Yoon-Ho Alex Lee

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Professor of Law

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1.

Meme Corporate Governance

U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper 23-009, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 681/2023, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-17, Southern California Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2024
Dhruv Aggarwal, Albert H. Choi and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Meme Stock, Retail Investors, Corporate Governance, Shareholder Voting, ESG

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The Meme Stock Frenzy: Origins and Implications

96 Southern California Law Review 1387 (2024)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 May 2023 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2024
Dhruv Aggarwal, Albert H. Choi and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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meme stock; meme surge; zero-commission trading; GameStop; AMC Entertainment; Bed Bath & Beyond; Robinhood; retail investor; corporate governance; short squeeze; predatory trades; shareholder vote; 14a-8

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Retail Investors and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Zero-Commission Trading

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 24-01, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 24-01, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 957/2024, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 24-013
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 30 Jan 2024 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2024
Dhruv Aggarwal, Albert H. Choi and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Corporate Governance, ESG, Financial Technology, Retail Investors

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Competition, Consumer Welfare, and the Social Cost of Monopoly

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Competition, Consumer Welfare, and the Social Cost of Monopoly

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1528
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Aug 2005
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and Donald Brown
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Yale University - Cowles Foundation
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Monopoly power, Antitrust economics, Applied general equilibrium

Competition, Consumer Welfare, and the Social Cost of Monopoly

Issues in Competition Law and Policy, Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1528
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2011
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and Donald Brown
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Yale University - Cowles Foundation
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Competition, Consumer Welfare, Social Cost, Monopoly, Applied General Equilibrium, Pareto Optimality

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Economic Effects of SOX Section 404 Compliance: A Corporate Insider Perspective

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Economic Effects of SOX Section 404 Compliance: A Corporate Insider Perspective

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming, USC CLASS Research Paper No. 13-3
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 01 May 2014
Cindy R. Alexander, Scott W. Bauguess, Gennaro (帅纳) Bernile, Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and Jennifer Marietta-Westberg
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance, University of Miami - Department of Finance, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Corporate governance, Internal controls, Regulation, Sarbanes-Oxley, Section 404

Economic Effects of SOX Section 404 Compliance: A Corporate Insider Perspective

USC CLASS Research Paper No. 13-3
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
Cindy R. Alexander, Scott W. Bauguess, Gennaro (帅纳) Bernile, Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and Jennifer Marietta-Westberg
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance, University of Miami - Department of Finance, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Shadow Trading and Macroeconomic Risk

13 Harvard Business Law Review 393 (2023)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2024
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and Alessandro Romano
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Bocconi University - Department of Law
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insider trading; shadow trading; macroeconomic risk; network theory; systematically important financial institutions; risk-taking; aggregate fluctuations; Rule 10b-5; securities regulation; misappropriation theory

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The Priest-Klein Hypotheses: Proofs and Generality

47 International Review of Law and Economics 59 (2016), USC CLASS Research Paper No. 14-34, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 14-43
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 19 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2016
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and Daniel M. Klerman
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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litigation, settlement, selection, bargaining, Priest and Klein, asymmetric stakes, divergent expectations, asummetric information, Chatterjee-Samuelson, Landes-Posner-Gould, bargaining, Bayes, Bayesian, trial, disputes, 50 percent

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Shadow Trading and Corporate Investments

7 Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting 191 (2023), Bocconi Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4307455, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-15
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2024
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee, Lawrence Liu and Alessandro Romano
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, University of Southern California and Bocconi University - Department of Law
Downloads 294 (207,920)
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shadow trading; insider trading; Rule 10b-5; corporate investments; risk-taking; securities regulation

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SEC Rules, Stakeholder Interests, and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Capital Markets Law Journal, Vol. 10, No.3 (2015), USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS15-3
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 23 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2015
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Cost-benefit analysis, securities regulation, Circular A-4, total surplus, investor welfare, efficiency, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, proxy access, executive compensation, Business Roundtable, Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act, Independent Regulatory Analysis Act

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Maybe There's No Bias in the Selection of Disputes for Litigation

Forthcoming, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 2994624, USC CLASS Research Papers Series No. CLASS17-18, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 17-16
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2017
Eric Helland, Daniel M. Klerman and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Litigation; Settlement; Selection; Priest-Klein; Asymmetric Information; Inconsistent Priors

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The Efficiency Criterion for Securities Regulation: Investor Welfare or Total Surplus?

57 Arizona Law Review 85 (2015), USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 14-9, USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS14-10
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2015
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Cost-benefit analysis, securities regulation, Circular A-4, total surplus, investor welfare, efficiency, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, proxy access, executive compensation, Business Roundtable, Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act, Independent Regulatory Analysis Act

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An Options Approach to Agency Rulemaking

65 Administrative Law Review 881 (2013)
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 26 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2014
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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administrative law, agency rulemaking, Business Roundtables, option value, cost-benefit analysis, sunset provision, exemption

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Economic Models and Regulatory Remedies for the Problem of Consumer Credit

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2011
K. Jeremy Ko and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Consumer Credit, Mortgages, Credit Cards, Payday Lending, Household Finance, Behavioral Finance

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Social Perception and Affirmative Action: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Aug 2011
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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game theory, signaling game, affirmative action, social perception, economic sociology, education, games of imperfect information

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Updating Priest and Klein

USC CLASS Research Paper No. 15-21, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 15-17
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2015
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and Daniel M. Klerman
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Criminal Jurisdiction Under the U.S.-Korea Status of Forces Agreement: Problems to Proposals

Journal of Transnational Law & Policy, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2003
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Aug 2011
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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foreign criminal jurisdiction, status offorces agreement, SOFA

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Inferences from Litigated Cases

43 Journal of Legal Studies 209-48 (2014), USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 14-14, USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS14-13
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2018
Daniel M. Klerman and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 204 (297,708)
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litigation, suit, settlement, selection, Priest and Klein, fifty-percent, asymmetric information, divergent expectations

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To Empower, Prohibit, or Delegate?: Regulatory Strategies for the Consumer Credit Market

University of Pennsylvania Business Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Aug 2011
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and K. Jeremy Ko
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Consumer Credit, Mortgages, Credit Cards, Payday Lending, Household Finance, Behavioral Finance

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A Model of Stock-Market-Based Rulemaking

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2022
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 165 (360,043)
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stock market, price informativeness, Securities and Exchange Commission, agency rulemaking, feedback effects, real effects, financial markets, manipulation

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Beyond Agency Core Mission

Administrative Law Review, Vol. 68, No. 4, pp.551-603, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-26, USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS16-24
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 11 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2017
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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agency core mission, interagency coordination, intra-agency coordination, duplicative costs, principal-agent, regulatory gap, agency jurisdiction design, institutional design, law and economics, cost-benefit analysis, organizational behavior

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Litigation and Selection with Correlated Two-Sided Incomplete Information

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 08 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2019
Daniel M. Klerman, Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and Lawrence Liu
University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and University of Southern California
Downloads 140 (412,191)
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Law and Economics; Litigation; Settlement; Selection; Bargaining; Incomplete Information; Asymmetric Information; Priest-Klein; Divergent Expectations; Chatterjee-Samuelson; signaling; screening

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Beyond APA Section 553: Hayek's Two Problems and Rulemaking Innovations

91 George Washington Law Review 1215 (2023), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-16
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2024
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Administrative Procedure Act; Section 553; notice-and-comment rulemaking; Hayek; use of knowledge; constructivist rationality; ecological rationality; rulemaking innovations; sunset provisions; a real-options approach; feedback effects; stock-market-based rulemaking

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Incorporating Market Reactions Into Agency Rulemaking

54 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1361 (2019)
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2020
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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stock market, price informativeness, Securities and Exchange Commission, rulemaking, feedback effects, real effects, financial markets, manipulation

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The Harm in Social Stigma: An Educational Rat-Race Game

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2015
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Education, Stigma, Signaling Game, Rat-Race

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Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 and Its Administrative Legacy

78 Business Lawyer 741 (2023), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-14
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2024
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Sarbanes-Oxley; Section 404; Securities And Exchange Commission; Administrative Law; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Financial Regulation; Agency Rulemaking; Corporate Governance; Notice-And-Comment Rulemaking

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Consumer Mistakes in the Mortgage Market: Choosing Unwisely versus Not Switching Wisely

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 417, 2012
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 26 Jan 2013
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and K. Jeremy Ko
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Consumer credit, household behavior, regulation, mortgage, APR, consumer financial product, behavioral economics

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"The Selection of Disputes" at Forty

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 24-23, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 24-34
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2024
Daniel M. Klerman and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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A Model of the Zone-of-Interests Test

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 24-08, Forthcoming, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 03 Jun 2024 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2024
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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zone-of-interests test; administrative law; polar coordinates; constitutional standing; inner products; interest groups; agency rulemaking

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The Economics of Regulatory Reform: Termination of Airline Computer Reservation System Rules

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2004
Posted: 29 Aug 2011
Cindy R. Alexander and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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Deregulation, Airline Computer Reservation Systems, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Public Choice