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List of works by Steven Shavell

A Fundamental Enforcement Cost Advantage of the Negligence Rule over Regulation

scientific article published in September 2012

A General Rationale for a Governmental Role in the Relief of Large Risks

scientific article published in June 2014

A Model of the Socially Optimal Use of Liability and Regulation

A Note on Optimal Deterrence When Individuals Choose Among Harmful Acts

scientific article published in August 1989

A Note on Optimal Fines When Wealth Varies Among Individuals

scientific article published in January 1990

A Simple Model of Optimal Deterrence and Incapacitation

scientific article published in December 2014

Accuracy in the Assessment of Damages

scientific article published in March 1993

Accuracy in the Determination of Liability

scientific article published in October 1992

Any Non-Individualistic Social Welfare Function Violates the Pareto Principle

scientific article published in March 1999

Contracts, Holdup, and Legal Intervention

scientific article published in May 2005

Corrective Taxation versus Liability

scientific article published in July 2010

Corruption and Optimal Law Enforcement

scientific article published in February 1999

Costly Litigation and Optimal Damages

scientific article published in December 2012

Deterrence and the Adjustment of Sentences During Imprisonment

Economic Analysis of Accident Law

scientific article published in May 2003

Economic Analysis of Contract Law

scientific article published in May 2003

Economic Analysis of Law

scientific article published in February 1999

Economic Analysis of Litigation and the Legal Process

scientific article published in May 2003

Economic Analysis of Property Law

scientific article published in May 2003

Economic Analysis of Public Law Enforcement and Criminal Law

scientific article published in May 2003

Economic Analysis of Welfare Economics, Morality and the Law

scientific article published in May 2003

Economic Analysis of the General Structure of the Law

scientific article published in May 2003

Eminent Domain Versus Government Purchase of Land Given Imperpect Information About Owners' Valuation

scientific article published in October 2007

Enforcement Costs and the Optimal Magnitude and Probability of Fines

scientific article published in September 1990

Fairness Versus Welfare: Notes on the Pareto Principle, Preferences, and Distributive Justice

scientific article published in April 2003

Individual Precautions to Prevent Theft: Private Versus Socially OptimalBehavior

Information and the Scope of Liability for Breach of Contract: The Rule of Hadley V. Baxendale

scientific article published in May 1991

Liability for Accidents

scientific article published in November 2005

Liability for Harm Versus Regulation of Safety

Mandatory Versus Voluntary Disclosure of Product Risks

scientific article published in December 2006

Minimum Asset Requirements

scientific article published in November 2002

Minimum Asset Requirements and Compulsory Liability Insurance As Solutions to the Judgment-Proof Problem

scientific article published in March 2004

Moral Rules and the Moral Sentiments: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System

scientific article published in December 2001

On Optimal Legal Change, Past Behavior, and Grandfathering

scientific article published in October 2007

On the Design of Contracts and Remedies for Breach

scientific article published in August 1981

On the Disutility and Discounting of Imprisonment and the Theory of Deterrence

scientific article published in November 1997

On the Redesign of Accident Liability for the World of Autonomous Vehicles

scientific article published in September 2019

On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation

scientific article published in November 1997

On the Writing and the Interpretation of Contracts

scientific article published in November 2003

Optimal Cleanup and Liability After Environmentally Harmful Discharges

scientific article published in September 1992

Optimal Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting of Behavior

scientific article published in August 1991

Pigouvian Taxation with Administrative Costs

scientific article published in September 1981

Private Versus Socially Optimal Provision of Ex Ante Legal Advice

scientific article published in October 1991

Reconsidering Contractual Liability and the Incentive to Reveal Information

Rewards versus Intellectual Property Rights

scientific article published in February 1999

Risk Aversion and the Desirability of Attenuated Legal Change

scientific article published in February 2014

Should Liability be Based on the Harm to the Victim or the Gain to the Injurer?

scientific article published in December 1993

Specific Versus General Enforcement of Law

scientific article published in August 1989

Subrogation and the Theory of Insurance When Suits Can Be Brought for Losses Suffered

Suit Versus Settlement When Parties Seek Nonmonetary Judgements

scholarly article published March 1992

Suit and Settlement vs. Trial: A Theoretical Analysis under Alternative Methods for the Allocation of Legal Costs

scientific article published in April 1981

The Appeals Process and Adjudicator Incentives

scientific article published in September 2004

The Corrective Tax versus Liability As Solutions to the Problem of Harmful Externalities

scientific article published in July 2010

The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law

scientific article published in March 1999

The Efficiency of the Legal System versus the Income Tax in Redistributing Income

scientific article published in September 1993

The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment

scientific article published in July 1982

The Rationale for Motions in the Design of Adjudication

scientific article published in June 2018

The Social versus the Private Incentive to Bring Suit in a Costly Legal System

scientific article published in September 1981

The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law

Threats without Binding Commitment

scientific article published in February 1996

Torts in Which Victim and Injurer Act Sequentially

scientific article published in July 1982

Uncertainty Over Causation and the Determination of Civil Liability