Special Collection on Law and Economics
Because our journal covers a variety of fields and topics within applied microeconomics, we use a "Special Collection" to help readers find a set of articles within a particular field or topic that were published in various recent issues of the journal. Listed below are some examples of articles on "Law and Economics" published as of May 2007 (but this list does not include all articles that could fall within a different, broader definition of the topic).
Advances
Using Placebo Laws to Test "More Guns, Less Crime"
Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok
The Budgetary Repercussions Of Capital Convictions
Katherine Baicker
The Impact of Driver Cell Phone Use on Accidents
Robert W. Hahn and James E. Prieger
Contributions
Optimal Liability for Libel
Oren Bar-Gill and Assaf Hamdani
Contestable Licensing
Zvika Neeman and Gerhard Oskar Orosel
A Model of Welfare-Reducing Settlement
Abraham L. Wickelgren
Law Serials Pricing and Mergers: A Portfolio Approach
Mark J. McCabe
Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Additional Theory and Evidence
Dhammika Dharmapala and Stephen L. Ross
Selective Enforcement of Copyright as an Optimal Monopolistic Behavior
Danny Ben-Shahar and Assaf Jacob
Can Supply Restrictions Lower Price? Violence, Drug Dealing and Positional Advantage
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Peter Reuter, and Lowell J. Taylor
Trade and Contract Enforcement
James E. Anderson and Leslie Young
Moral Federalism
Eckhard Janeba
Topics
Time In Purgatory: Examining the Grant Lag for U.S. Patent Applications
David Popp, Ted Juhl, and Daniel K.N. Johnson
How Do "Point Oh-Eight" (.08) BAC Laws Work?
Christopher Carpenter and Katherine Harris