Louis Kaplow
95 works on record
Works
Contracting
Microeconomics
Analytical Methods for Lawyers 2003
Decision Analysis, Game Theory, and Information
Fairness versus welfare
The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics
Competition Policy and Price Fixing
Why (ever) define markets
Utility from accumulation
On the taxation of private transfers
Antitrust Analysis
Taxes, permits, and climate change
Antitrust Analysis, 2000 Supplement (Case Supplement)
Targeted savings and labor supply
Analytical Methods for Lawyers
On the choice of welfare standards in competition law
An optimal tax system
Market share thresholds
Market definition and the merger guidelines
On the meaning of horizontal agreements in competition law
An economic approach to price fixing
Optimal control of externalities in the presence of income taxation
Optimal income transfers
Capital levies and transition to a consumption tax
Primary goods, capabilities,...or well-being?
Optimal taxation
Optimal policy with heterogeneous preferences
Optimal government policy toward risk imposed by uncertainty concerning future government action
Rethinking Merger Analysis
Discounting dollars, discounting lives
Myopia and the effects of social security and capital taxation on labor supply
Rules versus standards
Private versus socially optimal provision of ex ante legal advice
Fiscal federalism and the deductibility of state and local taxes under the federal income tax
Shifting plaintiffs' fees versus increasing damage awards
Public goods and the distribution of income
A model of the optimal complexity of rules
The effects and desirability of legal advice concerning information present in litigation
Antitrust, law & economics, and the courts
Antitrust
Legal advice about acts already committed
Private versus social costs in bringing suit
The value of accuracy in adjudication
Extension of monopoly power through leverage
Optimal sanctions, uninformed individuals, and acquiring information about the law
Optimal distribution and taxation of the family
Tax treatment of families
Do liability rules facilitate bargaining
Transition policy
Taxation and risk taking
Optimal insurance contracts when establishing the amount of losses is costly
Taxation and redistribution
A note on taxation as social insurance for uncertain labor income
Horizontal equity
The optimal probability and magnitude of fines for acts that are definitely undesirable
Accuracy in the determination of liability
Concavity of utility, concavity of welfare, and redistribution of income
A note on subsidizing gifts
An ex ante perspective on deregulation, viewed ex post
Income tax deductions for losses as insurance
Should the government's allocation branch be concerned about the distortionary cost of taxation and distributive effects?
The standard deduction and floors in the income tax
Why measure inequality?
Human capital and the income tax
Optimal law enforcement with self-reporting of behavior
Accuracy, complexity, and the income tax
A fundamental objection to tax equity norms
Regional cost-of-living adjustments in tax-transfer schemes
The efficiency of the legal system versus the income tax in redistributing income
A note on the optimal use of nonmonetary sanctions
The value of a statistical life and the coefficient of relative risk aversion
The income tax as insurance
An economic analysis of legal transitions
The patent-antitrust intersection
Accuracy in the assessment of damages
Property rules versus liability rules
Any non-welfarist method of policy assessment violates the Pareto principle
Notes on welfarist versus deontological principles
On the undesirability of commodity taxation even when income taxation is not optimal
Income taxation and optimal government policy
Pareto principle and competing principles
Choosing expensive tastes
On the (ir)relevance of distribution and labor supply distortion to government policy
Legal advice about information to present in litigation
Taxation
Brooking tax conference
Optimal transition policy
Seminar on structural implications of the 1986 tax legislation
Seminar on current research in taxation
Notions of fairness versus the Pareto principle
Human capital under an ideal income tax
Moral rules and the moral sentiments
Accuracy in adjudication
A framework for assessing estate and gift taxation
Transfer motives and tax policy