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A Distribution-Neutral Perspective On Tax Expenditure Limitations 0 0 0 13 1 3 3 33
A Framework for Assessing Estate and Gift Taxation 0 0 3 215 0 5 10 1,196
A Fundamental Objection to Tax Equity Norms: A Call for Utilitarianism 0 0 1 103 1 2 5 480
A Model of the Optimal Complexity of Rules 0 0 0 81 0 2 4 248
A Note on Subsidizing Gifts 0 0 0 43 6 11 12 203
A Note on Taxation as Social Insurance for Uncertain Labor Income 0 0 0 38 4 5 5 147
A Unified Perspective on Efficiency, Redistribution, and Public Policy 0 0 1 45 2 4 5 82
Accuracy in the Assessment of Damages 1 1 1 70 14 14 14 380
Accuracy in the Determination of Liability 0 0 0 83 0 2 2 418
Accuracy, Complexity, and the Income Tax 0 0 1 86 1 2 3 295
An Optimal Tax System 0 0 1 152 1 2 3 282
Antitrust 0 1 4 291 3 6 18 543
Any Non-Individualistic Social Welfare Function Violates the Pareto Principle 0 0 0 314 0 0 0 1,925
Capital Levies and Transition to a Consumption Tax 0 0 0 67 4 5 5 342
Competition Policy in a Simple General Equilibrium Model 0 0 0 44 3 3 6 143
Concavity of Utility, Concavity of Welfare, and Redistribution of Income 0 0 0 104 0 3 3 435
Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives: Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency 0 0 0 58 1 3 3 298
Economic Analysis of Law 0 2 5 1,170 4 10 18 3,101
Fairness Versus Welfare: Notes on the Pareto Principle, Preferences, and Distributive Justice 0 0 0 427 3 3 18 1,376
Government Policy and Labor Supply with Myopic or Targeted Savings Decisions 0 0 0 29 0 2 9 69
Government Relief for Risk Associated with Government Action 0 0 0 16 0 0 2 186
Horizonal Merger Analysis 0 0 1 43 1 1 3 50
Horizontal Equity: Measures in Search of a Principle 0 0 1 112 1 1 4 471
Horizontal Equity: New Measures, Unclear Principles 0 0 0 156 2 3 3 756
How Tax Complexity and Enforcement Affect the Equity and Efficiency of The Income Tax 0 0 1 253 2 6 11 810
Human Capital and the Income Tax 0 0 0 53 3 4 6 178
Incentives and Government Relief for Risk 0 0 0 68 3 5 6 223
Legal Advice about Acts Already Commited 0 0 0 9 2 4 8 120
Market Definition, Market Power 0 0 0 81 2 2 3 137
Market Power and Income Taxation 0 0 0 55 3 3 4 85
Moral Rules and the Moral Sentiments: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System 0 0 0 232 1 3 5 1,004
Myopia and the Effects of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply 0 0 0 77 2 4 7 399
On the (Ir)Relevence of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion of Government Policy 0 0 0 43 2 3 3 268
On the Optimal Burden of Proof 0 0 0 36 3 4 4 126
On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout 0 0 1 11 0 3 4 34
On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation 0 0 1 246 1 2 7 1,328
On the Taxation of Private Transfers 0 0 1 46 0 0 2 120
On the Undesirability of Commodity Taxation Even When Income Taxation is Not Optimal 0 0 1 130 1 5 7 434
Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation 0 0 0 108 1 2 5 387
Optimal Distribution and Taxation of the Family 0 0 1 53 4 4 6 170
Optimal Income Taxation 0 0 3 47 5 8 20 77
Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving 0 0 0 15 3 5 10 30
Optimal Income Transfers 0 0 0 113 33 35 37 362
Optimal Insurance Contracts When Establishing The Amount of Losses is Costly 0 0 0 33 2 3 4 156
Optimal Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting of Behavior 0 0 0 136 2 3 6 452
Optimal Multistage Adjudication 0 0 0 19 8 13 15 42
Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences 0 0 0 86 0 4 4 233
Optimal Regulation with Exemptions 0 0 0 67 0 1 1 44
Optimal Sanctions When Individuals are Imperfectly Informed About the Probability of Apprehension 0 0 0 69 4 7 10 310
Optimal Sanctions When the Probability of Apprehension Varies Among Individuals 0 0 0 36 1 4 4 393
Optimal Taxation with Costly Enforcement and Evasion 0 0 0 136 2 3 3 388
Private Versus Socially Optimal Provision of Ex Ante Legal Advice 0 0 0 25 25 28 30 192
Public Goods and the Distribution of Income 1 1 1 255 4 6 8 875
Regional Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Tax-Transfer Schemes 0 0 0 72 1 4 6 470
Shifting Plaintiffs' Fees versus Increasing Damage Awards 0 1 1 18 1 2 3 116
Should the Government's Allocation Branch be Concerned about the Distortionary Cost of Taxation and Distributive Effects? 0 0 0 41 0 1 1 273
Targeted Savings and Labor Supply 0 0 0 22 0 1 2 128
Taxation 0 1 2 428 2 3 6 2,046
Taxation and Risk Taking: A General Equilibrium Perspective 0 0 0 74 0 2 4 250
Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change 0 0 0 72 0 0 0 157
Taxing Leisure Complements 0 0 0 65 3 4 7 189
The Efficiency of the Legal System versus the Income Tax in Redistributing Income 0 0 0 44 1 1 8 172
The Income Tax as Insurance: The Casualty Loss and Medical Expense Deductions and the Exclusion of the Medical Insurance Premiums 0 0 0 31 3 3 6 323
The Optimal Probability and Magnitude of Fines for Acts that Definitely are Undesirable 0 0 0 43 0 1 4 169
The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion 0 0 0 256 4 7 10 911
Transfer Motives and Tax Policy 0 0 0 26 1 2 2 214
Transition Policy: A Conceptual Framework 0 0 0 120 2 3 5 410
Utility from Accumulation 0 0 0 30 3 6 6 130
Why Measure Inequality? 0 0 0 517 4 5 6 1,182
Total Working Papers 2 7 32 8,157 196 311 474 29,976


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A Model of the Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 442
A note on subsidizing gifts 0 0 0 50 0 0 3 208
A note on the optimal use of nonmonetary sanctions 0 0 0 123 1 1 4 247
Accuracy in the Assessment of Damages 0 0 0 3 2 3 5 503
Accuracy in the Determination of Liability 2 2 2 14 5 11 12 485
Accuracy, Complexity, and the Income Tax 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 339
An ex ante perspective on deregulation, viewed ex post 0 0 0 18 0 0 2 91
Any Non-welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle 1 1 2 190 7 9 15 639
Any Non-welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle: Reply 0 0 0 50 1 1 2 212
Fairness versus Welfare: Notes on the Pareto Principle, Preferences, and Distributive Justice 0 0 1 49 0 0 2 252
Incentives and Government Relief for Risk 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 207
Income Tax Deductions for Losses as Insurance 0 0 1 55 1 2 4 214
Legal advice about acts already committed 0 0 0 9 0 1 1 123
Moral Rules, the Moral Sentiments, and Behavior: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System 0 0 2 85 1 5 10 494
On the (Ir)Relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy 0 0 0 43 0 0 0 200
On the (Ir)relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy: Response 0 0 0 25 0 2 5 105
On the Divergence between "Ideal" and Conventional Income-Tax Treatment of Human Capital 0 0 0 48 0 1 5 162
On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 612
On the undesirability of commodity taxation even when income taxation is not optimal 0 1 4 130 2 5 12 426
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 0 1 3 113
Optimal Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting of Behavior 1 1 5 199 3 6 20 796
Optimal Sanctions When Individuals Are Imperfectly Informed about the Probability of Apprehension 0 1 1 7 2 6 7 291
Optimal income transfers 0 0 0 72 1 3 6 315
Optimal sanctions and differences in individuals' likelihood of avoiding detection 0 0 0 110 1 3 4 267
Optimal taxation with costly enforcement and evasion 0 0 3 110 2 7 15 327
Private versus Socially Optimal Provision of Ex Ante Legal Advice 0 0 0 0 4 4 8 196
Public goods and the distribution of income 0 0 5 135 4 6 15 538
Shifting Plaintiffs' Fees versus Increasing Damage Awards 0 0 0 12 1 2 3 218
Should Legal Rules Favor the Poor? Clarifying the Role of Legal Rules and the Income Tax in Redistributing Income 0 1 1 8 2 5 9 308
Tax Policy and Gifts 0 0 0 30 0 2 5 144
Tax and non-tax distortions 0 0 1 29 0 0 3 110
The Conflict between Notions of Fairness and the Pareto Principle 0 0 0 0 3 5 8 917
The Value of Accuracy in Adjudication: An Economic Analysis 0 1 1 15 3 5 11 409
The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion 1 2 2 121 4 9 9 534
The optimal probability and magnitude of fines for acts that definitely are undesirable 0 0 0 32 1 2 6 170
Why measure inequality? 0 0 0 134 0 0 2 595
Why the Legal System Is Less Efficient Than the Income Tax in Redistributing Income 0 2 6 31 2 11 15 567
Total Journal Articles 5 12 37 1,946 56 124 246 13,094


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Distribution-Neutral Perspective on Tax Expenditure Limitations 0 0 0 16 0 4 6 59
Antitrust 2 3 14 225 4 11 41 696
Economic analysis of law 2 3 21 471 5 11 52 1,668
Government Policy and Labor Supply with Myopic or Targeted Savings Decisions 0 0 0 12 1 2 3 69
Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving 0 0 0 3 1 3 4 11
Taxation 0 0 0 199 1 2 4 969
Total Chapters 4 6 35 926 12 33 110 3,472


Statistics updated 2026-01-09