Law & Behavioral Sciences

David Schkade, Cass R. Sunstein & Daniel Kahneman, Deliberating About Dollars: The Severity Shift, 100 Colum. L. Rev. 1139 (2000).

Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, David Schkade & Ilana Ritov, Predictably Incoherent Judgments, 54 Stan. L. Rev. 1153 (2002).

Amartya K. Sen, Why Exactly is Commitment Important for Rationality?, 21 J. Econ. & Phil. 5 (2005).

Thomas J. Brennan, Andrew W. Lo & Ruixun Zhang, Variety Is the Spice of Life: Irrational Behavior as Adaptation to Stochastic Environments, Q.J. Fin., Sept.

Ruixun Zhang, Thomas J. Brennan & Andrew W. Lo, Group Selection as Behavioral Adaptation to Systematic Risk, PLOS ONE, Oct. 2014, at 1.

Thomas J. Brennan & Andrew W. Lo, The Origin of Behavior, 1 Q. J. Fin. 55 (2011).

Steven Shavell, A Note on Marginal Deterrence, 12 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 345 (1992).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Should Employees be Subject to Fines and Imprisonment Given Existence of Corporate Liability?, 13 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ.

Steven Shavell, A Note on the Incentive to Reveal Information, 14 Geneva Papers on Risk & Insurance 66 (1989).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, The Fairness of Sanctions: Some Implications for Optimal Enforcement Policy, 2 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 223 (2000).

Steven Shavell, Economic Analysis of the General Structure of the Law (Nat’l Bureau Econ. Res. Working Paper No. w9699, Harv. L. & Econ. Discussion Paper…

Steven Shavell, Individual Precautions to Prevent Theft: Private Versus Socially Optimal Behavior, 11 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 123 (1991).

Steven Shavell, Minimum Asset Requirements (Harv. L. Sch. L. & Econ. Res. Paper Series, Working Paper No. 389, Nov. 2002).

Steven Shavell, Deterrence and the Punishment of Attempts, 19 J. Legal Stud. 435 (1990).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Legal Error, Litigation, and the Incentive to Obey the Law, 5 J.L. Econ. & Org. 99 (1989).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, On Offense History and the Theory of Deterrence, 18 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 305 (1998).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, On the Disutility and Discounting of Imprisonment and the Theory of Deterrence, 28 J. Legal Stud. 1 (1999).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law, 38 J. Econ. Lit. 45 (2000).

Steven Shavell, Sharing of Information Prior to Settlement or Litigation, 20 RAND J. Econ. 183 (1989).

A.Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment, 24 J. Pub. Econ. 89 (1984).

Steven Shavell, On Liability and Insurance, 13 Bell J. Econ. 120 (1982).