The Journal of Legal Studies

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Volume 43, issue S2, 2014

Benefit-Cost Paradigms in Financial Regulation pp. S1 - S34

Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl

The Compelling Case for Stronger and More Effective Leverage Regulation in Banking pp. S35 - S61

Anat Admati

Challenges for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation pp. S63 - S105

John Cochrane

Efficiency and Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Financial System pp. S107 - S120

Thomas Philippon

On Experimentation and Real Options in Financial Regulation pp. S121 - S149

Matthew Spitzer and Eric Talley

Pareto Efficiency with Different Beliefs pp. S151 - S171

Gabrielle Gayer, Itzhak Gilboa, Larry Samuelson and David Schmeidler

Challenges to a Policy Treatment of Speculative Trading Motivated by Differences in Beliefs pp. S173 - S182

Darrell Duffie

Why Do Hedgers Trade So Much? pp. S183 - S207

Ing-Haw Cheng and Wei Xiong

Consumer Credit: Too Much or Too Little (or Just Right)? pp. S209 - S237

Jonathan Zinman

A Simple Framework for Estimating Consumer Benefits from Regulating Hidden Fees pp. S239 - S252

Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Neale Mahoney and Johannes Stroebel

The Futility of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Financial Disclosure Regulation pp. S253 - S271

Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider

Rules, Standards, and Complexity in Capital Regulation pp. S273 - S296

Prasad Krishnamurthy

Rules and Standards When Compliance Costs Are Private Information pp. S297 - S329

Maciej Kotowski, David A. Weisbach and Richard Zeckhauser

Accounting for Financial Innovation and Borrower Confidence in Financial Rule Making: Analogies from Health Policy pp. S331 - S349

Daniel Carpenter

The Empty Call for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Financial Regulation pp. S351 - S378

Jeffrey N. Gordon

The Institutional Framework for Cost-Benefit Analysis in Financial Regulation: A Tale of Four Paradigms? pp. S379 - S405

Robert P. Bartlett

Volume 43, issue 2, 2014

Inferences from Litigated Cases pp. 209 - 248

Daniel Klerman and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee

The Economic Value of a Law Degree pp. 249 - 289

Michael Simkovic and Frank McIntyre

Does Class Size Affect the Gender Gap? A Natural Experiment in Law pp. 291 - 321

Daniel E. Ho and Mark G. Kelman

Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination pp. 323 - 357

Heather Antecol, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Eric Helland

On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts pp. 359 - 400

Scott Masten and Jens Prüfer

Climate Impacts on Economic Growth as Drivers of Uncertainty in the Social Cost of Carbon pp. 401 - 425

Elisabeth J. Moyer, Mark D. Woolley, Nathan J. Matteson, Michael J. Glotter and David A. Weisbach

Volume 43, issue 1, 2014

Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Consumer Attention to Standard-Form Contracts pp. 1 - 35

Yannis Bakos, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler and David R. Trossen

A Model of Cause Lawyering pp. 37 - 63

Scott Baker and Gary Biglaiser

Does More Speech Correct Falsehoods? pp. 65 - 93

Edward Glaeser and Cass Sunstein

Optimal Agency Bias and Regulatory Review pp. 95 - 135

Ryan Bubb and Patrick Warren

Forfeiture of Illegal Gains, Attempts, and Implied Risk Preferences pp. 137 - 153

Murat C. Mungan and Jonathan Klick

Decomposing Racial Disparities in Prison and Drug Treatment Commitments for Criminal Offenders in California pp. 155 - 187

John MacDonald, Jeremy Arkes, Nancy Nicosia and Rosalie Pacula

On the Interaction between Legal and Reputational Sanctions pp. 189 - 207

Edward M. Iacobucci

Volume 42, issue 2, 2013

What Is Privacy Worth? pp. 249 - 274

Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein

A Fundamental Enforcement Cost Advantage of the Negligence Rule over Regulation pp. 275 - 302

Steven Shavell

Case-by-Case Adjudication and the Path of the Law pp. 303 - 330

Anthony Niblett

Does Separation of Powers Promote Stability and Moderation? pp. 331 - 368

Matthew C. Stephenson

Does Information about Arbitrators' Win/Loss Ratios Improve Their Accuracy? pp. 369 - 397

Alon Klement and Zvika Neeman

Jury Size and the Hung-Jury Paradox pp. 399 - 422

Barbara Luppi and Francesco Parisi

Volume 42, issue 1, 2013

Conceptualizing Contractual Interpretation pp. 1 - 34

Alan Schwartz and Joel Watson

Testing for Change in Procedural Standards, with Application to Bell Atlantic v. Twombly pp. 35 - 68

William H. J. Hubbard

Negligence, Strict Liability, and Collective Action pp. 69 - 82

David Gilo, Ehud Guttel and Erez Yuval

Detecting and Punishing Unconscious Bias pp. 83 - 110

Philip E. Tetlock, Gregory Mitchell and L. Jason Anastasopoulos

The Law and Policy of Judicial Retirement: An Empirical Study pp. 111 - 150

Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati and Eric A. Posner

Strategic Citations to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court pp. 151 - 186

Yonatan Lupu and James H. Fowler

Assessing the Contribution of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill to Growth in the U.S. Incarceration Rate pp. 187 - 222

Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll

Discovery and Disclosure with Asymmetric Information and Endogenous Expenditure at Trial pp. 223 - 247

Amy Farmer and Paul Pecorino

Volume 41, issue 2, 2012

Do Lawyers Really Believe Their Own Hype, and Should They? A Natural Experiment pp. 239 - 267

Zev J. Eigen and Yair Listokin

The Economics of Necessity pp. 269 - 289

Keith N. Hylton

Who Should Be Immune from Tort Liability? pp. 291 - 319

Gerrit De Geest

Evidence of Discrimination pp. 321 - 346

Nicola Persico

Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race? pp. 347 - 383

David Abrams, Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

The Evolution of Gender Employment Rate Differentials within Racial Groups in the United States pp. 385 - 418

Candace Hamilton Hester, Chris Meyer and Steven Raphael

Racial Disparities in Wiretap Applications before Federal Judges pp. 419 - 458

Thomas J. Miles

Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress pp. 459 - 493

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

Volume 41, issue 1, 2012

When Is Compliance with the Law Socially Desirable? pp. 1 - 36

Steven Shavell

The Public Utility Pyramids pp. 37 - 66

Paul G. Mahoney

When and Why Individuals Obey Contracts: Experimental Evidence of Consent, Compliance, Promise, and Performance pp. 67 - 93

Zev J. Eigen

Prosecution Associations in Industrial Revolution England: Private Providers of Public Goods? pp. 95 - 130

Mark Koyama

Human Rights Violations after 9/11 and the Role of Constitutional Constraints pp. 131 - 164

Benedikt Goderis and Mila Versteeg

Loss Aversion, Omission Bias, and the Burden of Proof in Civil Litigation pp. 165 - 207

Eyal Zamir and Ilana Ritov

Game-Theoretic Bankruptcy Valuation pp. 209 - 238

Barry E. Adler