Research

Publications:

Asymmetries in Exchange Behavior Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Endowment Effect Theory and Prospect Theory?, American Economic Review (forthcoming) (with Charles R. Plott)
Physicians' Insurance Limits and Malpractice Payments: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003, Journal of Legal Studies (forthcoming) (with Charles Silver, Bernard Black, David Hyman and William Sage)
Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award? Post-Verdict Haircuts in Texas Medical Malpractice Cases, 1988-2003, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (forthcoming) (with Bernard Black, David Hyman, William Sage and Charles Silver)
Common Law Disclosure Duties and the Sin of Omission: Testing the Meta-theories, Virginia Law Review 91(7):1795-1882 (December 2005) (with Kimberly Krawiec)
Turning from Damage Caps to Information Disclosure: A New Approach to Tort Reform, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 5(1):385-398 (Winter 2005)
The Willingness to Pay/Willingness to Accept Gap, The "Endowment Effect, "Subject Misconceptions and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations, American Economic Review 95(3):530-545 (June 2005) (with Charles R. Plott)

Medical Malpractice and Contract Disclosure: An Equilibrium Model of the Effects of Legal Rules on Behavior in Health Care Markets.(game-theoretic model of how contract disclosure rules, damages caps and tortfeasor rules influence MCO/physician contract choices, treatment decisions and medical malpractice litigation decisions)

The Role of Empirical Studies in Health Care Policy, with Michelle M. Mello (reviewing enabling and inhibiting factors in the production of empirical health law research and how it has been used in health policy debates; commissioned for symposium issue of Georgetown Law Journal)
Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gaps: The Legal Implications of Recent Empirical Developments (exploring how recent experimental findings related to endowment effect theory affect applications of the theory to law)
Contract Disclosure Rules and Damages Caps: An Equilibrium Model of their Effects on Behavior in Health Care Markets (modeling the effects of contract disclosure rules and damages caps on MCO-physician contract choices, treatment decisions and medical malpractice litigation decisions))
An Empirical Study of the Effects of State Regulations on Medical Malpractice Litigation Decisions (investigating empirically the effects of mandatory MCO/physician contract disclosure rules and statutory damages caps on medical malpractice litigation decisions and insurance premiums)