Risk Regulation

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

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David B. Wilkins, Making Context Count — Regulating Lawyers After Kaye, Scholer, 66 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1145 (1993).

Cass R. Sunstein, The Real World of Cost-Benefit Analysis: Thirty-Six Questions (and Almost as Many Answers), 114 Colum. L. Rev. 167 (2014).

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Hal S. Scott, The Reduction of Systemic Risk in the U.S. Financial System, 33 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 672 (2010).

Fred H. Miller, Robert G. Ballen & Hal S. Scott, Commercial Paper, Bank Deposits and Collections, and Commercial Electronic Fund Transfers, 39 Bus. Law. 1333…

Hal S. Scott, Reducing Systemic Risk Through the Reform of Capital Regulation, 13 J. Int. Econ. L. 763 (2010).

Hal S. Scott, Risk Fixers, 91 Harv. L. Rev. 737 (1978).

Benjamin M. Friedman, George C. Kaufman, Robert C. Pozen & Hal S. Scott, Comments, in Reforming U.S. Financial Markets: Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank 85…

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Cass R. Sunstein, Regulating Risks after ATA, 2001 Sup. Ct. Rev. 1.

Cass R. Sunstein, The Arithmetic of Arsenic, 90 Geo. L.J. 2255 (2002).

Timur Kuran & Cass R. Sunstein, Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation, 51 Stan. L. Rev. 683 (1999).

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John C. Coates, The Keynote Papers and the Current Financial Crisis, 47 J. Accounting Res. 427 (2009).

Hal S. Scott, Market Discipline for Financial Institutions and Sovereigns, in Market Discipline Across Countries and Industries 69 (Claudio Borio, William C. Hunter, George G.

Daniel K. Tarullo, Are We Seeing the Demise of Stress Testing, Up Front (June 25, 2020).

Daniel K. Tarullo, Financial Regulation: Still Unsettled a Decade after the Crisis, 33 J. Econ. Persp. 61 (2019).

Daniel Tarullo, Time-Varying Measures in Financial Regulation, 83 Law & Contemp. Probs. 1 (2020).

Daniel K. Tarullo, Banking on Basel: The Future of International Financial Regulation (2008).

Timur Kuran & Cass R. Sunstein, Controlling Availability Cascades, in Behavioral Law and Economics 374 (Cass R. Sunstein ed., 2000).

Cass R. Sunstein, The Catastrophic Harm Precautionary Principle, 6 Issues Legal Scholarship, May 2006, at 1.

Cass R. Sunstein, Precautions against What? The Availability Heuristic and Cross-Cultural Risk Perceptions, 57 Ala. L. Rev. 75 (2005).