University of Michigan Legal Working Paper Series
Program in Law and Economics
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Papers from 2012
Profits v. Purpose: Hybrid Companies and the Charitable Dollar, Jill R. Horwitz and Rachel Culley (May 16, 2012)
Outsourcing Regulation: How Insurance Reduces Moral Hazard, Kyle D. Logue and Omri Ben-Shahar (April 10, 2012)
The Past and Future of Deinstitutionalization Litigation, Samuel R. Bagenstos (February 14, 2012)
U.S. Treaty Anti-Avoidance Rules: An Overview and Assessment, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Oz Halabi (January 31, 2012)
Wisdom of the Ages or Dead-Hand Control? Patentable Subject Matter for Diagnostic Methods After In re Bilski, Rebecca Sue Eisenberg (January 9, 2012)
Papers from 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Jessica Litman (December 1, 2011)
Search Neutrality as an Antitrust Principle, Daniel A. Crane (November 18, 2011)
The Effective Tax Rate of the Largest US and EU Multinationals, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Yaron Lahav (October 24, 2011)
The Unaffordable Health Act – A Response to Professors Bagley and Horwitz, Douglas A. Kahn and Jeffrey H. Kahn (August 1, 2011)
Scandal Enforcement at the SEC: Salience and the Arc of the Option Backdating Investigations, Stephen Choi, Adam C. Pritchard, and Anat C. Wiechman (July 1, 2011)
Exclusion from Income of Compensation for Services and Pooling of Labor Occurring in a Noncommercial Setting, Douglas A. Kahn (July 1, 2011)
Real Time Audit – It is the Time to Act?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Oz Halabi (June 28, 2011)
Money on the Table: Why the U.S. Should Tax Inbound Capital Gains, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (June 3, 2011)
Toward Transatlantic Convergence in Financial Regulation, Hwa-Jin Kim (May 19, 2011)
Ability to Pay, John A. E. Pottow (May 17, 2011)
Preferences for Banking and Payment Services among Low- and Moderate-Income Households, Michael S. Barr, Jane Dokko, and Eleanor Feit (May 1, 2011)
Free Rider – A Justification for Mandatory Medical Insurance under Health Care Reform?, Douglas A. Kahn and Jeffrey H. Kahn (March 16, 2011)
Rethinking Merger Efficiencies, Daniel A. Crane (March 4, 2011)
Papers from 2010
Déjà Vu All Over Again? Reflections on Auerbach's 'Modern Corporate Tax', Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (December 17, 2010)
Are Investors’ Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Theory and Evidence, Alicia J. Davis (October 25, 2010)
Formulary Apportionment – Myths and Prospects, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Ilan Benshalom (October 16, 2010)
Toward a Unified Theory of Exclusionary Vertical Restraints, Daniel A. Crane and Graciela Miralles (October 7, 2010)
The Development of Modern Corporate Governance in China and India, Nicholas C. Howson and Vikramaditya Khanna (October 5, 2010)
Harry Potter and the Trouble with Tort Theory, Scott Hershovitz (October 5, 2010)
Securities Law in the Roberts Court: Agenda or Indifference?, Adam C. Pritchard (October 1, 2010)
The Case for Dividend Deduction, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Amir C. Chenchinski (September 25, 2010)
Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements, J.J. Prescott, Kathryn E. Spier, and Albert H. Yoon (September 1, 2010)
The Rise in Elder Bankruptcy Filings and Failure of U.S. Bankruptcy Law, John A. E. Pottow (August 31, 2010)
Taxation as Regulation: Carbon Tax, Health Care Tax, Bank Tax and Other Regulatory Taxes, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (August 23, 2010)
The Price of Pay to Play in Securities Class Actions, Stephen Choi, Drew T. Johnson-Skinner, and Adam C. Pritchard (August 18, 2010)
The Redemption Puzzle, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (July 1, 2010)
Tax Convergence and Globalization, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (July 1, 2010)
Review of 'Understanding Labor and Employment Law in China' by Ronald C. Brown, Nicholas C. Howson (June 1, 2010)
Predation Analysis and the FTC’s Case against Intel, Daniel A. Crane (May 25, 2010)
The Attack on Nonprofit Status: A Charitable Assessment, James R. Hines Jr., Jill R. Horwitz, and Austin Nichols (May 1, 2010)
The Effect of Economic Integration with China on the Future of American Corporate Law, Joseph Vining (April 13, 2010)
The Relation between Firm-Level Corporate Governance and Market Value: a Study of India, Bala Balasubramanian, Bernard S. Black, and Vikramaditya Khanna (April 1, 2010)
The Case against Taxing Citizens, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (March 31, 2010)
Narrowing the Tax Gap Through Presumptive Taxation, Kyle D. Logue and Gustavo G. Vettori (March 17, 2010)
The Failure of Mandated Disclosure, Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider (March 1, 2010)
The Challenges of Calculating the Benefits of Providing Access to Legal Services, J.J. Prescott (February 28, 2010)
Did We Avoid Historical Failures of Antitrust Enforcement During the 2008-09 Financial Crisis?, Daniel A. Crane (February 5, 2010)
To Be or Not to Be? Citizens United and the Corporate Form, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (February 1, 2010)
Populist Retribution and International Competition in Financial Services Regulation, Adam C. Pritchard (January 25, 2010)
Reflections on Section 5 of the FTC Act and the FTC’s Case against Intel, Daniel A. Crane (January 19, 2010)
Corporate Law in the Shanghai People's Courts, 1992-2008: Judicial Autonomy in a Contemporary Authoritarian State, Nicholas C. Howson (January 14, 2010)
Rethinking Treaty-Shopping: Lessons for the European Union, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Christiana HJI Panayi (January 4, 2010)