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- Influence
Testing for Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets
- A. Cohen, Peter Siegelman
- Business
- 1 November 2009
This paper reviews and evaluates the empirical literature on adverse selection in insurance markets. We focus on empirical work that seeks to test the basic coverage-risk prediction of adverse… Expand
Race and Gender Discrimination in Bargaining for a New Car
- I. Ayres, Peter Siegelman
- Economics
- 1 June 1995
More than three hundred paired audits at new-car dealerships reveal that dealers quoted significantly lower prices to white males than to black or female test buyers using identical, scripted… Expand
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The Changing Nature of Employment Discrimination Litigation
- J. Donohue, Peter Siegelman
- Political Science
- 1 May 1991
Two major pieces of employment discrimination legislation were passed in the early 1990s: the 1991 Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act. Using some simple regression models, we… Expand
Allocating Resources Among Prisons And Social Programs In The Battle Against Crime
- John J. Donohue III, Peter Siegelman
- Business
- The Journal of Legal Studies
- 1 January 1998
This article evaluates the cost and crime‐reducing potential of prisons and social spending, setting forth the conditions under which a shift in resources from an expanding prison population into… Expand
The Law and Economics of Liability Insurance: A Theoretical and Empirical Review
- T. Baker, Peter Siegelman
- Economics
- 15 November 2011
We survey the theoretical and empirical literature on the law and economics of liability insurance. The canonical Shavell model predicts that, despite the presence of some ex ante moral hazard… Expand
Toward a Taxonomy of Disputes: New Evidence Through the Prism of the Priest/Klein Model
- Peter Siegelman, J. Waldfogel
- Economics
- The Journal of Legal Studies
- 1 January 1999
The Priest/Klein model predicts both trial rates and plaintiff win rates as functions of three structural parameters: the decision standard, parties' uncertainty in estimating case quality, and the… Expand
Studying the Iceberg from Its Tip: A Comparison of Published and Unpublished Employment Discrimination Cases
- J. Donohue, Peter Siegelman
- History
- 1990
Researchers often rely on published opinions to draw conclusions about cases decided by the courts, determinants of court decisions, and broader social phenomena. We demonstrate that 80 to 90 percent… Expand
Towards an Integrated Theory of Intellectual Property
- Gideon Parchomovsky, Peter Siegelman
- Economics
- 14 March 2002
This Article addresses a curious gap in the theory of intellectual property. One of the central dogmas in both the legal and economic literatures is that patents, copyrights and trademarks constitute… Expand
The Selection of Employment Discrimination Disputes for Litigation: Using Business Cycle Effects to Test the Priest-Klein Hypothesis
- Peter Siegelman, J. Donohue
- Economics
- The Journal of Legal Studies
- 1 June 1995
Employment discrimination cases filed during recessions are more likely to settle after filing and less likely to be won by plaintiffs than those filed when the economy is strong. This model of… Expand