Martin T. Wells

Cornell University - Law School

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Ithaca, NY 14853

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1.

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 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: 15 May 2012
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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The Death Penalty: Should the Judge or the Jury Decide Who Dies?

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

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 70-99, 2015
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 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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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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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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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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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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Pain and Suffering Damages in Personal Injury Cases: An Empirical Study

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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
Academia Sinica - Institutum Iurisprudentiae (IIAS), 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

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

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 199-237, 2017
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 May 2020
Yun-chien Chang, Theodore Eisenberg, Tsung Hsien Li and Martin T. Wells
Academia Sinica - Institutum Iurisprudentiae (IIAS), Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), National Chung Cheng University - Department of Criminology 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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High Dimensional Estimation, Basis Assets, and Adaptive Multi-Factor Models

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 May 2018 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2020
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Revisiting Eisenberg and Plaintiff Success: State Court Civil Trial and Appellate Outcomes

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 13, Issue 3, pp. 516-535, 2016
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 10 Aug 2016
Michael Heise and Martin T. Wells
Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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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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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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Addressing the Zeros Problem: Regression Models for Outcomes with a Large Proportion of Zeros, with an Application to Trial Outcomes

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 161-186, 2015
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Feb 2015
Theodore Eisenberg, Thomas Eisenberg, Martin T. Wells and Min Zhang
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Law School and Department of Statistics
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A Bayesian Hierarchical Regression Approach to Clustered and Longitudinal Data in Empirical Legal Studies

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 634-663, 2010
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Jan 2011
William Anderson and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University - School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and Cornell University - Law School
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MCMC Estimation of Lvy Jump Models Using Stock and Option Prices

Mathematical Finance, Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 383-422, 2011
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 May 2011
Cindy Yu, Haitao Li and Martin T. Wells
Iowa State University, University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Cornell University - Law School
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Levy processes, variance gamma model, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, option pricing

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Pain and Suffering Damages in Wrongful Death Cases: An Empirical Study

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 128-160, 2015
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Feb 2015
Yun-chien Chang, Theodore Eisenberg, Han‐Wei Ho and Martin T. Wells
Academia Sinica - Institutum Iurisprudentiae (IIAS), Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Center for Empirical Legal Studies and Cornell University - Law School
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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 Medicine

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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
Academia Sinica - Institutum Iurisprudentiae (IIAS), George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty 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)