This collection houses law and economics working papers, sometimes cross-posted on SSRN. For more information, see the program webpage.

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Papers from 2012

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U.S. Treaty Anti-Avoidance Rules: An Overview and Assessment, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Oz Halabi

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International Taxation and Competitiveness: Introduction and Overview, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Nicola Sartori

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The Past and Future of Deinstitutionalization Litigation, Samuel R. Bagenstos

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Has Insider Trading Become More Rampant in the United States? Evidence from Takeovers, Laura N. Beny and Nejat Seyhun

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SEC Investigations and Securities Class Actions: An Empirical Comparison, Stephen Choi and Adam Pritchard

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Wisdom of the Ages or Dead-Hand Control? Patentable Subject Matter for Diagnostic Methods After In re Bilski, Rebecca Sue Eisenberg

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"Perpetual Trusts: The Walking Dead" and "Congress Should Effectively Curb GST Exemption for Perpetual Trusts.", Calvin H. Johnson and Lawrence W. Waggoner

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Contribution of a Built-In Loss to a Partnership, Douglas A. Kahn

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Sales Between a Partnership And Non-Partners, Douglas A. Kahn

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University of Michigan Bar Passage 2004-2006: A Failure to Replicate Professor Sander's Results, With Implications for Affirmative Action, Richard O. Lempert

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Outsourcing Regulation: How Insurance Reduces Moral Hazard, Kyle D. Logue and Omri Ben-Shahar

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Facebook, the JOBS Act, and Abolishing IPOs, Adam C. Pritchard

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Launching the Insider Trading Revolution: SEC v. Capital Gains Research Bureau, Adam C. Pritchard

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Revisiting 'Truth in Securities Revisited': Abolishing IPOs and Harnessing Private Markets in the Public Good, Adam C. Pritchard

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Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases, Sonja Starr

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Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice Process: Prosecutors, Judges, and the Effects of United States v. Booker, Sonja Starr and M. Marit Rehavi

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Effectively Curbing the GST Exemption for Perpetual Trusts, Lawrence W. Waggoner

Papers from 2011

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Money on the Table: Why the U.S. Should Tax Inbound Capital Gains, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Real Time Audit – It is the Time to Act?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Oz Halabi

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The Effective Tax Rate of the Largest US and EU Multinationals, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Yaron Lahav

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Why It’s Called the Affordable Care Act, Nicholas Bagley

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Preferences for Banking and Payment Services among Low- and Moderate-Income Households, Michael S. Barr, Jane Dokko, and Eleanor Feit

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Rethinking Merger Efficiencies, Daniel A. Crane

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Search Neutrality as an Antitrust Principle, Daniel A. Crane

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Exclusion from Income of Compensation for Services and Pooling of Labor Occurring in a Noncommercial Setting, Douglas A. Kahn

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Free Rider – A Justification for Mandatory Medical Insurance under Health Care Reform?, Douglas A. Kahn and Jeffrey H. Kahn

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The Unaffordable Health Act – A Response to Professors Bagley and Horwitz, Douglas A. Kahn and Jeffrey H. Kahn

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Toward Transatlantic Convergence in Financial Regulation, Hwa-Jin Kim

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Antibiotic Resistance, Jessica Litman

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Ability to Pay, John A. E. Pottow

Papers from 2010

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Déjà Vu All Over Again? Reflections on Auerbach's 'Modern Corporate Tax', Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Taxation as Regulation: Carbon Tax, Health Care Tax, Bank Tax and Other Regulatory Taxes, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Tax Convergence and Globalization, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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The Case against Taxing Citizens, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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The Redemption Puzzle, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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To Be or Not to Be? Citizens United and the Corporate Form, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Formulary Apportionment – Myths and Prospects, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Ilan Benshalom

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The Case for Dividend Deduction, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Amir C. Chenchinski

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Rethinking Treaty-Shopping: Lessons for the European Union, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Christiana Hji Panayi

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The Relation between Firm-Level Corporate Governance and Market Value: a Study of India, Bala Balasubramanian, Bernard S. Black, and Vikramaditya Khanna

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The Failure of Mandated Disclosure, Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider

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The Price of Pay to Play in Securities Class Actions, Stephen Choi, Drew T. Johnson-Skinner, and Adam C. Pritchard

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Did We Avoid Historical Failures of Antitrust Enforcement During the 2008-09 Financial Crisis?, Daniel A. Crane

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Predation Analysis and the FTC’s Case against Intel, Daniel A. Crane

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Reflections on Section 5 of the FTC Act and the FTC’s Case against Intel, Daniel A. Crane

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Toward a Unified Theory of Exclusionary Vertical Restraints, Daniel A. Crane and Graciela Miralles

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Are Investors’ Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Theory and Evidence, Alicia J. Davis

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Harry Potter and the Trouble with Tort Theory, Scott Hershovitz

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The Attack on Nonprofit Status: A Charitable Assessment, James R. Hines Jr., Jill R. Horwitz, and Austin Nichols

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Corporate Law in the Shanghai People's Courts, 1992-2008: Judicial Autonomy in a Contemporary Authoritarian State, Nicholas C. Howson

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Review of 'Understanding Labor and Employment Law in China' by Ronald C. Brown, Nicholas C. Howson

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The Development of Modern Corporate Governance in China and India, Nicholas C. Howson and Vikramaditya Khanna

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Narrowing the Tax Gap Through Presumptive Taxation, Kyle D. Logue and Gustavo G. Vettori

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The Rise in Elder Bankruptcy Filings and Failure of U.S. Bankruptcy Law, John A. E. Pottow

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The Challenges of Calculating the Benefits of Providing Access to Legal Services, J. J. Prescott

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Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements, J. J. Prescott, Kathryn E. Spier, and Albert H. Yoon

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Populist Retribution and International Competition in Financial Services Regulation, Adam C. Pritchard

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Securities Law in the Roberts Court: Agenda or Indifference?, Adam C. Pritchard

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The Effect of Economic Integration with China on the Future of American Corporate Law, Joseph Vining