Recent working papers

"Altruism and crowding out in the provision of public goods: Cross-country evidence from blood donations", June 2008; Gabriel Seah: Laws on paid blood collections, May 2008

"Do institutions not matter in China? Evidence from enterprise-level productivity growth", May 2008 [with Yi Lu and Zhigang Tao]

"Social Interaction, News Reports, and Privacy: the "Do Not Call" Registry", June 2008 [with Khim Yong Goh and Kai-lung Hui] Figures and Tables, Appendix

"Buyer Uncertainty and Two-Part Pricing of Felicitous vis-à-vis Distress Goods: Theory with Evidence from New York Restaurants", April 2008 [with Hao Wang] Appendix and Tables

"On the Reliability of Software Piracy Statistics", March 2008, Tables

"On the Value of Privacy from Telemarketing: Evidence from the "Do Not Call" Registry", September 2007

"Copyright Law and Movie Production: the European Rental Directive", September 2007 [with Qiuhong Wang] Tables

"Copyright Duration and the Supply of Creative Work", September 2006 [with Qiuhong Wang]

"Information Security: User Precautions and Hacker Targeting", June 2006 [with Candy Q. Tang and Qiuhong Wang] Appendix

"On the Sequence of Customer Acquisitions and Pricing in the Model of Sales", September 2007 [with Kai-Lung Hui, and Tom S. Lee]  Appendix

Journal Papers 
1.  "Strategic Behavior in Suit, Settlement and Trial", Bell Journal of Economics, Vol. 14 No. 2, Autumn 1983, 539-550.  Reprinted in David K. Levine and Steven A. Lippman, Eds., The Economics of Information, Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar, 1995.

2. "Optimal Subsidies and Damages in the Presence of Judicial Error", International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 6 No. 1, June 1986, 101-105.

3. "Price Discrimination Through Offers to Match Price", Journal of Business, Vol. 60 No. 3, July 1987, 365-384 [with D. Hirshleifer].

4. "Litigation, Liability, and Incentives for Care", Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 34 No. 1, October 1987, 61-85.

5. "Gender, Ethnicity, and Grades: Empirical Evidence of Discrimination in Law-Firm Interviews", Law and Inequality Journal, Vol. 7 No. 2, March 1989, 189-214 [with D. Eaves and J.M. Ramseyer].

6. "Optimal Auditing, Insurance and Redistribution", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 104 No. 2, May 1989, 399-415 [with D. Mookherjee].

7. "Reservations: Customer Insurance in the Marketing of Capacity", Marketing Science, Vol. 8 No. 3, Summer 1989, 248-264.

8. "Efficient Deterrence and the Tax Treatment of Monetary Sanctions", International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 9 No. 2, December 1989, 209-217 [with E. Zolt].

9. "Facilitation of Competing Bids and the Price of a Takeover Target", Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 2 No. 4, 1989, 587-606 [with D. Hirshleifer].

10. "The Role of Instalment Payments in Contracts for Services", RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 21 No. 1, Spring 1990, 83-99 [with T.K. Lee].

11. "Enforcement Costs and the Optimal Progressivity of Income Taxes", Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 6 No. 2, Fall 1990, 411-431 [with D. Mookherjee].

12. "Most-Favoured Customer Protection versus Price Discrimination Over Time", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 99 No. 5, October 1991, 1010-1028.

13. "Market Segmentation, Cannibalization, and the Timing of Product Introductions", Management Science, Vol. 38 No. 3, March 1992, 345-359 [with S. Moorthy].

14. "Monitoring vis-a-vis Investigation in Enforcement of Law", American Economic Review, Vol. 82 No. 3, June 1992, 556-565 [with D. Mookherjee].

15. "Private Security: Deterrent or Diversion?" International Review of Law and Economics Vol. 14 No. 1, March 1994, 87-101 [with Hui-wen Koo].

16. "Marginal Deterrence in Enforcement of Law", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 102 No. 5, October 1994, 1039-1066 [with D. Mookherjee].

17. "Service Time Competition", RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 25 No. 4, Winter 1994, 619-634 [with D. Reitman].

18. "Corruptible Law Enforcers: How Should They Be Compensated?" Economic Journal, Vol. 105 No. 428, January 1995, 145-159 [with D. Mookherjee].  Reprinted in Gianluca Fiorentini and Stefano Zamagni, Eds., The Economics of Corruption and Illegal Markets, Vol II, Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1999.   Reprinted in Ajit Mishra, Ed., The Economics of Corruption, New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2005.

19. "Why Are Some Products Branded And Others Not?" Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 38 No. 1, April 1995, 207-224 [with D. Reitman].   Reprinted in Ruth Towse and Rudi Holzhauer, Eds., The Economics Intellectual Property, Vol III, Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002.

20. "Returns Policies: Make Money by Making Good", Sloan Management Review, Vol. 37 No. 1, Fall 1995, 65-72 [with V. Padmanabhan].

21. "Manufacturers Returns Policies and Retail Price Competition", Marketing Science, Vol. 16 No. 1, 1997, 81-94 [with V. Padmanabhan].

22. "Damage Measures for Inadvertant Breach of Contract", International Review of Law and Economics,  Vol. 19 No. 3, 1999, 319-331 [with L.A. Bebchuk].

23. "National Culture and Corporate Adoption of Information Technology", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 48 No. 1, February 2001, 36-45 [with Bernard C.Y. Tan and K.L. Wee]

24. "On the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the Movies", American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 92 No. 2, May 2002, 217-220 [with Kai-Lung Hui].

25. "Information Goods Pricing and Copyright Enforcement: Welfare Analysis", Information Systems Research, Vol. 14 No. 1, March 2003, 107-123 [with Yeh-ning Chen].

26. "Monitoring Costs and the Mode of International Investment", Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 3 No. 3, July 2003, 261-274 [with Chu-Chia S. Lin].   Data set.

27. "Piracy and the Legitimate Demand for Recorded Music”, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2003, Article 11 [with Kai-Lung Hui].

28. "Buyer Switching Costs and Retail Pricing: An Indirect Empirical Test", Review of Marketing Science, Vol. 2, 2004, Article 6 [with Tom S. Lee].

29. "Reply: Do Returns Policies Intensify Retail Competition?", Marketing Science, Vol. 23 No. 4, Fall 2004, 614-618 [with V. Padmanabhan].

30. "Who Gets Spammed?", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 49, No. 10, October 2006, 83-87 [with Il-Horn Hann, Kai-Lung Hui, Yee-Lin Lai, and S.Y.T. Lee].

31. "Copyright: A Plea for Empirical Research", Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 3 No. 2, 2006, 3-13.