Disciplinary Perspectives & Law

Louis Kaplow, The Optimal Supply of Public Goods and the Distortionary Cost of Taxation, 49 Nat’l Tax J. 513 (1996).

Louis Kaplow, Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives: Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency, 74 U. Chi. L. Rev. 79 (2007).

Louis Kaplow, Horizontal Equity: Measures in Search of a Principle, 42 Nat’l Tax J. 139 (1989).

Louis Kaplow, Rules Versus Standards: An Economic Analysis, 42 Duke L.J. 557 (1992).

Louis Kaplow, Fiscal Federalism and the Deductibility of State and Local Taxes Under the Federal Income Tax, 82 Va. L. Rev. 413 (1996).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Income Transfers, 14 Int’l Tax & Pub. Fin. 295 (2007).

Louis Kaplow, Tax Policy and Gifts, 88 Am. Econ. Rev. 283 (1998).

Louis Kaplow, The Patent-Antitrust Intersection: A Reappraisal, 97 Harv. L. Rev. 1813 (1984).

Louis Kaplow, Burden of Proof, 121 Yale L.J. 738 (2012).

Louis Kaplow, Accuracy, Complexity, and the Income Tax, 14 J.L. Econ. & Org. (1998).

Louis Kaplow, A Note on Subsidizing Gifts, 58 J. Pub. Econ. 469 (1995).

Steven Shavell & Louis Kaplow, Legal Advice About Information to Present in Litigation: Its Effects and Social Desirability, 102 Harv. L. Rev. 565 (1989).

Louis Kaplow, Likelihood Ratio Tests and Legal Decision Rules, 16 Am. L. and Econ. Rev. 1 (2014).

Louis Kaplow, Primary Goods, Capabilities, . . . Or Well-Being?, 116 Phil. Rev. 603 (2007).

Louis Kaplow, A Note on the Optimal Use of Nonmonetary Sanctions, 42 J. Pub. Econ. 245 (1990).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Distribution and the Family, 98 Scandinavian J. Econ. 75 (1996).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Comment, Do Liability Rules Facilitate Bargaining? A Reply to Ayres and Talley, 105 Yale L.J. 221 (1995).

Louis Kaplow, Public Goods and the Distribution of Income, 50 Eur. Econ. Rev. 1627 (2006).

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, Optimal Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting of Behavior, 102 J. Pol. Econ. 583 (1994).