This collection includes law and economics working papers posted to a Bepress working paper series before the University of Michigan Law School Repository was implemented.

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Papers from 2009

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Between Formulary Apportionment and the OECD Guidelines: A Proposal for Reconciliation, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Corporate and International Tax Reform: Long-, Medium-, and Short Term Proposals, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Designing a Federal VAT: Summary and Recommendations, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Structuring a US Federal VAT, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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The Obama International Tax Plan: A Major Step Forward, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Attorneys as Arbitrators, Stephen Choi, Jill Fisch, and Adam C. Pritchard

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Do Individual Investors Affect Share Price Accuracy? Some Preliminary Evidence, Alicia Davis Evans

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Evolutionary Theory and the Origin of Property Rights, James E. Krier

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Low Probability/High Consequence Events: Dilemmas of Damage Compensation, Richard O. Lempert

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A New Era of Tax Enforcement: From 'Big Stick' to Responsive Regulation, Sagit Leviner

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Coordinating Sanctions in Torts, Kyle D. Logue

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Of Coase, Calabresi, and Optimal Tax Liability, Kyle D. Logue and Joel B. Slemrod

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London as Delaware?, Adam C. Pritchard

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The Supreme Court’s Impact on Securities Class Actions: An Empirical Assessment of Tellabs, Adam C. Pritchard and Stephen Choi

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Securities Class Actions Move North: A Doctrinal and Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Actions in Canada, Adam C. Pritchard and Janis P. Sarra

Papers from 2008

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Back to the Future? The Potential Revival of Territoriality, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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The OECD Harmful Tax Competition Report: A 10th Anniversary Retrospective, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Allocating Business Profits for Tax Purposes: A Proposal to Adopt a Formulary Profit Split, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Kimberly A. Clausing, and Michael C. Durst

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What Explains Insider Trading Restrictions? International Evidence on the Political Economy of Insider Trading Regulation, Laura N. Beny

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Accredited Indians: Increasing the Flow of Private Equity into Indian Country as a Domestic Emerging Market, Gavin Clarkson

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Corporate Governance, Enforcement, and Firm Value: Evidence from India, Dhammika Dharmapala and Vikramaditya Khanna

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Do Delaware CEOs Get Fired?, Murali Jagannathan and Adam C. Pritchard

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Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary, Daniel Martin Katz and Derek Stafford

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The Evolution of Property Rights: A Synthetic Overview, James E. Krier

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The Significance of Statistical Significance: Two Authors Restate An Incontrovertible Caution. Why a Book?, Richard O. Lempert

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Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?, J. J. Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff

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China, Business Law, and Finance -- Accession to the World Trade Organization, Joseph Vining

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The Resilience of Law, Joseph Vining

Papers from 2007

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Private Regulation of Insider Trading in The Shadow of Lax Public Enforcement (and a Strong Neighbor): Evidence from Canadian Firms, Anita I. Anand and Laura N. Beny

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Tax Competition, Tax Arbitrage, and the Internation Tax Regime, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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The Rise and Fall of Arm's Length: A Study in the Evolution of U.S. International Taxation, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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A PROPOSAL TO ADOPT FORMULARY APPORTIONMENT FOR CORPORATE INCOME TAXATION: THE HAMILTON PROJECT, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Kimberly Clausing

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Business Income (Article 7 OECD MC), Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Kimberly A. Clausing

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THE PRISONERS’ (PLEA BARGAIN) DILEMMA, Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar

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Paying to Save: Tax Withholding and Asset Allocation among Low- and Moderate-Income Taxpayers, Michael S. Barr and Jane Dokko

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How to Repair Unconscionable Contracts, Omri Ben-Shahar

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Do Investors in Controlled Firms Value Insider Trading Laws? International Evidence, Laura N. Beny

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Can Corporate Governance Reforms Increase Firms' Market Values: Evidence from India, Bernard S. Black and Vikramaditya Khanna

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The Screening Effect of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Stephen Choi, Karen K. Nelson, and Adam C. Pritchard

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The Investor Compensation Fund, Alicia Davis Evans

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What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix, Jill R. Horwitz and Austin Nichols

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Genes as Tags: The Tax Implications of Widely Available Genetic Information, Kyle D. Logue and Joel B. Slemrod

Papers from 2006

Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Tax Behavior, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Insider Trading Laws and Stock Markets Around the World (Former title: Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence), Laura N. Beny

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Tribal Bondage: Statutory Shackles and Regulatory Restraints on Tribal Economic Development, Gavin Clarkson

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Affirmative Action in American Law Schools: A Critical Response to Richard Sander's "A Reply to Critics", Richard O. Lempert, William C. Kidder, Timothy T. Clydesdale, and David L. Chambers

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Lawful Personal Use, Jessica D. Litman

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Optimal Tax Compliance and Penalties When the Law Is Uncertain, Kyle D. Logue

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Greed and Pride in International Bankruptcy: The Problems and Proposed Solutions to “Local Interests”, John A. E. Pottow

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Improving Criminal Jury Decision Making After the Blakely Revolution, J. J. Prescott and Sonja Starr

Papers from 2005

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The Cyclical Transformations of the Coporate Form: A Historical Pespective on Corporate Social Responsibility, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Credit Where It Counts: Maintaining a Strong Community Reinvestment Act, Michael S. Barr

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Credit Where It Counts: The Community Reinvestment Act and Its Critics, Michael S. Barr

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Microfinance and Financial Development, Michael S. Barr

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Modes of Credit Market Regulation, Michael S. Barr

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Globalization, Law & Development: Introduction and Overview, Michael S. Barr and Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Institutions and Inclusion in Saving Policy, Michael S. Barr and Michael Sherraden

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"Boilerplate": An Introduction, Omri Ben-Shahar

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How Liability Distorts Incentives of Manufacturers to Recall Products, Omri Ben-Shahar

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Boilerplate and Economic Power in Auto Manufacturing Contracts, Omri Ben-Shahar and James J. White

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Learning the Wrong Lessons from "An American Tragedy", David Bernstein

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The Real Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action in American Law Schools: An Empirical Critique of Richard Sander's Study, David L. Chambers, Timothy T. Clydesdale, William C. Kidder, and Richard O. Lempert

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Partial Ban on Plea Bargains, Oren Gazal

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The Deregulation of International Trucking in the European Union: Form and Effect, Francine Lafontaine and Laura M. Valeri

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Procedural Incrementalism: A Model for International Bankruptcy, John A. E. Pottow

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The Irrational Auditor and Irrational Liability, Adam C. Pritchard

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Rev. Proc. 2005-24 and the UPC Elective Share, Lawrence W. Waggoner

Papers from 2004

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Corporations, Society and the State: A Defense of the Corporate Tax, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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International Tax as International Law, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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The Pitfalls of International Integration: A Comment on the Bush Proposal and Its Aftermath, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Credible Coercion, Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar

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Banking the Poor, Michael S. Barr

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Banking the Poor: Policies to Bring Low-Income Americans Into the Financial Mainstream, Michael S. Barr

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"Agreeing to Disagree": Filling Gaps in Deliberately Incomplete Contracts, Omri Ben-Shahar

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An Ex-Ante View of the Battle of the Forms: Inducing Parties to Draft Reasonable Terms, Omri Ben-Shahar

Contracts Without Consent: Exploring a New Basis for Contractual Liability, Omri Ben-Shahar

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A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Agency and Market Theories of Insider Trading, Laura N. Beny

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Should Issuers be on the Hook for Laddering? An Empirical Analysis of the IPO Market Manipulation Litigation, Stephen Choi and Adam C. Pritchard

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Screening, Plea Bargains and the Innocent Problem, Oren Gazal

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Plea Bargains Only for the Guilty, Oren Gazal and Oren Bar-Gill

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Why We Need the Independent Sector: The Behavior, Law, & Ethics of Not-for-Profit Hospitals, Jill R. Horwitz

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Corporate Defendants and the Protections of Criminal Procedure: An Economic Analysis, Vikramaditya S. Khanna

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Economic Theories of Bundling and their Policy Implications in Abuse Cases: An Assessment in Light of the Mircrosoft Case, Kai-Uwe Kuhn

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The Coordinated Effects of Mergers in Differentiated Products Market, Kai-Uwe Kuhn

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Sex, Shame, and the Law: An Economic Perspective on Megan's Law, Doron Teichman

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The Market for Criminal Justice: Federalism, Crime Control and Jurisdictional Competition, Doron Teichman

Papers from 2003

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Pain-and-Suffering Damages in Tort Law: Revisiting the Theoretical Framework and the Empirical Evidence, Ronen Avraham

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Measuring Recovery for Non-Contractual Investment, Omri Ben-Shahar and Robert A. Mikos

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Behavioral Economics and the SEC, Stephen Choi and Adam C. Pritchard

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Against Preemption: How Federalism Can Improve the National Legislative Process, Roderick Hills

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Following the Man on the Clapham Omnibus: Social Science Evidence in Malpractice Litigation, Richard O. Lempert

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Insuring Against Terrorism and Crime, Saul Levmore and Kyle D. Logue

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Legal Transitions, Rational Expectations, and Legal Progress, Kyle D. Logue

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What Counts as Fraud? An Empirical Study of Motions To Dismiss Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Adam C. Pritchard and Hillary Sale

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An Agency Costs Theory of Trust Law, Robert H. Sitkoff

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Politics and the Business Corporation, Robert H. Sitkoff

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Trust Law, Corporate Law, and Capital Market Efficiency, Robert H. Sitkoff

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Dying to Get out of Debt: Consumer Insolvency Law and Suicide in Japan, Mark West

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Employment Market Institutions and Japanese Working Hours, Mark West