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Do not include a separate title page

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8. Bibliography

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Include a bibliography following the guidelines below.

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Article Length

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Tables and Figures

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While we encourages authors to take advantage of the ability to use color in the production of figures, maps, etc., you need to appreciate that this will cause problems for some of your readers when they print the document on a black & white printer. For this reason, you are advised to avoid the use of colors in situations where their translation to black and white would render the material illegible or incomprehensible.

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References

Footnotes: All footnotes should be numbered sequentially and appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced rather than at the end of the paper. They should be in 10pt. Times or closest comparable font and single-spaced. Footnote numbers in the text should follow, rather than precede, punctuation. Cases and statutes used or cited should be in the style of he Harvard Law Review's A Uniform System of Citation (commonly called ''Bluebook form''). Do not use supra, op. cit., id., or similar terms. Do not italicize ''See'' and ''e.g.''

Footnotes should contain substantive comments and additional references not immediately relevant to the text. Mere citations, regardless of number, should be incorporated in the text, referencing full citations which appear in a bibliography at the end. Excessively long footnotes are probably better handled in an appendix.

Text Citation: Notes that consist merely of supporting citations should be placed in parentheses in the text following the statement they support: e.g., ''or the labor market (Weber, 1990; Keynes, 1992).'' If the author's name is mentioned in the text, insert the reference date in parentheses after the author's name: ''Marx (1997) builds a model.'' For page cites use this form: (Pitchford, 1998:102) or (Dharmapala and Pitchford, 1999:303-309). Use and rather than ''&'' for two authors. If there are three or more authors, give the last name of the first author and append "et al.": a work by Abel, Baker, and Charley, would thus be cited as ''(Abel et al., 1987).'' If two or more cited works share the same authors and dates, use ''a,'' ''b,'' and so on to distinguish among them.

For instance, ''Jones (1994b) provides a more general analysis of the model introduced in Example 3 of Jones (1994a).'' When citations appear within parentheses, use commas rather than parentheses or brackets to separate the date from the surrounding text. For instance, '' ...(see Smith, 1776, for an early discussion of this).'' After the first cite in the text using the author-date method, subsequent cites can use just the last names if that would be unambiguous.

Bibliography: It is the author's obligation to provide complete references with the necessary information. The full citation should be placed in a bibliography following the text. Use hanging indents and single-spacing, with extra space between citations. List more than one publication by the same author in chronological order by date of publication, beginning with the earliest. Author first name may be spelled out, or you may use first initial only, so long as you are consistent throughout bibliography. For more than one publication in one year by the same author, add lowercase letters,; for example, 1972a and 1972b. Hyperlinks may be included, but the links should be formatted as black text.

Sample references:

• Alpert, W., and H. Raiffa. 1969. ''A Progress Report on the Training of Probability Assessors,'' unpublished manuscript.

• Arrow, Kenneth J. 1982. ''Risk Perception in Psychology and Economics,'' 20 Economic Inquiry 1-9.

• Ayres, Ian. Forthcoming. Optional Law: Real Options in the Structure of Legal Entitlements. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

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• Bar-Gill, Oren. 2002. ''The Evolution and Persistence of Optimism in Litigation,'' Discussion Paper No. 373, John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Harvard Law School.

• ________. 2004. ''Seduction by Plastic,'' 98 Northwestern University Law Review 1373.

• Bazerman, M.H. 2002. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, 5th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

• ________ and E.J. Zajac. 1991. ''Blind Spots in Industry and Competitor Analysis: Implications of Interfirm (Mis)perceptions for Strategic Decisions,'' 16 Academy of Management Review 37-56.

• Calabresi, Guido, and Douglas Melamed. 1972. ''Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral,'' 85 Harvard Law Review 1089-1128.

• Coase, Ronald 1960. ''The Problem of Social Cost,'' 3 Journal of Law and Economics 1-44.

• Faure, Michael G. 2002. ''Economic Analysis,'' in Bernhard A. Koch and Helmut Kotziol, eds. Unification of Tort Law: Strict Liability. The Hague: Kluwer.

• Jolls, Christine, and Cass R. Sunstein. 2004. ''Debiasing Through Law,'' Discussion Paper No. 495, John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Harvard Law School.

• ________, ________ and Richard H. Thaler. 1998. ''A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics,'' 50 Stanford Law Review 1471-1550.

• La Porta, Rafael, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. 1999. ''Corporate Ownership around the World,'' 54 Journal of Finance 471.

• ______, ________, and ________. 2003. ''What Works in Securities Laws?'' SSRN Working Paper, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=425880.

• Polinsky, A. Mitchell, and Daniel L. Rubinfeld. 1988a. ''The Welfare Implications of Costly Litigation for the Level of Liability,'' 17 Journal of Legal Studies 151-164.

• ________ and ________. 1988b. ''The Deterrent Effect of Settlements and Trials,'' 8 International Review of Law and Economics 109-116.

Other works: Provide author's (s') name(s), title of work, year (or ''n.d.'' if no date), and information about how the reader could obtain a copy.

Editors
Keith N. Hylton, Boston University School of Law, USA
Thomas J. Miceli, University of Connecticut, USA

Editorial Board
John Armour, University of Oxford, UK
Benito Arrunada, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Ian Ayres, Yale University, USA
Lucian Bebchuck, Harvard University, USA
Omri Ben-Shahar, University of Chicago, USA
Iris Bohnet, Harvard University, USA
Roger Bowles, University of York, UK
Robert D. Cooter, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Dhammika Dharmapala, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, USA
Frank H. Easterbrook, University of Chicago, USA
Robert C. Ellickson, Yale University, USA
Winand Emons, University of Bern, Switzerland
Michael Faure, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Paul Fenn, University of Nottingham, UK
Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Jesse M. Fried, Harvard University, USA
Andrew T. Guzman, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Henry B. Hansmann, Yale University, USA
Christine Jolls, Yale University, USA
Louis Kaplow, Harvard University, USA
Roland Kirstein, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
Lewis Kornhauser, New York University, USA
Henrik Lando, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Antony Ogus, University of Manchester, UK
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Stanford University, USA
Ariel Porat, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Eric A. Posner, University of Chicago, USA
Richard A. Posner, University of Chicago, USA
Giovanni Ramello, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Daniel L. Rubinfeld, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Chris William Sanchirico, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Steven M. Shavell, Harvard University, USA
Paul B. Stephan III, University of Virginia, USA
Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard University, USA
Thomas S. Ulen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Roger van den Bergh, University of Rotterdam, Netherlands

Founding Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Francesco Parisi, University of Minnesota and University of Bologna, USA and Italy

Editors:
Robert Cooter, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Ben Depoorter, University of California, Hastings and Ghent University, USA
Gerrit De Geest, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Nuno Garoupa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Lewis Kornhauser, New York University, USA

Past and Current Editors

(listed alphabetically, since 2004)
Robert Cooter (2004–2023), University of California, Berkeley, USA
Dominique Demougin (2012–2015), European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
Ben Depoorter (2004–2011), University of California, Hastings and Ghent University, USA
Gerrit De Geest (2004–2009), Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Christoph Engel (2015-2022), Max Planck Institute, Germany
Luigi Alberto Franzoni (2017-2023), University of Bologna, Italy
Nuno Garoupa (2004–2010), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Fernando Gómez (2011–2022), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Keith Hylton (2023- ), Boston University, School of Law, USA
Tonja Jacobi (2012–2014), Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Lewis Kornhauser (2004–2023), New York University, USA
Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci (2010–2013), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thomas Miceli (2023– ), University of Connecticut, USA
Murat C. Mungan (2023), George Mason University, USA
Thomas S. Ulen (2014–2016), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Stefan Voigt (2009–2012), University of Hamburg, Germany

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