Martin T. Wells

Cornell University - Law School

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Ithaca, NY 14853

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1.

The Delaware Death Penalty: An Empirical Study

Iowa Law Review, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-24
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2022
Sheri Lynn Johnson, John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, Valerie P. Hans and Martin T. Wells
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell University - School of Law and Cornell University - Law School
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death penalty, capital punishment, race, juries, judges

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Juries, Judges, and Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Dec 2000
Theodore Eisenberg, Neil LaFountain, Brian Ostrom, David Rottman and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts and Cornell University - Law School
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punitive damages, juries, judges

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The Death Penalty: Should the Judge or the Jury Decide Who Dies?

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-02
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2015
Valerie P. Hans, John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, Amelia Hritz, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Caisa Royer and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University - School of Law, Cornell Law School, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell University - Law School, Cornell Law School, Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Law, Psychology and Human Development Program, Students and Cornell University - Law School
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The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-011, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2009
Theodore Eisenberg, Michael Heise, Nicole L. Waters and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School, National Center for State Courts and Cornell University - Law School
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punitive damages, litigation, juries, tort

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Ranking Law Journals and the Limits of Journal Citation Reports

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-30
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Jun 2012
Theodore Eisenberg and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased) and Cornell University - Law School
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law reviews, law journals, ranking, ranking methodology, factor analysis, journal citation reports, jcr

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The Fate of Firms: Explaining Mergers and Bankruptcies

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Dec 2004
Clas CH Bergström, Theodore Eisenberg, Stefan Sundgren and Martin T. Wells
Swedish House of Finance, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration and Cornell University - Law School
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merger, bankruptcy, accounting

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Judge-Jury Agreement in Criminal Cases: A Partial Replication of Kalven & Zeisel's the American Jury

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Sep 2004
Theodore Eisenberg, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Valerie P. Hans, Nicole L. Mott, G. Thomas Munsterman, Stewart J. Schwab and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), National Center for State Courts, Cornell University - School of Law, National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts (NCSC), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Victim Gender and the Death Penalty

University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 2, 2014, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-05
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2015
Caisa Royer, Amelia Hritz, Valerie P. Hans, Theodore Eisenberg, Martin T. Wells, John H. Blume and Sheri Lynn Johnson
Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Law, Psychology and Human Development Program, Students, Cornell University - Law School, Cornell University - School of Law, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell University - Law School, Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School
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Variability in Punitive Damages: An Empirical Assessment of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-011
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2014
Theodore Eisenberg, Michael Heise and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Punitive Damages, Tort, Empirical Studies

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Numerical Analysis in Least Squares Regression with an Application to the Abortion-Crime Debate

2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Jul 2007
William Anderson and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University - School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and Cornell University - Law School
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Juries, Judges, and Punitive Damages: Empirical Analyses Using the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts 1992, 1996, and 2001 Data

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 263-95, 2006, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-015
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Jun 2006
Michael Heise, Theodore Eisenberg, Martin T. Wells, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Neil LaFountain, G. Thomas Munsterman and Brian Ostrom
Cornell Law School, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell University - Law School, National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and National Center for State Courts
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High-Dimensional Estimation, Basis Assets, and the Adaptive Multi-Factor Model

The Quarterly Journal of Finance, Vol. 10, No. 4 (2020) 2050017 (52 pages), World Scientific Publishing Company and Midwest Finance Association. DOI: 10.1142/S2010139220500172.
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 May 2018 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2021
Liao Zhu, Sumanta Basu, Robert A. Jarrow and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University - Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University - Department of Statistical Science, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University - Law School
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Asset pricing models, AMF model, GIBS algorithm, high-dimensional statistics, machine learning

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Pain and Suffering Damages in Personal Injury Cases: An Empirical Study

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Forthcoming, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 749, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-11
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 05 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 03 May 2016
Yun-chien Chang, Theodore Eisenberg, Tsung Hsien Li and Martin T. Wells
Cornell Law School, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), National Chung Cheng University - Department of Criminology and Cornell University - Law School
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Pain and suffering damages, medical expenses, anchoring effect, lost earning capacity, fault, age, pecuniary damages, non-medical expenses, judges, juries, Taiwan

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Reconciling Experimental Incoherence with Real-World Coherence in Punitive Damages

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Feb 2002
Theodore Eisenberg, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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The Relation Between Punitive and Compensatory Awards: Combining Extreme Data With the Mass of Awards

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-026
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Sep 2006
Theodore Eisenberg, Valerie P. Hans and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell University - School of Law and Cornell University - Law School
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punitive damages, juries, trials, litigation

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The Low-volatility Anomaly and the Adaptive Multi-Factor Model

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-21
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 May 2021 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2021
Robert A. Jarrow, Rinald Murataj, Martin T. Wells and Liao Zhu
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, T Rowe Price, Cornell University - Law School and Cornell University - Department of Statistics and Data Science
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Low-volatility anomaly, AMF model, GIBS algorithm, high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, False Discovery Rate.

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A Bayesian Hierarchical Regression Approach to Longitudinal Data in Empirical Legal Studies

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2009
William Anderson and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University - School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and Cornell University - Law School
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Forecasting Life and Death

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 05 Oct 2000
Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Statins and Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Moderate Risk Females: A Statistical and Legal Analysis with Implications for FDA Preemption Claims

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-003
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 May 2008
Theodore Eisenberg and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased) and Cornell University - Law School
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preemption, statins, FDA

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Juror First Votes in Criminal Trials

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Jun 2004
Stephen P. Garvey, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Valerie P. Hans, Nicole L. Mott, G. Thomas Munsterman and Martin T. Wells
Cornell Law School, National Center for State Courts, Cornell University - School of Law, National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and Cornell University - Law School
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Revisiting Eisenberg and Plaintiff Success: State Court Civil Trial and Appellate Outcomes

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Revisiting Eisenberg and Plaintiff Success: State Court Civil Trial and Appellate Outcomes

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 13, Issue 3, 516–535, September 2016 Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-5
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2016
Michael Heise and Martin T. Wells
Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Revisiting Eisenberg and Plaintiff Success: State Court Civil Trial and Appellate Outcomes

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-24
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2015
Michael Heise and Martin T. Wells
Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Trial Outcomes and Demographics: Is There a Bronx Effect?

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 May 2002
Theodore Eisenberg and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased) and Cornell University - Law School
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juries, census, trials, damages

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The Deadly Paradox of Capital Jurors

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The Deadly Paradox of Capital Jurors

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Oct 2000
Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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The Deadly Paradox of Capital Jurors

Posted: 03 Oct 2000
Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School

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Clustering Structure of Microstructure Measures

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper 21-30
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 28 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2021
Liao Zhu, Ningning Sun and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University - Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University - Department of Computer Science and Cornell University - Law School
Downloads 135 (362,231)
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market microstructure, interpretable machine learning, artificial intelligence in finance, prototype clustering, high-dimensional statistics, dimension reduction

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Does Docket Size Matter? Revisiting Empirical Accounts of the Supreme Court's Incredibly Shrinking Docket

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 4, 2020, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-24
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 31 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2020
Michael Heise, Martin T. Wells and Dawn M. Chutkow
Cornell Law School, Cornell University - Law School and Cornell Law School
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Court, litigation, empirical, docket

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An Assessment of Racial Disparities in Pretrial Decision-Making Using Misclassification Models

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Oct 2023
Kimberly Hochstedler Webb, Sarah Riley and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Cornell University and Cornell University - Law School
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algorithmic bias, bias correction, EM algorithm, identification, label switching, MCMC, noisy labels, sensitivity, specificity, racial disparities, risk assessment

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Quantifying Disparate Questioning of Black and White Jurors in Capital Jury Selection

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 21 (3) Forthcoming , Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-18
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Aug 2023
Anna Effenberger, John H. Blume and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Jurors, death penalty, Jury Pool, Supreme Court, Equal Protection Clause, Fourteenth Amendment, Disparate Questioning, Discrimination

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Time-Invariance Coefficients Tests with the Adaptive Multi-Factor Model

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-22
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 26 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2021
Liao Zhu, Robert A. Jarrow and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University - Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University - Law School
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Asset pricing, Adaptive Multi-Factor model, GIBS algorithm, high-dimensional statistics, machine learning.

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Judge-Jury Agreement in Criminal Cases: A Partial Replication of Kalven and Zeisel's the American Jury

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 2.1 (2005): 171
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Theodore Eisenberg, Paula Hannaford Agor, Valerie P. Hans, Nicole L. Waters, G. Thomas Munsterman, Stewart J. Schwab and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), National Center for State Courts, Cornell University - School of Law, National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts (NCSC), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Criminal Cases, judge-jury agreement, juries, judges, adjucator

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K-ARMA Models for Clustering Time Series Data

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Jun 2023
Derek O. Hoare, Martin T. Wells and David S. Matteson
Cornell University, Cornell University - Law School and Cornell University
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Clustering Algorithms, time series, ARMA Models, Ljung Box Test

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Interventions to Support Behavioral Self-Management of Chronic Diseases

Annual Review of Public Health, Vol. 40, pp. 127-146, 2019
Posted: 02 May 2019
John P. Allegrante, Martin T. Wells and Janey C. Peterson
Columbia University, Cornell University - Law School and Weill Cornell Medical College

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A Bayesian Analysis of Return Dynamics with Lévy Jumps

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 21, Issue 5, pp. 2345-2378, 2008
Posted: 19 Sep 2008
Haitao Li, Martin T. Wells and Cindy Yu
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Cornell University - Law School and Iowa State University

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G12, C11, C15, C32

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The Significant Association between Punitive and Compensatory Damages in Blockbuster Cases: A Methodological Primer

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 3, p. 169, 2006
Posted: 11 Jun 2007
Martin T. Wells and Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell University - Law School and Cornell University, Law School (Deceased)

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punitive damages, regression

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Forecasting Life and Death: Juror Race, Religion, and Attitude Toward the Death Penalty

Posted: 05 Nov 2001
Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School

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Inbreeding in Law School Hiring: Assessing the Performance of Faculty Hired from within

Posted: 26 Jun 2001
Theodore Eisenberg and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased) and Cornell University - Law School

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The Predictability of Punitive Damages

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1997).
Posted: 17 Jan 1997
Theodore Eisenberg, John Goerdt, Brian Ostrom, David Rottman and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts and Cornell University - Law School

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Larger Board Size, Decreasing Firm Value, and Increasing Firm Solvency

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Larger Board Size, Decreasing Firm Value, and Increasing Firm Solvency

Journal of Financial Economics, pp. 35-54, 1998
Posted: 18 Dec 2006
Theodore Eisenberg, Stefan Sundgren and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration and Cornell University - Law School

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Drawing the Legal Family Tree: An Empirical Comparative Study of 170 Dimensions of Property Law in 129 Jurisdictions

Journal of Legal Analysis (2020), Forthcoming, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 20-09
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 28 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2020
Yun-chien Chang, Nuno Garoupa and Martin T. Wells
Cornell Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Legal substance, common law, civil law, legal origin, average-linkage clustering, sparse linear discriminant analysis (LDA)