Drawing on two hand-collected data sets of 10,466 state supreme court cases from 2019 and 7,354 state supreme court cases from 2003, this study examines patterns of citations to prior opinions of courts located in other states. We find robust evidence that state supreme courts preferentially...

Tests for “effective” compliance programs take the form of lists specifying required elements in varying level of detail. From an economic perspective, an effective compliance program can be defined more fundamentally as the set of policies and procedures that a rational, profit-maximizing...

The compliance function consists of efforts organizations undertake to ensure that employees and others associated with the firm do not violate applicable rules, regulations or norms. It is a form of internalized law enforcement which, if it functions effectively, can substitute for much...

This book discusses state regulation and antitrust exemption in insurance markets.

This book discusses state regulation and antitrust exemption in insurance markets.