Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Author "Ramseyer, John"

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    • The Beguiling Appeal of Banks 

      Miwa, Yoshira; Ramseyer, J. Mark (Cincinnati, Ohio, Board of Editors, etc., 2007)

    • Bidding for Ballplayers: A Research Note 

      Nakazato, Minoru; Ramseyer, J. Mark (jointly published by the German-Japanese Association of Jurists (DJJV) and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law (MPI) in Hamburg, 2008)
      Is Japanese baseball a different sport from American baseball? In this short research note, we take a new approach to the question Robert Whiting posed so famously three decades ago. Reasoning that owners bid for players ...

    • Bottom-Feeding at the Bar: Usury Law and Value-Dissipating Attorneys in Japan 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark (Mohr Siebeck, 2013)
      Critics have long complained that lawyers dissipate value. Some do, of course. Some legal work dissipates more value than others, and the lawyers who focus on the most notorious rent-seeking sectors extract a heavy toll ...

    • Can the Treasury Exempt its Own Companies from Tax? The $45 Billion GM NOL Carryforward 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric B. (Cato Institute, 2011)
      To discourage firms from buying and selling tax deductions, Section 382 of the tax code limits the ability of one firm to use the ‘‘net operating losses’’ (NOLs) of another firm that it acquires. Under the Troubled Asset ...

    • The Case for Managed Judges: Learning from Japan after the Political Upheaval of 1993 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric B. (University of Pennsylvania, 2006)
      Although the executive branch appoints Japanese Supreme Court justices as it does in the United States, a personnel office under the control of the Supreme Court rotates lower court Japanese judges through a variety of ...

    • Comparative Litigation Rates 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric B. (John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business. Harvard Law School., 2010)
      We know the stereotype: People around the world see American citizens as eager to sue and American judges as powerful shapers of the social order. Yet we find it hard to measure the magnitude of that eagerness and power. ...

    • The Competitive Enforcement of Property Rights in Medieval Japan: The Role of Temples and Monasteries 

      Adolphson, Mikael; Ramseyer, J. Mark (Elsevier, 2009)
      Medieval Japanese governments only haphazardly secured property rights. To obtain their security, many landholders instead turned to temples (and monasteries). Temples paid no taxes and controlled enough resources to ...

    • Conflicts of Interest in Japanese Insolvencies: The Problem of Bank Rescues 

      Miwa, Yoshiro; Ramseyer, J. Mark (bepress, 2005)
      Economists and legal scholars routinely posit an implicit contract between Japanese firms and their principal lender (called their "main bank"). Under this arrangement, the bank implicitly agrees to rescue the firm (through ...

    • Do School Cliques Dominate Japanese Bureaucracies?: Evidence from Supreme Court Appointments 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark (2011)
      The Article presents a study which explores the impact of educational backgrounds on the appointment of judges in the Japanese Supreme Court. According to the author, the productivity of judges is the primary factor for ...

    • Economizing Legal D-B8 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark (University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2005)
      Implicitly extending Stigler (1977), William Klein proposes a lexicon of twenty-eight generic arguments for normative corporate law scholarship in Criteria for Good Laws of Business Association. He suggests that adopting ...

    • The Effect of Cost Suppression Under Universal Health Insurance on the Allocation of Talent and the Development of Expertise: Cosmetic Surgery in Japan 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
      Japanese national health insurance provides universal coverage. This system necessarily entails a subsidy that dramatically raises the demand for medical services. In the face of the increased demand, the government ...

    • The Effect of Universal Health Insurance on Malpractice Claims: The Japanese Experience 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010)
      Japanese patients file relatively few medical malpractice claims. To date, scholars have tried to explain this phenomenon by identifying "faults" in the Japanese judicial system. They look in the wrong place. Largely, the ...

    • Exclusive Dealing: Before, Bork, and Beyond 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric Bennett (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
      Antitrust scholars have come to accept the basic ideas about exclusive dealing that Bork articulated in The Antitrust Paradox. Indeed, they have even extended his list of reasons why exclusive dealing can promote economic ...

    • Fable of Land Reform: Expropriation and Redistribution in Occupied Japan 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark (John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business. Harvard Law School., 2012)
      Land reform will not just reduce rural poverty, write development officials. It can raise productivity. It can promote civic engagement. Scholars routinely concur. Land reform may not always raise productivity and civic ...

    • The Good Occupation? Law in the Allied Occupation of Japan 

      Miwa, Yoshiro; Ramseyer, J. Mark (2009)
      They left Japan in shambles. By the time they surrendered in 1945, Japan’s military leaders had slashed industrial production to 1930 levels. Not so with the American occupiers. By the time they left in 1952, they had ...

    • Insider Trading Regulation in Japan 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark (Edward Elgar, 2013)
      The U.S.-controlled occupation imposed on Japan in the late 1940s an American-style securities statute. The U.S. statute did not ban insider trading at the time, and neither did the new Japanese law. Not until the 1960s ...

    • John Haley and the American Discovery of Japanese Law 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark (Washington University School of Law, 2009)

    • Law and Economics in Japan 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Law, 2011)
      Although law & economics scholarship has grown rapidly in recent years, Japanese scholars (with prominent exceptions, to be sure) have embraced the approach less enthusiastically than their U.S. peers. I explore some ...

    • Litigation and Social Capital: Divorces and Traffic Accidents in Japan 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark (2012)
      Using regression and factor analysis with prefecture‐level data, I ask whether Japanese in communities with high levels of “social capital” more readily settle their disputes out of court. Although studies of litigation ...

    • Lowering the Bar to Raise the Bar: Licensing Difficulty and Attorney Quality in Japan 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric Bennett (Society for Japanese Studies, 2015)
      Under certain circumstance, a relaxation in occupational licensing standards can increase the quality of those who enter the industry. The effect turns on the opportunity costs of preparing for the licensing examination: ...