Law & Economics

Christine A. Desan, From Blood to Profit: The Transformation of Value in the American Constitutional Tradition, 20 J. Pol’y Hist. 26 (2008).

Christine A. Desan, Law and the Economy of Early America: Markets, Institutions of Exchange, and Labor, in The Blackwell Companion to American Legal History 269…

Christine A. Desan, Creation Stories: Myths About the Origins of Money (Harv. Pub. L. Working Paper 13-20, Jul. 30, 2013).

Christine A. Desan, Money as a Legal Institution, in Money in the Western Legal Tradition: Middle Ages to Bretton Woods 18 (David Fox & Wolfgang…

Christine A. Desan, Contesting the Character of the Political Economy: Rights and Remedies in the Early Republic, in The House and Senate in the 1790s:…

Christine A. Desan, Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism, in 2 Transformations in American Legal History: Law, Ideology, and Methods –…

Christine A. Desan, The Market as a Matter of Money: Denaturalizing Economic Currency in American Constitutional History, 30 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1 (2005).

Charles Donahue, Jr., Lawyers, Economics, and the Regulated Industries: Thoughts on Professional Roles Inspired by Some Recent Economic Literature, 70 Mich. L. Rev. 195 (1971)(reviewing…

Bruce L. Hay & Kathryn E. Spier, Burdens of Proof in Civil Litigation: An Economic Perspective, in 2 The Economics of Evidence, Procedure, and Litigation…

Bruce L. Hay, & Kathryn E. Spier, Settlement of Litigation, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 442 (Peter Newman ed., 1998).

Bruce L. Hay & Kathryn E. Spier, Burdens of Proof in Civil Litigation: An Economic Perspective, 26 J. Legal Stud. 413 (1997).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Fulfilling the Promise of Economic Rights: Learning from Labor and Employment Law, in Making Equal Rights Real: Taking Effective Action to Overcome…

Alvin C. Warren, Jr. The Requirement of Economic Profit in Tax Motivated Transactions, 59 Taxes 985 (1981).

Florian Auferoth, Alma Cohen & Zvika Neeman, Judging Under Public Pressure, 106 Rev. of Econ. & Stat. 151 (2024).

Anat Bracha, Alma Cohen & Lynn Conell-Price, The Heterogeneous Effect of Affirmative Action on Performance, 158 J. Econ. Behavior & Org. 173 (2019).

Alma Cohen & Liran Einav, The Effects of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws on Driving Behavior and Traffic Fatalities, 85 Rev. Econ. & Stat. 828 (2003).

Alma Cohen, Nadav Levy & Roy Sasson, Termination Risk and Agency Problems: Evidence from the NBA, 34 J. L. Econ. Org. 579 (2018).

Alma Cohen, Asymmetric Information and Learning: Evidence from the Automobile Insurance Market, 87 Rev. Econ. & Stat. 197 (2005).

Alma Cohen, Rajeev H. Dehejia & Dmitri Romanov, Financial Incentives and Fertility, 95 Rev. Econ. & Stat. 1 (2013).

Alma Cohen, Asymmetric Learning in Repeated Contracting: An Empirical Study, 94 Rev. Econ. & Stat. 419 (2012).

Alma Cohen, The Disadvantages of Aggregate Deductibles, 6 B.E. J. of Econ. Analysis & Pol’y 1538 (2006).