NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Papers in Law and Economics


2012
w17829 Jonathan Zinman
Eric Zitzewitz

Wintertime for Deceptive Advertising?

w17804 Robert W. Fairlie
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

w17773 Bronwyn H. Hall
Dietmar Harhoff

Recent Research on the Economics of Patents

w17770 Jason M. DeBacker
Bradley T. Heim
Anh Tran

Importing Corruption Culture from Overseas: Evidence from Corporate Tax Evasion in the United States

w17765 Louis Kaplow
On the Optimal Burden of Proof

w17760 Raghuram Rajan
The Corporation in Finance

w17732 Eric Zitzewitz
Does Transparency Reduce Favoritism and Corruption? Evidence from the Reform of Figure Skating Judging


2011
w17719 Philip Bond
Alex Edmans
Itay Goldstein

The Real Effects of Financial Markets

w17696 Viral V. Acharya
Bart M. Lambrecht

A Theory of Income Smoothing When Insiders Know More Than Outsiders

w17647 Gregory Lewis
Patrick Bajari

Incentives and Adaptation: Evidence from Highway Procurement in Minnesota

w17637 Jason M. Lindo
Isaac D. Swensen
Glen R. Waddell

Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access

w17606 Alex Edmans
Itay Goldstein
John Y. Zhu

Contracting With Synergies

w17605 Naci H. Mocan
Bulent Unel

Skill-biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime

w17579 Roland Benabou
Jean Tirole

Laws and Norms

w17577 William R. Kerr
William F. Lincoln
Prachi Mishra

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

w17569 Joseph E. Aldy
Robert Stavins

The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience

w17567 Alex Edmans
Vivian W. Fang
Emanuel Zur

The Effect of Liquidity on Governance

w17545 Ernst Fehr
Oliver D. Hart
Christian Zehnder

How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

w17528 Rena M. Conti
Haiden A. Huskamp
Ernst R. Berndt

The Effect of FDA Advisories on Branded Pharmaceutical Firms' Valuations and Promotion Efforts

w17509 Miriam Schwartz-Ziv
Michael Weisbach

What do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings

w17503 Joel Waldfogel
Copyright Protection, Technological Change, and the Quality of New Products: Evidence from Recorded Music since Napster

w17476 Orley C. Ashenfelter
Daniel S. Hosken
Matthew C. Weinberg

The Price Effects of a Large Merger of Manufacturers: A Case Study of Maytag-Whirlpool

w17475 Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

List Randomization for Sensitive Behavior: An Application for Measuring Use of Loan Proceeds

w17467 David Neumark
Joanne Song

Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?

w17458 William J. Collins
Katharine L. Shester

Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States

w17455 Charles F. Manski
John V. Pepper

Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections

w17436 Matthew Gentzkow
Emir Kamenica

Competition in Persuasion

w17409 BÃ¥rd Harstad
The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages

w17397 Marco Faravelli
Randall Walsh

Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters: A Theory of Large Elections

w17384 Hanming Fang
Dmitry A. Shapiro
Arthur Zillante

An Experimental Study of Alternative Campaign Finance Systems: Donations, Elections and Policy Choices

w17367 Alberto Galasso
Mark Schankerman
Carlos J. Serrano

Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights

w17329 Naci H. Mocan
Duha Tore Altindag

Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament

w17316 Christopher Afendulis
Daniel Kessler

Vertical Integration and Optimal Reimbursement Policy

w17309 Rafael Di Tella
Juan Dubra

Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals

w17237 Michelle J. White
Corporate and Personal Bankruptcy Law

w17231 Nicholas Bloom
Helena Schweiger
John Van Reenen

The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

w17210 Michael Greenstone
Rema Hanna

Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

w17171 John M. de Figueiredo
Committee Jurisdiction, Congressional Behavior and Policy Outcomes

w17162 Guy David
Sara Markowitz

Side Effects of Competition: the Role of Advertising and Promotion in Pharmaceutical Markets

w17147 Eric Hilt
Jacqueline Valentine

Democratic Dividends: Stockholding, Wealth and Politics in New York, 1791-1826

w17127 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Alma Cohen
Charles C.Y. Wang

Staggered Boards and the Wealth of Shareholders: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments

w17099 Ebonya L. Washington
Do Majority Black Districts Limit Blacks’ Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting

w17081 John Cawley
Christopher Ruhm

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

w17059 William T. Harbaugh
Naci H. Mocan
Michael S. Visser

Theft and Deterrence

w17051 Suresh Naidu
Noam Yuchtman

Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

w17036 Scott A. Baker
Anup Malani

Does Accuracy Improve the Information Value of Trials?

w17028 Victor Stango
Jonathan Zinman

Limited and Varying Consumer Attention: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Bank Overdraft Fees

w17023 Steven D. Levitt
Thomas J. Miles

The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker

w17012 Katherine Casey
Rachel Glennerster
Edward Miguel

Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-Analysis Plan

w16981 Alberto F. Alesina
Eliana La Ferrara

A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

w16961 Shawn D. Bushway
Emily G. Owens
Anne Morrison Piehl

Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors

w16949 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz

How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies

w16929 Oliver D. Hart
Noncontractible Investments and Reference Points

w16911 Xavier Gabaix
A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality

w16888 Shamena Anwar
Hanming Fang

Testing for the Role of Prejudice in Emergency Departments Using Bounceback Rates

w16882 Joel Waldfogel
Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie? The Supply of New Recorded Music Since Napster

w16860 Hilary Sigman
Howard F. Chang

The Effect of Allowing Pollution Offsets With Imperfect Enforcement

w16818 Aaron Edlin
Joseph Farrell

Freedom to Trade and the Competitive Process

w16776 John J. Donohue III
Benjamin Ewing
David Peloquin

Rethinking America's Illegal Drug Policy

w16773 Jin Young Lee
Gary Solon

The Fragility of Estimated Effects of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates

w16756 Lee J. Alston
Krister Andersson

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD

w16739 Li Gan
Manuel A. Hernandez

Making friends with your neighbors? Agglomeration and tacit collusion in the lodging industry

w16737 Hans B. Christensen
Luzi Hail
Christian Leuz

Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: Hysteresis, Implementation, and Enforcement

w16735 Pablo T. Spiller
Transaction Cost Regulation

w16731 Harold Pollack
Peter Reuter
Eric L. Sevigny

If Drug Treatment Works So Well, Why Are So Many Drug Users in Prison?

w16713 William T. Allen
Han Shen

Assessing China's Top-Down Securities Markets

w16698 Patrick L. Hill
Brent W. Roberts
Jeffrey T. Grogger
Jonathan Guryan
Karen Sixkiller

Decreasing Delinquency, Criminal Behavior, and Recidivism by Intervening on Psychological Factors Other than Cognitive Ability: A Review of the Intervention Literature


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