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A Distribution-Neutral Perspective On Tax Expenditure Limitations 0 0 0 13 6 9 17 47
A Framework for Assessing Estate and Gift Taxation 1 1 3 216 3 5 18 1,205
A Fundamental Objection to Tax Equity Norms: A Call for Utilitarianism 0 0 0 103 2 2 9 485
A Model of the Optimal Complexity of Rules 1 1 1 82 2 2 10 255
A Note on Subsidizing Gifts 0 0 0 43 1 1 17 209
A Note on Taxation as Social Insurance for Uncertain Labor Income 0 0 0 38 4 5 11 153
A Unified Perspective on Efficiency, Redistribution, and Public Policy 0 0 0 45 1 7 15 93
Accuracy in the Assessment of Damages 0 0 1 70 1 2 21 387
Accuracy in the Determination of Liability 0 0 0 83 5 8 13 429
Accuracy, Complexity, and the Income Tax 0 1 2 87 5 6 13 305
An Optimal Tax System 0 0 1 152 1 8 16 295
Antitrust 0 0 3 292 2 7 32 568
Any Non-Individualistic Social Welfare Function Violates the Pareto Principle 0 0 0 314 2 4 7 1,932
Capital Levies and Transition to a Consumption Tax 0 0 0 67 4 5 12 349
Competition Policy in a Simple General Equilibrium Model 0 0 0 44 4 4 10 150
Concavity of Utility, Concavity of Welfare, and Redistribution of Income 0 0 0 104 1 2 9 441
Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives: Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency 0 0 0 58 2 3 10 305
Economic Analysis of Law 0 1 6 1,172 3 7 27 3,112
Fairness Versus Welfare: Notes on the Pareto Principle, Preferences, and Distributive Justice 0 0 0 427 2 4 13 1,384
Government Policy and Labor Supply with Myopic or Targeted Savings Decisions 0 0 0 29 2 3 15 79
Government Relief for Risk Associated with Government Action 0 0 0 16 3 5 7 193
Horizonal Merger Analysis 0 0 1 43 5 6 11 58
Horizontal Equity: Measures in Search of a Principle 1 1 2 113 3 25 38 506
Horizontal Equity: New Measures, Unclear Principles 0 0 0 156 1 1 7 760
How Tax Complexity and Enforcement Affect the Equity and Efficiency of The Income Tax 0 0 0 253 4 10 22 822
Human Capital and the Income Tax 0 0 0 53 2 3 13 187
Incentives and Government Relief for Risk 0 0 0 68 2 6 13 230
Legal Advice about Acts Already Commited 0 0 0 9 2 4 15 128
Market Definition, Market Power 0 0 1 82 2 6 14 149
Market Power and Income Taxation 0 0 0 55 2 5 15 96
Moral Rules and the Moral Sentiments: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System 0 0 0 232 6 8 15 1,015
Myopia and the Effects of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply 0 0 0 77 0 2 10 405
On the (Ir)Relevence of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion of Government Policy 0 0 0 43 1 2 13 278
On the Optimal Burden of Proof 0 0 0 36 4 5 13 135
On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout 0 0 0 11 2 6 15 46
On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation 0 0 1 246 1 5 12 1,335
On the Taxation of Private Transfers 0 0 1 46 0 5 13 131
On the Undesirability of Commodity Taxation Even When Income Taxation is Not Optimal 0 0 1 130 3 4 12 439
Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation 0 0 0 108 2 10 17 400
Optimal Distribution and Taxation of the Family 0 0 1 53 0 1 12 176
Optimal Income Taxation 0 1 2 48 2 15 35 98
Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving 0 0 0 15 1 2 12 35
Optimal Income Transfers 0 0 0 113 0 2 43 369
Optimal Insurance Contracts When Establishing The Amount of Losses is Costly 0 0 0 33 4 5 12 164
Optimal Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting of Behavior 0 0 0 136 4 8 17 465
Optimal Multistage Adjudication 0 0 0 19 3 4 27 54
Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences 0 0 0 86 1 3 10 239
Optimal Regulation with Exemptions 0 0 0 67 6 9 15 58
Optimal Sanctions When Individuals are Imperfectly Informed About the Probability of Apprehension 0 0 0 69 6 12 36 336
Optimal Sanctions When the Probability of Apprehension Varies Among Individuals 0 0 0 36 2 7 16 405
Optimal Taxation with Costly Enforcement and Evasion 0 1 1 137 2 4 9 394
Private Versus Socially Optimal Provision of Ex Ante Legal Advice 0 0 0 25 7 11 43 205
Public Goods and the Distribution of Income 0 0 1 255 5 7 16 884
Regional Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Tax-Transfer Schemes 0 0 0 72 2 4 12 476
Shifting Plaintiffs' Fees versus Increasing Damage Awards 0 0 1 18 5 7 14 128
Should the Government's Allocation Branch be Concerned about the Distortionary Cost of Taxation and Distributive Effects? 0 0 0 41 4 4 10 282
Targeted Savings and Labor Supply 0 0 0 22 1 6 11 137
Taxation 0 0 2 428 1 5 13 2,054
Taxation and Risk Taking: A General Equilibrium Perspective 0 0 0 74 4 11 18 265
Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change 0 0 0 72 0 2 9 166
Taxing Leisure Complements 0 0 0 65 1 5 14 196
The Efficiency of the Legal System versus the Income Tax in Redistributing Income 0 0 0 44 2 5 13 178
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 3 10 328
The Optimal Probability and Magnitude of Fines for Acts that Definitely are Undesirable 0 0 0 43 1 3 21 187
The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion 0 0 0 256 3 13 40 941
Transfer Motives and Tax Policy 0 0 0 26 2 2 6 218
Transition Policy: A Conceptual Framework 0 0 0 120 1 3 9 414
Utility from Accumulation 0 0 0 30 3 6 14 138
Why Measure Inequality? 0 2 2 519 3 7 19 1,195
Total Working Papers 3 9 34 8,169 176 388 1,106 30,681


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A Model of the Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 444
A note on subsidizing gifts 0 0 0 50 2 2 8 213
A note on the optimal use of nonmonetary sanctions 0 0 0 123 2 3 8 253
Accuracy in the Assessment of Damages 0 0 0 3 1 2 15 513
Accuracy in the Determination of Liability 0 0 2 14 1 5 20 493
Accuracy, Complexity, and the Income Tax 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 341
An ex ante perspective on deregulation, viewed ex post 0 0 0 18 0 1 4 94
Any Non-welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle 0 0 2 191 4 8 25 652
Any Non-welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle: Reply 1 1 1 51 2 3 7 217
Fairness versus Welfare: Notes on the Pareto Principle, Preferences, and Distributive Justice 0 0 1 49 1 2 5 255
Incentives and Government Relief for Risk 0 0 0 0 2 5 10 216
Income Tax Deductions for Losses as Insurance 0 0 0 55 0 0 6 217
Legal advice about acts already committed 0 0 0 9 1 4 6 128
Moral Rules, the Moral Sentiments, and Behavior: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System 0 0 0 85 0 2 11 498
On the (Ir)Relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy 0 0 0 43 4 4 7 207
On the (Ir)relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy: Response 0 0 0 25 1 2 10 111
On the Divergence between "Ideal" and Conventional Income-Tax Treatment of Human Capital 0 0 1 49 0 4 9 168
On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 620
On the undesirability of commodity taxation even when income taxation is not optimal 0 0 2 130 5 7 19 436
Optimal Deterrence, Uninformed Individuals, and Acquiring Information about Whether Acts Are Subject to Sanctions 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 322
Optimal Insurance Contracts When Establishing the Amount of Losses Is Costly 0 0 0 9 7 9 13 124
Optimal Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting of Behavior 1 1 4 200 6 11 29 813
Optimal Sanctions When Individuals Are Imperfectly Informed about the Probability of Apprehension 0 0 1 7 1 3 12 296
Optimal income transfers 0 0 0 72 1 6 13 324
Optimal sanctions and differences in individuals' likelihood of avoiding detection 0 0 0 110 0 1 5 269
Optimal taxation with costly enforcement and evasion 0 0 3 110 2 4 23 335
Private versus Socially Optimal Provision of Ex Ante Legal Advice 0 0 0 0 1 4 16 205
Public goods and the distribution of income 0 1 3 136 4 10 26 555
Shifting Plaintiffs' Fees versus Increasing Damage Awards 0 0 0 12 2 9 17 232
Should Legal Rules Favor the Poor? Clarifying the Role of Legal Rules and the Income Tax in Redistributing Income 0 0 1 8 2 5 15 315
Tax Policy and Gifts 0 0 0 30 1 2 10 149
Tax and non-tax distortions 0 0 1 29 1 3 8 116
The Conflict between Notions of Fairness and the Pareto Principle 0 0 0 0 3 5 11 922
The Value of Accuracy in Adjudication: An Economic Analysis 0 0 1 15 2 5 14 415
The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion 0 0 2 121 2 4 18 543
The optimal probability and magnitude of fines for acts that definitely are undesirable 0 1 1 33 2 5 9 176
Why measure inequality? 0 0 0 134 2 4 7 601
Why the Legal System Is Less Efficient Than the Income Tax in Redistributing Income 0 0 6 31 1 5 26 578
Total Journal Articles 2 4 32 1,952 71 159 469 13,366


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Distribution-Neutral Perspective on Tax Expenditure Limitations 0 0 0 16 0 0 9 63
Antitrust 1 1 11 227 5 10 44 715
Economic analysis of law 0 1 16 473 6 14 53 1,687
Government Policy and Labor Supply with Myopic or Targeted Savings Decisions 0 0 0 12 5 6 12 78
Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving 0 0 0 3 6 7 11 19
Taxation 0 0 0 199 1 3 13 979
Total Chapters 1 2 27 930 23 40 142 3,541


Statistics updated 2026-05-06