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Working Papers
2024
- Signaling Quality: How Refund Bonsues Can Overcome Information Asymmetries in Crowdfunding
Purdue University Economics Working Papers, Purdue University, Department of Economics
2021
- Could Vaccine Dose Stretching Reduce COVID-19 Deaths?
CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers 
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2021) View citations (1)
- Early Refund Bonuses Increase Successful Crowdfunding
Purdue University Economics Working Papers, Purdue University, Department of Economics View citations (11)
See also Journal Article Early refund bonuses increase successful crowdfunding, Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier (2021) View citations (9) (2021)
- Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability
Working Papers, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics View citations (9)
Also in Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (2021) View citations (6) NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2021) View citations (9)
See also Journal Article Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability, AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association (2021) View citations (6) (2021)
- Testing Fractional doses of COVID-19 Vaccines
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc 
Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2021) 
See also Journal Article Testing fractional doses of COVID-19 vaccines, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022) (2022)
2003
- Do Off-Label Drug Practices Argue Against FDA Efficacy Requirements? Testing an Argument by Structured Conversations with Experts
Ratio Working Papers, The Ratio Institute
2002
- The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Tort Awards
Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper Series, Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics View citations (11)
See also Journal Article The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Tort Awards, American Law and Economics Review, American Law and Economics Association (2002) View citations (11) (2002)
Undated
- Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime
American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings, American Law & Economics Association View citations (4)
See also Journal Article Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime, Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press (2005) View citations (165) (2005)
Journal Articles
2023
- Building networks: Investigating the quid pro quo between local politicians & developers
Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 164, (C)
2022
- Covid in the nursing homes: the US experience
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38, (4), 887-911 View citations (4)
- Is it possible to prepare for a pandemic?
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38, (4), 851-875 View citations (4)
- Testing fractional doses of COVID-19 vaccines
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119, (8), e2116932119 
See also Working Paper Testing Fractional doses of COVID-19 Vaccines, NBER Working Papers (2021) (2021)
- Vaccines and the Covid-19 pandemic: lessons from failure and success
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38, (4), 719-741 View citations (2)
2021
- Early refund bonuses increase successful crowdfunding
Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 129, (C), 78-95 View citations (9)
See also Working Paper Early Refund Bonuses Increase Successful Crowdfunding, Purdue University Economics Working Papers (2021) View citations (11) (2021)
- Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 331-35 View citations (6)
See also Working Paper Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability, Working Papers (2021) View citations (9) (2021)
- Simple rules for the developing world
European Journal of Law and Economics, 2021, 52, (2), 341-362 View citations (1)
- Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai, India
Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 123, (C) View citations (5)
2020
- Janek Wasserman: The Marginal Revolutionaries: how Austrian economists fought the war of ideas
Business Economics, 2020, 55, (3), 166-168
2019
- To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement
The Journal of Legal Studies, 2019, 48, (1), 189 - 216 View citations (10)
- Why Are the Prices So Damn High? Health, Education, and the Baumol Effect
Annals of Computational Economics, 2019 View citations (4)
2018
- Is regulation to blame for the decline in American entrepreneurship?
Economic Policy, 2018, 33, (93), 5-44 View citations (42)
2017
- Occupational licensing causes a wage premium: Evidence from a natural experiment in Colorado’s funeral services industry
International Review of Law and Economics, 2017, 50, (C), 50-59 View citations (10)
2016
- A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation's Role in Economic Research
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30, (3), 235-48 View citations (1)
- Lessons from the Economics of Crime: What Reduces Offending?, by P. J. Cook, S. Machin, O. Marie and G. Mastrobuoni (eds) ( The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2013 ), pp. 240
The Economic Record, 2016, 92, (298), 501-503
2015
- James Buchanan as Intellectual Entrepreneur
Journal of Private Enterprise, 2015, 30, (Summer 2015), 111-115
- Public choice perspectives on intellectual property
Public Choice, 2015, 163, (1), 129-151 View citations (10)
2014
- Firearms and suicides in US states
International Review of Law and Economics, 2014, 37, (C), 180-188 View citations (9)
- Ill-Conceived, Even If Competently Administered: Software Patents, Litigation, and Innovation—A Comment on Graham and Vishnubhakat
Econ Journal Watch, 2014, 11, (1), 37-45 View citations (2)
- The Industrial Organization of Online Education
American Economic Review, 2014, 104, (5), 519-22 View citations (12)
- Thomas Piketty's terrifying vision. A review essay of Thomas Piketty, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", transl. by Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge (MA), Belknap-Harvard University Press, 2014, pp. 696
History of Economic Ideas, 2014, 22, (2), 155-162
2013
- PRIVATE EDUCATION IN INDIA: A NOVEL TEST OF CREAM SKIMMING
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31, (1), 1-12 View citations (5)
2012
- Product Liability and Moral Hazard: Evidence from General Aviation
Journal of Law and Economics, 2012, 55, (3), 593 - 630 View citations (3)
2010
- Reviews: Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed – and What to Do About It
The Economic Record, 2010, 86, (274), 458-459 View citations (2)
2009
- Measuring Criminal Spillovers: Evidence from Three Strikes
Review of Law & Economics, 2009, 5, (1), 251-268 View citations (3)
2008
- Do Off‐Label Drug Practices Argue Against FDA Efficacy Requirements? A Critical Analysis of Physicians' Argumentation for Initial Efficacy Requirements
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2008, 67, (5), 743-775 View citations (1)
- The hot-toy problem
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2008, 67, (2), 512-516 View citations (3)
2007
- Does Three Strikes Deter?: A Nonparametric Estimation
Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42, (2) View citations (80)
2005
- Data Watch: Tort-uring the Data
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19, (2), 207-220 View citations (9)
- Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime
Journal of Law and Economics, 2005, 48, (1), 267-79 View citations (165)
See also Working Paper Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime, American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings View citations (4)
2004
- How to Get Real About Organs
Econ Journal Watch, 2004, 1, (1), 11-18 View citations (1)
- Reply to Byrne and Thompson
Econ Journal Watch, 2004, 1, (1), 26-28
- The Fugitive: Evidence on Public versus Private Law Enforcement from Bail Jumping
Journal of Law and Economics, 2004, 47, (1), 93-122 View citations (15)
- Using Placebo Laws to Test "More Guns, Less Crime"
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2004, 4, (1), 1-9 View citations (16)
2003
- Race, Poverty, and American Tort Awards: Evidence from Three Data Sets
The Journal of Legal Studies, 2003, 32, (1), 27-58 View citations (3)
2002
- Patent Theory versus Patent Law
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2002, 1, (1), 26 View citations (4)
- The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Tort Awards
American Law and Economics Review, 2002, 4, (2), 341-370 View citations (11)
See also Working Paper The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Tort Awards, Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper Series (2002) View citations (11) (2002)
2001
- President Perot or Fundamentals of Voting Theory Illustrated with the 1992 Election
Public Choice, 2001, 106, (3-4), 275-97 View citations (7)
2000
- An Economic Theory of Avant‐Garde and Popular Art, or High and Low Culture
Southern Economic Journal, 2000, 67, (2), 232-253 View citations (1)
- Believe in Pascal's Wager? Have I Got a Deal for You!
Theory and Decision, 2000, 48, (2), 123-128 View citations (2)
- Runaway Judges? Selection Effects and the Jury
The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2000, 16, (2), 306-33 View citations (11)
1999
- Book Review
International Review of Economics & Finance, 1999, 8, (4), 479-481
- Court Politics: The Political Economy of Tort Awards
Journal of Law and Economics, 1999, 42, (1), 157-88 View citations (38)
- Would the Borda Count Have Avoided the Civil War?
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1999, 11, (2), 261-288 View citations (9)
1998
- The Private Provision of Public Goods via Dominant Assurance Contracts
Public Choice, 1998, 96, (3-4), 345-62 View citations (36)
- V. A. Ginsburgh and P.-M. Menger (eds.), Economics of the Arts: Selected Essays
Journal of Cultural Economics, 1998, 22, (4), 285-287
- Who Benefits from Progress?
Kyklos, 1998, 51, (3), 379-397 View citations (1)
1997
- A simple model of crime waves, riots, and revolutions
Atlantic Economic Journal, 1997, 25, (3), 274-288 View citations (5)
1996
- Genetic testing and human welfare: reply to Hall
Journal of Health Economics, 1996, 15, (3), 381-384 View citations (1)
1995
- Good Grapes and Bad Lobsters: Applying the Alchian and Allen Theorem
Economic Inquiry, 1995, 33, (2), 253-56 View citations (17)
- Irrelevance Propositions are Irrelevant
Kyklos, 1995, 48, (3), 409-417
1994
- A Survey, Critique, and New Defense of Term Limits
Cato Journal, 1994, 14, (2), 333-350 View citations (6)
- Genetic testing: An economic and contractarian analysis
Journal of Health Economics, 1994, 13, (1), 75-91 View citations (45)
Edited books
2002
- The Entrepreneurial Economist: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science
OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (2)
Chapters
2022
- William Baumol and the Cost Disease
A chapter in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on the Work of William J. Baumol: Heterodox Inspirations and Neoclassical Models, 2022, vol. 40B, pp 11-26
2014
- Lessons from Gurgaon, India’s private city
Chapter 10 in Cities and Private Planning, 2014, pp 199-231
2010
- Police, Prisons, and Punishment: The Empirical Evidence on Crime Deterrence
Chapter 6 in Handbook on the Economics of Crime, 2010 View citations (1)
- The Measure of Vice and Sin: A Review of the Uses, Limitations and Implications of Crime Data
Chapter 3 in Handbook on the Economics of Crime, 2010 View citations (3)
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