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2013 CLEO Working Paper Series
C13-1 Edward Kleinbard, Why Tax Revenues Must Rise.
C13-2 Edward J. McCaffery, Distracted from Distraction by Distraction: Reimagining Estate Tax Reform (forthcoming in 40 Pepperdine Law Rev.).
C13-3 Edward J. McCaffery, A Progressive's Silver Linings Playbook: Repeal Stepped-up Basis (in Tax Notes, February 25, 2013, p. 969).
C13-4 Jonathan Barnett, Dynamic Analysis of Intellectual Property: Theory, Evidence and Policy.
C13-5 Edward D. Kleinbard, Corporate Capital and Labor Stuffing in the New Tax Rate Environment.
C13-6 Victor Fleischer and Nancy Staudt, The Supercharged IPO (Vanderbilt Law Review, forthcoming, 2014).
C13-7 Jonathan Barnett, Copyright Without Creators.
C13-8 Kevin J. Murphy, Regulating Banking Bonuses in the European Union: A Case Study in Unintended Consequences.
C13-9 Edward D. Kleinbard, Through a Latte, Darkly: Starbucks's Stateless Income Planning (in Tax Notes, June 24, 2013, pp. 1515-1535).
C13-10 Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast, Law without the State: Legal Attributes and the Coordination of Decentralized Collective Punishment (in 1 Journal of Law and Courts 3-34 (March 2013)).
C13-11 Gillian K. Hadfield and Dan Ryan, Democracy, Courts and the Information Order (in European Journal of Sociology 54 (2013), pp. 67-95).
C13-12 Anthony M. Bertelly, Dyana P. Mason, Jennifer M. Connolly, David A. Gastwirth, Measuring Agency Attributes with Attitudes Across Time: A Method and Examples Using Large-Scale Federal Surveys (forthcoming in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory).
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