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Manuel A. Utset

Florida State University College of Law

William & Catherine VanDercreek Professor

425 W. Jefferson Street

Tallahassee, FL 32306

United States

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1.

Reciprocal Fairness, Strategic Behavior & Venture Survival: A Theory of Venture Capital-Financed Firms

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2002, No. 1, 2002, FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Paper No. 07-29, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 293
Number of pages: 124 Posted: 01 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2008
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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negative reciprocity, retaliation, venture capital finance, incomplete contracting

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A Theory of Self-Control Problems and Incomplete Contracting: The Case of Shareholder Contracts

Utah Law Review, p. 1329, 2003 (Published Summer 2004), FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Paper No. 07-27, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 292
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 13 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2008
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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incomplete contracts, contracts, corporations, behavioral law & economics

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Complex Financial Institutions and Systemic Risk

Georgia Law Review, Vol. 45, 2011, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 497, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 11-5
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 15 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2014
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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financial and banking regulation, financial institutions, Dodd-Frank, repos, short-term debt, derivatives, contagion, bank run, systemic risk, leverage, liquidity, risk management, monitoring, transparency, complexity, too-big-to-fail, intermediation, coordination failures, herding

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Fraudulent Corporate Signals: Conduct as Securities Fraud

Boston College Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, p. 645, 2013, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Research Paper No. 12-13, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 616
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 02 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2014
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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securities regulation, securities fraud, Rule 10b-5, Sarbanes-Oxley, corporate governance, bubbles, scandals, signaling, disclosure, manipulation, efficient markets, firms, transparency, herding, dividends, stock repurchases, short-term debt, executive compensation

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Is Cap and Trade Fair to the Poor? Short-Sighted Households and the Timing of Consumption Taxes

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 79, p. 33, 2010-2011, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 444, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 10-4, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 208
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 01 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2011
Brian D. Galle and Manuel A. Utset
Georgetown University Law Center and Florida State University College of Law
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carbon tax, cap and trade, consumption tax, sales tax, distributional neutrality, liquidity constraint, lifetime equity, procrastination, hyperbolic discounting, hidden taxes

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Procrastination and the Law

THE THIEF OF TIME: PERSPECTIVES ON PROCRASTINATION, Chrisoula Andreou, Mark D. White, eds., Oxford University Press, 2009, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 340, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 09-2
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2009
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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procrastination, behavioral law and economics, self-control problems, abortion, criminal law, jurisprudence, time-inconsistent preferences

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When Good People Do Bad Things: Time-Inconsistent Misconduct & Criminal Law

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 232
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 10 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2011
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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criminal law, optimal deterrence, repeat offenders, behavioral law & economics, time-inconsistent preferences

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Time-Inconsistent Management & the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Ohio Northern University Law Review, Forthcoming, FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Paper No. 07-28, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 239, U of Utah Legal Studies Paper No. 05-20
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Sep 2005 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2008
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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corporate governance, securities, behavioral law & economics, hyperbolic discounting, time-inconsistent preferences

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Hyperbolic Criminals and Repeated Time-Inconsistent Misconduct

Houston Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 3, 2007, FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Paper No. 07-30 , FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 294
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 08 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2008
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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optimal deterrence, criminal law, recidivism, time-inconsistent preferences

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Time-Inconsistent Preferences and Venture Capital Contracting

The Oxford Handbook of Venture Capital Finance, 2012, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 498, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 11-6
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2014
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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venture capital, private equity, self-control problems, procrastination, time-inconsistent preferences

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Designing Corporate Governance Regimes

Journal of Applied Economy, 2011, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 496, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 11-4
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Apr 2011
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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corporate governance, corporate law, complexity

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A Model of Time-Inconsistent Misconduct: The Case of Lawyer Misconduct

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 74, 2005 , FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 233, FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Paper No. 07-32
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2008
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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legal ethics, behavioral law and economics, time-inconsistent preferences, hyperbolic discounting, criminal law, group misconduct

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Financial System Engineering

Review of Banking and Financial Law, Vol. 32, No. 2, p. 371, 2013, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 21 Jan 2014
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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financial innovation and engineering, transparency, complexity, financial and banking regulation, financial contracts and institutions, Dodd-Frank, derivatives, securitization, systemic risk, monitoring, disclosure, moral hazard, design of markets and firms

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Corporate Actors, Corporate Crimes and Time-Inconsistent Preferences

1 Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, No. 2, p. 265 (2013), FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 14-3, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 682
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 02 Apr 2014
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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white collar crime, corporate crime, securities fraud, self-control, corporate scandals, Enron, gatekeepers, financial regulation

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Telling Differences: Observational Equivalence and Wrongful Convictions

Utah Law Review, Vol. 2008, No. 1, 2008, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 341, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 09-3
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2009
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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wrongful convictions, criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, innocence

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Towards a Bargaining Theory of the Firm

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 80, 1995
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 12 Aug 2010
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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corporate governance, executive compensation, corporate law, public corporations

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Time-Inconsistent Boards and the Risk of Repeated Misconduct

CORPORATE BOARDS: MANAGERS OF RISK, Robert W. Kolb, Donald Schwartz, eds., 2009, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Working Paper No. 339, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Working Paper No. 09-1
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 22 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2009
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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corporate law, corporate governance, self-control problems, time-inconsistent preferences, board of directors, management entrenchment

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The Temporally Extended Family & Self-Control: An Essay for Lee E. Teitelbaum

Utah Law Review, Vol. 2006, No. 1, 2006, FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Paper No. 7-31, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 295
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2008
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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family law, time-inconsistent preferences, self-control problems, divorce, abortion

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Rational Criminal Addictions

University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Vol. 74, No. 1, 2013, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 14-7, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 703
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 30 Aug 2014
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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criminal law, punishment, deterrence, optimal sanctions, recidivism, rational addiction

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Inchoate Crimes Revisited: A Behavioral Economics Perspective

University of Richmond Law Review, Vol. 47, p. 1205, 2013, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 21 Jan 2014
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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attempt, conspiracy, solicitation, inchoate, criminal law, deterrence, culpability, real options, self-control, externalities, internalities, hyperbolic discounting, time-inconsistent, projection bias, bounded rationality, complexity, transparency, commitment, paternalism, preferences, procrastinati

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Transitive Counterparty Risk and Financial Contracts

Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 4, p. 1441, 2013, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2014
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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financial and banking regulation, financial institutions, Dodd-Frank, derivatives, securitization, contagion, bank run, systemic risk, mortgage, leverage, liquidity, transparency, complexity, too big to fail, intermediation, disintermediation

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Rational Financial Meltdowns

Hastings Business Law Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2014, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 14-6, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 702
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Aug 2014
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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financial regulation, financial institutions, banking, systemic risk, financial contracts, bank runs, Dodd-Frank, financial meltdown, financial crisis

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Producing Information: Initial Public Offerings, Production Costs, and the Producing Lawyer

Oregon Law Review, Vol. 74, 1995
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Aug 2010
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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Securities Act of 1933, initial public offering, transaction costs, informational asymmetries

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Disciplining Managers: Shareholder Cooperation in the Shadow of Shareholder Competition

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 44, 1995
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 12 Aug 2010
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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shareholder voting, institutional investors, corporate governance, corporate law, public corporations

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Digital Surveillance and Preventive Policing

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 5, 2017, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 880, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper 18-3
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Jun 2018
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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criminal law, policing, privacy, surveillance, optimal deterrence, criminal procedure, preventive policing

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Response to Comments by Professors Baer, Candeub, Medwed, Painter, and Prentice

1 Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, No. 2, p. 423 (2013), FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 14-4, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 683
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Apr 2014
Manuel A. Utset
Florida State University College of Law
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white collar crime, corporate crime, securities fraud, self-control, corporate scandals, Enron, gatekeepers, financial regulation