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BERNARD BLACK

2024

Articles

• The Effect of Disability Insurance Receipt on Mortality, 229 Journal of Public Economics 105033 (2024) (Co-authored by: Eric French, Jeremy McCauley & Jae Song).

• Evidence on COVID-19 Mortality and Disparities Using a Novel Measure, COVID Excess Mortality Percentage: Evidence from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Illinois, 19 PLOS ONE e0295936 (2024) (Co-authored by: Vladimir Atanasov, Natalia Barreto, Lorenzo Franchi, Jeff Whittle, John Meurer, Benjamin W. Weston, Qian (Eric) Luo, Andy Ye Yuan & Ruohao Zhang).

• Vaccinating against a Novel Pathogen: A Critical Review of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Evidence, 12 Microorganisms 89 (2024) (Co-authored by: David B. Thaw).

Working Papers

• Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality: National Evidence from Death Certificates, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 23-01, ___ American Journal of Epidemiology ___ (forthcoming 2024) (Co-authored by: Andy Ye Yuan, Vladimir Atanasov, Natalia Barreto, Lorenzo Franchi, Jeff Whittle, Benjamin W. Weston, John Meurer, Qian (Eric) Luo).

2023

Articles

• The SEC’s Short-Sale Experiment: Evidence on Causal Channels and Reassessment of Indirect Effects, ___ Management Science ___ (2023) (Co-authored by: Hemang Desai, Katherine Litvak, Woongsun Yoo & Jeff Jiewei Yu).

• A Decade of Corporate Governance in Brazil: 2010-2019, Revista Brasileira de Finanças 1 (Oct.-Dec., 2023) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho & Humberto Gallucci Netto).

• Estimating the Uncertain Effect of the COVID Pandemic on Drug Overdoses, 18 PLoS One e0281227 (2023) (Co-authored by: Ali Moghtaderi, Mark S. Zocchi, Jesse M. Pines, Arvind Venkat).

• The Cost Shifting Economics of United States Emergency Department Professional Services (2016–2019), 82 Annals of Emergency Medicine 637 (2023) (Co-authored by: Jesse M. Pines, Mark S. Zocchi, Brendan G. Carr, Pablo Celedon, Alexander T. Janke, Ali Moghtaderi, Jonathan J. Oskvarek, Arjun K. Venkatesh & Arvind Venkat).

• COVID-19 Boosters: If the US Had Matched Israel’s Speed and Take-Up, an Estimated 29,000 US Lives Would Have Been Saved, 42 Health Affairs 1747 (2023) (Co-authored by: Vladimir Atanasov, Aharona Glatman-Freedman, Lital Keinan-Boker, Amnon Reichman, Lorenzo Franchi, John Meurer, Qian Luo, David B. Thaw & Ali Moghtaderi).

• Community Focus Groups About a COVID-19 Individual Risk Assessment Tool: Access, Understanding and Usefulness, 23 BMC Public Health 1761 (2023) (Co-authored by: Aliyah Keval, Mohammad Titi, Hadi Omar Saleh, Staci Young, Julia Dickson Gomez, Vladimir Atanasov, & John Meurer).

• Paid Medical Malpractice Claims: How Strongly Does the Past Predict the Future?, 20 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 818 (2023) (Co-authored by: Kowsar Yousefi & David A. Hyman).

• Emergency Department Volume, Severity, and Crowding Since the Onset of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic, 82 Annals of Emergency Medicine 650 (2023) (Co-authored by: Jonathan J. Oskvarek, Mark S. Zocchi, Pablo Celedon, Andrew Leubitz, Ali Moghtaderi, Dhimitri A. Nikolla, Nishad Rahman, Jesse M. Pines & US Acute Care Solutions Research Group).

• Effect of Financial Incentives on Hospital-Cardiologist Integration and Cardiac Test Location, 20 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 570 (2023) (Co-authored by: Andy Ye Yuan, Timea Viragh, David J. Magid, Qian Luo & Ali Moghtaderi).

• Trends in Short‐, Intermediate‐, and Long‐Term Mortality Following Hospitalization for Myocardial Infarction Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2008 to 2018, 12 Journal of The American Heart Association e029550 (2023) (Co-authored by: Vinay Kini, David J. Magid, Qian Luo, Frederick A. Masoudi & Ali Moghtaderi).

• Selection Effects and COVID-19 Mortality Risk after Pfizer vs. Moderna Vaccination: Evidence from Linked Mortality and Vaccination Records, 11 Vaccines 971 (2023) (Co-authored by: Vladimir A. Atanasov, Paula Natalia Barreto Parra, Jeffrey Whittle, John Meurer, Benjamin Weston, Qian Luo, Andy Yuan, Lorenzo Franchi, Ruohao Zhan).

• How Useful Are Commercial Corporate Governance Ratings? Evidence from Emerging Markets, 80 Journal of Corporate Finance 102405 (2023) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, Woochan Kim & B. Burcin Yurtoglu).

• Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Death Using a Novel Measure: COVID Excess Mortality Percentage, 11 Vaccines 379 (2023) (Co-authored by: Vladimir Atanasov, Natalia Barreto, Jeff Whittle, John Meurer, Benjamin W. Weston, Qian (Eric) Luo, Lorenzo Franchi, Ye (Andy) Yuan, Ruohao Zhang).

• Simulated Power Analysis for Observational Studies: Application to the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion, 213 Journal of Public Economics 104713 (2022) (Co-authored by: Alex Hollingsworth, Letícia Nunes & Kosali Simon).

• Association of Past and Future Paid Medical Malpractice Claims, 4 JAMA Health Forum e225436 (2023) (Co-authored by: David A. Hyman, Joshua Lerner, David J. Magid).

Working Papers

• A Comparative Assessment of Measures of Area-Level Socio-Economic Status, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 23-25, Northwestern University, Institute For Policy Research Working Paper 23-43 (2023) (Co-authored by: Lorenzo Franchi, Paula Natalia Barreto Parra, Anna Chorniy, Benjamin W. Weston, John Meurer, Jeff Whittle, Ronald Ackermann).

• The Dynamics of Corporate Governance: Evidence from Brazil, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 23-20 (2023) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, Gumberto Gallucci Netto).

2022

Articles

• The SEC’s Misguided Climate Disclosure Rule Proposal, Banking & Financial Services Policy Report 1 (Oct. 2022) (Co-authored by: Stephen Bainbridge, Jonathan Berk, Sanjai Bhagat, William Carney, Lawrence Cunningham, David Denis, Diane Denis, Charles Elson, Jesse Fried, Sean Griffith, Jonathan Karpoff, F. Scott Kieff, Edmund Kitch, Katherine Litvak, Julia Mahoney, Paul Mahoney, Adam Pritchard, Dale Oesterle, Roberta Romano, Christina Skinner & Todd Zywicki).

• The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Elderly: Population Fatality Rates, Years of Life Lost, and Life Expectancy, 30 Elder Law Journal 33 (2022) (Co-authored by: Paula Natalia Barreto Parra, Vladimir Atanasov, Jeffrey Whittle, John Meurer, Qian (Eric) Luo & Ruohao Zhang).

• The Deterrent Effect of Tort Law: Evidence from Medical Malpractice Reform, 84 Journal of Health Economics ___ (2022) (Co-authored by: Zenon Zabinski).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Herd Immunity from COVID? Not Going to Happen. Let’s Shoot for ‘Herd Resistance,’ Instead | Opinion, Miami Herald (Jan. 26, 2022) (Co-authored by: Martin Skladany).

Working Papers

• How Do Insurers Price Medical Malpractice Insurance?, IZA Discussion Paper No. 15392 (2022) (Co-authored by: Jeffrey Traczynski & Victoria Udalova).

• COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and the Evidence on Boosters: A Systematic Review (with Partial Evidence on the Omicron Variant), Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 21-10, Northwestern University, Institute for Policy Research Working Paper 21-57, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-xx (2022) (Co-authored by: David Thaw).

• Should Patients Use Online Reviews to Pick Their Doctors and Hospitals?, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-15 (2022) (Co-authored by: David A. Hyman & Jing Liu).

• Simulated Power Analyses for Observational Studies: An Application to the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion, NBER Working Paper No. w25568 (2022) (Co-authored by: Alex Hollingsworth, Leticia Nunes & Kosali Ilayperuma Simon).

• Appendix for Paid Medical Malpractice Claims: How Strongly Does the Past Predict the Future?, Ssrn (2022) (Co-authored by: Kowsar Yousefi & David A. Hyman).

• COVID Excess Mortality Percentage, Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID Mortality, and Vaccine Effectiveness: Evidence from Linked Mortality and Vaccination Records, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-10 (2022) (Co-authored by: Vladimir A. Atanasov, Paula Natalia Barreto Parra, Lorenzo Franchi, Jeffrey Whittle, John Meurer, Qian Luo & Ruohao Zhang).

• Effects of Short-Term Air Pollution Exposure on U.S. COVID-19 Mortality, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-03 (2022) (Co-authored by: Ruohao Zhang, Jeffrey Whittle, Vladimir A. Atanasov, John Meurer, Paula Natalia Barreto Parra).

2021

Books

• Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works — Why Tort Reform Hasn’t Helped (2021) (Co-authored by: David A. Hyman, Myungho Paik, William M. Sage & Charles Silver).

Articles

• Non-Standard Errors, ___ Journal of Finance ___ (forthcoming 2023) (Co-authored by: et al.).

• The Three-Year Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Emergency Department Visits and Admissions, 77 Annals of Emergency Medicine 76 (2021) (Co-authored by: Ali Moghtaderi, Mark Zocchi, Kevin Klauer, Randy Pilgrim & Jesse Pines).

• Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Diabetes Care at Major Health Centers: Newly Detected Diabetes and Diabetes Medication Management, 9 BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care e002205 (2021) (Co-authored by: Al’ona Furmanchuk, Mei Liu, Xing Song, Lemuel R. Waitman, John R. Meurer, Kristen Osinski, Alexander Stoddard, Elizabeth Chrischilles, James C. McClay, Lindsay G. Cowell, Umberto Tachinardi, Peter J. Embi, Abu Saleh Mohammad Mosa, Vasanthi Mandhadi, Raj C. Shah, Diana Garcia, Francisco Angulo, Alejandro Patino, William E. Trick, Talar W. Markossian, Laura J Rasmussen-Torvik & Abel N. Kho).

• The Effect of Board Structure on Firm Disclosure and Behavior: A Case Study of Korea and a Comparison of Research Designs, 18 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 328 (2021) (Co-authored by: Woochan Kim & Julia Nasev).

• The Trouble with Instruments: The Need for Pre-Treatment Balance in Shock-IV Designs, 67 Management Science 1270 (2021) (Co-authored by: Vladimir A. Atanasov).

• Medical Malpractice and Physician Discipline: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, 18 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2021) (Co-authored by: David A. Hyman & Mohammad Hossein Rahmati).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• On Covid-19 Booster Shots, the FDA Has Overstepped Its Role, Stat News (Oct. 18, 2021) (Co-authored by: David Thaw).

• No, Poor Countries Don’t Need Your Booster. They Need Help Getting Shots in Arms, San Francisco Chronicle (Sept. 24, 2021) (Co-authored by: Martin Skladany).

• Op-Ed: In Response to Delta Variant, FDA Must Fast-Track COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids Under 12, Los Angeles Times (Aug. 23, 2021) (Co-authored by: Martin Skladany).

• How a Fire Department Funding Model Could Preserve Rural Emergency Departments and Quality Emergency Care, Health Affairs Blog (June 14, 2021) (Co-authored by: Jesse M. Pines, Pablo Celedon, Ali Moghtaderi, Mark S. Zocchi & Arvind Venkat).

Working Papers

• The COVID-19 Pandemic, Years of Life Lost, and Life Expectancy: Decomposition Using Individual-Level Mortality Data, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-01 (2021) (Co-authored by: Paula Natalia Barreto Parra, Vladimir A. Atanasov, Jeff Whittle, John Meurer, Eric Luo & Ruohao Zhang).

• COVID‐19 Vaccine Efficacy and the Evidence on Boosters, Preprints with The Lancet (2021) (Co-authored by: David Thaw).

• Simulated Power Analyses for Observational Studies: An Application to the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion, SSRN (2021) (Co-authored by: Alex Hollingsworth, Leticia Nunes & Kosali Ilayperuma Simon).

• The COVID-19 Pandemic and Life Expectancy: Decomposition Using Individual-Level Mortality Data, SSRN (2021) (Co-authored by: Paula Natalia Barreto Parra, Vladimir A. Atanasov, John Meurer, Jeffrey Whittle, Qian Luo & Ruohao Zhang).

• Data and Methodology Documentation for a Covid-19 Risk Calculator: Mortality Rates and Loss of Life Expectancy, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 21-02 (2021) (Co-authored by: Paula Natalia Barreto Parra, Vladimir A. Atanasov, John Meurer, Jeffrey Whittle & Qian Luo).

2020

Articles

• Characterizing Pediatric Emergency Department Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic, ___ American Journal of Emergency Medicine ___ (forthcoming 2021) (Co-authored by: Jesse M. Pines, Mark S. Zocchi, Jestin N. Carlson, Pablo Celedon, Ali Moghtaderi & Arvind Venkat).

• The Effect of Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Hospital Revenue, 29 Health Economics 1682 (2020) (Co-authored by: Ali Moghtaderi, Jesse Pines & Mark Zocchi).

• The Effect of ACA Medicaid Expansion on Hospital Revenue, ___ HEALTH ECONOMICS ___ (forthcoming 2020) (Co-authored by: Ali Moghtaderi, Jesse Pines & Mark Zocchi).

• The Effect of Number of Healthcare Visits on Study Sample Selection in Electronic Health Record Data, 5 International Journal of Population Data Science 5:1:18 (2020) (Co-authored by: Laura Rasmussen-Torvik, Al’ona Furmanchuk, Alexander Stoddard, Kristen Osinski, John Merer, Nicholas Smith, Elizabeth Chrischilles, and Abel Kho).

• Which Aspects of Corporate Governance Do and Do Not Matter in Emerging Markets, 5 Journal Of Law, Finance & Accounting 137 (2020) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, Vikramaditya Khanna, Woochan Kim, & Burcin Yurtoglu).

• Emergency Physician Practice Changes After Being Named in a Malpractice Claim, 75 Annals of Emergency Medicine 221 (2020) (Co-authored by: Jestin Carlson, Krista M. Foster, Jesse M. Pines, Christopher K. Corbit & Arvind Venkat).

• The Effects of Global Budgeting on Emergency Department Admissions Rates in Maryland, 75 Annals of Emergency Medicine 370 (2020) (Co-authored by: Jessica Galarraga, Laura Pimentel, Arvind Venkat, WJ FrohnaJ, J.P. Sverha, Dan Lemkin & Jesse Pines).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Economics of U.S. Emergency Care, MEDRXIV (2020) (Co-authored by: Jesse Pines, Mark Zocchi, Rebecca Kornas, Pablo Celodon, Ali Moghtaderi & Arvind Venkat).

Working Papers

• The Trouble with Coarsened Exact Matching, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper (Co-authored by: Parth Lalkiya & Joshua Y. Lerner).

• Specification Choice in Randomized and Natural Experiments: Lessons from the Regulation SHO Experiment, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper (2020) at Pages 20-06 (Co-authored by: Kate Litvak, Hemang Desai, Woongsun Yoo & Jeff (Jiewei) Yu).

2019

Articles

• Trends in Medicare Payment Rates for Noninvasive Cardiac Tests and Association with Testing Location, 179 Jama Internal Medicine 1699 (2019) (Co-authored by: Frederick A. Masoudi, Timea Viragh, David J. Magid, Ali Moghtaderi, Samantha Schilsky, William M. Sage, Glenn Goodrich, Katherine M. Newton & David H. Smith).

• Fictions and Facts: Medical Malpractice Litigation, Physician Supply, and Health Care Spending in Texas Before and after HB 4, 51 Texas Tech Law Review 627 (2019) (Co-authored by: Charles M. Silver & David A. Hyman).

• Physicians with Multiple Paid Medical Malpractice Claims: Are They Outliers or Just Unlucky?, 58 International Review of Law and Economics 146 (2019) (Co-authored by: David A. Hyman & Joshua Y. Lerner).

• Changes in Reimbursement to Emergency Physicians After Medicaid Expansion Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 73 Annals of Emergency Medicine 213 (2019) (Co-authored by: Jesse Pines, Rahul Ladhania, Christopher Corbit, Jestin Carlson & Arvind Venkat).

• A Standard-Setting Body for US Health Care Quality Measurement, 33 American Journal of Medical Quality 434 (2018) (Co-authored by: J. Matthew Austin & Peter J. Pronovost).

• Maryland’s Experiment With Capitated Payments For Rural Hospitals: Large Reductions In Hospital-Based Care, 38 Health Affairs 594 (2019) (Co-authored by: Jesse M. Pines, Sonal Vats & Mark S. Zocchi).

• Damage Caps and Defensive Medicine: Reexamination with Patient-Level Data, 16 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 26 (2019) (Co-authored by: Ali Moghtaderi, & Steven Farmer).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Trends in High- and Low-Value Cardiovascular Diagnostic Testing in Fee-for-Service Medicare, 2000-2016, Jama Network Open E1913070, Doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.13070 (2019) (Co-authored by: Vinay Kini, Timea Viragh, David Magid, Frederick Masoudi & Ali Moghtaderi).

Working Papers

• Spillover Presidential Ads and Campaign Contributions in a Polarized System (2019) (Co-authored by: Joshua Y. Lerner).

• Pre-Analysis Plan for the REG SHO Reanalysis Project (2019) (Co-authored by: Kate Litvak, Hemang Desai, Woongsun Yoo & Jeff Jiewei Yu).

• The Effect of Health Insurance on Mortality: Statistical Power What We Can Learn from the Affordable Care Act Coverage Expansions (2019) (Co-authored by: Alex Hollingsworth, Leticia Nunes & Kosali Simon).

2018

Articles

• Introductory Overview of the Natural Experiments for Translation in Diabetes 2.0 (NEXT-D2) Network: Examining the Impact of U.S. Health Policies and Practices to Prevent Diabetes and its Complication, Current Diabetes Reports 18:8 (2018) (Co-authored by: O. Kenrik Duru, Carol M. Mangione, Hector P. Rodriguez, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Frank Wharam, Abel Kho, Nat Huguet, Heather Angier, Victoria Mayer, David Siscovick, Jennifer Kraschnewski, Lizheng Shi, Beth Nauman, Edward W. Gregg, Mohammed K. Ali, Pamela Thornton & Steve Clauser) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-018-0977-5.

• Association of Medical Liability Reform with Clinician Approach to Coronary Artery Disease Management, 3 Jama Cardiology 609 (2018) (Co-authored by: Steven A. Farmer, Ali Moghtaderi, Samantha Schilsky, David Magid, William Sage, Nori Allen, Frederick A. Masoudi, & Avi Dor).

• A Comparison of Care Delivered in Hospital-based and Freestanding Emergency Departments, 25 Academic Emergency Medicine 538 (2018) (Co-authored by: Jesse Pines, & Mark Zocchi).

• The Nonprime Mortgage Crisis and Positive Feedback Lending, 3 Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting 1 (2018) (Co-authored by: Charles K. Whitehead, & Jennifer Mitchell Coupland).

• The Effect of Corporate Governance on Firm Market Value and Profitability: Time-Series Evidence from Turkey, 30 Emerging Markets Review 113 (2017) (Co-authored by: Melsa Ararat, & B. Burcin Yurtoglu).

• Screening Plaintiffs and Selecting Defendants in Medical Malpractice Litigation: Evidence from Illinois and Indiana, 15 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 41 (2018) (Co-authored by: Mohammad Rahmati, David Hyman, Jing Liu, & Charles Silver).

• Corporate Governance Indices and Construct Validity, 25 Corporate Governance: An International Review 397 (2017) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, Vikramaditya Khanna, Woochan Kim, & B. Burcin Yurtoglu).

• The Long-term Effect of Health Insurance on Near-Elderly Health and Mortality, 3 American Journal of Health Economics 33 (2017) (Co-authored by: Kate Litvak, Jose Espin-Sanchez, & Eric French).

Working Papers

• The Value of Country-Specific versus Commercial Indices in Emerging Markets (2018) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, Woochan Kim & Burcin Yurtoglu).

• Comparing Death Data from the Social Security Administration and the National Center for Health Statistics, 1990-2013, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-08 (SSRN 2018) (Co-authored by: Eric French, Jeremy McCauley, & Leticia Nunes).

2017

Articles

• The Association between Patient Safety Indicators and Medical Malpractice Risk: Evidence from Florida and Texas, 3 American Journal of Health Economics 109 (2017) (Co-authored by: Amy Wagner, & Zenon Zabinski) and SSRN.

• Protecting Unauthorized Immigrant Parents Improves the Mental Health of their Children, 357 Science 1041 (2017) (Co-authored by: Jens Hainmueller, Duncan Lawrence, Linna Martén, Lucila Figueroa, Michael Hotard, Tomás R. Jiménez, David D. Laitin, Fernando Mendoza, Maria I. Rodriguez, & Jonas J. Swartz).

• Medical Liability Insurance Premia, 1990-2016: Dataset, Literature Review, and Summary Information, 14 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 238 (2017) (Co-authored by: Jeanette W. Chung, Jeffrey Traczynski, Victoria Udalova, and Sonal Vats).

• Damage Caps and Defensive Medicine Revisited, 51 Journal of Health Economics 84 (2017) (Co-authored by: Myungho Paik & David A. Hyman).

2016

Articles

• The Impact of the 2014 Medicaid Expansion on Hospital-Based Emergency Department Visits, 35 Health Affairs (forthcoming 2016) (Co-authored by: Jesse Pines, Mark Zocchi, Ali Moghtaderi, Steven Farmer, Greg Hufstetler, Kevin Klauer, and Randy Pilgrim).

• Replication Dataset, Codebook, and Statistical Code for Bernard Black, Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, Vikramaditya Khanna, Woochan Kim and B. Burcin Yurtoglu, Methods for Multicountry Studies of Corporate Governance: Evidence from the BRIKT Countries, 183 Journal of Econometrics 230-240 (2014, 2016) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, Vikramaditya Khanna, Woochan Kim, and B. Burcin Yurtoglu).

• Medical Malpractice Litigation and the Market for Plaintiff-Side Representation: Evidence from Illinois, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (forthcoming 2016) (Co-authored by: David Hyman, Mohammad Rahmati, and Charles Silver).

• Association Between State Medical Malpractice Environment and Surgical Quality and Cost in the U.S., 263 Annals of Surgery 1126 (2016) (Co-authored by: Karl Y. Bilimoria, Min-Woong Sohn, Jeanette W. Chung, Christina A. Minami, Elissa H. Oh, Emily S. Pavey, Jane L. Holl, Michelle M. Mello, and David J. Bentrem).

• Damage Caps and the Labor Supply of Physicians: Evidence from the Third Reform Wave, American Law And Economics Review (forthcoming 2016) (Co-authored by: Myungho Paik, and David Hyman).

• Dataset, Codebook, and Statistical Code to accompany Methods for Multicountry Studies of Corporate Governance: Evidence from the BRIKT Countries, 183 Journal of Econometrics 230-240 (2014) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, Vikramaditya Khanna, Woochan Kim and B. Burcin Yurtoglu).

Working Papers

• Do Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine, Revisited, Northwestern Law & Economics Research Paper No. 13-20 (Co-authored by: Myungho Paik, and David A. Hyman).

• Appendix to Accompany the Long-Term Effect of Health Insurance on Near-Elderly Health and Mortality (2016) (Co-authored by: Kate Litvak, José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, and Eric French).

• The Effect of Health Insurance on Near-Elderly Health and Mortality (Co-authored by: Kate Litvak, Jose Espin-Sanchez, and Eric French).

• Case Screening, Defendant Selection and Case and Claim Level Success Rates in Medical Malpractice Litigation: Evidence from Illinois (2016) (Co-authored by: Mohammad Rahmati, David Hyman and Charles Silver).

2015

Articles

• Shock-Based Causal Inference in Corporate Finance and Accounting Research, Critical Finance Review (forthcoming 2016) (Co-authored by: Vladimir Atanasov).

• The Economics of Plaintiff-Side Personal Injury Practice, 2015 University of Illinois Law Review 1564 (Co-authored by: David Hyman, and Charles Silver).

• Association Between State Medical Malpractice Environment and Surgical Quality and Cost in the U.S., Annals of Surgery (forthcoming 2015) (Co-authored by: Karl Y. Bilimoria, Min-Woong Sohn, Jeanette W. Chung, Christina A. Minami, Elissa H. Oh, Emily S. Pavey, Jane L. Holl, Michelle M. Mello, and David J. Bentrem).

• Insurance Crisis or Liability Crisis? Medical Malpractice Claiming in Illinois, 1980-2010, 12 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (forthcoming 2015) (Co-authored by: David Hyman, Mohammad Rahmati, and Charles Silver).

• Policy Limits, Payouts, and Blood Money: Medical Malpractice Settlements in the Shadow of Insurance, 5 University of California Irvine Law Review 559 (2015) (Co-authored by: Charles Silver, David Hyman, & Myungho Paik).

• Does Tort Reform Affect Physician Supply? Evidence from Texas, 42 International Review of Law & Economics 203 (2015) (Co-authored by: David A. Hyman, Charles Silver, & Myungho Paik).

• Why Does Corporate Governance Affect Firm Value: Evidence on a Self-Dealing Channel from a Natural Experiment in Korea, 51 Journal of Banking and Finance 131 (2015) (Co-authored by: Woochan Kim, Hasung Jang & Kyung-Suh Park).

Working Papers

• Does Health Insurance Affect Mortality: Reconsidering Single-State DiD Designs (2015) (Co-authored by: Yingzi Wang).

2014

Books

• To Sue Is Human: A Profile of Medical Malpractice Litigation (Yale University Press forthcoming 2015) (Co-authored by: David Hyman, Myungho Paik, William Sage, and Charles Silver).

Articles

• Unbundling and Measuring Tunneling, 2014 University of Illinois Law Review 1697 (Co-authored by: Vladimir Atanasov & Conrad Ciccotello).

• Methods for Multicountry Studies of Corporate Governance: Evidence from the BRIKT Countries, 183 Journal of Econometrics 230 (2014) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, Vikramaditya Khanna, Woochan Kim and B. Burcin Yurtoglu).

• The Economics of Plaintiff Side Personal Injury Practice, University of Illinois Law Review ( forthcoming 2015) (Co-authored by: David Hyman, and Charles Silver).

• Development of a Composite Measure of State-Level Malpractice Environment, 49 Health Services Research 751-766 (2014) (Co-authored by: Jeanette W. Chung, Min-Woong Sohn, Ryan P. Merkow, Elissa H. Oh, Christina Minami, and Karl Y. Bilimoria).

• Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infection Rates: Are Consumers Aware and Engaged, 29 American Journal of Medical Quality 83-88 (2014) (Co-authored by: Maryanne McGuckin, John Govednik, and David Hyman).

Working Papers

• Methods for Multicountry Studies of Corporate Governance: Evidence from the BRIKT Countries (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, Vikramaditya Khanna, Woochan Kim, and Burcin Yurtoglu).

• Unbundling and Measuring Tunneling (Co-authored by: Vladimir Atanasov and Conrad Ciccotello).

• Does Tort Reform Affect Physician Supply? Evidence from Texas (Co-authored by: David A. Hyman, Charles Silver, and Myungho Paik).

2013

Articles

• Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections: Epidemiologists’ Perspectives, 34 Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 1201-1203 (2013) (Co-authored by: Maryanne McGuckin, John Govednik, and David Hyman).

• The Receding Tide of Medical Malpractice Litigation: Part 1—National Trends, 10 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 612-638 (2013) (Co-authored by: Myungho Paik, and David A. Hyman).

• The Receding Tide of Medical Malpractice Litigation: Part 2—Effect of Damage Caps, 10 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 639-669 (2013) (Co-authored by: Myungho Paik, and David A. Hyman).

• Public Reporting of Hospital Infection Rates: Not All Change is Progress, 53 Jurimetrics 327-340 (2013) (Co-authored by: David A. Hyman).

• Public Reporting of Hospital Infection Rates: Ranking the States on Report and Website Content, Credibility, and Usability, 183 Studies In Health Technology and Information (proceedings of 2013 Conference On Information Technology And Communications In Health) 87-92 (2013) (Co-authored by: Ava Amini, David W. Birnbaum, and David A. Hyman).

• Tension Between Quality Measurement, Public Quality Reporting, and Pay for Performance, 309 Jama 349 (January 23/30, 2013) (Co-authored by: Steven A. Farmer, and Robert O. Bonow).

• How Do the Elderly Fare in Medical Malpractice Litigation, Before and After Tort Reform? Evidence from Texas, 14 American Law and Economics Review 561-600 (2012) (Co-authored by: Myungho Paik, David A. Hyman, William M. Sage, and Charles M. Silver).

Contributions to Books

• Public Reporting of Hospital Infection Rates: Ranking the States on Report and Website Content, Credibility, and Usability, in Proceedings of 2013 Conference On Information Technology and Communications in Health (Co-authored by: Ava Amini, David W. Birnbaum, and David A. Hyman).

Working Papers

• The Effect of Health Insurance on Near-Elderly Health and Mortality (Co-authored by: Kate Litvak, José-Antonio Espin-Sánchez, and Eric French).

• Methods for Multicountry Studies of Corporate Governance (and Evidence from the BRIKT Countries) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson De Carvalho, Vikramaditya S. Khanna, Woochan Kim and B. Burcin Yurtoglu).

2012

Articles

• Is Delaware Losing Its Cases?, 9 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 605-656 (2012) (Co-authored by: John Armour and Brian Cheffins).

• The Effect of Board Structure on Firm Value: A Multiple Identification Strategy Approach Using Korean Data, 104 Journal of Financial Economics 203-226 (2012) (Co-authored by: Woochan Kim).

• Equity Decoupling and Empty Voting: The TELLUS Zero-Premium Share Swap, M&a Lawyer 1, 5-9 (October 2012).

• Delaware Corporate Litigation and the Fragmentation of the Plaintiff's Bar, 2012 Columbia Business Law Review 427-501 (Co-authored by: Brian Cheffins and John Armour).

• Public Reporting of HAI Rates: What We (Mostly Don't) Know, 17 Clinical Governance 124-133 (2012).

• Will Tort Reform Bend the Health Care Cost Curve: Evidence from Texas, 9 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 173-216 (2012) (Co-authored by: Myungho Paik, David A. Hyman, and Charles Silver).

• Delaware's Balancing Act, 87 Indiana Law Review 1345-1405 (2012) (Co-authored by: John Armour and Brian Cheffins).

• What Matters and for Which Firms for Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets? Evidence from Brazil (and Other BRIK Countries), 2011 Journal of Corporate Finance doi:10,1016/j.jcorpfin.2011.10.001 (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, and Érica Gorga).

Contributions to Books

• Self-Dealing by Corporate Insiders: Legal Constraints and Loopholes, in Research Handbook On The Economics of Corporate Law 417-441 (2012) (Co-authored by: Vladimir Atanasov, and Conrad Ciccotello).

2011

Articles

• Law and Tunneling, 37 Journal of Corporation Law 1-49 (2011) (Co-authored by: Vladimir Atanasov and Conrad Ciccotello).

• Shareholder Suits and Outside Director Liability: The Case of Korea, 10 Journal of Korean Law 325 (2011) (Co-authored by: Brian Cheffins and Michael Klausner).

• Settlement at Policy Limits and Insurer Duty to Settle: Evidence From Texas, 8 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 48-84 (2011) (Co-authored by: David Hyman, and Charles Silver).

2010

Articles

• The Relation Between Firm-Level Corporate Governance and Market Value: A Study of India, 11 Emerging Markets Review 319-340 (2010) (Co-authored by: N. Balasubramanian, and Vikramaditya Khanna ).

• Corporate Governance in Brazil , 11 Emerging Markets Review 21-38 (2010) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, and Erica Christina Rocha Gorga).

• How Does Law Affect Finance? An Examination of Equity Tunneling in Bulgaria, 96 Journal of Financial Economics 155-173 (2010) (Co-authored by: Vladimir Atanasov, Conrad Ciccotello, and Stanley Gyoshev ).

• The Corporate Governance of Privately Controlled Brazilian Firms , 7 Revista Brasileira De Finanças 385-428 (2009) (Co-authored by: Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, and Erica Christina Rocha Gorga ).

• Private Enforcement of Corporate Law: A Comparative Empirical Analysis of the UK and the US , 6 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 687-722 (2009) (Co-authored by: John Armour, Brian Cheffins, and Richard Nolan).

2009

Articles

• The Effects of “Early Offers” in Medical Malpractice Cases: Evidence from Texas, 6 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 723-767 (2009) (Co-authored by: David A. Hyman, and Charles Silver ).

Working Papers

• International Experience in Imposing Liability on Directors for Breach of Fiduciary Duty Under Company Law (Международный Опыт Привлечения К Ответственности Членов Совета Директоров Акционерных Обществ ) (Co-authored by: Anastasiya Farukshina).