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 46, issue C, 2016

The quality-assuring role of mutual fund advisory fees pp. 1-19

Michel A. Habib and D. Bruce Johnsen

The impact of European antitrust policy: Evidence from the stock market pp. 20-33

Andrea Günster and Mathijs van Dijk

Sentencing discretion and burdens of proof pp. 34-42

Alexander Lundberg

Double-edged torts pp. 43-48

Barbara Luppi, Francesco Parisi and Daniel Pi

Endogenous legal traditions pp. 49-69

Carmine Guerriero

Optimal rules of negligent misrepresentation in insurance contract law pp. 70-77

Henrik Lando

The impact of social pressure on tax compliance: A field experiment pp. 78-85

Pietro Battiston and Simona Gamba

A generalized model for reputational sanctions and the (ir)relevance of the interactions between legal and reputational sanctions pp. 86-92

Murat C. Mungan

Volume 45, issue C, 2016

Locked and not loaded: First time offenders and state ignition interlock programs pp. 1-13

Darin F. Ullman

A structural analysis of U.S. drunk driving policy pp. 14-22

Darren Grant

Reforming private securities litigation in China: The stock market has already cast its vote pp. 23-32

Wenming Xu

Murder and the black market: Prohibition's impact on homicide rates in American cities pp. 33-44

Brendan Livingston

The optimal scope of trade secrets law pp. 45-53

Luigi Alberto Franzoni and Arun Kaushik

Efficient incentives from obligation law and the compensation principle pp. 54-62

Urs Schweizer

The effect of post-and-hold laws on alcohol consumption pp. 63-71

Henry Saffer and Markus Gehrsitz

Volume 44, issue C, 2015

Deterrence and the optimality of rewarding prisoners for good behavior pp. 1-7

A. Mitchell Polinsky

Shaping tax norms through lotteries pp. 8-15

Marco Fabbri

Costly voluntary disclosure in a screening game pp. 16-28

Paul Pecorino and Mark Van Boening

Do lawyers induce litigation? Evidence from Spain, 2001–2010 pp. 29-41

Juan Mora-Sanguinetti and Nuno Garoupa

Revealing the rapist next door: Property impacts of a sex offender registry pp. 42-60

Susan Yeh

Deterrence effects under Twombly: On the costs of increasing pleading standards in litigation pp. 61-71

Sergio J. Campos, Christopher Cotton and Cheng Li

Can we learn anything about pleading changes from existing data? pp. 72-86

Jonah B. Gelbach

Volume 43, issue C, 2015

Brand-specificity of pre-sale services and inter-brand competition with resale price maintenance pp. 1-9

Se Hoon Bang and Yangsoo Jin

Standardization and the impacts of voluntary program participation: Evidence from environmental auditing pp. 10-21

Mary Evans, Lirong Liu and Sarah L. Stafford

Effect of joint custody laws on children's future labor market outcomes pp. 22-31

Abhradeep Maiti

Judicial review and political partisanship: Moving from consensual to majoritarian democracy pp. 32-45

Nuno Garoupa and Veronica Grembi

Status concerns as a motive for crime? pp. 46-55

Florian Baumann and Tim Friehe

Rewarding judicial independence: Evidence from the Italian Constitutional Court pp. 56-66

Nadia Fiorino, Nicolas Gavoille and Fabio Padovano

The people's hired guns? Experimentally testing the motivating force of a legal frame pp. 67-82

Christoph Engel and Alicja Reuben

Tort reform and the theory of coordinating tort and insurance pp. 83-97

Fernando Gomez and Jose Penalva

School suspension and the school-to-prison pipeline pp. 98-106

Alison Evans Cuellar and Sara Markowitz

Communicating judicial retirement pp. 107-118

Alvaro Bustos and Tonja Jacobi

Corporate control and credible commitment pp. 119-130

Ronald J. Gilson and Alan Schwartz

Time to punishment: The effects of a shorter criminal procedure on crime rates pp. 134-147

Libor Dusek

Modeling the money launderer: Microtheoretical arguments on anti-money laundering policy pp. 148-155

Killian McCarthy, Peter van Santen and Ingo Fiedler

On the wrong side of the law – Causes and consequences of a corrupt judiciary pp. 156-166

Stefan Voigt and Jerg Gutmann

Compensating acquitted pre-trial detainees pp. 167-177

Gabriel Doménech and Miguel Puchades

To litigate or not to litigate? The impacts of third-party financing on litigation pp. 178-189

Bruno Deffains and Claudine Desrieux

Why judges always vote pp. 190-199

Tonja Jacobi and Eugene Kontorovich

The ‘reactive’ model of antitrust enforcement: When private interests dictate enforcement actions – The Russian case pp. 200-208

Svetlana Avdasheva and Polina Kryuchkova

Local public procurement regulations: The case of Italy pp. 209-226

Francesco Decarolis and Cristina Giorgiantonio

Employer moral hazard and wage rigidity. The case of worker owned and investor owned firms pp. 227-237

Marina Albanese, Cecilia Navarra and Ermanno Tortia

Volume 42, issue C, 2015

A nexus of contracts theory of legal entities pp. 1-12

Kenneth Ayotte and Henry Hansmann

A simple model of optimal deterrence and incapacitation pp. 13-19

Steven Shavell

Peer effects in judicial decisions: Evidence from Spanish labour courts pp. 20-37

Ángel Martín-Román, Alfonso Moral and Marta Martínez-Matute

Are cartel fines optimal? Theory and evidence from the European Union pp. 38-47

Marie-Laure Allain, Marcel Boyer, Rachidi Kotchoni and Jean-Pierre Ponssard

Judicial local protectionism in China: An empirical study of IP cases pp. 48-59

Cheryl Xiaoning Long and Jun Wang

Judicial disharmony: A study of dissent pp. 60-71

Anthony Niblett and Albert H. Yoon

Do fewer guns lead to less crime? Evidence from Australia pp. 72-78

Benjamin Taylor and Jing Li

Wrongful convictions and the punishment of attempts pp. 79-87

Murat C. Mungan

The economic impact of merger control legislation pp. 88-104

Elena Carletti, Philipp Hartmann and Steven Ongena

Focusing law enforcement when offenders can choose location pp. 105-112

Tim Friehe and Thomas J. Miceli

The impact of licensing requirements on industrial organization and labor: Evidence from the U.S. private security market pp. 113-121

Brian Meehan

Per se drugged driving laws and traffic fatalities pp. 122-134

D. Mark Anderson and Daniel I. Rees

Coercive vs. cooperative enforcement: Effect of enforcement approach on environmental management pp. 135-146

Dietrich Earnhart and Robert L. Glicksman

Appellate caseload and the switch to comparative negligence pp. 147-156

Jef De Mot, Michael Faure and Jonathan Klick

Exporting standards: The externalization of the EU's regulatory power via markets pp. 158-173

Anu Bradford

Global economic governance during the middle ages: The jurisdiction of the champagne fairs pp. 174-184

Jérôme Sgard

Organizing public good provision: Lessons from Managerial Accounting pp. 185-191

Benito Arruñada and Stephen Hansen

Tort reform and physician labor supply: A review of the evidence pp. 192-202

Eric Helland and Seth Seabury

Does tort reform affect physician supply? Evidence from Texas pp. 203-218

David A. Hyman, Charles Silver, Bernard Black and Myungho Paik