Research

Publications:

  • Do Damages Caps Reduce Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums?: A Systematic Review of Estimates and the Methods Used to Produce Them, forthcoming in Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts (Jennifer Arlen ed., Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub 2013) (with Lorian Hardcastle)

  • Endowment effect theory, subject misconceptions and enhancement effect theory: A reply to Isoni, Loomes and Sugden, American Economic Review 101(2):1012 (April 2011) (with Charles R. Plott)

  • Cautions on the Use of Economics Experiments in Law, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 166(1):178 (March 2010)

  • Medical Malpractice Liability Crisis or Patient Compensation Crisis?, DePaul Law Review 59:675 (Winter 2010)

  • Malpractice Payouts and Malpractice Insurance: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice 33:177 (2008) (with Charles Silver, Bernard Black, David Hyman, and William Sage)

  • Empirical Health Law Scholarship: The State of the Field, Georgetown Law Journal 96:649 (2008) (with Michelle M. Mello)

  • Asymmetries in Exchange Behavior Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Endowment Effect Theory and Prospect Theory?, American Economic Review 97:1449 (September 2007) (with Charles R. Plott)

  • Physicians' Insurance Limits and Malpractice Payments: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003, Journal of Legal Studies 36:S2 (June 2007) (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 4:3 (March 2007) (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 (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 (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 (June 2005) (with Charles R. Plott)

    • Work in Progress:

    • Against Endowment Theory: Experimental Economics and Legal Scholarship (with Gregory Klass) (exploring how recent experimental findings related to endowment theory affect applications of the theory to law and discussing general issues of importation of experimental economics into legal scholarship)

    • Exploring the Use of Officer and Director Liability in Encouraging Adoption of Patient Safety Protocols (with Lorian Hardcastle and Constantine Manthous)

    • Enhancement, Endowment, and References as Explanations of Exchange Asymmetries: A Comment on Knetsch and Wong, “The Endowment Effect and the Reference State: Evidence and Manipulations” (with Charles R. Plott) (arguing that experiments designed to challenge the interpretation of results reported in Plott and Zeiler (2007, AER) cannot rule out enhancement effect theory as an alternative explanation)

    • Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming) (ed. with Joshua C. Teitelbaum)

    • The Role of Insurance Price Regulations in Medical Malpractice Insurance Crises: An Empirical Investigation (studying the relationship of medical malpractice insurance price regulations and premium cycles)

    Unpublished Manuscripts:

    Dissertation:



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