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Working Papers

2008

2008-035 Market Share Liability in Personal Injury and Public Nuisance Litigation: An Economic Analysis
George L. Priest, John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics, Yale Law School

2008-034 The Economics of Public Nuisance Law and the New Enforcement Actions
Keith N. Hylton, Paul J. Liacos Scholar in Law, Boston University School of Law

2008-033 The Mismatch Between Public Nuisance Law and Global Warming
David A. Dana, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-032 Private Contingent Fee Lawyers and Public Power: Constitutional and Political Implications
Martin H. Redish, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-031 Optional Federal Chartering of Insurance: Design of a Regulatory Strucutre
Hal S. Scott, Harvard Law School

2008-030 A Single-License Approach to Regulating Insurance
Henry N. Butler, Northwestern University School of Law
Larry E. Ribstein, University of Illinois College of Law

2008-029 The Impact of Tort Reform on Intensity of Treatment: Evidence from the Heart Patients
Ronen Avraham, Northwestern University School of Law
Max Schanzenbach, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-028 How Tort Reform Affects Insurance Markets
Martin F. Grace, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
J. Tyler Leverty, Henry B. Tippie College of Business-University of Iowa

2008-027 Tort Reform as Carrot-and-Stick
Lee A. Harris, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law

2008-026 Influences on Organizational Form on Medical Malpractice Insurer Operations
Joan Schmit, Actuarial Science Risk Management and Insurance Department, University of Wisconsin
Yu Lei, Barney School of Business, University of Hartford

2008-025 Do Insurer Pricing Strategies Explain Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Fluctuations?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level
Charles Silver, University of Texas School of Law
Kathryn Zeiler, Georgetown Law Center

2008-024 Risk Retention Groups in Medical Malpractice Insurance: A Test of the Federal Chartering Option
M. Martin Boyer, Department of Finance, Université de Montréal
Patricia Born, Department of Finance, Real Estate & Insurance, California State University, Northridge

2008-023 Government Support for the Terrorism Insurance Industry: Where Do We Go From Here?
Jeffrey Ellis Thomas, University of Missouri-KC-School of Law
Thomas Russell, Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business

2008-022 Regulating the Market for Terrorism Insurance
Alexia Brunet, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-021 A Simple Mechanism for Improving Insurance Regulation
Abraham L. Wickelgren, Northwestern University School of Law

2008-020 The Past and Future of Insurance Regulation: The McCarran-Ferguson Act and Beyond
Martin F. Grace, Department of Risk Management, Georgia State University
Robert W. Klein, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University

2008-019 Reinsurance: The Silent Regulator?
Aviva Abramovsky, Syracuse University College of Law

2008-018 Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?
Leemore S. Dafny, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-017 Rate Regulation, Uninsured Driving and the Cost of Automobile Accidents
Sharon Tennyson, Cornell University
Mary Weiss, Fox School of Business, Temple University

2008-016 The Fatal Flaw of Proposals to Federalize Insurance Regulation
Elizabeth F. Brown, University of St. Thomas School of Law

2008-015 Consumer Harm Acts? An Economic Analysis of State Consumer Protection Acts
Henry N. Butler, Northwestern University School of Law
Jason S. Johnston, University of Pennsylvania Law School

2008-014 Comparing Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation and Renewable Energy
Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC

2008-013 Was That Really Necessary? Some Implications of Trade Law for Alternative Energy
Andrew Green, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

2008-012 Trade, Technology and the Environment: Why Do Poorer Countries Regulate Sooner?
David C. Popp, Maxwell School , Syracuse University

2008-011 Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards? An Empirical Investigation
Thomas P. Lyon, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

2008-010 Enabling Research or Unfair Competition? De Jure and De Facto Research Use Exceptions in Major Technology Countries
Sean O'Connor, University of Washington School of Law

2008-009 The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays
Scott Stern, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-008 Spectrum Policy Reform and the Next Frontier of Property Rights
Philip J. Weiser, University of Colorado Law School

2008-007 Incentives to Invent with Competition and Asymmetric Information
Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-006 Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue
Alan O. Sykes, Stanford Law School

2008-005 Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
Oliver Hart, Harvard University, Department of Economics

2008-004 Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Betsey Stevenson, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School

2008-003 When is a Willful Breach Willful?
Richard Craswell, Stanford Law School

2008-002 Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?
Leemore S. Dafny, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2008-001 The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting
Edward B. Rock, University of Pennsylvania School of Law

2007

2007-025 Unlocking Technology: Antitrust and Innovation
Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2007-024 On the Importance to Economic Success of Property Rights in Finance and Innovation
F. Scott Kieff, Washington University School of Law

2007-023 Microsoft: Understanding the Aftermath
John E. Lopatka, Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University

2007-022 Mandatory Contracting Remedies in the Microsoft Cases
William H. Page, Levin College of Law, University of Florida

2007-021 Aided and Abetted: Lawyers' Rents and Government Policy
Clifford Winston, The Brookings Institution

2007-020 Lifesaving Regulation: Enhancing the Role of Benefit-Cost Analysis
John D. Graham, Dean, Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School

2007-019 The Complex Climate Change Incentives of China and the United States
Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School

2007-018 An Ethical Benefit-Cost Analysis
Richard O. Zerbe, Jr., Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington

2007-017 Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms
Jesse M. Fried, University of California, Berkeley-Boalt Hall School of Law

2007-016 Which Countries Become Tax Havens?
James R. Hines Jr., University of Michigan

2007-015 Congressional Agency Control: The Impact of Statutory Partisan Requirements on Regulation
Daniel E. Ho, Stanford Law School

2007-014 Retail Electricity Deregulation: Prospects and Challenges for Dynamic Pricing and Enabling Technologies
Lynne Kiesling, Northwestern University, Department of Economics

2007-013 Health Care Regulation: The Year in Review
David Hyman, University of Illinois College of Law, and Robin Fretwell Wilson, Washington and Lee University Law School

2007-012 Explaining American Litigiousness: A Product of Politics, Not Just Law
Tonja Jacobi, Northwestern University School of Law

2007-011 Do Institutions Really Matter? Assessing the Impact of State Judicial Structures on Citizen Litigiousness
Paul Brace, Rice University
Jeff Yates, University of Georgia

2007-010 Justice Judges and Juries
Eric A. Helland, Claremont McKenna College; Institute for Civil Justice, RAND Corporation

2007-009 An Empirical Study of the Impact of Tort Reforms on Medical Malpractice Settlement Payments
Ronen Avraham, Northwestern University School of Law

2007-008 Learning and Bargaining in Dispute Resolution: Theory and Evidence from Medical Malpractice Litigation
Yasutora Watanabe, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2007-007 The Impact of Tort Reform on Health Insurance Coverage
Max Schanzenbach, Northwestern University School of Law

2007-006 Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award? Post-Verdict Haircuts in Texas Medical Malpractice Cases, 1988–2003
David Hyman, University of Illinois College of Law

2007-005 An External Perspective on the Nature of Non-Economic Compensatory Damages and Their Regulation
Ronald J. Allen, Northwestern University School of Law

2007-004 Crossing the Punitive-Compensatory Divide
Catherine M. Sharkey, Columbia University School of Law

2007-003 The Unexpected Effect of Tort Reform: Do Caps Delay Settlements? Evidence From Medical Malpractice Cases
Ronen Avraham, Northwestern University School of Law

2007-002 “Health Courts” and Accountability for Patient Safety
Michelle Mello, Harvard School of Public Health

2007-001 Contract Design in the Shadow of Costly Verification
George Triantis, Harvard Law School

2006

2006-008 The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies
Thomas N. Hubbard, Kellogg School of Management , Northwestern University

2006-007 Discouraging Patent Holdouts through Reciprocal Commitment
Doug Lichtman, University of Chicago

2006-006 Bargaining Around Bankruptcy: Small Business Distress and State Law
Edward Morrison, Columbia University

2006-005 The Demographics of Tort Reform: Winners and Losers
Joanna Shepherd, Emory University

2006-004 Asset-Backed Securities: Costs and Benefits of Bankruptcy Remoteness
Kenneth Ayotte, Columbia University

2006-003 Jurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of the Common Law
Dan Klerman, University of Southern California

2006-002 Crash and Learn: Consumption Externalities and the Reduction of Aircraft Accidents
Eric Helland, Claremont McKenna

2006-001 Mandatory Versus Voluntary Disclosure of Product Risks
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Stanford University