2004 CLEO Working Paper Series
USC Gould School of Law

2004 CLEO Working Paper Series

• C04-1 Jonathan Baron and Edward J. McCaffery, Masking Redistribution (or its Absence.
• C04-2 Stephen Choi, Should Issuers be on the Hook for Laddering?  An Empirical Analysis of IPO Market Manipulation Litigation.
• C04-3 Aviad Heifetz, Ella Segev, and Eric Tally, Market Design with Endogenous Preferences.
• C04-4 Eric Talley and Gudrun Johnsen, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation and Securities Litigation.
• C04-5 Gillian K. Hadfield, Contract Law is Not Enough: The Many Legal Institutions That Support Contractual Commitments.
• C04-6 Richard A. Easterlin, Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income (forthcoming in Social Indicators Research 2004).
• C04-7 Richard A. Easterlin, Explaining Happiness (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100:19, 11176-11183, copyright September 16, 2003, National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.
• C04-8 Stephen J. Choi and G. Mitu Gulati, Innovation in Boilerplate Contracts: An Empirical Examination of Sovereign Bonds (forthcoming in Emory Law Journal (2004)).
• C04-9 Richard A. Easterlin, Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven (forthcoming in Social Indicators Research 2004).
• C04-10 Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, Thinking about Tax.
• C04-11 Stephen J. Choi, Do the Merits Matter Less After the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act?
• C04-12 Gillian K. Hadfield, Where have all the trials gone?  Settlements, non-trial adjudications and statistical artifacts in the changing disposition of federal civil cases.
• C04-13 Gillian Hadfield and Eric Talley, On Public versus Private Provision of Corporate Law.
• C04-14 Edward J. McCaffery and Linda R. Cohen, Shakedown at Gucci Gulch: A Tale of Death, Money & Taxes.
• C04-15 Mehdi Farsi, Changes in Hospital Quality after Conversion in Ownership Status, 4 Int'l J. of Health Care Finance & Economics 211 (2004).
• C04-16 Timur Kuran, The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law: Origins and Persistence. (This version replaces an earlier paper entitled, "Why the Islamic Middle East Did not Generate an Indigenous Corporate Law.")
• C04-17 Surajeet Chakravarty and W. Bentley MacLeod, On the Efficiency of Standard Form Contracts: The Case of Construction.
• C04-18 John Romley and Eric Talley, Uncorporated Professionals.
• C04-19 Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo, Biases in perceptions, beliefs and behavior.
• C04-20 Elizabeth Garrett, Conditions for Framework Legislation.
• C04-21 Jonathan Baron and Edward J. McCaffery, Starving the beast: The psychology of budget deficits.
• C04-22 Edward J. McCaffery and Joel Slemrod, Toward an Agenda for Behavioral Public Finance.
• C04-23 Abel Cadenillas, Sudipto Sarkar, and Fernando Zapatero, Optimal Dividend Policy with Mean-Reverting Cash Reservoir.

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