International Review of Law and Economics

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Volume 17, issue 4, 1997

13th Annual EALE conference Haifa, Israel, August 1996 pp. 451-453

Roger van den Bergh and Eli M. Salzberger

Parliament as a wealth-maximizing institution: The right to the residual and the right to vote pp. 455-474

Yoram Barzel

Predictability and legal evolution pp. 475-489

Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

Regulatory enforcement in the presence of a court system pp. 491-508

Peter-J. Jost

Judicial detection skill and contractual compliance pp. 509-520

Roland Kirstein and Dieter Schmidtchen

Optimal law enforcement and the economics of the drug market: Some comments on the Schengen Agreements pp. 521-535

Nuno Garoupa

An exploration of the tort criminal boundary using manslaughter and negligence cases pp. 537-551

Antony Dnes and Jonathan S. Seaton

Tolerance limits and temporal priority in environmental civil liability pp. 553-574

Endre Stavang

An attempt to incorporate fairness into an economic model of tort law pp. 575-587

Henrik Lando

Tort law and internalization: The gap between private loss and social cost pp. 589-608

Israel Gilead

Volume 17, issue 3, 1997

The scope of mutual dependence in a repeated tort model pp. 301-307

Harold Winter

Carrots, sticks, and international externalities pp. 309-324

Howard F. Chang

The self-reinforcing nature of crime pp. 325-335

Joel Schrag and Suzanne Scotchmer

Does inter-judge disparity really matter? An analysis of the effects of sentencing reforms in three federal district courts pp. 337-366

A. Payne

The surprisingly complex case against theft pp. 367-378

Richard L. Hasen and Richard H. McAdams

The injury risk consequences of the all-terrain vehicle consent decrees pp. 379-393

Michael J. Moore and Wesley A. Magat

Supervising skill information and violation of environmental regulations pp. 395-407

Ing-Marie Gren and Veijo Kaitala

Playing without a rulebook: Optimal enforcement when individuals learn the penalty only by committing the crime pp. 409-421

Omri Ben-Shahar

A note on private enforcement and type-I error pp. 423-429

Nuno Garoupa

The burden of proof in civil litigation: A simple model of mechanism design pp. 431-447

Chris Sanchirico

Volume 17, issue 2, 1997

Takings, the exit option and just compensation pp. 157-176

Shubha Ghosh

Comment: The coase theorem, rent seeking, and the forgotten footnote pp. 177-178

Steven Medema

Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines pp. 179-192

Steven Levitt

Self-selection and violence in the market for crime pp. 193-201

Nicolas Marceau

The optimal level of corporate liability given the limited ability of corporations to penalize their employees pp. 203-213

Steven Shavell

The economics of nuclear accident law pp. 215-243

Michael Trebilcock and Ralph Winter

Tort liability and obstetricians' care levels pp. 245-260

Frank Sloan, Stephen S. Entman, Bridget A. Reilly, Cheryl A. Glass, Gerald B. Hickson and Harold Zhang

Measuring the effect of legal reforms on the longevity of medical malpractice claims pp. 261-273

James Hughes and Elizabeth Savoca

A quantitative assessment of the efficiency of the judicial sector in Latin America pp. 275-291

Edgardo Buscaglia and Thomas Ulen

Regulation: Legal Form and Economic Theory: Anthony Ogus, Oxford. Clarendon Press: The Clarendon Law Series. Pp. Xv, 355. 1994 pp. 293-299

Thomas S. Ulen

Volume 17, issue 1, 1997

12th Annual EALE Conference, Bern, September 6-9, 1995 pp. 1-2

Winand Emons and Roger Van Den Bergh

The future of the law and economics movement in Europe pp. 3-14

Richard Posner

Negligence as untaken precaution, limited information, and efficient standard formation in the civil liability system pp. 15-29

Claus Ott and Hans-Bernd Schafer

Mandatory rotation of company auditors: A critical examination pp. 31-61

Benito Arruñada and Candido Paz-Ares

Auctioning off labor contracts: Legal restrictions reconsidered pp. 63-74

Dorothea Kübler

Casual police corruption and the economics of crime pp. 75-87

Roger Bowles and Nuno Garoupa

Estimating a crime equation in the presence of organized crime: Evidence from Italy pp. 89-113

Riccardo Marselli and Marco Vannini

On the efficiency of penal systems: Several lessons from the Italian experience pp. 115-126

Nicola Boari

The EU-Directive on the legal protection of databases and the incentives to update: An economic analysis pp. 127-138

Christian Koboldt

Environmental liability, imperfect information, and multidimensional pollution control pp. 139-146

Elga Bartsch

Negotiating a climate convention: The role of prices and quantities pp. 147-156

Alfred Endres

Volume 16, issue 4, 1996

The incentive effects of settlements under joint and several liability pp. 389-395

Marcel Kahan

In defense of criminal defense expenditures and plea bargaining pp. 397-416

Bruce Kobayashi and John Lott

Why should disclosure rules subsidize informed traders? pp. 417-431

Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

A contractual model of the voting behavior of the supreme court: The role of the chief justice pp. 433-447

Eugenia Toma

On tort as an implicit insurance system with state-dependent utility: The case of child mortality risk pp. 449-459

Clive Fraser

Financial fraud and banking stability: The Israeli bank crisis of 1983 and trial of 1990 pp. 461-472

Asher Blass and Richard Grossman

Cause in fact, proximate cause, and the hand rule: Extending Grady's positive economic theory of negligence pp. 473-482

Thomas Miceli

Protecting trade secrets through family businesses: A case study on Nepal pp. 483-490

Anuja Rajbhandary

Litigation, experimentation, and reputation pp. 491-502

Bill Z. Yang

Invitations to override: Congressional reversals of supreme court decisions pp. 503-521

Pablo Spiller and Emerson H. Tiller

Volume 16, issue 3, 1996

Conference on the constitutional law and economics of the European Union Saarbrucken, Germany September 1995 pp. 277-277

Robert D. Cooter and Dieter Schmidtchen

The politics of European federalism pp. 279-294

Jenna Bednar, John Ferejohn and Geoffrey Garrett

Comparative judicial discretion: An empirical test of economic models pp. 295-313

Robert D. Cooter and Tom Ginsburg

FOCJ: Competitive governments for Europe pp. 315-327

Bruno Frey and Reiner Eichenberger

Policymaking, comitology, and the balance of power in the European Union pp. 329-344

Bernard Steunenberg, Christian Koboldt and Dieter Schmidtchen

Agenda setting power, power indices, and decision making in the European Union pp. 345-361

George Tsebelis and Geoffrey Garrett

Economic criteria for applying the subsidiarity principle in the European community: The case of competition policy pp. 363-383

Roger Van Den Bergh

Toward ever closer union--or ever larger? Or both? Entry to the European Union from the perspective of constitutional economics pp. 385-388

Manfred E. Streit and Stefan Voigt

Volume 16, issue 2, 1996

Symposium on economic analysis of international law George Mason University Arlington, VA and Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA May 1995 pp. 139-140

Jagdeep S. Bhandari and Alan O. Sykes

The theory of market modernization of law pp. 141-172

Robert D. Cooter

Toward a positive theory of privatization--lessons from soviet-type economies pp. 173-193

Paul Stephan

Exchange-rate management in eastern Europe: A public-choice perspective pp. 195-209

Enrico Colombatto and Jonathan Macey

Is deposit insurance inevitable? Lessons from Argentina pp. 211-232

Geoffrey P. Miller

Default rules and equilibrium selection of contract terms pp. 233-245

Morten Hviid

Legitimate and illegitimate transfers: Dealing with "political" cost-benefit analysis pp. 247-257

Philip Jones and John Cullis

Limited liability and the requirement to purchase insurance pp. 259-276

Peter-J. Jost

Volume 16, issue 1, 1996

Symposium on economic analysis of international law George Mason University Arlington, VA May 1995 pp. 3-4

Jagdeep S. Bhandari and Alan O. Sykes

The economics of injury in antidumping and countervailing duty cases pp. 5-26

Alan O. Sykes

Toward a positive theory of the most favored nation obligation and its exceptions in the WTO/GATT system pp. 27-51

Warren F. Schwartz and Alan O. Sykes

International externalities in the use of pollution policies pp. 53-59

Alan Deardorff

The fair trade-free trade debate: Trade, labor, and the environment pp. 61-79

Robert Howse and Michael J. Trebilcock

The political economy of immigration policies pp. 81-99

F. H. Buckley

The interplay between liquidation and reorganization in bankruptcy: The role of screens, gatekeepers, and guillotines pp. 101-119

George G. Triantis

Political economy and international institutions pp. 121-137

Duncan Snidal