Law & Economics

Louis Kaplow, Extension of Monopoly Power Through Leverage, 85 Colum. L. Rev. 515 (1985).

Louis Kaplow, How Tax Complexity and Enforcement Affect the Equity and Efficiency of the Income Tax, 49 Nat’l Tax J. 135 (1996).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Why the Legal System Is Less Efficient than the Income Tax in Redistributing Income, 23 J. Legal Stud. 667 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, On the Divergence Between ‘Ideal’ and Conventional Income-Tax Treatment of Human Capital, 86 Am. Econ. Rev. 347 (1996).

Louis Kaplow, A Fundamental Objection to Tax Equity Norms: A Call for Utilitarianism, 48 Nat’l Tax J. 497 (1995).

Louis Kaplow, Tax and Non-Tax Distortions, 68 J. Pub. Econ. 303 (1998).

Louis Kaplow, Incentive and Government Relief for Risk, 4 J. Risk & Uncertainty 167 (1991).

Louis Kaplow, The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion, 31 J. Risk & Uncertainty 23 (2005).

Louis Kaplow, Taxing Leisure Complements, 48 Econ. Inquiry 1065 (2010).

Louis Kaplow, Concavity of Utility, Concavity of Welfare, and Redistribution of Income, 17 Int’l Tax & Pub. Fin. 25 (2010).

Louis Kaplow, On the Undesirability of Commodity Taxation Even When Income Taxation is Not Optimal, 90 J. Pub. Econ. 1235 (2006).

Louis Kaplow, A Model of the Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules, 11 J.L. Econ. & Org. 150 (1995).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Notions of Fairness versus the Pareto Principle: On the Role of Logical Consistency, 110 Yale L.J. 237 (2000).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Private versus Socially Optimal Provision of Ex Ante Legal Advice, 8 J.L. Econ. & Org. 306 (1992).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences, 8 B.E. J. Econ. Analysis & Pol’y art. 40 (2008).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Insurance Contracts When Establishing the Amount of Losses is Costly, 19 Geneva Papers on Risk & Insurance Theory 139 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, Elisabeth J. Moyer & David A. Weisbach, The Social Evaluation of Intergenerational Policies and its Application to Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change,…

Lawrence Lessig, The New Chicago School, 27 J. Legal Stud. 661 (1998).

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, Remedies for Non-Disclosure in Asset Sales: Voidance vs. Damages (Law & Economics Working Papers No. 301, 2025).

Xinyu Hua & Kathryn E. Spier, Platform Liability Rules: Strict Liability versus Negligence (HKUST Bus. Sch. Rsch. Paper No. 2023-105, Mar. 31, 2023).

Xinyu Hua & Kathryn E. Spier, Settling Lawsuits with Pirates, 64 Int’l Econ. Rev. 543 (2023).