International Review of Law and Economics

1981 - 2025

Current editor(s): C. Ott, A. W. Katz and H-B. Schäfer

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Volume 54, issue C, 2018

Labor market and access to justice pp. 1-16

Romain Espinosa, Claudine Desrieux and Marc Ferracci

Bondage by contract in the late Roman empire pp. 17-29

Morris Silver

Delayed entry settlements at the patent office pp. 30-38

Erik Hovenkamp and Jorge Lemus

Efficient contracting under the U.S. copyright termination law pp. 39-48

Michael Karas and Roland Kirstein

A novel justification for legal restrictions on non-compete clauses pp. 49-57

Abraham L. Wickelgren

Secret ballots and costly information gathering: The jury size problem revisited pp. 58-67

Brishti Guha

WHEN DO FIRMS LEAVE CARTELS? DETERMINANTS AND THE IMPACT ON CARTEL SURVIVAL pp. 68-84

Michael Hellwig and Kai Hüschelrath

Bankruptcy and the difficulty of firing pp. 85-94

Nicolae Stef

Consumer Fraud, Misrepresentation and Reliance pp. 95-105

Alon Klement, Zvika Neeman and Yuval Procaccia

Bond pricing in the biggest city bankruptcy in history: The effects of state emergency management laws on default risk pp. 106-117

Austin Murphy

Volume 53, issue C, 2018

The effect of type-1 error on deterrence pp. 1-8

Henrik Lando and Murat C. Mungan

Backlogs and litigation rates: Testing congestion equilibrium across European judiciaries pp. 9-22

Samantha Bielen, Ludo Peeters, Wim Marneffe and Lode Vereeck

Are law degrees as valuable to minorities? pp. 23-37

Frank McIntyre and Michael Simkovic

Non-practicing entities: Enforcement specialists? pp. 38-49

Axel Haus and Steffen Juranek

Coproduction of property rights: The management of watercourses in pre-modern Bohemia pp. 50-59

David Dolejší

The economic costs of court decisions concerning dismissals in Japan: Identification by judge transfers pp. 60-75

Hiroko Okudaira

Volume 52, issue C, 2017

Does introducing lay people in criminal courts affect judicial decisions? Evidence from French reform pp. 1-15

Arnaud Philippe

Estimating judicial ideal points in the Spanish Supreme Court: The case of administrative review pp. 16-28

Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Nuno Garoupa and Fernando Gómez-Pomar

Creditor rights protection, tort claims and credit pp. 29-43

Joshua O. Anyangah

Optimal remedies for patent infringement pp. 44-57

Keith N. Hylton and Mengxi Zhang

How effective are employer return to work programs? pp. 58-73

Christopher F. McLaren, Robert T. Reville and Seth Seabury

Criminal background checks and recidivism: Bounding the causal impact pp. 74-85

Garima Siwach

Political rents under alternative forms of judicial review pp. 86-96

Leyla D. Karakas

Procedural events, judge characteristics, and the timing of settlement pp. 97-110

Samantha Bielen, Peter Grajzl and Wim Marneffe

Does mandating cumulative voting weaken controlling shareholders? A difference-in-differences approach pp. 111-123

Yu-Hsin Lin and Yun-chien Chang

Volume 51, issue C, 2017

Information and settlement: Empirical evidence on Daubert rulings and settlement rates pp. 1-11

James C. Cooper

Using eminent domain to refinance underwater mortgages: A welfare analysis pp. 12-22

Thomas J. Miceli, Katherine Pancak and Kathleen Segerson

Impact of patent litigation on the subsequent patenting behavior of the plaintiff small and medium enterprises in Japan pp. 23-28

Wei Hu, Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi and Toshiya Watanabe

The EU debt crisis: Testing and revisiting conventional legal doctrine pp. 29-37

Paul De Grauwe, Yuemei Ji and Armin Steinbach

Sharing is daring: An experiment on consent, chilling effects and a salient privacy nudge pp. 38-49

Yoan Hermstrüwer and Stephan Dickert

Superseding Dublin: The European asylum system as a non-cooperative game pp. 50-59

Enzo Rossi

Volume 50, issue C, 2017

Do anti-bullying policies deter in-school bullying victimization? pp. 1-6

Dimitrios Nikolaou

The effects of malpractice non-economic damage caps on the supply of physician labor: Heterogeneity by physician age and risk pp. 7-14

Michael Pesko, Meagan Cea, Jayme Mendelsohn and Tara F. Bishop

Exploring the effects of state differences in alcohol retail restrictions pp. 15-24

Paul Byrne and Dmitri Nizovtsev

Dispute the patent, short the stock: Empirical analysis of a new hedge fund strategy pp. 25-35

Rabea Kruppert

An economic analysis of debarment pp. 36-49

Emmanuelle Auriol and Tina Søreide

Occupational licensing causes a wage premium: Evidence from a natural experiment in Colorado’s funeral services industry pp. 50-59

Brandon Pizzola and Alexander Tabarrok

Volume 49, issue C, 2017

Litigation with judgment proof defendants pp. 1-9

Amy Farmer and Paul Pecorino

The consequences of sex offender residency restriction: Evidence from North Carolina pp. 10-22

Songman Kang

Self-control and crime revisited: Disentangling the effect of self-control on risk taking and antisocial behavior pp. 23-32

Tim Friehe and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

Choosing ADR or litigation pp. 33-40

Bruno Deffains, Dominique Demougin and Claudine Desrieux

An empirical analysis of advance notice provisions in corporate bylaws: Evidence from Canada pp. 41-56

Anita Anand and Michele Dathan

Volume 48, issue C, 2016

Explaining constitutional change: The case of judicial independence pp. 1-13

Bernd Hayo and Stefan Voigt

Securities fraud and corporate board turnover: New evidence from lawsuit outcomes pp. 14-25

Christopher Baum, James G. Bohn and Atreya Chakraborty

Shielding of assets and lending contracts pp. 26-35

Yonathan A. Arbel

Persistence and change in age-specific gender gaps: Hollywood actors from the silent era onward pp. 36-49

Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen

Tax claims, government priority, absolute priority and the resolution of financial distress pp. 50-58

Timothy Fisher, Jocelyn Martel and Ilanit Gavious

The Priest-Klein hypotheses: Proofs and generality pp. 59-76

Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and Daniel Klerman

Violence and law enforcement in markets for illegal goods pp. 77-87

Daniel Flores

Volume 47, issue S, 2016

On the influence of Magna Carta and other cultural relics pp. 3-9

Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton

The two sides of Magna Carta: How good government sometimes wins out over public choice pp. 10-21

Richard A. Epstein

Magna Carta, the rule of law, and the limits on government pp. 22-28

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde

The long transition from a natural state to a liberal economic order pp. 29-39

Mark Koyama

An economic analysis of Magna Carta pp. 40-46

Peter Leeson and Paola A. Suarez

Magna Carta: The rule of law in early common law litigation pp. 47-52

Thomas Lund

Magna Carta revisited: parchment, guns, and constitutional order pp. 53-59

Shruti Rajagopalan

The Making of a Monster: King John in fiction from Bale to the Victorians pp. 60-66

Nicholas Vincent

Words, words, words: The remarkable perseverance of Magna Carta pp. 67-71

Stephen F. Williams

Volume 47, issue C, 2016

The role of governments in hostile takeovers – Evidence from regulation, anti-takeover provisions and government interventions pp. 1-15

Maximilian Rowoldt and Dennis Starke

Why plaintiffs’ attorneys use contingent and defense attorneys fixed fee contracts pp. 16-23

Winand Emons and Claude Fluet

Malicious litigation pp. 24-32

Brishti Guha

Duopoly competition with non-deceptive counterfeiters pp. 33-40

Chien-Wei Wu, Jyh-Chyi Gong and Hsien-Hung Chiu

The expectation effect of a fall in divorce costs pp. 41-47

Mehmet Bac

The importance of conflicts of interest in attributing sovereign credit ratings pp. 48-66

Oscar Bernal, Alexandre Girard and Jean-Yves Gnabo

Adversarial bias, litigation, and the Daubert test: An economic approach pp. 67-75

Chulyoung Kim

New evidence on the impact of concealed carry weapon laws on crime pp. 76-83

Mehdi Barati

Country level governance variables and ownership concentration as determinants of firm value in Latin America pp. 84-95

Paolo Saona and Pablo San Martin