Working Papers

From The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (econstor@zbw-workspace.eu).

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

55: Labor Market Adjustments to Increased Immigration

Robert LaLonde and Robert H. Topel

54: The Effects of Tax or Expenditure Limits on State Governments

William Dougan

53: How Efficient Is the Voting Market?

Sam Peltzman

52: Alternative Mechanisms for Corporate Control

Randall Morck, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny

51: A Theory of Career Mobility

Oded Galor and Nachum Sicherman

50: John Stuart Mill

George Stigler

49: Demand Uncertainty and Sales: A Study of Fashion and Markdown Pricing

B. Peter Pashigian

48: Over-Education in the Labor Market

Nachum Sicherman

47: Luck versus Forecasting Ability: Determinants of Trader Performance in Futures Markets

Michael L. Hartzmark

46: Is Risk Aversion a Theoretical Diversion?

Michael L. Hartzmark

45: Immigration Policy, Source Countries and Immigrant Skills: Australia, Canada and the United States

Barry Chiswick

44: The Theory and the Facts of How Markets Clear: Is Industrial Organization Valuable for Understanding Macroeconomics?

Dennis Carlton

43: A Constant Recontracting Model of Sovereign Debt

Jeremy A. Bulow and Kenneth Rogoff

42: Why Have Some Farmers Opposed Futures Markets?

B. Peter Pashigian

41: A Theory of Rational Addiction

Gary Becker and Kevin M. Murphy

40: The Impact of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation, 1973-83

W Viscusi

39: Differences in Education and Earnings among Racial and Ethnic Groups: Testing Alternative Hypotheses

Barry Chiswick

38: The Health Effects of Mandatory Prescriptions

Sam Peltzman

37: Frank Hyneman Knight

George Stigler

36: An Economic Theory of Planned Obsolescence

Jeremy A. Bulow

35: Public Policies, Pressure Groups, and Dead Weight Costs

Gary Becker

34: Store Wars: The Chain Tax Movement

Thomas Ross

33: The Impact of Product Recalls on the Wealth of Sellers

Gregg A. Jarrell and Sam Peltzman

32: The Behavior of U.S. Deficits

Robert Barro

31: The Extent of the Market

George Stigler and Robert A. Sherwin

30: Winners and Losers under the Robinson-Patman Act

Thomas Ross

29: Measuring the Average Marginal Tax Rates from Social Security and the Individual Income Tax

Robert Barro and Chaipat Sahasakul

28: Economic Interpretation of the History of Congressional Voting in the Twentieth Century

Sam Peltzman

27: The Origin of the Sherman Act

George Stigler

26: Measuring the Average Marginal Tax Rate from the Individual Income Tax

Robert Barro and Chaipat Sahasakul

25: The Effect of Environmental Regulation on Optimal Plant Size and Factor Shares

B. Peter Pashigian

24: Genesis of the Sherman Act

Lester G. Telser

23: Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence

Gary Becker

22: Environmental Regulation: Whose Self Interests Are Being Protected?

B. Peter Pashigian

21: Unemployment Insurance, Experience Rating, and the Occurrence of Unemployment

Robert H. Topel

20: Efficient Redistribution in Agricultural Commodity Markets

Bruce Gardner

19: The Effects of FTC Advertising Regulation

Sam Peltzman

18: Legislative Tenure

George Stigler

17: Compensation for Automobile Accident Injuries: Is the Tort System Fair? – And: Insurance, Liability, and Accidents: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the Effect of No-Fault on Accidents

Elisabeth M. Landes

16: The Economics of Privacy

Richard Posner

15: Uncertain Availability, Spatial Location, and Regulation: An Application to the Airline Industry

Pablo Spiller

14: The Economic Impacts of Minimum Wage Laws: A New Look at an Old Question

Peter Linneman

13: The Ethics of Competition: The Unfriendly Critics

George Stigler

12: The Ethics of Competition: The Friendly Economists

George Stigler

11: The Economist as Preacher

George Stigler

10: An Introduction to Privacy in Economics and Politics

George Stigler

9: The Effect of State Maximum Hours Laws on the Employment of Women in 1920

Elisabeth M. Landes

8: A Case Study of the Impacts of Consumer Safety Regulation: The 1973 Mattress Flammability Standard

Peter Linneman

7: A Theory of Primitive Society with Special Reference to Law

Richard Posner

6: Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence

Gary Becker

5: The Effect of the State on the Family

Gary Becker

4: Privacy, Secrecy, and Reputation

Richard Posner

3: Discrimination in HEW: Is the Doctor Sick or Are the Patients Healthy?

George Borjas

2: The Right to Privacy

Richard Posner

1: The Growth of Government

Sam Peltzman