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Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS)
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Lawyer CEOs
M. Todd Henderson , Irena Hutton , Danling Jiang and Matthew Pierson
University of Chicago - Law School, Florida State University - College of Business, College of Business, Stony Brook University and Florida State University
Date Posted: February 25, 2017
Last Revised: June 22, 2017
Working Paper Series
210 downloads
An Empirical Study of the Chinese Criminal Dossier System - Focusing on the Evidence Dossier
Weimin Zuo
Sichuan University
Date Posted: February 24, 2017
Working Paper Series
19 downloads
Two-Way Selection between Flat-Fee Attorneys and Litigants: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses
Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-14
Yun-chien Chang and Su-hao Tu
Academia Sinica - Institutum Iurisprudentiae (IIAS) and Academia Sinica
Date Posted: February 15, 2017
Last Revised: June 05, 2017
Accepted Paper Series
26 downloads
Estimating the Value of Absolute Power: Evidence from Judiciary Decision Events on Controlling Shareholders in Large Business Groups
Changmin Lee and Hansoo Choi
Hanyang University - Seoul Campus and KIPF (Korea Institute of Public Finance)
Date Posted: February 15, 2017
Working Paper Series
21 downloads
How to Test Your Insider Trading Rule and Its Effectiveness?: Price Movements and the Empirical Data from Taiwan
Chien-Chung Lin and Huan-Ting Wu
National Chiao-Tung University, School of Law and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students
Date Posted: February 15, 2017
Working Paper Series
14 downloads
Does the Professional Manager Blow the Whistle on Founding Families? New Evidence on the Dark Side of Family-Controlled Firm
Hansoo Choi and Changmin Lee
KIPF (Korea Institute of Public Finance) and Hanyang University - Seoul Campus
Date Posted: February 15, 2017
Working Paper Series
16 downloads
Peer Effects on the United States Supreme Court
Richard Holden , Michael Keane and Matthew Lilley
University of New South Wales (UNSW), University of Oxford and Harvard University - Department of Economics
Date Posted: February 14, 2017
Working Paper Series
267 downloads
Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles
Ozkan Eren and Naci H. Mocan
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Department of Economics and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Department of Economics
Date Posted: February 14, 2017
Last Revised: March 17, 2017
Working Paper Series
97 downloads
Understanding Public Enforcement of Securities Law in China: An Empirical Analysis of the Enforcement Outcomes of CSRC's Regional Offices
Wenming Xu and Guangdong Xu
School of Law and Economics, China University of Political Science and Law and China University of Political Science and Law
Date Posted: February 08, 2017
Working Paper Series
44 downloads
Reason Writing Reduces Emotional Judging: Experimental Evidences from Judges in China
Zhuang Liu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Date Posted: February 07, 2017
Last Revised: June 23, 2017
Working Paper Series
14 downloads
Measuring Centrality in Legal Citation Networks – A Case Study of the HITS and PageRank Algorithms
Mattias Derlén and Johan Lindholm
Department of Law, Umeå University and Umeå University
Date Posted: February 03, 2017
Working Paper Series
28 downloads
Hong Kong's Public Enforcement Model of Investor Protection
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2017-01
David C. Donald and Paul W.H. Cheuk
Chinese University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law and Chinese University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law
Date Posted: January 20, 2017
Last Revised: January 30, 2017
Working Paper Series
80 downloads
Homeownership, Mobility, and Unemployment: Evidence from Housing Privatization
Peter Huber , Josef Montag , Hana Marie Smrčková and Petr Sunega
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), International School of Economics, Kazakh-British Technical University, University of Economics, Prague and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Date Posted: January 12, 2017
Last Revised: February 09, 2017
Working Paper Series
46 downloads
Business Courts and Firm Performance
U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 564, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 660
Jens Dammann
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
Date Posted: December 27, 2016
Last Revised: May 01, 2017
Working Paper Series
120 downloads
Procrastination in the Workplace: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office
Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-15
Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman
Duke University School of Law and The University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
Date Posted: December 21, 2016
Last Revised: April 25, 2017
Working Paper Series
55 downloads
Social Influences on Policy Preferences: Conformity and Reactance
Meirav Furth-Matzkin and Cass R. Sunstein
Harvard University, Law School, Students and Harvard Law School
Date Posted: December 07, 2016
Last Revised: December 23, 2016
Working Paper Series
658 downloads
Rights Without Resources: The Impact of Constitutional Social Rights on Social Spending
Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2016-20, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 781, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 598
Adam S. Chilton and Mila Versteeg
University of Chicago - Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
Date Posted: October 25, 2016
Last Revised: February 26, 2017
Accepted Paper Series
292 downloads
The Insignificance of Clear-Day Poison Pills
NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 16-33
Emiliano Catan
New York University School of Law
Date Posted: September 12, 2016
Last Revised: February 02, 2017
Accepted Paper Series
223 downloads
Consequences of Mandatory Quarterly Reporting: The U.K. Experience
Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-33
Suresh Nallareddy , Robert Pozen and Shivaram Rajgopal
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Columbia Business School
Date Posted: August 30, 2016
Last Revised: March 15, 2017
Working Paper Series
93 downloads
Going Native: Can Consumers Recognize Native Advertising? Does it Matter?
University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-32
David A. Hyman , David J. Franklyn , Calla E. Yee and Mohammad Hossein Rahmati
Georgetown University, University of San Francisco School of Law, Independent and Sharif University of Technology
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Last Revised: May 18, 2017
Working Paper Series
174 downloads
Expressing What? Evaluating the Expressive Value of Punishment
Jessica Bregant , Alex W. Shaw and Eugene M. Caruso
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Department of Psychology and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Working Paper Series
65 downloads
Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Approach
Sarath Sanga
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Last Revised: May 31, 2017
Working Paper Series
29 downloads
Make or Buy? The Provision of Indigent Defense Services in the U.S
Yotam Shem-Tov
UC Berkeley
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Last Revised: May 14, 2017
Working Paper Series
222 downloads
Judicial Anti-Corruption Enforcement Can Enhance Electoral Accountability
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 16-31
Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan , Yoav Dotan and Omer Yair
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Political Science Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Political Science Department
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Last Revised: September 02, 2016
Working Paper Series
30 downloads
The Genesis of Independent Agencies
New York University Law Review, Vol. 92, 2017, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-22, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 17-19
Patrick Corrigan and Richard L. Revesz
Independent and New York University - School of Law
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Last Revised: July 07, 2017
Accepted Paper Series
32 downloads
The Role of Relational Contracts in Inter-Firm Relationships: Theory and Evidence on Multiunit Franchising
Nicholas Argyres , Janet Bercovitz and Giorgio Zanarone
Washington University in St. Louis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business and CUNEF
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Working Paper Series
78 downloads
Legal Federalism in China: An Empirical Study on Labor Law
Jinhua Cheng and Zhenxing Ke
East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) and Indiana University Bloomington, Mauer School of Law
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Working Paper Series
28 downloads
Information Search, Coherence Shifts and Their Interplay for Legal Decision Making
Peter G. Lewisch , Dorothee Mischkowski and Andreas Gloeckner
University of Vienna - Faculty of Law, University of Goettingen (Gottingen) and Fernuniversität in Hagen - University of Hagen
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Working Paper Series
21 downloads
From Spontaneous Cooperation to Spontaneous Punishment: Distinguishing the Underlying Motives Driving Spontaneous Behavior in First and Second Order Public Goods
Peter G. Lewisch , Dorothee Mischkowski and Andreas Gloeckner
University of Vienna - Faculty of Law, University of Goettingen (Gottingen) and Fernuniversität in Hagen - University of Hagen
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Last Revised: June 29, 2017
Working Paper Series
28 downloads
Let the Punishment Fit the Criminal: An Experimental Study
ISE Working Paper No. 3
Josef Montag and James Tremewan
International School of Economics, Kazakh-British Technical University and University of Vienna - Department of Economics
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Last Revised: June 22, 2017
Working Paper Series
28 downloads
Preoccupied Independent Directors
Ronald W. Masulis and Emma Jincheng Zhang
University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business and Monash Business School
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Last Revised: July 06, 2017
Working Paper Series
18 downloads
Inter-Agency Learning in US Regulatory Policymaking
Miranda Yaver
Yale University - Department of Political Science
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Working Paper Series
22 downloads
Estimating the Compliance Costs of Securities Regulation: A Bunching Analysis of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404(b)
Dhammika Dharmapala
University of Chicago Law School
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Last Revised: November 10, 2016
Working Paper Series
21 downloads
Negative Media Coverage of the Supreme Court: The Interactive Role of Opinion Language, Coalition Size, and Ideological Signals
Alex Denison , Justin Wedeking and Michael Zilis
University of Kentucky - Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky - Department of Political Science and University of Kentucky - Department of Political Science
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Working Paper Series
25 downloads
Early Predictability of Asylum Court Decisions
Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, Forthcoming
Matthew Dunn , Levent Sagun , Hale Sirin and Daniel L. Chen
NYU Center for Data Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University and Toulouse School of Economics / Institute for Advanced Study / University of Toulouse
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Last Revised: May 28, 2017
Accepted Paper Series
45 downloads
Do Judges Vary Their Burden of Proof? Evidence from Federal Bench Trials.
Alex Lundberg
Emory University, Emory University, Students
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Working Paper Series
34 downloads
Consistency and Administrative Review
David Hausman
Stanford University, Department of Political Science
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Working Paper Series
19 downloads
An Empirical Analysis of Litigation with Discovery
Mark van Boening and Paul Pecorino
University of Mississippi - Department of Economics and University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies
Date Posted: August 02, 2016
Last Revised: September 03, 2016
Working Paper Series
17 downloads
The Genealogy of Ideology: Predicting Agreement and Persuasive Memes in the U.S. Courts of Appeals
• Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, Forthcoming, • Cited in 2017 American Economic Association Presidential Address,
Shivam Verma , Adithya Parthasarathy and Daniel L. Chen
New York University (NYU) - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (NYU) - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Toulouse School of Economics / Institute for Advanced Study / University of Toulouse
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Last Revised: May 31, 2017
Accepted Paper Series
45 downloads
Patent Injunctions on Appeal: An Empirical Study of the Federal Circuit's Application of eBay
92 Washington Law Review 145 (2017), Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2016-17
Ryan T. Holte and Christopher B. Seaman
Southern Illinois University School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Last Revised: April 13, 2017
Accepted Paper Series
250 downloads
Americans’ Knowledge of the U.S. Supreme Court
John G. Bullock and Kelly Rader
University of Texas at Austin and Yale University
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Working Paper Series
54 downloads
Public Awareness and the Behavior of Unpopular Courts
Jay Krehbiel
West Virginia University
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Working Paper Series
38 downloads
Criminal Justice and Wealth Inequality: How Much Freedom Can Money Buy in Russia?
Madina Kurmangaliyeva
European University Institute, Department of Economics
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Last Revised: January 16, 2017
Working Paper Series
34 downloads
Influence and Ideology in the American Judiciary: Evidence from Supreme Court Law Clerks
Adam Bonica , Adam S. Chilton , Jacob Goldin , Kyle Rozema and Maya Sen
Stanford University Department of Political Science, University of Chicago - Law School, Stanford Law School, University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Last Revised: May 07, 2017
Working Paper Series
93 downloads
Can Nudges Be Transparent and Yet Effective?
WiSo-HH Working Paper Series Working Paper No. 33
Hendrik Bruns , Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko , Katharina Klement , Marijane Luistro Jonsson and Bilel Rahali
University of Hamburg - School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Jena, Stockholm School of Economics and University of Grenoble
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Last Revised: November 19, 2016
Working Paper Series
515 downloads
How Does Consumer Bankruptcy Protection Impact Household Outcomes?
Carlos Parra
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Last Revised: October 10, 2016
Working Paper Series
72 downloads
Sclerotization of the Judiciary: Judicial Exits from The U.S. Courts of Appeals Are Politically Motivated
Daniel L. Chen
Toulouse School of Economics / Institute for Advanced Study / University of Toulouse
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Last Revised: May 19, 2017
Working Paper Series
25 downloads
The Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty? Evidence from British Commutations During World War I
Daniel L. Chen
Toulouse School of Economics / Institute for Advanced Study / University of Toulouse
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Last Revised: May 13, 2017
Working Paper Series
14 downloads
Perceived Masculinity Predicts U.S. Supreme Court Outcomes
* Featured in ABA Journal, New Scientist, Smithsonian Magazine, FindLaw, and Daily Mail, 2016, * PLoS-ONE, 11(10), e0164324, 2016
Daniel L. Chen , Yosh Halberstam and Alan Yu
Toulouse School of Economics / Institute for Advanced Study / University of Toulouse, University of Toronto and University of Chicago
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Last Revised: May 28, 2017
Accepted Paper Series
25 downloads
Priming Ideology: Why Presidential Elections Affect U.S. Judges
Daniel L. Chen
Toulouse School of Economics / Institute for Advanced Study / University of Toulouse
Date Posted: August 01, 2016
Last Revised: May 13, 2017
Working Paper Series
7 downloads