International Review of Law and Economics

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Volume 41, issue C, 2015

Sunsets and federal lawmaking: Evidence from the 110th Congress pp. 1-6

Frank Fagan and Firat Bilgel

On the political economy of public safety investments pp. 7-16

Tim Friehe and Eric Langlais

Shackled labor markets: Bounding the causal effects of criminal convictions in the U.S pp. 17-24

Jeremiah Richey

Boards: Independent and committed directors? pp. 25-37

Christophe Volonté

Corporate governance reforms, interlocking directorship and company performance in Italy pp. 38-49

Carlo Drago, Francesco Millo, Roberto Ricciuti and Paolo Santella

Lobbying and dismissal dispute resolution systems pp. 50-62

Laszlo Goerke and Michael Neugart

Evidence of marginal deterrence: Kidnapping and murder in Italy pp. 63-67

Claudio Detotto, Bryan McCannon and Marco Vannini

Are patent pools a way to help patent owners enforce their rights? pp. 68-76

Henry Delcamp

The dynamics of one-sided incomplete information in motor disputes pp. 77-85

Mercedes Ayuso, Lluís Bermúdez and Miguel Santolino

Moral hazard and agency relationship in sequential litigation pp. 86-90

Christian At and Yannick Gabuthy

Freezeout, compensation rules, and voting equilibria pp. 91-102

Christian At, Sylvain Béal and Pierre-Henri Morand

Where do firms issue debt? An empirical analysis of issuer location and regulatory competition in Europe pp. 103-115

Horst Eidenmüller, Andreas Engert and Lars Hornuf

Volume 40, issue C, 2014

Effects of welfare reform on women's crime pp. 1-14

Hope Corman, Dhaval Dave and Nancy E. Reichman

Determinants of self-reporting under the European corporate leniency program pp. 15-23

Cung Truong Hoang, Kai Hüschelrath, Ulrich Laitenberger and Florian Smuda

Abortion and crime: Cross-country evidence from Europe pp. 24-35

Abel François, Raul Magni-Berton and Laurent Weill

Antitrust, legal standards and investment pp. 36-50

Giovanni Immordino and Michele Polo

Can equitable punishment be mandated? Estimating impacts of sentencing guidelines on disciplinary disparities pp. 51-61

Anton Bekkerman and Gregory A. Gilpin

Volume 39, issue C, 2014

The diffusion of constitutional rights pp. 1-19

Benedikt Goderis and Mila Versteeg

Legal convergence and endogenous preferences pp. 20-27

Bertrand Crettez, Bruno Deffains and Olivier Musy

Does poverty relief spending reduce crime? Evidence from Argentina pp. 28-38

Osvaldo Meloni

Preferences for government interventions in the economy: Does gender matter? pp. 39-48

Matteo Migheli

“Piggyback” lawsuits and deterrence: Can frivolous litigation improve welfare? pp. 49-57

Thomas J. Miceli and Michael Stone

The market for mules: Risk and compensation of cross-border drug couriers pp. 58-72

David Bjerk and Caleb Mason

Criminal registries, community notification, and optimal avoidance pp. 73-82

Daniel Simundza

Asylum seeking and irregular migration pp. 83-95

Slobodan Djajić

Volume 38, issue S, 2014

From Big Law to Lean Law pp. 5-16

William D. Henderson

Can lawyers stay in the driver's seat? pp. 17-28

Daniel Currell and M. Todd Henderson

A glass half full look at the changes in the American legal market pp. 29-42

Benjamin H. Barton

The cost of law: Promoting access to justice through the (un)corporate practice of law pp. 43-63

Gillian K. Hadfield

Big Law and Big Med: The deprofessionalization of legal and medical services pp. 64-76

Richard A. Epstein

Globalization and deregulation of legal services pp. 77-86

Nuno Garoupa

Arbitration, the law market, and the law of lawyering pp. 87-106

O’Connor, Erin O’Hara and Peter B. Rutledge

How the structure of universities determined the fate of American legal education – A tribute to Larry Ribstein pp. 107-116

Henry G. Manne

An undergraduate option for legal education pp. 117-131

John O. McGinnis and Russell D. Mangas

Decentralizing the lawmaking function: Private lawmaking markets and intellectual property rights in law pp. 132-143

Robert G. Bone

Lawyers as lawmakers, privilege, and agency pp. 144-149

Barry E. Adler

Lawyers: Gatekeepers of the sovereign debt market? pp. 150-168

Michael Bradley, Irving De Lira Salvatierra and Mitu Gulati

An exploratory study of the pricing of legal services pp. 169-173

Vikram Maheshri and Clifford Winston

Volume 38, issue C, 2014

A rationale for mediation and its optimal use pp. 1-10

Katherine Doornik

Detecting racial bias in speed discounting: Evidence from speeding tickets in Boston pp. 11-24

Nejat Anbarci and Jungmin Lee

The divorce revolution and generalized trust: Evidence from the United States 1973–2010 pp. 25-32

Tarja Viitanen

Inadequate compensation and multiple equilibria pp. 33-47

D’Antoni, Massimo and Avraham D. Tabbach

How laws affect behavior: Obligations, incentives and cooperative behavior pp. 48-57

Roberto Galbiati and Pietro Vertova

Opinion expressions under social sanctions pp. 58-71

Mehmet Bac

Volume 37, issue C, 2014

Does high-quality corporate communication reduce insider trading profitability? pp. 1-14

Debby Van Geyt, Philippe Van Cauwenberge and Heidi Vander Bauwhede

Market shares, R&D agreements, and the EU block exemption pp. 15-25

Richard Ruble and Bruno Versaevel

Breach remedies inducing hybrid investments pp. 26-38

Daniel Göller and Alexander Stremitzer

Endogenous decentralization in federal environmental policies pp. 39-50

Howard F. Chang, Hilary Sigman and Leah G. Traub

The role of aviation laws and legal liability in aviation disasters: A financial market perspective pp. 51-65

Thomas John Walker, Marcus Glenn Walker, Dolruedee Nuttanontra Thiengtham and Kuntara Pukthuanthong

The deterrence of crime through private security efforts: Theory and evidence pp. 66-75

Paul R. Zimmerman

Integrity of financial information as a determinant of the outcome of a bankruptcy procedure pp. 76-85

María-del-Mar Camacho-Miñano and Domenico Campa

Costly litigation and optimal damages pp. 86-89

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

What motivates voters’ support for eminent domain reform: Ownership, vulnerability, or ideology? pp. 90-99

John Hoehn and Kwami Adanu

Can prohibitions on “price gouging” reduce deadweight losses? pp. 100-107

Robert Fleck

Pashtunwali—Law for the lawless, defense for the stateless pp. 108-120

Bruce Benson and Zafar R. Siddiqui

The impact of the number of courts on the demand for trials pp. 121-125

Nathalie Chappe and Marie Obidzinski

First impressions are more important than early intervention: Qualifying broken windows theory in the lab pp. 126-136

Christoph Engel, Martin Beckenkamp, Andreas Glöckner, Bernd Irlenbusch, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Sebastian Kube, Michael Kurschilgen, Alexander Morell, Andreas Nicklisch, Hans-Theo Normann and Emanuel Towfigh

Will additional federal enforcement improve the performance of pipelines in the U.S.? pp. 137-146

Sarah L. Stafford

The effect of national revenues on sub-national revenues evidence from the U.S pp. 147-155

Brian Galle

America's deadly export: Evidence from cross-country panel data of deportation and homicide rates pp. 156-168

Garfield O. Blake

On the optimal use of commitment decisions under European competition law pp. 169-179

Philippe Choné, Saïd Souam and Arnold Vialfont

Firearms and suicides in US states pp. 180-188

Justin Thomas Briggs and Alexander Tabarrok

A behavioral justification for escalating punishment schemes pp. 189-197

Murat C. Mungan

Determinants of contract completeness: An environmental regulatory application pp. 198-208

Lea-Rachel Kosnik

Independent judicial review: A blessing in disguise pp. 209-220

Alon Cohen

Does increased post-release supervision of criminal offenders reduce recidivism? Evidence from a statewide quasi-experiment pp. 221-243

Georgios Georgiou

Which short-selling regulation is the least damaging to market efficiency? Evidence from Europe pp. 244-256

Oscar Bernal, Astrid Herinckx and Ariane Szafarz