services
   IDB Publications (Books), Inter-American Development Bank View citations (6)

1997

2. Regulations, Institutions, and Commitment
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (4)
3. Regulations, Institutions, and Commitment
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (4)

Chapters

2016

1. Coase and the transaction cost approach to regulation
   Chapter 19 in The Elgar Companion to Ronald H. Coase, 2016, pp 262-275 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Coase and the Transaction Cost Approach to Regulation, University Library of Munich, Germany (2016) View citations (2) (2016)

2011

2. Basic Economic Principles of Infrastructure Liberalization: A Transaction Cost Perspective
   Chapter 2 in International Handbook of Network Industries, 2011 View citations (3)

2009

3. An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts: Regulatory Implications
   Chapter 3 in Regulation, Deregulation, Reregulation, 2009 View citations (13)
   See also Working Paper An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts: Regulatory Implications, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008) View citations (51) (2008)

2008

4. The Institutions of Regulation: An Application to Public Utilities
   Springer View citations (6)
   Also in Springer (2005) View citations (11)