Law & Economics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, Settling Lawsuits with Pirates, 64 Int’l Econ. Rev. 543 (2023).

Kathryn E. Spier & J.J. Prescott, Contracting on Litigation, 50 RAND J. Econ. 391 (2019).

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, The Economics of Class Action Waivers, 38 Yale J. on Reg. 543 (2021).

Claudia M. Landeo & Kathryn E. Spier, Ordered Leniency: An Experimental Study of Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting (NBER Working Paper No. w25094, Sept. 13, 2018).

Claudia M. Landeo & Kathryn E. Spier, Optimal Law Enforcement with Ordered Leniency, 63 J.L. & Econ. 71 (2020).

Kathryn E. Spier, The Dynamics of Pretrial Negotiation, in 1 The Economics of Evidence, Procedure, and Litigation (Chris W. Sanchirico ed., 2007).