Journal of Law and Economics

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Volume 59, issue 4, 2016

Unintended Consequences of Sanctions for Human Rights: Conflict Minerals and Infant Mortality pp. 731 - 774

Dominic Parker, Jeremy Foltz and David Elsea

Enforcement of Anticollusion Laws against Domestic and Foreign Firms pp. 775 - 803

Pierre Cremieux and Edward Snyder

Hit Where It Hurts: Cartel Policing Using Targeted Sales and Supply Embargoes pp. 805 - 846

Ajay Bhaskarabhatla, Chirantan Chatterjee and Bas Karreman

Executive Lawyers: Gatekeepers or Strategic Officers? pp. 847 - 888

Adair Morse, Wei Wang and Serena Wu

The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police pp. 889 - 912

Paul Heaton, Priscillia Hunt, John MacDonald and Jessica Saunders

Market Responses to Court Rulings: Evidence from Antiquities Auctions pp. 913 - 944

Silvia Beltrametti and James Marrone

Volume 59, issue 3, 2016

Why Wait to Settle? An Experimental Test of the Asymmetric-Information Hypothesis pp. 497 - 525

Sean Sullivan

Adversarial Decision Making: Choosing between Models Constructed by Interested Parties pp. 527 - 548

Luke Froeb, Bernhard Ganglmair and Steven Tschantz

Paradise Lost or Fantasy Island? Voluntary Payments by American Publishers to Authors Not Protected by Copyright pp. 549 - 567

Stan Liebowitz

The Filibuster as a War of Attrition pp. 569 - 595

Douglas Dion, Frederick J. Boehmke, William MacMillan and Charles R. Shipan

Does International Commercial Arbitration Promote Foreign Direct Investment? pp. 597 - 627

Andrew Myburgh and Jordi Paniagua

Better at Home than in Prison? The Effects of Electronic Monitoring on Recidivism in France pp. 629 - 667

Anaïs Henneguelle, Benjamin Monnery and Annie Kensey

Slave Escape, Prices, and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 pp. 669 - 695

Conor Lennon

Appraisal: Shareholder Remedy or Litigation Arbitrage? pp. 697 - 729

Wei Jiang, Tao Li, Danqing Mei and Randall Thomas

Volume 59, issue 2, 2016

Relaxing Occupational Licensing Requirements: Analyzing Wages and Prices for a Medical Service pp. 261 - 291

Morris M. Kleiner, Allison Marier, Kyoung Park and Coady Wing

Why Don't People Trust Experts? pp. 293 - 311

Nathaniel G. Hilger

Endogenous Property Rights pp. 313 - 358

Carmine Guerriero

On the Merits of Antitrust Liability in Regulated Industries pp. 359 - 392

Arup Bose, Debashis Pal and David Sappington

An Economic Analysis of Arbitration versus Litigation for Contractual Disputes pp. 393 - 410

Abraham L. Wickelgren

Can Private Copyright Protection Be Effective? Evidence from Book Publishing pp. 411 - 440

Imke Reimers

Power to the People: Does Ownership Type Influence Electricity Service? pp. 441 - 476

Richard T. Boylan

Bargaining in the Absence of Property Rights: An Experiment pp. 477 - 495

Oren Bar-Gill and Christoph Engel

Volume 59, issue 1, 2016

The Business of American Democracy: Citizens United, Independent Spending, and Elections pp. 1 - 43

Tilman Klumpp, Hugo M. Mialon and Michael A. Williams

The Optimal Scope of the Royalty Base in Patent Licensing pp. 45 - 73

Gerard Llobet and Jorge Padilla

Designing Corporate Bailouts pp. 75 - 104

Antonio E. Bernardo, Eric L. Talley and Ivo Welch

The Effects of Platform Most-Favored-Nation Clauses on Competition and Entry pp. 105 - 134

Andre Boik and Kenneth Corts

Corruption in Russia pp. 135 - 171

Günther Schulze, Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir and Nikita Zakharov

Reducing False Guilty Pleas and Wrongful Convictions through Exoneree Compensation pp. 173 - 189

Murat C. Mungan and Jonathan Klick

Economic Development and the Demographics of Criminals in Victorian England pp. 191 - 223

Chris Vickers and Nicolas Ziebarth

Consumer Borrowing after Payday Loan Bans pp. 225 - 259

Neil Bhutta, Jacob Goldin and Tatiana Homonoff

Volume 58, issue 4, 2015

Political Connectedness and Court Outcomes: Evidence from Chinese Corporate Lawsuits

Haitian Lu, Hongbo Pan and Chenying Zhang

Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts

Elliott Ash and W. Bentley Macleod

Do 'Cheeseburger Bills' Work? Effects of Tort Reform for Fast Food

Christopher Carpenter and Daniel Tello-Trillo

The Role of D&O Insurance in Securities Fraud Class Action Settlements

Dain Donelson, Justin Hopkins and Christopher Yust

Evaluating Mergers in the Presence of Dynamic Competition Using Impacts on Rivals

Darren Filson, Saman Olfati and Fatos Radoniqi

Non-Profit Status and Relational Sanctions: Commitment to Quality through Repeat Interactions and Organizational Choice

Albert H. Choi

Banking Deregulation, Local Credit Supply, and Small Business Growth

Prasad Krishnamurthy

On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Nicolas Ajzenman, Sebastian Galiani and Enrique Seira Bejarano

Volume 58, issue 3, 2015

Predicting Merger Outcomes: The Accuracy of Stock Market Event Studies, Market Structure Characteristics, and Agency Decisions

John Kwoka and Chengyan Gu

How Does Corporate Political Activity Allowed by Citizens United v. FEC Affect Shareholder Wealth?

Thomas Stratmann and J.W. Verret

Mergers after cartels: How markets react to cartel breakdown

Stephen Davies, Peter Ormosi and Martin Graffenberger

What Explains Sovereign Debt Litigation?

Julian Schumacher, Christoph Trebesch and Henrik Enderlein

When Punishment Doesn't Pay: "Cold Glow" and Decisions to Punish

Aurelie Ouss and Alexander Peysakhovich

Selection, Staging and Sequencing in the Recent Chinese Privatization

Jun Du and Xiaoxuan Liu

Institutionally Constrained Technology Adoption: Resolving the Longbow Puzzle

Douglas W. Allen and Peter Leeson

'Can you Hear Me Now?' Exit, Voice and Loyalty Under Increasing Competition

Thomas Beard, Jeffrey T. Macher and John Mayo

Volume 58, issue 2, 2015

Antitrust, Transaction Costs, and Merger Simulation with Nonlinear Pricing pp. 269 - 289

Dennis Carlton and Bryan Keating

Legal Enforcement and Corporate Behavior: An Analysis of Tax Aggressiveness after an Audit pp. 291 - 324

Jason DeBacker, Bradley Heim, Anh Tran and Alexander Yuskavage

What Are We Meeting For? The Consequences of Private Meetings with Investors pp. 325 - 355

David Solomon and Eugene Soltes

The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law: Evidence from Voting on Tort Reforms pp. 357 - 384

Ulrich Matter and Alois Stutzer

Peremptory Challenges and Jury Selection pp. 385 - 416

Francis Flanagan

When Can We Expect a Corporate Leniency Program to Result in Fewer Cartels? pp. 417 - 449

Joseph E. Harrington and Myong-Hun Chang

A "de Soto Effect" in Industry? Evidence from the Russian Federation pp. 451 - 480

Alexei Karas, William Pyle and Koen Schoors

Do Medical Marijuana Laws Increase Hard-Drug Use? pp. 481 - 517

Yu-Wei Chu

Volume 58, issue 1, 2015

Licensure and Worker Quality: A Comparison of Alternative Routes to Teaching pp. 1 - 35

Tim Sass

Labor Protection Laws and Bank Loan Contracting pp. 37 - 74

Azizjon Alimov

The Impact of Corruption on Consumer Markets: Evidence from the Allocation of Second-Generation Wireless Spectrum in India pp. 75 - 109

Sandip Sukhtankar

"Gallantry in Action": Evidence of Advantageous Selection in a Voluntary Army pp. 111 - 138

Javier Birchenall and Thomas G. Koch

Appellate Lawmaking in a Judicial Hierarchy pp. 139 - 172

Adam B. Badawi and Scott Baker

Outsourcing Shareholder Voting to Proxy Advisory Firms pp. 173 - 204

David F. Larcker, Allan L. McCall and Gaizka Ormazabal

Does Incarceration Length Affect Labor Market Outcomes? pp. 205 - 234

Rasmus Landersø

Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime pp. 235 - 267

D. Mark Anderson and Daniel I. Rees