Disciplinary Perspectives & Law

Louis Kaplow, Should the Government’s Allocation Branch Be Concerned About the Distortionary Cost of Taxation and Distributive Effects? (NBER Working Paper No. w4566, Dec. 1993).

Louis Kaplow, Capital Levies and Transition to a Consumption Tax (NBER Working Paper No. w12259, June 1, 2006).

Louis Kaplow, Response: The Income Tax Versus the Consumption Tax and the Tax Treatment of Human Capital, 51 Tax L. Rev. 35 (1997).

Louis Kaplow, Accuracy in Adjudication, in 1 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 1 (Peter Newman ed., 1998).

Louis Kaplow, Regional Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Tax-Transfer Schemes (NBER Working Paper No. w5008, Feb. 1995).

Louis Kaplow, Transfer Motives and Tax Policy (Nat’l Bureau Econ. Res., Working Paper No. w6340, Mar. 1999).

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

Louis Kaplow, Horizontal Equity: New Measures, Unclear Principles (NBER Working Paper No. w7649, Apr. 2000).

Louis Kaplow, General Characteristics of Rules, in 7 Encyclopedia of Law and Economics 18 (Francesco Parisi ed., 2nd ed. 2012).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Economic Analysis of Law (John M. Olin Ctr. L. Econ. & Bus. Discussion Paper No. 251, Nat’l Bureau Econ. Res.,…

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

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

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

Louis Kaplow, An Optimal Tax System, 32 Fiscal Stud. 415 (2011).

Louis Kaplow, An Economic Approach to Price Fixing, 77 Antitrust L.J. 343 (2011).

Louis Kaplow, Shifting Plaintiffs Fees Versus Increasing Damage Awards, 24 Rand J. Econ. 625 (1993).

Louis Kaplow, Choosing Expensive Tastes, 36 Can. J. Phil. 415 (2006).

Louis Kaplow, A Note on the Optimal Supply of Public Goods and the Distortionary Cost of Taxation, 51 Nat’l Tax J. 117 (1998).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Taxation with Costly Enforcement and Evasion, 43 J. Pub. Econ. 221 (1990).