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)
3/14/2005	“Not Merely Perfidious but Ungrateful”: The U.S. Takeover of West Florida	Robert Higgs
11/1/1999	The Anomaly of Off-Label Drug Prescriptions	Alexander Tabarrok
4/1/2012	A Brief History of Checkpoints (And What to do About Them)	Patrick Adams
4/4/2001	The Changing United States Health Care System	Robert B. Helms
6/2/2004	Coasian Contracts in the Coeur d’Alene Mining District	Robert Higgs
4/1/2000	Conflicts of Interest in the Hollywood Film Industry	Darren Filson Thomas E. Borcherding
8/1/2001	Constitutional Causes for Technological Leadership: Why Europe?	Jurgen G. Backhaus
3/1/2001	Constitutional Design and Economic Freedom	Xavier de Vanssay Zane Spindler
12/7/1999	Cooption and Repression in the Soviet Union	Dmitriy Gershenson Herschel I. Grossman
12/1/2001	The Demand for Democide	King Banaian
1/3/2000	Democracy, Spontaneous Order and Peace	Gus diZerega
5/9/2005	Development Aid and Economic Freedom: Are They Related?	Benjamin W. Powell Matt E. Ryan
10/1/2001	Development of the American Railroad Network During the Early 19th Century	Clifford F. Thies
5/3/2001	Do Civil and Political Repression Really Boost Foreign Direct Investments?	Philipp W. Harms Heinrich W. Ursprung
4/8/2001	Do Good Laws Make Good Citizens?	Robert D. Cooter
10/2/2003	Do Off-Label Drug Practices Argue Against FDA Efficacy Requirements?	Alexander Tabarrok Daniel B. Klein
3/2/2001	Do Parties Benefit from Electoral Manipulation?	Marek M. Kaminski
8/2/2001	Economic Principles of Constitutions	Jurgen G. Backhaus
9/1/1999	The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Tort Awards	Alexander Tabarrok Eric A. Helland
10/7/1999	Effects of Criminal Procedure on Crime Rates	Raymond A. Atkins Paul H. Rubin
5/23/2005	An Experimental Investigation of Hobbesian Jungles	Bart J. Wilson Benjamin W. Powell
4/1/2001	Financial Integration over Three Centuries	James R. Lothian
12/6/1999	Freedom of Speech, Cyberspace, Harassment Law, and the Clinton Administration	Eugene Volokh
12/4/1999	Freedom of Speech, Information Privacy, and the Troubling Implications of a Right to Stop People from Speaking About You	Eugene Volokh
8/18/2005	A Geo-Spatial Macro-Economic Analysis of Climate Change	Sungno Niggol Seo
4/20/2005	Government and the Economy since World War II	Robert Higgs
4/20/2005	Government and the Economy: The World Wars	Robert Higgs
10/1/1999	Has Leviathan Been Bound?	Bryan Caplan
5/1/2001	Homicide Rates and Substance Control Policy	Kirby R. Cundiff
10/5/2003	Individual Unemployment Accounts	Stephen M. Colarelli Lawrence Brunner
5/20/2004	Institutional Foundations of Economic Freedom	Xavier de Vanssay Zane Spindler Vincent Hildebrand
10/30/2009	Internal Enforcement	Keith D. Malone
5/1/2002	International Money and Common Currencies in Historical Perspective	James R. Lothian Gerald P. Dwyer Jr.
12/5/1999	An Introduction to Economics as a Moral Science	James E. Alvey
3/7/2011	Iraq, Afghanistan, War, and Money: A Look at Two Presidencies	Anthony Gregory
3/14/2005	Is Cybersecurity a Public Good? Evidence from the Financial Services Industry	Benjamin W. Powell
1/19/2006	Is Future Conflict with China Unavoidable?	Ivan Eland
1/1/2000	Islands in a Sea of Obligation: Limits on the Duty To Rescue	David J. Schmidtz
8/20/2007	Jacob K. Javits and Latin American Economic Integration	Salvador Rivera Ph.D.
11/3/2009	Keys to Economics of Global Warming	Sungno Niggol Seo
11/17/2010	Life Expectancy, Health Care, and Economics	Kirby R. Cundiff
10/1/2003	The Lighthouse as a Private-Sector Collective Good	Fred E. Foldvary
10/6/1999	Litigation versus Legislation	Christopher Curran John F. Curran Paul H. Rubin
10/2/1999	The Logic of Collective Belief	Bryan Caplan
8/18/2009	Love's Imperative	José Maria J. Yulo
3/6/2007	Mere Economic Science	David J. Theroux
4/5/2001	Minimum Wages For Women Only	Clifford F. Thies
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
12/2/1999	New Anti-Merger Theories	Edward J. López
10/3/2003	The Ongoing Growth of Government in the Economically Advanced Countries	Robert Higgs