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2005 CLEO Working Paper Series
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2005 CLEO Working Paper Series
- C05-1 Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carillo, A Theory of Influence: the Strategic Value of Public Ignorance.
- C05-2 W. Bentley MacLeod, Regulation or Markets? The Case of Employment Contracts.
- C05-3 Edward J. McCaffery, Three Views of Tax.
- C05-4 Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, The Political Psychology of Redistribution.
- C05-5 Krishna B. Kumar and John G. Matsusaka, Village versus Market Social Capital: An Approach to Development.
- C05-6 Edward J. McCaffery, Good Hybrids/Bad Hybrids (published in Tax Analysts/Tax Notes Magazine, June 27, 2005, pp. 1699-1709).
- C05-7 Timur Kuran and Edward J. McCaffery, Sex Differences in the Acceptability of Discrimination.
- C05-8 Thomas W. Gilligan and John G. Matsusaka, Public Choice Principles of Redistricting.
- C05-9 Keith N. Hylton, Information, Litigation, and Common Law Evolution (forthcoming in American Law and Econ. Rev. (2005)).
- C05-10 Gregory C. Keating, Pricelessness and Life: An Essay for Guido Calabresi (64 Maryland Law Rev. 159 (2005)).
- C05-11 Edward J. McCaffery, The Uneasy Case for Capital Taxation.
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- C05-13 Linda R. Cohen and Jun Ishii, Competition, Innovation and Racing for Priority at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
- C05-14 Darius Lakdawalla and Eric Talley, Optimal Liability for Terrorism.
- C05-15 Gillian K. Hadfield, Feminism, Fairness and Welfare: An Invitation to Feminist Law and Economics (forthcoming in 1 Annu. Rev. Law Soci. Sci. 285 (2005)).
- C05-16 Daniel Klerman, Trademark Dilution, Search Costs, and Naked Licensing.
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