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Unpublished Paper

Unhappy Meals: Sex Discrimination in Toy Choice at McDonald’s

This essay reports on a commonplace form of sex discrimination that we unsuccessfully challenged in a lawsuit before the Connecticut ...

Unpublished Paper

Race Effects on eBay

Ian Ayres, Mahzarin Banaji and Christine Jolls

We investigate the impact of seller race in a field experiment involving baseball card auctions on eBay. Photographs showed the ...

Privatizing Gay Rights with Non-discrimination Promises Instead of Policies

The Economists' Voice (2007)

Ian Ayres and Jennifer Gerarda Brown

Firms that are committed to employment equality for gay and lesbian workers don't need to wait for state or federal ...

Should Heterosexuals Boycott Marriage?

Issues in Legal Scholarship (2007)

Ian Ayres and Jennifer Gerarda Brown

This essay asks a seemingly simple question: Can it ever be ethical to take a benefit that is invidiously denied ...

Don’t Tell, Don’t Ask: Narrow Tailoring After Grutter ...

John M. Olin Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy Working Papers (2005)

Ian Ayres and Sydney Foster

The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decisions in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger changed the meaning of “narrow tailoring.” ...

Mark(et)ing Nondiscrimination

John M. Olin Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy Working Papers (2005)

Ian Ayres and Jennifer Brown

Going Soft on Microsoft? The EU's Antitrust Case and ...

The Economists' Voice (2007)

Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff

In March 2004, following a five-year investigation, the European Commission found Microsoft liable for illegally tying the Windows Media Player ...

The No Reading Problem in Consumer Contract Law

Stanford Law Review (2013)

Ian Ayres and Alan Schwartz

Instead of attempting to promote informed consumer assent through quixotic attempts to have consumers read ever-expanding disclosures, this Article argues ...

Regulating Opt Out: An Economic Theory of Altering Rules

Yale Law Journal (2012)

Whenever a rule is contractible, the law must establish separate rules governing how private parties can contract around the default ...

Privatizing Gay Rights with Non-discrimination Promises Instead of Policies

The Economists' Voice (2007)

Ian Ayres and Jennifer Gerarda Brown

Firms that are committed to employment equality for gay and lesbian workers don't need to wait for state or federal ...

Tradable Patent Rights: A New Approach to Innovation

Scholarship at Penn Law (2007)

Ian Ayres and Gideon Parchomovsky

Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may be used to weed out ...

A Critique of 'Tangibility' as the Basis for Property Rules

John M. Olin Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy Working Papers (2001)

Ian Ayres and Paul Goldbart

Kaplow and Shavell have recently claimed that property rules tend to protect tangible entitlements more efficiently than do liability rules. ...

Optimal Delegation and Decoupling in the Design of Liability Rules

John M. Olin Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy Working Papers (2001)

Ian Ayres and Paul Goldbart

The central allocative decision confronting a judge in a nuisance dispute should not concern the identity of the initial entitlement ...

Mutual versus Unilateral Mistake in Contracts

Journal of Legal Studies (1993)

Eric Bennett Rasmusen and Ian Ayres

Courts sometimes allow contracts to be voidable because of mistakes in their basic assumptions. The common wisdom is that rescission ...

Posner's Third Symphony: Thinking about the Unthinkable

Stanford Law Review (1987)

John Donohue and Ian Ayres

Unpublished Paper

Improved Performance Guarantees

Ian Ayres and Quinn Curtis

Many mutual fund shareholders invest in funds with supra-competitive fees that reduce their expected return even though lower cost alternatives ...

The Knicks Boldly Go Where Companies Have Not

The New York Times (2006)

John Donohue and Ian Ayres

Substitutes for Insider Trading

John M. Olin Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy Working Papers (2001)

Ian Ayres and Joseph Bankman

When insider trading prohibitions limit the ability of insiders (or of a corporation itself) to use material non-public information to ...

Give Freakonomics a Chance

The Economists' Voice (2007)

An NBA referee has now pleaded guilty, and forensic economists have found signs of bias and cheating in the NBA, ...

Don’t Tell, Don’t Ask: Narrow Tailoring After Grutter ...

John M. Olin Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy Working Papers (2005)

Ian Ayres and Sydney Foster

The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decisions in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger changed the meaning of “narrow tailoring.” ...

Shooting Down the ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis

Stanford Law Review (2003)

John Donohue and Ian Ayres

The Latest Misfires in Support of the ‘More Guns, Less ...

Stanford Law Review (2003)

John Donohue and Ian Ayres

The Latest Misfires in Support of the More Guns, Less ...

John M. Olin Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy Working Papers (2003)

John J. Donohue and Ian Ayres

Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis

John J. Donohue and Ian Ayres

Nondiscretionary Concealed Weapons Law: A Case Study of Statistics, Standards ...

American Law and Economics Review (1999)

John Donohue and Ian Ayres