Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityClaudia Landeo
Phone: (312) 503-5653
E-mail: c-landeo@law.northwestern.edu
Working Papers
Claudia Landeo received her PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, where she was a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and the Reuben E. Slesinger Research Award. She has served as a visiting Scholar of Law and Economics at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, a visiting Associate Professor of Economics and visiting Scholar of Behavioral Law and Economics at Carnegie Mellon University John H. Heinz College, and as both an Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Alberta Economics Department. Her areas of interest include law and economics, industrial organization, and experimental and behavioral economics. She has published in such journals as the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. Her current work is focused on debiasing through law mechanisms, and incomplete contracts and damages for contract breach.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Law and Economics
- Game Theory
- Experimental and Behavioral Economics
- Industrial Organization
COURSES
PUBLICATIONS
Representative Publications
- Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities, AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, forthcoming (Co-authored by: Kathryn Spier)
- Deterrence, Lawsuits and Litigation Outcomes under Court Errors, JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS, AND ORGANIZATION, 2007 (Co-authored by: Maxim Nikitin and Scott Baker)
- Settlement Escrows: An Experimental Study of a Bilateral Bargaining Game, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR AND ORGANIZATION, 2004 (Co-authored by: Linda Babcock) (pdf)
- Trigger Happy or Gun Shy: Dissolving Common-Value Partnerships with Texas Shootouts, RAND Journal of Economics, 2010 (Co-authored by: Kathryn E. Spier and Richard R.W. Brooks)
Recent Publications
- trigger Happy or Gun Shy: Dissolving Common-Value Partnerships with Texas Shootouts
- Cognitive Coherence and Tort Reform , 6 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY 898-912 , 2009
- Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities , 99 AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 1850-1877 , 2009
EDUCATION
- BSc, Universidad del Pacifico (Lima, Peru)
- MA, MPA, University of Pittsburgh
- PhD, University of Pittsburgh
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Associate Professor of Economics, University of Alberta, 2009-
- Visiting Scholar of Law and Economics, Northwestern University, 2007
- Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006-2007
- Visiting Scholar of Behavioral Law and Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005
- Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Alberta, 2002-2009
- Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, 2001-2002
- Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, 2001
- Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University, 2000
- Teaching Assistant, University of Pittsburgh, 1998-1999
