Center for Contract and Economic Organization | Columbia Law School

Working Papers

These are recent papers by our affiliated faculty related to the center's fields of interest.  Please note they may not be the most recent version, but every effort is made to keep this page as up to date as possible.

[Authors are in alphabetical order]

Patrick Bolton

• Conflicts of Interest, Information Provision, and Competition in Banking   
• Structuring and Restructuring Sovereign Debt: The Role of Seniority
• Thinking Ahead: The Decision Problem   
• Economists' Perspectives on Leadership
• Redesigning the International Lender of Last Resort
• Corporate Finance and Monetary Transmission Mechanism
• Executive Compensation and Short-termist Behavior in Speculative Markets
• An Introduction to the Governance and Taxation of Not-For-Profit Organizations
• Pay for Short-term Performance: Executive Compensation in Speculative Markets
• Corporate Law and Governance
• Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management
• Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting
• Odious Debts or Odious Regimes?
• Structuring and Restructuring Sovereign Debt:  The Role of a Bankruptcy Regime

Lee C. Buchheit

• The Dilemma of Odious Debts

Yeon-Koo Che

• The Role of Lockups in Takeover Contests
• Lawyer Advising in Evidence Disclosure
• Strategic Judgment Proofing
• Market versus Non-Market Assignment of Initial Ownership

Victor Goldberg

• Framing Contract Law: An Economic Perspective
• Cleaning Up Lake River
• Lawyers Asleep at the Wheel? The GM-Fisher Body Contract

Maria Guadalupe

• Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm

Mitu Gulati

• The Dilemma of Odious Debts
• Public Symbol in Private Contract: A Case Study

C. Scott Hemphill

• An Aggregate Approach to Antitrust: Using New Data and Rulemaking to Preserve Drug Competition
• The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion
• Network Neutrality and the False Promise of Zero-Price Regulation
• Drug Patent Settlements Between Rivals: A Survey
• Paying for Delay: Pharmaceutical Patent Settlement as a Regulatory Design Problem

W. Bentley MacLeod

• First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes
• Contracting in the Shadow of the Law
• Legal Default Rules: The Case of Wrongful Discharge Laws
• Holdup and the Evolution of Bargaining Norms

Ronald Mann

• Just One Click: The Reality of Internet Retail Contracting

Alan Schwartz

• Precontractual Liability

Robert E. Scott

• Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores and the Myth of Precontractual Reliance
• Precontractual Liability
• Contracting for Innovation:  Vertical Disintegration and Interfirm Collaboration (with Ronald Gilson and Charles F. Sabel)
• In (Partial) Defense of Strict Liability in Contract
• Market Damages, Efficient Contracting and the Economic Waste Fallacy (with Alan Schwartz)