Daniel L Rubinfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 1210965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel L Rubinfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel L |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubinfeld |
| SIGNATURE | RUBINFELD D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0663-4835 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Data portability and interoperability: An E.U.-U.S. comparison
Data portability (the ability to transfer data without affecting its content) and interoperability (the ability to integrate two or more datasets) significantly affect the use of data, with important implications for antitrust policy. Allowing for improved data portability can facilitate interoperability, which, in turn, will enable consumers to switch services, thereby substantially increasing competition. However, barriers to data portability a…
Scientists as Experts Serving the Court
Our courts were not designed to consider the increasingly complex scientific and technical evidence needed to resolve contemporary legal disputes. Moreover, when conflicting evidence requires an understanding and interpretation of scientific or technical issues, allowing the parties to control the presentation of evidence places great strain on the judge and jury. This essay describes and evaluates three prototypical procedures that allow courts …
Antitrust Policy: Lessons from the US
Econometric Issues in Antitrust Analysis
This paper critically views a number of econometric methods that have been utilized in investigations by competition agencies and in private litigation. The focus is on market definition and unilateral competitive effects. Specific topics include critical-loss analysis, price-correlation analysis, merger simulation, and difference-in-differences analysis. When used appropriately and with caution, each of these methodologies can be of substantial …
Structuring Intergovernmental Grants to Local Governments: Lessons from South Africa
Did Microsoft Harm Consumers? Two Opposing Views
Rethinking Federalism
The appropriate federal structure of government is now a policy issue of major debate. This paper identifies three approaches and compares their strengths and weaknesses. Economic federalism recommends the use of competitive communities for the provision of congestible local goods and a strong central government for the provision of pure public goods and spillovers. Cooperative federalism recommends intercommunity agreements; democratic federalis…
Antitrust Settlements and Trial Outcomes
Risk aversion plays an important role in explaining why antitrust cases settle instead of going to trial. Using a jointly estimated model of settlement and trial outcome, the authors find that a one percent increase in the probability that the plaintiff wins at trial raises the probability of a settlement by 0.13 percent. They also find that reputation effects are not a significant factor for defendants, so the risk aversion of the defendants doe…
Trial Courts: An Economic Perspective
This article describes economic research on models of legal disputes. Concepts such as rational choice and static equilibrium are often used inaccurately in the noneconomic research presented in this issue. This article critiques the longitudinal studies, illustrating a number of problems of conceptualization and data analysis. Finally, the authors consider normative models of dispute resolution and the evolution and effects of judge-made law
Unobservables in Consumer Choice: Residential Energy and the Demand for Comfort
A model of consumption of residential energy in dwellings is developed, distinguishing between attributes of housing that provide direct benefits to consumers and attributes that serve as inputs in the production of final goods, for example, the thermal comfort of dwellings. Empirical estimates are made of the mode, based upon the Annual Housing Survey, and the results are used to calculate the effects of changes in energy prices on the consumpti…
Robbing Peter to pay Peter: The economics of local public residency requirements
American Domestic Priorities
Tax Reform: Implications for the State-Local Public Sector
We analyze the effects of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on the level and distribution of state and local spending, and on the mix of revenue sources employed by state and local governments. We expect state and local spending to fall by between 0.9 percent and 1.9 percent, with the lower end of the range the more plausible. The conclusion that aggregate spending is unlikely to change very much does not imply that the Tax Reform Act is unimportant to …
American Domestic Priorities: An Economic Appraisal
Voting on Public Spending: Differences between Public Employees, Transfer Recipients, and Private Workers
Edward M. Gramlich, Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Voting on Public Spending: Differences between Public Employees, Transfer Recipients, and Private Workers, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Summer, 1982), pp. 516-533
Micro Estimates of Public Spending Demand Functions and Tests of the Tiebout and Median-Voter Hypotheses
Responses to questions given to a random sample of Michigan households are used to estimate public spending demand functions. While income and price elasticities are similar to those obtained from aggregate data, positive income elasticities appear to arise because public services are distributed in a prorich manner. A relatively small variance in spending demands among urban and suburban communities in metropolitan areas with substantial public …
On the economics of voter turnout in local school elections
Hedonic housing prices and the demand for clean air
The Air Pollution and Property Value Debate: Some Empirical Evidence
In recent issues of this REVIEW, Myrick Freeman and Kenneth Small have helped to clarify some confusion which grew out of a study of air pollution and property values by Ridker and Henning (1967). Ridker and Henning (hereafter referred to as R-H) performed a multiple regression of property values on air pollution, housing characteristics, accessibility, and neighborhood characteristics using cross-section data for the St. Louis metropolitan area.…
The long-run effects of a residential property tax and local public services
On the measurement of benefits in an urban context: Some general equilibrium issues
Voting in a Local School Election: A Micro Analysis
IN recent years empirical studies of local school finance have relied to a large extent on the median voter and related models, tested with data aggregated to the precinct, school district, or local level.1 While there are advantages to using aggregated data, the limited availability of data on the distribution of income, property tax payments, and other variables, as well as the possibility of bias associated with the grouping of households into…
Micro Estimates of Public Spending Demand Functions and Tests of the Tiebout and Median-Voter Hypotheses
Responses to questions given to a random sample of Michigan households are used to estimate public spending demand functions. While income and price elasticities are similar to those obtained from aggregate data, positive income elasticities appear to arise because public services are distributed in a prorich manner. A relatively small variance in spending demands among urban and suburban communities in metropolitan areas with substantial public …
Rethinking Federalism
The appropriate federal structure of government is now a policy issue of major debate. This paper identifies three approaches and compares their strengths and weaknesses. Economic federalism recommends the use of competitive communities for the provision of congestible local goods and a strong central government for the provision of pure public goods and spillovers. Cooperative federalism recommends intercommunity agreements; democratic federalis…
The long-run effects of a residential property tax and local public services
Voting on Public Spending: Differences between Public Employees, Transfer Recipients, and Private Workers
Edward M. Gramlich, Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Voting on Public Spending: Differences between Public Employees, Transfer Recipients, and Private Workers, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Summer, 1982), pp. 516-533
On the economics of voter turnout in local school elections
Trial Courts: An Economic Perspective
This article describes economic research on models of legal disputes. Concepts such as rational choice and static equilibrium are often used inaccurately in the noneconomic research presented in this issue. This article critiques the longitudinal studies, illustrating a number of problems of conceptualization and data analysis. Finally, the authors consider normative models of dispute resolution and the evolution and effects of judge-made law
Scientists as Experts Serving the Court
Our courts were not designed to consider the increasingly complex scientific and technical evidence needed to resolve contemporary legal disputes. Moreover, when conflicting evidence requires an understanding and interpretation of scientific or technical issues, allowing the parties to control the presentation of evidence places great strain on the judge and jury. This essay describes and evaluates three prototypical procedures that allow courts …
American Domestic Priorities: An Economic Appraisal
Tax Reform: Implications for the State-Local Public Sector
We analyze the effects of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on the level and distribution of state and local spending, and on the mix of revenue sources employed by state and local governments. We expect state and local spending to fall by between 0.9 percent and 1.9 percent, with the lower end of the range the more plausible. The conclusion that aggregate spending is unlikely to change very much does not imply that the Tax Reform Act is unimportant to …
On the measurement of benefits in an urban context: Some general equilibrium issues
Voting in a Local School Election: A Micro Analysis
IN recent years empirical studies of local school finance have relied to a large extent on the median voter and related models, tested with data aggregated to the precinct, school district, or local level.1 While there are advantages to using aggregated data, the limited availability of data on the distribution of income, property tax payments, and other variables, as well as the possibility of bias associated with the grouping of households into…
Hedonic housing prices and the demand for clean air
The Air Pollution and Property Value Debate: Some Empirical Evidence
In recent issues of this REVIEW, Myrick Freeman and Kenneth Small have helped to clarify some confusion which grew out of a study of air pollution and property values by Ridker and Henning (1967). Ridker and Henning (hereafter referred to as R-H) performed a multiple regression of property values on air pollution, housing characteristics, accessibility, and neighborhood characteristics using cross-section data for the St. Louis metropolitan area.…
The long-run effects of a residential property tax and local public services
On the measurement of benefits in an urban context: Some general equilibrium issues
On the economics of voter turnout in local school elections
Voting on Public Spending: Differences between Public Employees, Transfer Recipients, and Private Workers
Edward M. Gramlich, Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Voting on Public Spending: Differences between Public Employees, Transfer Recipients, and Private Workers, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Summer, 1982), pp. 516-533
Micro Estimates of Public Spending Demand Functions and Tests of the Tiebout and Median-Voter Hypotheses
Responses to questions given to a random sample of Michigan households are used to estimate public spending demand functions. While income and price elasticities are similar to those obtained from aggregate data, positive income elasticities appear to arise because public services are distributed in a prorich manner. A relatively small variance in spending demands among urban and suburban communities in metropolitan areas with substantial public …
American Domestic Priorities: An Economic Appraisal
American Domestic Priorities
Tax Reform: Implications for the State-Local Public Sector
We analyze the effects of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on the level and distribution of state and local spending, and on the mix of revenue sources employed by state and local governments. We expect state and local spending to fall by between 0.9 percent and 1.9 percent, with the lower end of the range the more plausible. The conclusion that aggregate spending is unlikely to change very much does not imply that the Tax Reform Act is unimportant to …
Robbing Peter to pay Peter: The economics of local public residency requirements
Unobservables in Consumer Choice: Residential Energy and the Demand for Comfort
A model of consumption of residential energy in dwellings is developed, distinguishing between attributes of housing that provide direct benefits to consumers and attributes that serve as inputs in the production of final goods, for example, the thermal comfort of dwellings. Empirical estimates are made of the mode, based upon the Annual Housing Survey, and the results are used to calculate the effects of changes in energy prices on the consumpti…
Trial Courts: An Economic Perspective
This article describes economic research on models of legal disputes. Concepts such as rational choice and static equilibrium are often used inaccurately in the noneconomic research presented in this issue. This article critiques the longitudinal studies, illustrating a number of problems of conceptualization and data analysis. Finally, the authors consider normative models of dispute resolution and the evolution and effects of judge-made law
Antitrust Settlements and Trial Outcomes
Risk aversion plays an important role in explaining why antitrust cases settle instead of going to trial. Using a jointly estimated model of settlement and trial outcome, the authors find that a one percent increase in the probability that the plaintiff wins at trial raises the probability of a settlement by 0.13 percent. They also find that reputation effects are not a significant factor for defendants, so the risk aversion of the defendants doe…
Rethinking Federalism
The appropriate federal structure of government is now a policy issue of major debate. This paper identifies three approaches and compares their strengths and weaknesses. Economic federalism recommends the use of competitive communities for the provision of congestible local goods and a strong central government for the provision of pure public goods and spillovers. Cooperative federalism recommends intercommunity agreements; democratic federalis…
Did Microsoft Harm Consumers? Two Opposing Views
Structuring Intergovernmental Grants to Local Governments: Lessons from South Africa
Econometric Issues in Antitrust Analysis
This paper critically views a number of econometric methods that have been utilized in investigations by competition agencies and in private litigation. The focus is on market definition and unilateral competitive effects. Specific topics include critical-loss analysis, price-correlation analysis, merger simulation, and difference-in-differences analysis. When used appropriately and with caution, each of these methodologies can be of substantial …
Antitrust Policy: Lessons from the US
Scientists as Experts Serving the Court
Our courts were not designed to consider the increasingly complex scientific and technical evidence needed to resolve contemporary legal disputes. Moreover, when conflicting evidence requires an understanding and interpretation of scientific or technical issues, allowing the parties to control the presentation of evidence places great strain on the judge and jury. This essay describes and evaluates three prototypical procedures that allow courts …
Data portability and interoperability: An E.U.-U.S. comparison
Data portability (the ability to transfer data without affecting its content) and interoperability (the ability to integrate two or more datasets) significantly affect the use of data, with important implications for antitrust policy. Allowing for improved data portability can facilitate interoperability, which, in turn, will enable consumers to switch services, thereby substantially increasing competition. However, barriers to data portability a…
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