Law & Economics

Steven Shavell, A Fundamental Enforcement Cost Advantage of the Negligence Rule over Regulation, 42 J. Legal Stud. 275 (2013).

Steven M. Shavell, Do Excessive Legal Standards Discourage Desirable Activity?, 95 Econ. Letters 394 (2007).

Steven Shavell, The Optimal Structure of Law Enforcement, 36 J.L. Econ. 255 (1993).

Steven Shavell, The Level of Litigation: Private Versus Social Optimality of Suit and of Settlement, 19 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 99 (1999).

Steven Shavell, A Simple Model of Optimal Deterrence and Incapacitation, 42 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 13 (2015).

Steven Shavell, Eminent Domain versus Government Purchase of Land Given Imperfect Information about Owners’ Valuations, 53 J.L. & Econ. 1 (2010).

Steven Shavell, An Analysis of Causation and the Scope of Liability in the Law of Torts, 9 J. Legal Stud. 463 (1980).

Steven Shavell, Sharing Risks of Deferred Payment, 84 J. Pol. Econ. 161 (1976).

Steven Shavell, Strict Liability versus Negligence, 9 J. Legal Stud. 1 (1980).

Steven M. Shavell, On Optimal Legal Change, Past Behavior, and Grandfathering, 37 J. Legal Stud. 37 (2008).

Steven Shavell, Corrective Taxation versus Liability, Am. Econ. Rev., May 2011, at 273.

Steven Shavell, The Design of Contracts and Remedies for Breach, 99 Q. J. Econ. 121 (1984).

Steven Shavell, Damage Measures for Breach of Contract, 11 Bell J. Econ. 466 (1980).

Steven Shavell, Risk Sharing and Incentives in the Principal and Agent Relationship, 10 Bell J. Econ. 55 (1979).

Steven Shavell, Torts in Which Victim and Injurer Act Sequentially, 26 J.L. & Econ. 589 (1983).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Amenities and Property Values in a Model of an Urban Area, 5 J. Pub. Econ. 119 (1976).

Steven M. Shavell, On the Writing and the Interpretation of Contracts, 22 J.L. Econ. & Org. 289 (2006).

Robert H. Sitkoff, Corporate Political Speech, Political Extortion, and the Competition for Corporate Charters, 69 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1103 (2002).

H. Thiel & Robert H. Mnookin, The Information Value of Demand Equations and Predictions, 74 J. Pol. Econ. 34 (1966).

Robert Cooter, Stephen Marks & Robert H. Mnookin, Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: A Testable Model of Strategic Behavior, 11 J. Legal Stud.

Robert H. Mnookin, Strategic Barriers to Dispute Resolution: A Comparison of Bilateral and Multilateral Negotiations, 159 J. Inst. & Theoretical Econ. 199 (2003).