This paper examines the relation between two means of corporate information aggregation--corporate voting and stock market pricing. If the median voter and the price-setting shareholder share similar information, then close proxy contest outcomes should not have systematic effects on stock...

Credit rating agencies (CRAs) serve many roles in maintaining properly functioning debt markets. Their contribution to both Enron-era financial scandals and the 2008-2010 financial crisis, however, has led to many calls for credit rating reform. This Essay proposes an incentive compensation...

This paper examines the relation between two means of information aggregation for corporations - corporate voting and stock market pricing. If the median voter and the price-setting shareholder share similar information sets, then the outcome of close proxy contests should not have a systematic...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Law, Fiscal Policy, and Monetary Policy -- 1. Macroeconomics outside of a Liquidity Trap -- 2. Law and Fiscal Policy When Interest Rates Are Well above Zero -- 3. Law and Monetary Policy When Interest Rates Are...

Courts seeking the most likely intent of contracting parties should interpret contracts according to Bayes’s rule. The best interpretation of a contract reflects both the prior likelihood (base rate) of a pair of contracting parties having a given intention and the probability that the...

This paper, written in honor of Judge Richard Posner's retirement from the federal judiciary, uses his opinion in Exacto Spring v. Commissioner as a lens into his tax law jurisprudence more generally. In Exacto Spring, Posner delivers a devastating rejection of the muddled multifactor test then...