International Review of Law and Economics

1981 - 2025

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Volume 31, issue 4, 2011

Choosing the scope of trade secret law when secrets complement patents pp. 219-227

Elisabetta Ottoz and Franco Cugno

The delisting decision: The case of buyout offer with squeeze-out (BOSO) pp. 228-239

Isabelle Martinez and Stéphanie Serve

The certification hypothesis of fairness opinions for acquiring firms pp. 240-248

Pierfrancesco La Mura, Marc Steffen Rapp, Bernhard Schwetzler and Andreas Wilms

Welfare enhancing regulation exemptions pp. 249-255

Murat C. Mungan

Hate groups and hate crime pp. 256-262

Matt E. Ryan and Peter Leeson

On the optimality of a duty-to-rescue rule and the cost of wrongful intervention pp. 263-271

Bertrand Crettez and Regis Deloche

Inducing corporate compliance: A compound corporate liability regime pp. 272-283

Sharon Oded

Technology and torts: Memory costs, nondurable precautions and interference effects pp. 284-290

Jef De Mot and Ben Depoorter

Volume 31, issue 3, 2011

Does court-supervised reorganization work? Evidence from post-confirmation firm failure pp. 149-168

Bart Leyman, Koen Schoors and Peter Coussement

Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions in different legal environments pp. 169-187

Isabel Feito-Ruiz and Susana Menéndez-Requejo

A unified model of settlement and trial expenditures: The PriestâKlein model extended pp. 188-195

Marc Poitras and Ralph Frasca

Trading when you cannot trade: Blackout periods in Italian firms pp. 196-204

Petracci Barbara

Medical malpractice and physician liability under a negligence rule pp. 205-211

Donald Wright

Does it pay to pollute? Shareholder wealth consequences of corporate environmental lawsuits pp. 212-218

Zuobao Wei, Feixue Xie and Richard A. Posthuma

Volume 31, issue 2, 2011

A note on the optimality of (even more) incomplete strict liability pp. 77-82

Florian Baumann, Tim Friehe and Kristoffel Grechenig

Merger simulations with observed diversion ratios pp. 83-91

Lars Mathiesen, Øivind Nilsen and Lars Sørgard

Semi-collusion in media markets pp. 92-98

Ralf Dewenter, Justus Haucap and Tobias Wenzel

Socially optimal liability rules for firms with natural monopoly in contestable markets pp. 99-102

Atsushi Tsuneki

Do laws affect attitudes? An assessment of the Norwegian prostitution law using longitudinal data pp. 103-115

Andreas Kotsadam and Niklas Jakobsson

Corrupt reciprocity - Experimental evidence on a men's game pp. 116-125

Johann Graf Lambsdorff and Björn Frank

Employment preservation vs. creditors' repayment under bankruptcy law: The French dilemma? pp. 126-141

Régis Blazy, Bertrand Chopard, Agnès Fimayer and Jean-Daniel Guigou

Single-product versus uniform SSNIPs pp. 142-146

Øystein Daljord and Lars Sørgard

Corrigendum to "Money launderers and tax havens: Two sides of the same coin?" [Int. Rev. Law Econ. 31 (2011) 37-47] pp. 147-147

Peter Schwarz

Volume 31, issue 1, 2011

Peer effects in affirmative action: Evidence from law student performance pp. 1-15

John R. Lott , John Ramseyer and Jeffrey Standen

No derivative shareholder suits in Europe: A model of percentage limits and collusion pp. 16-20

Kristoffel Grechenig and Michael Sekyra

The impact of court errors on liability sharing and safety regulation for environmental/industrial accidents pp. 21-29

Marcel Boyer and Donatella Porrini

A model of local crime displacement pp. 30-36

Rafael Matta and Mônica Viegas Andrade

Money launderers and tax havens: Two sides of the same coin? pp. 37-47

Peter Schwarz

Contractor selection problem under extended liability pp. 48-57

Daisuke Ichinose

Negotiating constitutions for political unions pp. 58-76

Vikas Kumar

Volume 30, issue 4, 2010

Contingent fees and legal expenses insurance: Comparison for varying defendant fault pp. 283-290

Tim Friehe

The unexpected effects of caps on non-economic damages pp. 291-305

Ronen Avraham and Alvaro Bustos

The role of contribution among defendants in private antitrust litigation pp. 306-316

Morten Hviid and Andrei Medvedev

Social dynamics and minority protection pp. 317-328

Emanuela Carbonara and Piero Pasotti

On the existence of the optimal fine for environmental crime pp. 329-337

Sandra Rousseau and Kjetil Telle

Income redistribution and criminality in a growing economy pp. 338-344

Volker Arnold and Marion Hübner

Optimal law enforcement with costly public funds pp. 345-348

Sébastien Rouillon

Volume 30, issue 3, 2010

Legal change and the social value of lawsuits pp. 203-208

Thomas Miceli

Is it timing or backdating of option grants? pp. 209-217

Tjalling van der Goot

Labor market regulation and the legal system pp. 218-225

Carsten Hefeker and Michael Neugart

Competition authority independence, antitrust effectiveness, and institutions pp. 226-235

Tay-Cheng Ma

Tort law and probabilistic litigation: How to apply multipliers to address the problem of negative value suits pp. 236-243

Jef De Mot and Ben Depoorter

Dancing with the devil: Country size and the incentive to tolerate money laundering pp. 244-252

Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Killian McCarthy and Brigitte Unger

Punitive damages and the recklessness requirement with uninformed injurers pp. 253-264

Bharat Bhole and Jeffrey Wagner

Spillover effects of domestic law enforcement policies pp. 265-275

Alberto Naranjo

Production of laws and delays in court decisions pp. 276-281

Giuseppe Di Vita

Volume 30, issue 2, 2010

Repeated adjustment of delegated powers and the history of eminent domain pp. 99-112

Robert Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen

Does the type of criminal defense counsel affect case outcomes?: A natural experiment in Taiwan pp. 113-127

Kuo-Chang Huang, Kong-Pin Chen and Chang-Ching Lin

Listing standards as a signal of IPO preparedness and quality pp. 128-144

Sofia Johan

Indefinite contract duration: Evidence from electronics subcontracting pp. 145-159

Susana López-Bayón and Manuel González-Díaz

Gratuitous violence and the rational offender model pp. 160-172

James Foreman-Peck and Simon C. Moore

Repeat offenders: If they learn, we punish them more severely pp. 173-177

Murat C. Mungan

Entry and competition in the Dutch notary profession pp. 178-185

Joëlle Noailly and Richard Nahuis

Is the event study methodology useful for merger analysis? A comparison of stock market and accounting data pp. 186-192

Tomaso Duso, Klaus Gugler and Burcin Yurtoglu

Corporate governance in the UK: Is the comply or explain approach working? pp. 193-201

Sridhar Arcot, Valentina Bruno and Antoine Faure-Grimaud

Volume 30, issue 1, 2010

Liability rules under evidentiary uncertainty pp. 1-9

Claude Fluet

Tax fraud by firms and optimal auditing pp. 10-17

Nigar Hashimzade, Zhanyi Huang and Gareth Myles

Trial and settlement negotiations between asymmetrically skilled parties pp. 18-27

Bertrand Chopard, Thomas Cortade and Eric Langlais

How institutions and regulation shape the influence of bank concentration on economic growth: International evidence pp. 28-36

Ana I. Fernández, Francisco González and Nuria Suárez

Determinants of the decision to appeal against motor bodily injury judgements made by Spanish trial courts pp. 37-45

Miguel Santolino

Homicide trials in Classical Athens pp. 46-51

Bryan McCannon

Crime and labor market policy in Europe pp. 52-61

Carsten Ochsen

Privatization, free riding, and industry-expanding lobbying pp. 62-70

Alexander Volokh

An economic analysis of dismissal legislation: Determinants of severance pay in West Germany pp. 71-85

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

Optimal discretion in asylum lawmaking pp. 86-97

Jenny Helstroffer and Marie Obidzinski