American Law and Economics Review

1999 - 2023

Current editor(s): J.J. Prescott and Albert Choi

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Volume 10, issue 2, 2008

Management Always Wins the Close Ones pp. 159-184

Yair Listokin

Defense Costs and Insurer Reserves in Medical Malpractice and Other Personal Injury Cases: Evidence from Texas, 1988--2004 pp. 185-245

William M. Sage

Does Post-Accident Drug Testing Reduce Injuries? Evidence from a Large Retail Chain pp. 246-302

Alexandre Mas

Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship pp. 303-350

John Armour and Douglas Cumming

Evidentiary Standards and Information Acquisition in Public Law pp. 351-387

Matthew C. Stephenson

The Optimal Penalty for Sexually Transmitting HIV pp. 388-423

Andrew M. Francis and Hugo Mialon

The Economics of US Civil War Conscription pp. 424-453

Tim Perri

Global Market Surveillance pp. 454-506

Sofia Johan

Volume 10, issue 1, 2008

The Economics of the Bill of Rights pp. 1-60

Hugo Mialon and Paul Rubin

How Important is State Enforcement for Trade&quest pp. 61-89

Peter Leeson

Interpreting Empirical Estimates of the Effect of Corporate Governance pp. 90-109

Yair Listokin

Case Dismissed: Police Discretion and Racial Differences in Dismissals of Felony Charges pp. 110-141

Jahn K. Hakes

Patent--Secret Mix in Complex Product Firms pp. 142-158

Elisabetta Ottoz and Franco Cugno

Volume 9, issue 2, 2007

Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer? The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defendant Guilt is Uncertain pp. 305-329

David Bjerk

Tort Liability Litigation Costs for Commercial Claims pp. 330-369

Joni Hersch and W Viscusi

Bundled Discounts, Leverage Theory, and Downstream Competition pp. 370-383

Abraham L. Wickelgren

Amended Final-offer Arbitration Outperforms Final-offer Arbitration pp. 384-407

Dao-Zhi Zeng

Successor Liability and Asymmetric Information pp. 408-434

Albert H. Choi

Volume 9, issue 1, 2007

Do Harsher Prison Conditions Reduce Recidivism? A Discontinuity-based Approach pp. 1-29

Jesse Shapiro

Sidgwick's Utilitarian Analysis of Law: A Bridge from Bentham to Becker? pp. 30-47

Steven Medema

On Understanding the Increase in U.S. Patent Litigation pp. 48-71

Joseph P. Cook

An Economic Analysis of State and Individual Responsibility Under International Law pp. 72-134

Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes

Is There An Expressive Function of Law? An Empirical Analysis of Voting Laws with Symbolic Fines pp. 135-159

Patricia Funk

A Bargaining Model of Holdouts and Takings pp. 160-174

Thomas Miceli and Kathleen Segerson

Optimal Discretion in the Application of Rules pp. 175-194

Steven Shavell

Should Legal Empiricists Go Bayesian? pp. 195-303

Jeff Strnad

Volume 8, issue 3, 2006

The Economic Consequences of Accounting Fraud in Product Markets: Theory and a Case from the U.S. Telecommunications Industry (WorldCom) pp. 439-475

Gil Sadka

Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary Between Antitrust Law and Patent Law pp. 476-522

Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer

Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information: Exclusive Versus Optional Remedies pp. 523-561

Ronen Avraham and Zhiyong Liu

Uncovering Discrimination: A Comparison of the Methods Used by Scholars and Civil Rights Enforcement Officials pp. 562-614

Stephen Ross and John Yinger

Freakonomics: Scholarship in the Service of Storytelling pp. 615-626

John DiNardo

Volume 8, issue 2, 2006

Prefatory Note pp. 181-182

Cecilia Elena Rouse

School Quality, Neighborhoods, and Housing Prices pp. 183-212

Thomas J. Kane, Stephanie K. Riegg and Doug Staiger

Evaluating the Role of Brown v. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans pp. 213-248

Orley Ashenfelter, William Collins and Albert Yoon

The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade pp. 249-281

Roland Fryer and Steven Levitt

Race, Income, and College in 25 Years: Evaluating Justice O'Connor's Conjecture pp. 282-311

Alan Krueger, Jesse Rothstein and Sarah Turner

Capitalizing on Segregation, Pretending Neutrality: College Admissions and the Texas Top 10% Law pp. 312-346

Marta Tienda and Sunny Xinchun Niu

Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of "Resegregation" in Southern Schools pp. 347-389

Charles T. Clotfelter, Jacob Vigdor and Helen Ladd

Social Background and Academic Performance Differentials: White and Minority Students at Selective Colleges pp. 390-409

Douglas S. Massey

Diversity and Discontent: The Relationship Between School Desegregation and Perceptions of Racial Justice pp. 410-436

Richard R. W. Brooks

Volume 8, issue 1, 2006

Corporation and Contract pp. 1-19

Henry Hansmann

Playing It Safe with Low Conditional Fees versus Being Insured by High Contingent Fees pp. 20-32

Winand Emons

Information, Litigation, and Common Law Evolution pp. 33-61

Keith N. Hylton

Statistics of Legal Infrastructures: A Review of the Law and Finance Literature pp. 62-80

Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

The Duel of Honor: Screening For Unobservable Social Capital pp. 81-115

Douglas Allen and Clyde G. Reed

Does the Threat of the Death Penalty Affect Plea Bargaining in Murder Cases? Evidence from New York's 1995 Reinstatement of Capital Punishment pp. 116-142

Ilyana Kuziemko

Pensions, Politics, and Judicial Tenure: An Empirical Study of Federal Judges, 1869--2002 pp. 143-180

Albert Yoon

Volume 7, issue 2, 2005

Economic Conditions, Deterrence and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from Micro Data pp. 319-349

Naci Mocan and Daniel Rees

Deterrence and Origin of Legal System: Evidence from 1950–1999 pp. 350-378

Michael L. Smith

What Do Prosecutors Maximize? Evidence from the Careers of U.S. Attorneys pp. 379-402

Richard T. Boylan

Optimal Trust Design in Mass Tort Bankruptcy pp. 403-438

Kenneth Ayotte and Yair Listokin

Limited Liability in California 1928–31: It’s the Lawyers pp. 439-483

Mark I. Weinstein

The (Legal) Value of Chance: Distorted Measures of Recovery in Private Law pp. 484-522

Omri Ben-Shahar and Robert A. Mikos

The Hand Rule and United States v. Carroll Towing Co. Reconsidered pp. 523-543

Allan M. Feldman and Jeonghyun Kim

Volume 7, issue 1, 2005

The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from Eighteenth Century England pp. 1-27

Daniel M. Klerman

Legal Regime and Contractual Flexibility: A Comparison of Business's Organizational Choices in France and the United States during the Era of Industrialization pp. 28-61

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

American Civil Law Origins: Implications for State Constitutions pp. 62-84

Daniel Berkowitz

Conscription as Regulation pp. 85-111

Casey Mulligan

150 Years of Patent Office Practice pp. 112-143

Josh Lerner

Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence pp. 144-183

Laura Nyantung Beny

Governing Stock Markets in Transition Economies: Lessons from China pp. 184-210

Katharina Pistor

Law and Firms' Access to Finance pp. 211-252

Thorsten Beck and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

Bankruptcy around the World: Explanations of Its Relative Use pp. 253-283

Stijn Claessens and Leora Klapper

Laws for Sale: Evidence from Russia pp. 284-318

Irina Slinko, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya and Evgeny Yakovlev