Law & Economics

Lucian A. Bebchuk & Omri Ben-Shahar, Precontractual Reliance, 30 J. Legal Stud. 423 (2001).

Louis Kaplow, Entry and Merger Analysis, 85 Antitrust L.J. 103 (2023).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Income Taxation (Nat’l Bureau of Econ. Rsch., Working Paper No. 30199, 2022).

Louis Kaplow & Scott Duke Kominers, On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 1030, Apr. 8,…

Louis Kaplow, Horizontal Merger Analysis, 79 Int’l J. Indus. Org. (Dec. 2021).

Louis Kaplow, Balancing Versus Structured Decision Procedures: Antitrust, Title VII Disparate Impact, and Constitutional Law Strict Scrutiny, 167 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1375 (2019).

Louis Kaplow, Price-Fixing Policy, 61 Int’l J. Indus. Org. 749 (2018).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Multistage Adjudication, 33 J.L. Econ. & Org. 613 (2017).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Design of Private Litigation, J. Pub. Econ., Nov. 2017, at 64.

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Legal Advice About Acts Already Committed, 10 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 149 (1990).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, The Conflict Between Notions of Fairness and the Pareto Principle, 1 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 63 (1999).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, All Individuals May Be Made Worse Off Under Any Nonwelfarist Principle (Harv. L. & Econ. Discussion Paper No. 350, Feb.

Louis Kaplow & Steven M. Shavell, On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation, 4 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 1 (2002).

Steven Shavell & Louis Kaplow, Principles of Fairness Versus Human Welfare: On the Evaluation of Legal Policy (Harv. L. Sch. L. & Econ. Res. Paper…

Louis Kaplow, Direct Versus Communications-Based Prohibitions on Price Fixing, 3 J. Legal Analysis 449 (2011).

Louis Kaplow, The Optimal Probability and Magnitude of Fines for Acts that Definitely are Undesirable, 12 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 3 (1992).

Louis Kaplow, Why Measure Inequality?, 3 J. Econ. Ineq. 65 (2005).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Reply to Ripstein: Notes on Welfarist Versus Deontological Principles, 20 Econ. & Phil. 209 (2004).

Louis Kaplow, Transition Policy: A Conceptual Framework, 13 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 161 (2003).

Louis Kaplow, The Value of Accuracy in Adjudication: An Economic Analysis, 23 J. Legal Stud. 307 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, On the Optimal Burden of Proof, 119 J. Pol. Econ. 1104 (2011).