Disciplinary Perspectives & Law

Louis Kaplow, Why (Ever) Define Markets?, 124 Harv. L. Rev. 437 (2010).

Louis Kaplow, Information and the Aim of Adjudication: Truth or Consequences?, 67 Stan. L. Rev. 1303 (2015).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Should Legal Rules Favor the Poor? Clarifying the Role of Legal Rules and the Income Tax in Redistributing Income, 29…

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Optimal Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting of Behavior, 102 J. Pol. Econ. 583 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, Antitrust, Law and Economics, and the Courts, 50 Law & Contemp. Probs. 181 (1987).

Louis Kaplow, Government Relief for Risk Associated with Government Action, 94 Scandinavian J. Econ. 525 (1992).

Louis Kaplow, Income-Tax Deductions For Losses as Insurance, 82 Am. Econ. Rev. 1013 (1992).

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).