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Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
A Distribution-Neutral Perspective On Tax Expenditure Limitations 0 0 0 13 5 7 8 38
A Framework for Assessing Estate and Gift Taxation 0 0 3 215 4 9 14 1,200
A Fundamental Objection to Tax Equity Norms: A Call for Utilitarianism 0 0 0 103 3 5 7 483
A Model of the Optimal Complexity of Rules 0 0 0 81 5 6 9 253
A Note on Subsidizing Gifts 0 0 0 43 5 12 17 208
A Note on Taxation as Social Insurance for Uncertain Labor Income 0 0 0 38 1 5 6 148
A Unified Perspective on Efficiency, Redistribution, and Public Policy 0 0 1 45 4 8 9 86
Accuracy in the Assessment of Damages 0 1 1 70 5 19 19 385
Accuracy in the Determination of Liability 0 0 0 83 3 4 5 421
Accuracy, Complexity, and the Income Tax 0 0 1 86 4 5 7 299
An Optimal Tax System 0 0 1 152 5 7 8 287
Antitrust 1 2 4 292 18 24 35 561
Any Non-Individualistic Social Welfare Function Violates the Pareto Principle 0 0 0 314 3 3 3 1,928
Capital Levies and Transition to a Consumption Tax 0 0 0 67 2 7 7 344
Competition Policy in a Simple General Equilibrium Model 0 0 0 44 3 6 9 146
Concavity of Utility, Concavity of Welfare, and Redistribution of Income 0 0 0 104 4 7 7 439
Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives: Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency 0 0 0 58 4 7 7 302
Economic Analysis of Law 1 2 6 1,171 4 11 21 3,105
Fairness Versus Welfare: Notes on the Pareto Principle, Preferences, and Distributive Justice 0 0 0 427 4 7 22 1,380
Government Policy and Labor Supply with Myopic or Targeted Savings Decisions 0 0 0 29 7 8 16 76
Government Relief for Risk Associated with Government Action 0 0 0 16 2 2 3 188
Horizonal Merger Analysis 0 0 1 43 2 3 5 52
Horizontal Equity: Measures in Search of a Principle 0 0 1 112 10 11 14 481
Horizontal Equity: New Measures, Unclear Principles 0 0 0 156 3 6 6 759
How Tax Complexity and Enforcement Affect the Equity and Efficiency of The Income Tax 0 0 0 253 2 7 12 812
Human Capital and the Income Tax 0 0 0 53 6 9 12 184
Incentives and Government Relief for Risk 0 0 0 68 1 5 7 224
Legal Advice about Acts Already Commited 0 0 0 9 4 8 12 124
Market Definition, Market Power 1 1 1 82 6 8 8 143
Market Power and Income Taxation 0 0 0 55 6 9 10 91
Moral Rules and the Moral Sentiments: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System 0 0 0 232 3 5 8 1,007
Myopia and the Effects of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply 0 0 0 77 4 8 11 403
On the (Ir)Relevence of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion of Government Policy 0 0 0 43 8 11 11 276
On the Optimal Burden of Proof 0 0 0 36 4 8 8 130
On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout 0 0 1 11 6 8 10 40
On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation 0 0 1 246 2 3 8 1,330
On the Taxation of Private Transfers 0 0 1 46 6 6 8 126
On the Undesirability of Commodity Taxation Even When Income Taxation is Not Optimal 0 0 1 130 1 5 8 435
Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation 0 0 0 108 3 5 8 390
Optimal Distribution and Taxation of the Family 0 0 1 53 5 9 11 175
Optimal Income Taxation 0 0 3 47 6 14 25 83
Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving 0 0 0 15 3 6 11 33
Optimal Income Transfers 0 0 0 113 5 39 41 367
Optimal Insurance Contracts When Establishing The Amount of Losses is Costly 0 0 0 33 3 6 7 159
Optimal Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting of Behavior 0 0 0 136 5 8 11 457
Optimal Multistage Adjudication 0 0 0 19 8 19 23 50
Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences 0 0 0 86 3 7 7 236
Optimal Regulation with Exemptions 0 0 0 67 5 6 6 49
Optimal Sanctions When Individuals are Imperfectly Informed About the Probability of Apprehension 0 0 0 69 14 20 24 324
Optimal Sanctions When the Probability of Apprehension Varies Among Individuals 0 0 0 36 5 8 9 398
Optimal Taxation with Costly Enforcement and Evasion 0 0 0 136 2 5 5 390
Private Versus Socially Optimal Provision of Ex Ante Legal Advice 0 0 0 25 2 28 32 194
Public Goods and the Distribution of Income 0 1 1 255 2 7 10 877
Regional Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Tax-Transfer Schemes 0 0 0 72 2 4 8 472
Shifting Plaintiffs' Fees versus Increasing Damage Awards 0 0 1 18 5 6 8 121
Should the Government's Allocation Branch be Concerned about the Distortionary Cost of Taxation and Distributive Effects? 0 0 0 41 5 6 6 278
Targeted Savings and Labor Supply 0 0 0 22 3 4 5 131
Taxation 0 1 2 428 3 6 9 2,049
Taxation and Risk Taking: A General Equilibrium Perspective 0 0 0 74 4 5 8 254
Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change 0 0 0 72 7 7 7 164
Taxing Leisure Complements 0 0 0 65 2 6 9 191
The Efficiency of the Legal System versus the Income Tax in Redistributing Income 0 0 0 44 1 2 9 173
The Income Tax as Insurance: The Casualty Loss and Medical Expense Deductions and the Exclusion of the Medical Insurance Premiums 0 0 0 31 2 5 8 325
The Optimal Probability and Magnitude of Fines for Acts that Definitely are Undesirable 0 0 0 43 15 15 19 184
The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion 0 0 0 256 17 24 27 928
Transfer Motives and Tax Policy 0 0 0 26 2 3 4 216
Transition Policy: A Conceptual Framework 0 0 0 120 1 4 6 411
Utility from Accumulation 0 0 0 30 2 8 8 132
Why Measure Inequality? 0 0 0 517 6 10 12 1,188
Total Working Papers 3 8 32 8,160 317 591 780 30,293


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A Model of the Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 442
A note on subsidizing gifts 0 0 0 50 3 3 6 211
A note on the optimal use of nonmonetary sanctions 0 0 0 123 3 4 7 250
Accuracy in the Assessment of Damages 0 0 0 3 8 10 13 511
Accuracy in the Determination of Liability 0 2 2 14 3 12 15 488
Accuracy, Complexity, and the Income Tax 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 340
An ex ante perspective on deregulation, viewed ex post 0 0 0 18 2 2 4 93
Any Non-welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle 1 2 3 191 5 14 20 644
Any Non-welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle: Reply 0 0 0 50 2 3 4 214
Fairness versus Welfare: Notes on the Pareto Principle, Preferences, and Distributive Justice 0 0 1 49 1 1 3 253
Incentives and Government Relief for Risk 0 0 0 0 4 4 5 211
Income Tax Deductions for Losses as Insurance 0 0 1 55 3 4 7 217
Legal advice about acts already committed 0 0 0 9 1 1 2 124
Moral Rules, the Moral Sentiments, and Behavior: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System 0 0 2 85 2 7 12 496
On the (Ir)Relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy 0 0 0 43 3 3 3 203
On the (Ir)relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy: Response 0 0 0 25 4 6 9 109
On the Divergence between "Ideal" and Conventional Income-Tax Treatment of Human Capital 1 1 1 49 2 3 7 164
On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation 0 0 0 0 5 5 6 617
On the undesirability of commodity taxation even when income taxation is not optimal 0 0 3 130 3 7 14 429
Optimal Deterrence, Uninformed Individuals, and Acquiring Information about Whether Acts Are Subject to Sanctions 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 318
Optimal Insurance Contracts When Establishing the Amount of Losses Is Costly 0 0 0 9 2 2 5 115
Optimal Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting of Behavior 0 1 4 199 6 11 25 802
Optimal Sanctions When Individuals Are Imperfectly Informed about the Probability of Apprehension 0 1 1 7 2 7 9 293
Optimal income transfers 0 0 0 72 3 5 8 318
Optimal sanctions and differences in individuals' likelihood of avoiding detection 0 0 0 110 1 3 5 268
Optimal taxation with costly enforcement and evasion 0 0 3 110 4 11 19 331
Private versus Socially Optimal Provision of Ex Ante Legal Advice 0 0 0 0 5 9 13 201
Public goods and the distribution of income 0 0 3 135 7 13 20 545
Shifting Plaintiffs' Fees versus Increasing Damage Awards 0 0 0 12 5 6 8 223
Should Legal Rules Favor the Poor? Clarifying the Role of Legal Rules and the Income Tax in Redistributing Income 0 1 1 8 2 7 11 310
Tax Policy and Gifts 0 0 0 30 3 3 8 147
Tax and non-tax distortions 0 0 1 29 3 3 6 113
The Conflict between Notions of Fairness and the Pareto Principle 0 0 0 0 0 4 8 917
The Value of Accuracy in Adjudication: An Economic Analysis 0 1 1 15 1 6 10 410
The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion 0 1 2 121 5 12 14 539
The optimal probability and magnitude of fines for acts that definitely are undesirable 0 0 0 32 1 3 6 171
Why measure inequality? 0 0 0 134 2 2 4 597
Why the Legal System Is Less Efficient Than the Income Tax in Redistributing Income 0 1 6 31 6 14 21 573
Total Journal Articles 2 11 35 1,948 113 215 350 13,207


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Distribution-Neutral Perspective on Tax Expenditure Limitations 0 0 0 16 4 6 10 63
Antitrust 1 4 14 226 9 19 47 705
Economic analysis of law 1 3 20 472 5 13 53 1,673
Government Policy and Labor Supply with Myopic or Targeted Savings Decisions 0 0 0 12 3 4 6 72
Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving 0 0 0 3 1 3 4 12
Taxation 0 0 0 199 7 9 11 976
Total Chapters 2 7 34 928 29 54 131 3,501


Statistics updated 2026-02-12