Joyce Sadka earned her doctorate degree in economics from Rice University and a three-year juris doctor degree from George Mason University School of Law. Over the past few years, she has been involved in creating an extensive data-base about labor lawsuits in Mexico, providing us a rich set of information that can be used to analyze bargaining in litigation as well as many other issues such as enforcement, firing costs, and labor market discrimination. She also directs the master's and doctoral programs in economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
Articles
Litigation and Settlement: New Evidence from Labor Courts in Mexico (with David S. Kaplan and Jorge Luis Silva-Mendez), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2008)
Using a newly assembled data set on procedures filed in Mexican labor tribunals, we study...
Is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) the Trojan Horse for the US Insurance Industry?, Journal of International Insurance (2000)
Books
Insurance Regulation in North America (with Tapen Sinha and Bradly J. Condon) (2003)
This book focuses on describing and explaining the various levels of international agreements and national...
Contributions to Books
The effects of exaggeration in labor lawsuits in Mexico (with Alexander Gotthard and David Kaplan), Teoría de juegos y derecho contemporáneo (2009)
Unpublished Papers
Enforceability of Labor Law: Evidence from a Labor Court in Mexico (with David S. Kaplan), World Bank Policy Research working paper No. 4483 (2007)
We analyze lawsuits involving publicly-appointed lawyers in a labor court in Mexico to study how...
Full vs. Light-Handed Regulation of a Network Industry (with José Negrín), Discussion Paper Series, Centro de Investigación Económica of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (2004)
The access pricing problem emerges when a vertically integrated firm (the incumbent) provides an essential...