UT Law &Economic Research Papers
The following is a complete list of working papers by number from the present to the beginning of the series. Any paper whose title is underscored can be downloaded by clicking on its number and following the onscreen instructions. More papers will be added over time.
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2008 RESEARCH PAPERS
133.
Black, Bernard
Equity Swaps and Schedule 13D
132.
Markovits, Richard S
Two Distortion-Analysis Approaches To Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best
131.
Ganor, Mira
Investing in The Competition
130.
Hyman, David A., Black, Bernard & Silver, Charles
The Effects of Pretrial Process Reform: Evidence From Texas Medical Malpractice Cases
129.
Kim, Woochan; Sung, Taeyoon & Wei, Shang-Jin
Does Corporate Governance Risk at Home Affect Investment Choices Abroad?
128.
Kim, Woochan; Kim, Woojin & Kwon, Kap-Sok
Value of Shareholder Activism: Evidence from the Switchers
127.
Markovits, Richard S.
Truth or Economics: On The Definition, Prediction, & Relevance of Economic Efficiency
126.
Dammann, J. C. & Schundeln, Mathias
When Are Limited Liability Companies Formed? An Empirical Analysis
125.
Spence, David B.
Can Law Manage Competitive Energy Markets?
124.
McNollgast & Rodriguez, Daniel
Administrative Law Agonistes
123.
Han Kim, E. & Woochan Kim,
Corporate Governance in Korea: A Decade after the Financial Crisis
122.
Hu, Henry T.C. & Bernard S. Black,
Equity and Debt Decoupling and Empty Voting II: Importance and Extensions
121.
Litvak, Kate,
Frank Easterbrook and Daniel Fischel
120.
Hu, Henry T.C. & Bernard S. Black,
Debt, Equity, and Hybrid Decoupling: Governance and Systemic Risk Implications
2007 RESEARCH PAPERS
119.
Dammann, Jens C. & Matthias Schündeln,
The Incorporation Choices of Privately Held Corporations
118.
Johnson, Calvin H.,
Why Do Venture Capital Funds Burn Research and Development Deductions?
117.
Atanasov, Vladimir, Bernard S. Black & Conrad S. Ciccotello
Unbundling and Measuring Tunneling
116.
Hu, Henry T.C. & Bernard S. Black,
Equity and Debt Decoupling and Empty Voting II: Importance and Extensions
115.
Graglia, Lino A.,
Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKA, Inc.: The Strange Career of the Law of Resale Price Maintenance
114.
Dammann, Jens,
Majority Freezeout
113.
Black, Bernard S., Brian Cheffins, Martin Gelter, Hwa-Jin Kim, Richard Nolan, Mathias Siems & Linia Prava Law Firm,
Legal Liability of Directors and Company Officials Part 2: Court Procedures, Indemnification and Insurance, and Administrative and Criminal Liability (Report to the Russian Securities Agency)
112.
Black, Bernard S., Brian Cheffins, Martin Gelter, Hwa-Jin Kim, Richard Nolan, Mathias Siems & Linia Prava Law Firm,
Legal Liability of Directors and Company Officials Part 1: Substantive Grounds for Liability (Report to the Russian Securities Agency)
111.
Hawkins, Jim,
Renting the Good Life
110.
Black, Bernard S., Brian Cheffins, Martin Gelter, Hwa-Jin Kim, Richard Nolan, Mathias Siems & Linia Prava Law Firm,
Comparative Analysis on Legal Regulation of the Liability of Members of the Management Organs of Companies
109.
Black, Bernard S., Gledson de Carvalho, Rocha Gorga & Erica Christina,
An Overview of Brazilian Corporate Governance
108.
Litvak, Kate,
Did the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Affect Risk-Taking by Cross-Listed Companies
107.
Litvak, Kate,
The Long Term Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Cross-Listing Premia
106.
Hyman, David, Bernard Black, Charles Silver & William Sage,
Estimating the Effect of Damage Caps in Medical Malpractice Cases: Evidence from Texas
105.
Allison, John R., Abe Dunn & Ronald J. Mann,
Software Patents, Incumbents, and Entry (pdf)
104.
Mann, Ronald & Travis Siebeneicher,
Just One Click: The Reality of Internet Retail Contracting (pdf)
103.
Rau, Alan S.,
Arbitral Jurisdiction and the Dimensions of ''Consent''
102.
Silver, Charles, Kathryn Zeiler, Bernard S. Black, David Hyman & William H. Sage,
Malpractice Payouts and Malpractice Insurance: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003
101.
Westbrook, Jay,
International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law Changing Law for Changing Times, 13th Biennial Meeting: Avoidance of Pre-Bankruptcy Transactions in Multinational Bankruptcy Cases
100.
Hu, Henry T.C. & Jay L. Westbrook,
Abolition of the Corporate Duty to Creditors
099.
Black, Bernard S., David A. Hyman, Charles Silver & William H. Sage,
Defense Costs in Medical Malpractice and Other Personal Injury Cases: Evidence from Texas, 1988-2004
098.
Dammann, Jens & Henry Hansmann,
A Global Market for Judicial Services (pdf)
097.
Allison, John R. & Ronald J. Mann,
The Disputed Quality of Software Patents (pdf)
096.
Hu, Henry T.C. & Bernard S. Black,
Hedge Funds, Insiders, and the Decoupling of Economic and Voting Ownership: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership
095.
Litvak, Kate,
Firm Governance as a Determinant of Capital Lock-In
094.
Litvak, Kate,
Sarbanes-Oxley and the Cross-Listing Premium
2006 RESEARCH PAPERS
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093.
Cross, Frank B. & Stephanie A Lindquist,
The Scientific Study of Judicial Activism
092.
Bracha, Oren,
Standing Copyright Law on Its Head? The Googlization of Everything and the Many Faces of Property
091.
Johnson, Calvin H.
Was it Lost?: Personal Deductions Under Tax Reform
090.
Cross, Frank B., Thomas A. Smith & Antonio Tomarchio,
Determinants of Cohesion in the Supreme Court's Network of Precedents
089.
Black, Bernard S. & Woochan Kim,
The Effect of Board Structure on Firm Value in an Emerging Market: IV, DiD, and Time Series Evidence from Korea
088.
Warren, Elizabeth & Jay L. Westbrook,
The Dialogue Between Theoretical and Empirical Scholarship (pdf)
087.
Khanna, Vikramaditya & Bernard S. Black,
An Overview of Indian Corporate Governance Practices
086.
Black, Bernard S. & Vikramaditya Khanna,
Can Corporate Governance Reforms Increase Firms' Market Values? Evidence From India
085.
Gorga, Érica & Michael Halberstam,
Knowledge Inputs, Legal Institutions and Firm Structure: Towards A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm (pdf)
084.
Mann, Ronald J.,
The Supreme Court, The Solicitor General and Bankruptcy: BFP v. Resolution Trust Corporation (pdf)
083.
Mann, Ronald J. & Jim Hawkins,
Just Until Payday (pdf)
082.
Stapelton, Jane,
Occam's Razor Reveals an Orthodox Basis for Chester v. Afshar
081.
Leiter, Brian & Michael Weisberg,
Why Evolutionary Biology is (So Far) Irrelevant to Law
080.
Atanasov, Vladimir A., Bernard S. Black, Conrad S. Ciccotello, & Stanley B. Gyoshev,
How Does Law Affect Finance? An Examination of Financial Tunneling in an Emerging Market
079.
Sullivan, Teresa A., Elizabeth Warren, & Jay L. Westbrook,
Less Stigma or More Financial Distress: An Empirical Analysis of the Extraordinary Increase in Bankruptcy Filings
078.
Warren, Elizabeth & Jay L. Westbrook,
Contracting Out of Bankruptcy: An Empirical Intervention
077.
Allison, John R., Abe Dunn, & Ronald J. Mann,
Patents and Business Models for Software Firms (pdf)
076.
Black, Bernard, Brian Cheffins, & Michael Klausner,
Outside Director Liability
075.
Mann, Ronald J.,
Bankruptcy Reform and The "Sweat Box" of Credit Card Debt (pdf)
074.
Prentice, Robert A.,
Law & Gratuitous Promises
073.
Prentice, Robert A. & Frank Cross,
Economies, Capital Markets, and Securities Law
072.
Prentice, Robert A.,
Regulatory Competition in Securities Law: A Dream (That Should) Be Deferred
071.
Prentice, Robert A.,
The Inevitability of a Strong SEC
070.
Hu, Henry T. C. & Bernard Black,
Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership: Taxonomy, Implications, and Reforms
069.
Hu, Henry T. C. & Bernard Black,
Hedge Funds, Insiders, and the Decoupling of Economic and Voting Ownership: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership
068.
Hyman, David A., Bernard Black, Charles Silver, William M. Sage, & Kathryn Zeiler,
Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award?: Post-Verdict Haircuts in Texas Medical Malpractice Cases, 1988-2003
067.
Silver, Charles, Kathryn Zeiler, Bernard Black, David A. Hyman, & William M. Sage,
Physicians' Insurance Limits and Malpractice Payments: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003
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066.
Black, Bernard S., Inessa Love & Andrei Rachinsky,
Corporate Governance and Firms' Market Values: Time Series Evidence from Russia
065.
Cross, Frank B.,
Legal Process, Legal Realism and the Strategic Political Effects of Procedural Rules
064.
Cross, Frank B.,
Law and Trust
063.
Cross, Frank B.,
Identifying the Virtues of the Common Law
062.
Gamage, David & Kedem Allon,
Commodification and Contract Formation: Placing the Consideration Doctrine on Stronger Foundations
061.
Dickerson, A. Mechele,
"Words that Wound: Defining, Discussing, and Defeating Bankruptcy 'Corruption'"
060.
Mann, Ronald J.,
"Contracting" for Credit (pdf)
059.
Mann, Ronald J.,
Optimizing Consumer Credit Markets and Bankruptcy Policy (pdf)
058.
Mann, Ronald J.,
The Commercialization of Open Source Software: Do Property Rights Still Matter? (pdf)
057.
Mann, Ronald J. & Thomas W. Sager,
Patents, Venture Capital, and Software Start-ups (pdf)
056.
Dammann, Jens & Henry Hansmann,
Extraterritorial Courts for Corporate Law
055.
Litvak, Kate,
The Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Non-US Companies Cross-Listed in the US
054.
Black, Bernard S., Brian R. Cheffins & Michael Klausner,
Outside Director Liability: A Policy Analysis
053.
Hu, Henry T.C. & Bernard S. Black,
The New Vote Buying: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership
052.
Black, Bernard S.,
Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance
051.
Johnson, Calvin H.,
Tales from the KPMG Skunk Works: The Basis-Shift or Defective-Redemption Shelter
050.
Black, Bernard S., Brian R. Cheffins & Michael Klausner,
Outside Director Liability (Before Enron and WorldCom)
049.
Mann, Ronald J.,
Global Credit Card Use and Debt: Policy Issues and Regulatory Responses (pdf)
048.
Teichman, Doron,
The Market for Criminal Justice: Federalism, Crime Control, and Jurisdictional Competition
047.
Teichman, Doron,
Sex, Shame, and the Law: An Economic Perspective on Megan's Law
045.
Mann, Ronald J. & Seth R. Belzley,
The Promise of Internet Intermediary Liability (pdf)
044.
Mann, Ronald J.,
Credit Cards, Consumer Credit, and Bankruptcy (pdf)
043.
Markovits, Richard S.,
Marine-Salvage Law and Marine-Peril-Related Policy: A Second-Best and Third-Best Economics-Efficiency Analysis of the Problem, the Law, and the Classic Landes and Posner Study
042.
Markovits, Richard S.,
On the Possibly-Predatory Character of Non-Systems-Rivalry Investments and Systems Rivalry: Definitional, Functional, and Legal Analyses
041.
Markovits, Richard S.,
Liberalism and Tort Law: On the Content and Allocative Efficiency of a Liberal Common Law of Torts
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040.
Mann, Ronald J.,
An Empirical Investigation of Liquidation Choices of Failed High Tech Firms (pdf)
039.
Black, Bernard S., Hasung Jang & Woochan Kim,
Predicting Firms' Corporate Governance Choices: Evidence from Korea
038.
Hyman, David A. & Charles Silver,
The Poor State of Health Care Quality in the U.S.: Is Malpractice Liability Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
036.
Markovits, Richard S.,
Tort-Related Risk Costs and the Hand Formula for Negligence
035.
Black, Bernard S., Brian R. Cheffins & Michael D. Klausner,
Shareholder Suits and Outside Director Liability: The Case of Korea
034.
Litvak, Kate,
Governance Through Exit: Default Penalties and Walkaway Options in Venture Capital Partnership Agreements
033.
Edelman, Paul H., Richard Allen Nagareda & Charles M. Silver,
The Allocation Problem in Multiple-Claimant Representations
032.
Black, Bernard S., Brian R. Cheffins & Michael D. Klausner,
Outside Directors and Lawsuits: What Are the Real Risks?
031.
Black, Bernard S. & Brian Cheffins,
Outside Director Liability Across Countries
030.
Black, Bernard S., Charles Silver, David A. Hyman & William M. Sage,
Stability, Not Crisis: Medical Malpractice Claim Outcomes in Texas, 1988-2002
029.
Litvak, Kate,
Venture Capital Limited Partnership Agreements: Understanding Compensation Arrangements
028.
Johnson, Calvin H.,
The Incredible Shrinking Domain of Corporate Stock
027.
Black, Bernard S., Brian Cheffins & Michael Klausner,
Liability Risk for Outside Directors: A Cross-Border Analysis
026.
Black, Bernard S., Hasung Jang & Woochan Kim,
Does Corporate Governance Affect Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea
025.
Reese, R. Anthony,
Reducing Digital Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation
024.
Fennell, Lee Anne,
Relative Burdens: Family Ties and the Safety Net
023.
Westbrook, Jay L.,
The Control of Wealth in Bankruptcy
022.
Mann, Ronald J.,
The Myth of the Software Patent Thicket: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Intellectual Property and Innovation in Software Firms (pdf)
021.
Reese, R. Anthony,
Will Merging Access Controls and Rights Controls Undermine the Structure of Anticircumvention Law?
020.
Ronald J. Mann,
Contracts with Consent: A Contextual Critiqueof the No-Retraction Liability Regime (pdf)
019.
Mann, Ronald J.,
Making Sense of Payments Policy in the Information Age (pdf)
018.
Mann, Ronald J.,
Credit Card Policy in a Globalized World (pdf)
017.
Fennell, Lee Anne,
Contracting Communities
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016.
Johnson, Calvin H.,
Tax Profs Urge SEC to Take Tough Stance on Auditor Independence (pdf)
015.
Johnson, Calvin H.,
A Thermometer for the Tax System: The Overall Health of the Tax System as Measured by Implicit Tax
014.
Johnson, Calvin H.,
Barbie Dolls in the Archeological Dig: Professor Johnson Responds (pdf)
013.
012.
Johnson, Calvin H.,
The Bush 35 Percent Flat Tax on Distributions from Public Corporations
011.
Johnson, Calvin H.,
Destroying Tax Base: The Proposed INDOPCO Capitalization Regulations
010.
Johnson, Calvin H.,
Depreciation Policy During Carnival: The New 50 Percent Bonus Depreciation
009.
Johnson, Calvin H.,
Point & Counterpoint: The Proposed 12-Month Rule: A Solomonic Solution or a Victory for the Foxes? (pdf)
008.
Markovits, Richard S.,
Why Kaplow And Shavell's "Double-Distortion Argument" Articles Are Wrong
007.
Mann, Ronald J.,
Regulating Internet Payment Intermediaries (pdf)
006.
Netanel, Neil W.,
Impose a Noncommercial Use Levy to Allow Free Peer-to Peer File Sharing
005.
Fennell, Lee Anne,
Common Interest Tragedies
004.
Reese, R. Anthony,
The First Sale Doctrine in the Era of Digital Networks
003.
Johnson, Calvin H.,
Why Stock and Stock-Option Compensation are Such a Terrible Idea
002.
Mann, Ronald J.,
The Rise of State Bankruptcy-Directed Legislation (pdf)
001.
Fennell, Christopher C. & Lee Anne Fennell,
Fear and Greed in Tax Policy: A Qualitative Research Agenda
