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What Is The Law's Role In A Recession?, Gabriel Rauterberg, Joshua Younger Mar 2022

What Is The Law's Role In A Recession?, Gabriel Rauterberg, Joshua Younger

Reviews

In March 2020, the world faced not only a public health emergency but also one of the most profound shocks to the global economy in the modern era — a shock deeper and broader than any other in eighty years. Never before had virtually all of the world’s economies suffered a contraction at the same time (Tooze, p. 5). Global output decreased by nearly 3.4% in 2020, the largest contraction since the Second World War. The United States saw the largest recorded demand shock in its history (-32.9%), and the unemployment rate peaked around 15% during 2020, higher than at …


Do Lawyers Need Economists? Review Of Katja Langenbucher, Economic Transplants: On Lawmaking For Corporations And Capital Markets (Cambridge U. Press, 2017), Reuven S. Avi-Yonah Oct 2020

Do Lawyers Need Economists? Review Of Katja Langenbucher, Economic Transplants: On Lawmaking For Corporations And Capital Markets (Cambridge U. Press, 2017), Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

Law & Economics Working Papers

Katja Langenbucher’s outstanding book seeks to address the question of why and in what ways have lawyers been importing economic theories into a legal environment, and how has this shaped scholarly research, judicial and legislative work? Since the financial crisis, corporate or capital markets law has been the focus of attention by academia and media. Formal modelling has been used to describe how capital markets work and, later, has been criticized for its abstract assumptions. Empirical legal studies and regulatory impact assessments offered different ways forward. This excellent book presents a new approach to the risks and benefits of interdisciplinary …


Why Study Tax History?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah Feb 2020

Why Study Tax History?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

Law & Economics Working Papers

This book review addresses the question why studying tax history is helpful to tax policy makers and practitioners.


Predicting Defection, Elmer J. Schaefer May 2002

Predicting Defection, Elmer J. Schaefer

Faculty Publications

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Still Preying On Strategic Reputation Models Of Predation, Peter H. Huang Jan 2000

Still Preying On Strategic Reputation Models Of Predation, Peter H. Huang

Publications

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Book Review, Lakshman D. Guruswamy Jan 1998

Book Review, Lakshman D. Guruswamy

Publications

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Book Review, Howard C. Klemme Jan 1982

Book Review, Howard C. Klemme

Publications

No abstract provided.