American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings
American Law & Economics Association 15th Annual Meeting: The Authors' Bazaar
All members attending our Annual Meeting, whether presenting a paper or not, can post up to three of their papers in our on-line Authors' Bazaar. The Bazaar is an attractive way to get widespread exposure for your work. The papers and/or abstracts that are currently available for downloading are listed below.
Available Papers from "The Authors' Bazaar"
Torts and the Protection of Legally Recognized Interests, Sandra Hoffmann and W. Michael Hanemann (June 14, 2005)
Norms in Law and Economics, Eric Bennett Rasmusen (May 5, 2005)
Being Soft on Tort: Optimal Negligence Rule With Limited Assets, Fernando Gomez (May 5, 2005)
Economic Regulation and Social Regulation, Eric Bennett Rasmusen (May 5, 2005)
Exploring Economic and Democratic Theories of Litigation: Differences between Individual and Organizational Litigants in the Disposition of Federal Civil Cases, Gillian K. Hadfield (May 5, 2005)
Feminism, Fairness and Welfare: An Invitation to Feminist Law-and-Economics, Gillian K. Hadfield (May 5, 2005)
Known Unknowns: The Illusion of Terrorism Insurance, Michelle Boardman (May 5, 2005)
The Role of Groups in Norm Transformation: A Dramatic Sketch, in Three Parts, Robert B. Ahdieh (May 5, 2005)
Between Dialogue and Decree: International Review of National Courts, Robert B. Ahdieh (May 5, 2005)
Law's Signal: A Cueing Theory of Law in Market Transition, Robert B. Ahdieh (May 5, 2005)
Transitions in Property Law: Lessons from Water Law Applied to Commons and Property Rights in Telecommunications Spectrum, Dale B. Thompson and Erik Hammarlund (May 5, 2005)
Why "Bad" Patents Survive in the Market and How Should We Change?--The Private and Social Costs of Patents, Jay P. Kesan (May 5, 2005)
The Expressive Power of Adjudication, Richard H. McAdams (May 5, 2005)
Judicial Review Standards and Litigation Frequency: An Empirical Study of Community Association Decisions and the Business Judgment Rule, Jay Weiser (May 3, 2005)
Moody Investi:ng and the Supreme Court: Rethinking the Materiality of Information & the Reasonableness of Investors, Peter H. Huang (May 3, 2005)
Contracts, Holdup, and Legal Intervention, Steven Shavell (May 3, 2005)
What Type of Disputes are Best Suited for Alternative Dispute Resolution - An Analysis in the Space of the Odds of Litigation, Eyal Erenberg (May 3, 2005)
EU enlargement with reversed priorities, Ernst M.H. Hirsch Ballin (May 3, 2005)
Does Ideology (and Gender) Matter for Appellate Decision-Making in Canada: A Study of the Ontario Court for Appeal from 1990-2003, Moin A. Yahya (May 3, 2005)
The Limits of Lawyering: Legal Opinions in Structured Finance, Steven L. Schwarcz (May 3, 2005)
Temporal Perspectives: Resolving the Conflict Between Current and Future Investors, Steven L. Schwarcz (May 3, 2005)
The Confused U.S. Framework for Foreign-Bank Insolvency: An Open Research Agenda, Steven L. Schwarcz (May 3, 2005)
Wall Street and Vine: Hollywood's View of Business, Larry E. Ribstein (May 3, 2005)
Initial Reflections on the Law and Economics of Blogging, Larry E. Ribstein (May 3, 2005)
Unwelcome Benefits: Why Welfare Beneficiaries Reject Government Aid?, Barak Y. Orbach (May 3, 2005)
Uniform Prices for Differentiated Goods: The Case of the Movie Theater, Barak Y. Orbach and Liran Einav (May 3, 2005)
Penalty Defaults in Family Law: The Case of Child Custody, Margaret F. Brinig (May 3, 2005)
Political Institutions and Private Property, Daniel H. Cole (May 3, 2005)
Privacy, Rationality, and Temptation: A Theory of Willpower Norms, Katherine J. Strandburg (May 3, 2005)
Curiosity-Driven Research and University Technology Transfer, Katherine J. Strandburg (May 3, 2005)
Cash for Kidneys: Utlilizing Incentives to End America's Organ Shortage, Steve P. Calandrillo (May 3, 2005)
Vanishing Vaccinations: Why Are So Many Americans Opting Out of Vaccinating Their Children?, Steve P. Calandrillo (May 3, 2005)
Optimal Discretion in the Application of Rules, Steven Shavell (May 3, 2005)
Real Options and the Other Liquidation Decision, Stephen J. Lubben (May 3, 2005)
Distributive Injustice(s) in American Health Care, Clark Havighurst and Barak D. Richman (May 3, 2005)
Shopping for Gucci on Canal Street: Reflections on Status Consumption, Intellectual Property and the Incentive Thesis, Jonathan Barnett (May 3, 2005)
The Regulation Of the Airline Industry in Brazil, lucia h. salgado dr (May 3, 2005)
Saving Customary International Law, Andrew T. Guzman (May 3, 2005)
Competing for Capital: The Diffusion of Bilateral Investment Treaties, 1960-2000, Andrew T. Guzman, Zachary Elkins, and Beth Simmons (May 3, 2005)
The Effect of Judicial Independence on Courts: Evidence from the American States, Daniel Berkowitz and Karen Clay (May 3, 2005)
E Pluribus Unum--Out of Many, One: Why the United States Needs a Single Financial Services Agency, Elizabeth F. Brown (May 3, 2005)
When Little Things Mean a Lot: On the Inefficiency of Item Pricing Laws, Mark E. Bergen, Daniel Levy, Sourav Ray, Paul Rubin, and Benjamin Zeliger (May 3, 2005)
Driving With The Brakes On: Guido Calabresi's Failed 1970 Auto Insurance Case Against Safety-Device Mandates, Patrick Butler (May 3, 2005)
Prevention of money laundering in the European Union and Slovene Criminal Law, Vid Jakulin (May 3, 2005)
EU-enlargement with reversed priorities [final text], Ernst M.H. Hirsch Ballin (May 3, 2005)
Bankruptcy Decisionmaking: An Empirical Study of Continuation Bias in Small Business Bankruptcies, Edward R. Morrison (May 3, 2005)
When Should Contracts Be Assignable? An Economic Analysis, Jared G. Kramer (May 3, 2005)
Political Institutions, Judicial Review, and Private Property, Daniel H. Cole (May 3, 2005)
Contingent Fees, Signaling and Settlement Authority, Shmuel Leshem (May 3, 2005)
The Role of Underwriters in Non-traditional Offerings: Empirical Evidence, Anita I. Anand and Lewis D. Johnson (May 3, 2005)
VOLUNTARY VS MANDATORY CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: TOWARDS AN OPTIMAL REGULATORY FRAMEWORK, Anita I. Anand (May 3, 2005)
Eminent Domain Economics: Should "Just Compensation" be Abolished, and Would "Takings Insurance" Work Instead?, Steve P. Calandrillo (May 2, 2005)