Working Papers are research articles that have been submitted to the Institute or written by our Fellows, but have not yet been published or peer reviewed. The Institute maintains this index of working papers in order to help disseminate, discuss, and improve important ideas. Authors welcome informed comments. If you would like to submit your paper for possible inclusion please email the paper’s abstract to the Institute’s research director, Alexander Tabarrok.

Date	Title	Author(s)
9/1/1999	The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Tort Awards	Alexander Tabarrok Eric A. Helland
9/2/1999	Runaway Judges? Selection Effects and the Jury	Alexander Tabarrok Eric A. Helland
10/1/1999	Has Leviathan Been Bound?	Bryan Caplan
10/2/1999	The Logic of Collective Belief	Bryan Caplan
10/3/1999	When Is Two Better than One?	Bryan Caplan
10/4/1999	Standing Tiebout on His Head	Bryan Caplan
10/5/1999	Rational Irrationality and the Microfoundations of Political Failure	Bryan Caplan
10/6/1999	Litigation versus Legislation	Christopher Curran John F. Curran Paul H. Rubin
10/7/1999	Effects of Criminal Procedure on Crime Rates	Raymond A. Atkins Paul H. Rubin
11/1/1999	The Anomaly of Off-Label Drug Prescriptions	Alexander Tabarrok
12/1/1999	The Statute that Time Forgot	Paul G. Cassell
12/2/1999	New Anti-Merger Theories	Edward J. López
12/3/1999	The State: Agent or Proprietor?	Herschel I. Grossman
12/4/1999	Freedom of Speech, Information Privacy, and the Troubling Implications of a Right to Stop People from Speaking About You	Eugene Volokh
12/5/1999	An Introduction to Economics as a Moral Science	James E. Alvey
12/6/1999	Freedom of Speech, Cyberspace, Harassment Law, and the Clinton Administration	Eugene Volokh
12/7/1999	Cooption and Repression in the Soviet Union	Dmitriy Gershenson Herschel I. Grossman
1/1/2000	Islands in a Sea of Obligation: Limits on the Duty To Rescue	David J. Schmidtz
1/2/2000	Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in Thirteenth-Century England	Daniel Klerman
1/3/2000	Democracy, Spontaneous Order and Peace	Gus diZerega
2/1/2000	What Larry Doesn’t Get	David G. Post
4/1/2000	Conflicts of Interest in the Hollywood Film Industry	Darren Filson Thomas E. Borcherding
6/1/2000	Public Versus Private Initiative in Arctic Exploration	Jonathan M. Karpoff
3/1/2001	Constitutional Design and Economic Freedom	Xavier de Vanssay Zane Spindler
3/2/2001	Do Parties Benefit from Electoral Manipulation?	Marek M. Kaminski
4/1/2001	Financial Integration over Three Centuries	James R. Lothian
4/2/2001	Political Systems, Economics of Organization, and the Information Revolution (The Supply Side of Public Choice)	Jean-Jacques Rosa
4/3/2001	Public Health and the Placebo: The Legacy of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act	Russell S. Sobel
4/4/2001	The Changing United States Health Care System	Robert B. Helms
4/5/2001	Minimum Wages For Women Only	Clifford F. Thies
4/6/2001	The Positive Correlation of Price and Concentration in Staples: Market Power or Indivisibility?	Craig M. Newmark
4/7/2001	You Get What You Pay For: Result-Based Compensation for Health Care	David A. Hyman Charles Silver
4/8/2001	Do Good Laws Make Good Citizens?	Robert D. Cooter
5/1/2001	Homicide Rates and Substance Control Policy	Kirby R. Cundiff
5/2/2001	Teacher Training and Texas Education Reform	J. E. Stone
5/3/2001	Do Civil and Political Repression Really Boost Foreign Direct Investments?	Philipp W. Harms Heinrich W. Ursprung
5/4/2001	Political Yardstick Competition, Economic Integration, and Constitutional Choice in a Federation	Martin R. Bodenstein Heinrich W. Ursprung
6/1/2001	Nation of Origin Bias and the Enforcement of Immigration Laws by the Immigration and Naturalization Service	Jim F. Couch Brett A. King William H. Wells Peter M. Williams
8/1/2001	Constitutional Causes for Technological Leadership: Why Europe?	Jurgen G. Backhaus
8/2/2001	Economic Principles of Constitutions	Jurgen G. Backhaus
9/1/2001	Privateering and National Defense: Naval Warfare for Private Profit	Larry J. Sechrest
10/1/2001	Development of the American Railroad Network During the Early 19th Century	Clifford F. Thies
12/1/2001	The Demand for Democide	King Banaian
5/1/2002	International Money and Common Currencies in Historical Perspective	James R. Lothian Gerald P. Dwyer Jr.
6/2/2003	Wartime Socialization of Investment	Robert Higgs
10/1/2003	The Lighthouse as a Private-Sector Collective Good	Fred E. Foldvary
10/2/2003	Do Off-Label Drug Practices Argue Against FDA Efficacy Requirements?	Alexander Tabarrok Daniel B. Klein
10/3/2003	The Ongoing Growth of Government in the Economically Advanced Countries	Robert Higgs
10/5/2003	Individual Unemployment Accounts	Stephen M. Colarelli Lawrence Brunner
4/8/2004	Prostitution and Sex Crimes	Kirby R. Cundiff