SSRN University of Southern California Center for Law & Social Science (CLASS) Law & Economics Research Paper Series

1.

Demography and the Long-Run Predictability of the Stock Market

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C02-21; Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1380

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 24 Sep 2002

Working Paper Series

John Geanakoplos, Michael J. P. Magill and Martine Quinzii

Yale University - Cowles Foundation, University of Southern California - Department of Economics and University of California, Davis - Department of Economics

Downloads 5,102

2.

'Competitiveness' Has Nothing to Do With It

144 Tax Notes 1055 (September 1, 2014), USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 14-34, USC CLASS Research Paper No. 14-26

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Edward D. Kleinbard

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 4,270

3.

Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Tax Plan

Tax Notes, October 24, 2011, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C11-17, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 11-24

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013

Working Paper Series

Edward D. Kleinbard

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 4,158

4.

The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-12

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Jul 2001

Working Paper Series

Timur Kuran

Duke University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,825

5.

Stateless Income

Florida Tax Review, Vol. 11, p. 699, 2011, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C11-1, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 11-6

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 26 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Edward D. Kleinbard

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 3,547

6.

When Are Outside Directors Effective?

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C07-13, Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. MKT 02-09

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 26 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Ran Duchin, John G. Matsusaka and Oguzhan Ozbas

University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department

Downloads 2,330

7.

Are Dividends Disappearing? Dividend Concentration and the Consolidation of Earnings

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C02-17; USC FBE Working Paper No. 02-9

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Aug 2002

Working Paper Series

Harry DeAngelo, Linda DeAngelo and Douglas J. Skinner

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,280

8.

Through a Latte, Darkly: Starbucks's Stateless Income Planning

Tax Notes, June 24, 2013, pp. 1515-1535, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C13-9, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 13-10

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 May 2013 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Edward D. Kleinbard

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 2,139

9.

Scale Economies and Synergies in Horizontal Merger Analysis

UC Berkeley, Center for Competition Policy Working Paper No. CPC00-15

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Feb 2004

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Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

Downloads 1,760

10.

Do Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation?

IEER Working Paper No. 34; and USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-3

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Jun 2000

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Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

University of Zurich - Department of Economics and CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,673

11.

Doubling Down: Inequality in Responsiveness and the Policy Preferences of Elected Officials

USC CLASS Research Paper No. 14-17

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Matthew S. Mendez and Christian R. Grose

affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Southern California

Downloads 1,672

12.

The Lessons of Stateless Income

Tax Law Review, Vol. 65, p. 99, 2011, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C11-2, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 11-7

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 26 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Edward D. Kleinbard

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 1,659

13.

Finding Certainty in Cert: An Empirical Analysis of the Factors Involved in Supreme Court Certiorari Decisions from 2001-2015

USC CLASS Research Paper No. 16-5, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-5, 61 Villanova Law Review 795 (2016)

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Adam Feldman and Alexander Kappner

Columbia University - Law School and Independent

Downloads 1,566

14.

Cultural Conflict and Merger Failure: An Experimental Approach

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-10

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Aug 2001

Working Paper Series

Colin Camerer and Roberto A. Weber

California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Zurich - Department of Economics

Downloads 1,535

15.

Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C06-5, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 06-10, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 901769

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 12 May 2006 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Ehud Kamar, Pinar Karaca-Mandic and Eric L. Talley

Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law, RAND Corporation and Columbia University - School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,483

16.

Sarbanes-Oxley's Effects on Small Firms: What is the Evidence?

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C07-9, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 588, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 07-8

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Jun 2007

Working Paper Series

Ehud Kamar, Pinar Karaca-Mandic and Eric L. Talley

Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law, RAND Corporation and Columbia University - School of Law

Downloads 1,439

17.

The Provision of Public Goods Under Islamic Law: Origins, Contributions, and Limitations of the Waqf System

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-13

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 27 Jul 2001

Working Paper Series

Timur Kuran

Duke University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,358

18.

Derivatives on TV: A Tale of Two Derivatives Debacles in Prime-Time

U San Diego Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08; U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper 01-04; USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 01-1

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 16 Feb 2001

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Peter H. Huang, Frank Partnoy and Kimberly D. Krawiec

University of Colorado Law School, University of San Diego School of Law and Duke University School of Law

Downloads 1,357

19.

Behavioral Economics and the SEC

Michigan Law Econ. Paper No. 03-002;Georgetown Law Econ. Paper No. 389560;UC Berkeley Public Law Paper No. 115;CLEO Research Paper No. C03-6

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 09 Feb 2004

Working Paper Series

Stephen J. Choi and Adam C. Pritchard

New York University School of Law and University of Michigan Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,353

20.

Distributive and Corrective Justice in the Tort Law of Accidents

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 74, No. 193, 2000

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 May 2001

Accepted Paper Series

Gregory C. Keating

University of Southern California Law School

Downloads 1,336

21.

Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation and Securities Litigation

USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 04-7; and USC CLEO Research Paper No. C04-4

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 29 Apr 2004

Working Paper Series

Eric L. Talley and Gudrun Johnsen

Columbia University - School of Law and University of Iceland - Faculty of Business Administration

Downloads 1,212

22.

Monitoring: The Behavioral Economics of Inducing Agents' Compliance with Legal Rules

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-7; Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 276121

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Jul 2001

Working Paper Series

Donald C. Langevoort

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 1,179

23.

Complexity and Contract

USC Law School, Olin Working Paper No. 00-1

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Feb 2000

Working Paper Series

W. Bentley MacLeod

Columbia University - Department of Economics

Downloads 1,167

24.

Corporate Shams

New York University Law Review, Vol. 87, 2012, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-09, USC Law and Economics Research Paper No. C12-8, USC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-12

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 05 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Joshua D. Blank and Nancy C. Staudt

New York University School of Law and Washington University Law School

Downloads 1,085

25.

The Myth of State Competition in Corporate Law

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 55, p. 679, 2002

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 02 Jan 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Marcel Kahan and Ehud Kamar

New York University School of Law and Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law

Downloads 1,075

26.

What is Law? A Coordination Account of the Characteristics of Legal Order

The Journal of Legal Analysis, Vol 4

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast

USC Law School and Department of Economics and Stanford University, Department of Political Science

Downloads 1,020

27.

Stateless Income's Challenge to Tax Policy

Tax Notes, Forthcoming, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C11-8, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 11-13

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 01 Jul 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Edward D. Kleinbard

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 997

28.

The Effect of Affect on Economic and Strategic Decision Making

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-5

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Jan 2000

Working Paper Series

Benjamin E. Hermalin and Alice M. Isen

University of California, Berkeley and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Downloads 991

29.

Toward an Agenda for Behavioral Public Finance

USC Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-25; and USC CLEO Research Paper No. C04-22

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Sep 2004

Working Paper Series

Edward J. McCaffery and Joel B. Slemrod

USC Gould School of Law and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Downloads 989

30.

Beyond Master-Servant: A Critique of Vicarious Liability

NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-028; and USC Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-28, EXPLORING TORT LAW, Stuart Madden, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2005

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Dec 2004 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Jennifer Arlen and W. Bentley MacLeod

New York University School of Law and Columbia University - Department of Economics

Downloads 940

31.

Mental Illness and the Death Penalty

California Criminal Law Review, Vol. 2, Article No. 3, 2000

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Apr 2000

Accepted Paper Series

Christopher Slobogin

Vanderbilt University - Law School

Downloads 930

32.

Do the Merits Matter Less After the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act?

NYU Law & Economics Paper No. 03-04, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C04-11, USC Law School, Olin Paper No. 04-16, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 558285

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 23 Jun 2004

Working Paper Series

Stephen J. Choi

New York University School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 926

33.

Thinking about Tax

USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 04-13; and USC CLEO Research Paper No. C04-10

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Jul 2004

Working Paper Series

Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron

USC Gould School of Law and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology

Downloads 919

34.

The Theory of Enterprise Liability and Common Law Strict Liability

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 54, P. 1285, 2001

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 Jul 2001

Accepted Paper Series

Gregory C. Keating

University of Southern California Law School

Downloads 903

35.

Bundling and Entrenchment

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 123, No. 7, pp. 1551-1595, 2010, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 659, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C10-2

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Ehud Kamar

Harvard Law School and Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law

Downloads 892

36.

An Economist's Guide to U.S. v Microsoft

UC Berkeley, Center for Competition Policy Working Paper No. CPC01-19

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Feb 2004

Working Paper Series

Richard Gilbert and Michael L. Katz

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Economic Analysis & Policy Group

Downloads 875

37.

Contract Law is Not Enough: The Many Legal Institutions That Support Contractual Commitments

HANDBOOK OF NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS, Claude Menard and Mary Shirley, eds., Kluwer Press, 2004

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Apr 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Gillian K. Hadfield

USC Law School and Department of Economics

Downloads 855

38.

Behavioral Public Finance (PDF of Powerpoint Slide Presentation)

USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 08-17, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C08-13

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 30 Jul 2008

Working Paper Series

Edward J. McCaffery

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 841

39.

Corporate Inversions and the Unbundling of Regulatory Competition

101 Va. L. Rev. 1649-1751 (2015), UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2511723, USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS14-32, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-475

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 20 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2016

Working Paper Series

Eric L. Talley

Columbia University - School of Law

Downloads 794

40.

The Appraisal Remedy and Merger Premiums

USC CLEO Research Paper No. 99-5

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Mar 1999

Working Paper Series

Paul G. Mahoney and Mark Weinstein

University of Virginia School of Law and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department

Downloads 785

41.

Transparency in the Budget Process

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 115, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C06-2, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. C06-2, U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 278

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Jan 2006

Working Paper Series

Elizabeth Garrett and Adrian Vermeule

USC Gould School of Law and Harvard Law School

Downloads 784

42.

The Story of Paramount Communications v. QVC Network: Everything is Personal

CORPORATE STORIES, J. Mark Ramseyer, ed., Foundation Press, 2009, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C08-23, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 08-28

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 18 Dec 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Ehud Kamar

Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law

Downloads 778

43.

Caring About Sunk Costs: A Behavioral Solution to Hold-up Problems with Small Stakes

USC Law School, Olin Working Paper No. 99-19

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Jan 2000

Working Paper Series

H. Lorne Carmichael and W. Bentley MacLeod

Queen's University and Columbia University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 773

44.

Heuristics and Biases in Thinking about Tax

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper 03-31; USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 03-22; and USC CLEO Research Paper No. C03-23

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Nov 2003

Working Paper Series

Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron

USC Gould School of Law and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology

Downloads 755

45.

Job Characteristics and the Form of Compensation

USC Law School, Olin Working Paper No. 99-10

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 16 Jun 1999

Working Paper Series

W. Bentley MacLeod and Daniel Parent

Columbia University - Department of Economics and McGill University - Department of Economics

Downloads 737

46.

Why Tax Revenues Must Rise

USC Law and Economics Research Papers Series No. C13-1, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series, No. 13-1

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Edward D. Kleinbard

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 731

47.

The Supercharged IPO

Vanderbilt Law Review, Forthcoming, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C13-6, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 13-6

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 21 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Victor Fleischer and Nancy C. Staudt

University of San Diego School of Law and Washington University Law School

Downloads 704

48.

Anti-Bankruptcy

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 119, p. 648, 2010, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C09-8, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 09-9, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 470

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013

Working Paper Series

Douglas G. Baird and Robert K. Rasmussen

University of Chicago Law School and University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Downloads 686

49.

Ethics in International Environmental Law

Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, 2006

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Apr 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Christopher D. Stone

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 668

50.

Transaction Costs of Collusion and Organizational Design

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-17

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Aug 2001

Working Paper Series

Antoine Faure-Grimaud, Jean-Jacques Laffont and David Martimort

London School of Economics, University of Southern California - Department of Economics (Deceased) and University of Toulouse 1 - Industrial Economic Institute (IDEI)

Downloads 646

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