Berkeley Program in Law and Economics, Working Paper Series

There are 189 publications in this collection, published between 1997 and 2009.

Dadgar, Yadollah: Law and Economics from a Moderate Islamic perspective (LEMI), 2009

Erkal, Nisvan, Scotchmer, Suzanne: Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it, or Bank it, 2009

Freeman, Jody, Guzman, Andrew: Seawalls Are Not Enough: Climate Change & U.S. Interests, 2009

Frey, Bruno S, Savage, David A, Torgler, Benno: Surviving the Titantic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants, 2009

Guzman, Andrew T., Meyer, Timothy L.: Explaining Soft Law, 2009

Inman, Robert P., Rubinfeld, Daniel: Federalism and South Africa's Democratic Bargain: The Zuma Challenge, 2009

McCrary, Justin, Lee, David S.: The Deterrence Effect of Prison: Dynamic Theory and Evidence, 2009

Torgler, Benno, García-Valiñas, María A., Macintyre, Alison: Environmental Participation and Environmental Motivation, 2009

Bamberger, Kenneth a., Guzman, Andrew T.: Keeping Imports Safe: A Proposal for Discriminatory Regulation of International Trade, 2008

Broughman, Brian: Independent Directors and Board Control in Venture Finance, 2008

Buxbaum, Richard M.: Trans-border Bank Insolvency: A Generation Later, 2008

Cox, James D., Talley, Eric: Hope and Despair in the Magic Kingdom: In Re Walt Disney Company Derivative Litigation, 2008

Edlin, Aaron, Gelman, Andrew, Kaplan, Noah: Voting as a Rational Choice, 2008

Guzman, Andrew T.: International Tribunals: A Rational Choice Analysis, 2008

Guzman, Andrew T., Landsidle, Jennifer: The Myth of International Delegation, 2008

Auerbach, Alan J., Lee, Ronald D: Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems in a Stochastic Context: Design and Stability, 2007

Auerback, Alan J.: Why Have Corporate Tax Revenues Declined? Another Look, 2007

Edlin, Aaron S., Karaca-Mandic, Pinar: The Accident Externality from Driving, 2007

Edlin, Aaron: A Christmas Warning, 2007

Feld, Lars P., Torgler, Benno: Tax Morale after the Reunification of Germany: Results from a Quasi-Natural Experiment, 2007

Fischer, Justina A. V., Torgler, Benno: Social Captial and Relative Income Concerns: Evidence from 26 Countries, 2007

Fried, Jesse, Broughman, Brian: Power and Payouts in the Sale of Startups, 2007

Grigoriadis, Theocharis N, Torgler, Benno: Energy Regulation, Roll Call Votes and Regional Resources: Evidence from Russia, 2007

Polinsky, A. Mitchell, Rubinfeld, Daniel L: A Damage-Revelation Rationale for Coupon Remedies, 2007

Torgler, Benno, Schneider, Friedrich: Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality: A Panel Analysis, 2007

Torgler, Benno, Schneider, Friedrich, Schaltegger, Christoph A.: With or Against the People? The Impact of a Bottom-Up Approach on Tax Morale and the Shadow Economy, 2007

Ahumada, Hildegart, Alvaredo, Facundo, Canavese, Alfredo J.: The Demand for Currency Approach and the Size of the Shadow Economy: A Critical Assessment, 2006

Auerbach, Alan J.: The Choice between Income and Consumption Taxes: A Primer, 2006

Auerbach, Alan J., Hassett, Kevin A.: Dividend Taxes and Firm Valuation: New Evidence, 2006

Auerbach, Alan J.: The Future of Capital Income Taxation, 2006

Auerbach, Alan J., Gale, William G., Orszag, Peter R.: New Estimates of the Budget Outlook: Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est la Meme Chose, 2006

Auerbach, Alan J.: Tax Reform in the 21st Century, 2006

Auerbach, Alan J.: The U.S. Tax System in International Perspective: A Review of the 2006 Economic Report of the Presidentís Tax Chapter, 2006

Cooter, Robert D., Gilbert, Michael D.: Chaos, Direct Democracy and the Single Subject Rule, 2006

Cooter, Robert D: The Intrinsic Value of Obeying a Law: Economic Analysis of the Internal Viewpoint, 2006

Cooter, Robert D, Feldman, Michael, Feldman, Yuval: The Misperception of Norms: The Psychology of Bias and the Economics of Equilibrium, 2006

Cummings, Ronald G., Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge, McKee, Michael, Torgler, Benno: Effects of Tax Morale on Tax Compliance: Experimental and Survey Evidence, 2006

Frey, Bruno S., Torgler, Benno: Tax Morale and Conditional Cooperation, 2006

Fried, Jesse M., Ganor, Mira: Agency Costs of Venture Capitalist Control in Startups, 2006

Fried, Jesse M.: Corporate Law's Current-Owner Bias, 2006

Hertig, Gerard, McCahery, Joseph A.: A Legal Options Approach to EC Company Law, 2006

Kirstein, Roland, Cooter, Robert D: Anti-Sharing as a Theory of Partnerships and Firms, 2006

Kirstein, Roland, Cooter, Robert D: Sharing and Anti-Sharing in Teams, 2006

McCabe, Mark J., Nevo, Aviv, Rubinfeld, Daniel L.: The Pricing of Academic Journals, 2006

Polinsky, A. Mitchell, Rubinfeld, Daniel L.: A Damage-Revelation Rationale for Coupon Remedies, 2006

Polinsky, A. Mitchell, Rubinfeld, Daniel L.: The Deadweight Loss of Coupon Remedies for Price Overcharges, 2006

Schaltegger , Christoph, Torgler, Benno: Government Accountability and Fiscal Discipline: A panel analysis using Swiss data, 2006

Torgler, Benno, Schaltegger, Christoph A: The Determinants of Political Discussion: How important are audit courts and local autonomy?, 2006

Torgler, Benno, García-Valiñas, Maria A.: Participation in Environmental Organizations: An Empirical Analysis, 2006

Torgler, Benno, Schmidt, Sascha L, Frey, Bruno S.: The Power of Positional Concerns: A Panel Analysis, 2006

Torgler, Benno, Valev, Neven T: Public Attitudes toward Corruption and Tax Evasion: Investigating the role of gender over time, 2006

Torgler, Benno, Schneider, Friedrich G.: What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries, 2006

Buscaglia , Edgardo, van Dijk, Jan: Controlling Organized Crime and Corruption in the Public Sector, 2005

Cooter, Robert D: Adapt or Optimize? The Psychology and Economics of Rules of Evidence, 2005

Cooter, Robert D, Broughman, Brian: Charity, Publicity, and the Donation Registry, 2005

Cooter, Robert D: Innovation, Information, and the Poverty of Nations, 2005

Cooter, Robert D.: Law, Information, and the Poverty of Nations, 2005

Cooter, Robert D., Porat, Ariel: Total Liability for Excessive Harm, 2005

Edlin, Aaron S: The Choose-Your-Charity Tax: A Way to Incentivize Greater Giving, 2005

Fried, Jesse M.: Informed Trading and False Signaling with Open Market Repurchases, 2005

Shelanski, Howard A, Katz, Michael L.: Merger Analysis and the Treatment of Uncertainty: Should We Expect Better?, 2005

Coffee, John C.: Gatekeeper Failure and Reform: The Challenge of Fashioning Relevant Reforms, 2004

Echenique, Federico, Edlin, Aaron S.: Mixed equilibria are unstable in games of strategic complements, 2004

Edlin, Aaron S., Rubinfeld, Daniel L.: Exclusion or Efficient Pricing? The "Big Deal" Bundling of Academic Journals, 2004

Ganor, Mira: Improving the Legal Environment for Start-Up Financing by Rationalizing Rule 144, 2004

Ganor, Mira: A Proposal to Restrict Manipulative Strategy in Auction IPO's, 2004

Harris, Ron: Institutional Innovations, Theories of the Firm, and the Formation of the East India Company, 2004

Rodriguez, Daniel B: What Statutes Mean: Positive Political Theory Perspectives on Legislation and its Interpretation, 2004

Subramanian, Guhan: Post-Siliconix Freeze-Outs: Theory, Evidence & Policy, 2004

Taylor, Curt: Privacy and Information Acquisition in Competitive Markets, 2004

Allison, John R., Lemley, Mark, Moore, Kimberly A., Trunkey, Derek: Valuable Patents, 2003

Aviram, Amitai: A Network Effects Analysis of Private Ordering, 2003

Bainbridge, Stephen M: Dead Hand and No Hand Pills: Precommitment Strategies in Corporate Law, 2003

Bankman, Joseph: Who Should Bear Tax Compliance Costs?, 2003

Bar-Gill, Oren, Ben-Shahar, Omri: The Law of Duress and the Economics of Credible Threats, 2003

Bebchuk, Lucian A., Fried, Jesse M.: Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem, 2003

Burk, Dan L., Lemley, Mark: Policy Levers in Patent Law, 2003

Cooter, Robert D., Porat, Ariel: Decreasing Liability Contracts, 2003

Cooter, Robert D.: The Donation Registry, 2003

Cooter, Robert D.: Federalism with Two Languages, 2003

Cooter, Robert D.: Hand Rule Damages for Incompensable Losses, 2003

Cooter, Robert D.: Treating Yourself Instrumentally: Internalization, Rationality and Law, 2003

Edlin, Aaron S.: Optimal Penalties in Contracts, 2003

Epstein, Richard: Class Actions: Aggregation, Amplification and Distortion, 2003

Fon, Vincy, Parisi, Francesco: Stability and Change in International Customary Law, 2003

Grady, Mark F., Yahya, Moin: Liability Failure, 2003

Guzman, Andrew: The Political Economy of Litigation and Settlement at the WTO, 2003

Hannes, Sharon: A Demand-Side Theory of Antitakeover Defenses, 2003

Lichtman, Doug: Copyright as a Rule of Evidence, 2003

Merges, Robert P: The Uninvited Guest: Patents on Wall Street, 2003

Ogus, Anthony: Corruption and Regulatory Structures, 2003

Polinsky, A. Mitchell, Rubinfeld, Daniel L.: REMEDIES FOR PRICE OVERCHARGES: THE DEADWEIGHT LOSS OF COUPONS AND DISCOUNTS, 2003

Rauch, James E., Watson, Joel: Are There Too Many Entrepeneurs? A Model of Client-Based Entrepreneurship, 2003

Rubinfeld, Daniel L., Epstein, Roy J.: Merger Simulation with Brand-Level Margin Data: Extending PCAIDS with Nests, 2003

Scotchmer, Suzanne: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties, 2003

Chaver, Alon, Fried, Jesse M.: Managers' Fiduciary Duty Upon the Firm's Insolvency: Accounting for Performance Creditors, 2002

Cheffins, Brian R.: Investor Sentiment and Antitrust Law as Determinants of Corporate Ownership Structure: The great Merger Wave of 1897 to 1903, 2002

Cooter, Robert D., Porat, Ariel: Anti-Insurance, 2002

Cooter, Robert D.: Who Gets On Top in Democracy? Elections as Filters, 2002

Cox, James D.: The Death of the Securities Regulator: Globalization, 2002

Craswell, Richard: Kaplow and Shavell on the Content of Fairness, 2002

Edlin, Aaron S.: Forward Discount Bias, Nalebuff's Envelope Puzzle, and the Siegel Paradox in Foreign Exchange, 2002

Edlin, Aaron S.: Per-Mile Premiums for Auto Insurance, 2002

Frey, Bruno S., Stutzer, Alois: Beyond Outcomes: Measuring Procedural Utility, 2002

Fried, Jesse M.: Using Inside Information to Abstain from Trading, 2002

Helland, Eric, Tabarrok, Alex: The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Tort Awards, 2002

Huang, Peter H.: Beliefs, Fears, & Feelings of Guilt in Securities Investing, 2002

Johnson, Marilyn F., Nelson, Karen K., Pritchard, Adam C.: Do the Merits Matter More? Class Actions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, 2002

Kahan, Marcel, Kamar, Ehud: The Myth of State Competition in Corporate Law, 2002

Kirstein, Roland, Rickman, Neil: "Third Party Contingency" contracts in settlement and litigation, 2002

Langevoort, Donald: Taming the Animal Spirits of the Stock Market: A Behavioral Approach to Securities Regulation, 2002

Levitt, Steven D.: Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating, 2002

LoPucki, Lynn M., Doherty, Joseph W.: Why Are Delaware and New York Reorganizations Failing?, 2002

Romano, Roberta: Does Confidential Proxy Voting Matter?, 2002

Schaefer, Hans-Bernd: Rule Based Legal Systems as a Substitute for Human Capital. Should Poor Countries Have a More Rule-Based Legal System?, 2002

Tung, Frederick: Skepticism about Universalism: International Bankruptcy and International Relations, 2002

Yadlin, Omri: The Conspirator Dilemma: Introducing the “Trojan Horse” Enforcement Strategy, 2002

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye, Fried, Jesse M., Walker, David I.: Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?, 2001

Bebchuk, Lucian A., fried, jesse m: A New Approach to Valuing Secured Claims in Bankruptcy, 2001

Bohnet, Iris, Cooter, Robert: Expressive Law: Framing or Equilibrium Selection?, 2001

Choi, Stephen J., Talley, Eric L.: A Defense of Shareholder Favoritism, 2001

Cooter, Robert D., Emons, Winand: Truth-Bonding and Other Truth-Revealing Mechanisms for Courts [technical version], 2001

Edlin, Aaron S., Hermalin, Benjamin E.: Implementing the First Best in an Agency Relationship with Renegotiation: A Corregendum, 2001

Edlin, Aaron S.: Stopping Above-Cost Predatory Pricing, 2001

Frey, Bruno S.: Flexible Citizenship for a Global Society, 2001

Friedman, David: Contracts in Cyberspace, 2001

Hansmann, Henry: Property, Contract, and Verifiability: Understanding the Law's Restrictions on Divided Rights, 2001

Khanna, V.S.: How Does Double Jeopardy Help Defendants?, 2001

Lichtman, Douglas: Copyright as a Rule of Evidence, 2001

Menell, Peter S.: Economic Implications of State Sovereign Immunity from Infringement of Federal Intellectual Property Rights, 2001

Polinsky, A. Mitchell, Rubinfeld, Daniel L.: Aligning the Interests of Lawyers and Clients, 2001

Polinsky, A. Mitchell, Rubinfeld, Daniel L.: A Note on Settlements under the Contingent Fee Method of Compensating Lawyers, 2001

Spier, Kathryn E.: The Use of “Most-Favored-Nation” Clauses in Settlement of Litigation, 2001

Buckley, Frank: Liberal Nationalism, 2000

Choi, Stephen J.: The Informational Effect of an Offshore Securities Offering: Evaluating the Risk to U.S. Investors, 2000

Choi, Stephen J.: Proxy Issue Proposals: Impact of the 1992 Proxy SEC Proxy Reforms, 2000

Choi, Stephen J.: Regulating Investors Not Issuers: A Market Based Proposal, 2000

Cooter, Robert: Do Good Laws Make Good Citizens? An Economic Analysis of Internalizing Legal Values, 2000

Cooter, Robert D., Porat, Ariel: Does Risk to Oneself Increase the Care Owed to Others? Law and Economics in Conflict, 2000

Cooter, Robert D., Eisenberg, Melvin: Fairness, Character, and Efficiency in Firms, 2000

Cooter, Robert D,, Porat, Ariel: Should Courts Deduct Non-Legal Sanctions from Damages?, 2000

Cooter, Robert D., Emons, Winand: Truth-Bonding and Other Truth-Revealing Mechanisms for Courts, 2000

Cooter, Robert, Garoupa, Nuno: The Virtuous Circle of Distrust: A Mechanism to Deter Bribes and Other Cooperative Crimes, 2000

Donohue , John J., Levitt, Steven D.: The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime, 2000

Fox, Merritt, Heller, Michael: Lesson from Fiascos in Russian Corporate Governance, 2000

Fried, Jesse M: Insider Signaling and Insider Trading with Repurchase Tender Offers, 2000

Friedman, David: Contracts in Cyberspace, 2000

Goshen, Zohar, Wiener, Zvi: The Value of the Freezeout Option, 2000

Guzman, Andrew: Choice of Law: New Foundations, 2000

Guzman, Andrew T.: International Antitrust and the WTO: The Lesson from Intellectual Property, 2000

Jolls, Christine: Accommodation Mandates and Antidiscrimination Law, 2000

Kahan, Marcel, Kamar, Ehud: Price Discrimination in the Market for Corporate Law, 2000

Lemley, Mark A., Lessig, Lawrence: The End of End-to-End: Preserving the Architecture of the Internet in the Broadband Era, 2000

Lemley, Mark: Rational Ignorance at the Patent Office, 2000

Leveque, Francois: The Controversial Choice of Remedies to Cope with the Anti-Competitive Behavior of Microsoft, 2000

Rausser, Gordon C., Simon, Leo K., Zhao, Jinhua: Environmental Remedies: An Incomplete Information Aggregation Game, 2000

Rausser, Gordon C., Small, Arthur A.: Valuing Research Leads: Bioprospecting and the Conservation of Genetic Resources, 2000

Adler, Barry E.: The Questionable Ascent of Hadley v. Baxendale, 1999

Auerbach, Alan Jeffrey: On the Performance and Use of Government Revenue Forecasts, 1999

Ben-Shahar, Omri: The Cost of Compensation: Revisiting Contract Remedies in Repeat Play Settings, 1999

Ben-Shahar, Omri: Rights Eroding by Past Breach, 1999

Bernstein, Lisa E.: The Questionable Empirical Basis of Article 2's Incorporation Approach: A Preliminary Study, 1999

Black, Bernard: Corporate law and Residual Claimants, 1999

Buscaglia , Edgardo: Judicial Corruption in Developing Countries: Its Causes and Economic Consequences, 1999

Cooter, Robert D.: The Optimal Number of Governments for Economic Development, 1999

Cooter, Robert D.: Punitive Damages, Social Norms, and Economic Analysis, 1999

Daines, Robert, Klausner, Michael: Do IPO Charters Maximize Firm Value? Antitakeover Protection in IPOs, 1999

Edlin, Aaron S., Emch, Eric R.: The Welfare Losses from Price-Matching Policies, 1999

Eisenberg, Melvin: Corporate Law, Social Norms and Belief Systems, 1999

Fox, Merritt B., Heller, Michael A.: Lesson from Fiascos in Russian Corporate Governance, 1999

Hansmann, Henry, Kraakman, Ranier: The Essential Role of Organizational Law, 1999

Harel, Alon, Segal, Uzi: Criminal Law and Behavioral Law and Economics: Observations on the Neglected Role of Uncertainty in Deterring Crime, 1999

Lemley, Mark: The Law and Economics of Internet Norms, 1999

Polinsky, Mitchell: Corruption and Optimal Law Enforcement, 1999

Porat, Ariel: Liability Under Uncertainty: Evidential Deficiency and the Law of Torts, 1999

Revesz, Richard L.: Environmental Regulation, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and the Discounting of Human Lives, 1999

Schwartz, Warren F.: Long Shot Class Actions, 1999

Scotchmer, Suzanne, Schankerman, Mark: Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools, 1999

Shishido, Zenichi: Japanese Corporate Governance: The Hidden Problems of the Corporate Law and Their Solutions, 1999

von Wangenheim, georg: Towards a Theory of Adjudicatory Decisions in Public Administration, 1999

Yadlin, Omri: Is Stock Manipulation Bad? A Theoretical Note with an Empirical Support, 1999

Cooter, Robert: Expressive Law and Economics, 1998

Cooter, Robert D.: Models of Morality in Law and Economics: Self-Control and Self-Improvement for the "Bad Man" of Holmes, 1998

Scotchmer, suzanne: The Independent-Invention Defense in Intellectual Property, 1998

Shishido, Zenichi: Monitoring, Incentives, and Cooperation: The Strategy Behind the Organizational Game, 1998

Bebchuck, Lucian Ayre, Chang, Howard F.: The Effect of Offer-of-Settlement Rules on the Terms of Settlement, 1997

Cooter, Robert D.: Commodifying Liability, 1997

Emons, Winand: Credence Goods Monopolists, 1997

Rodriguez, Daniel B.: Legislative Intent, 1997

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