A Mitchell Polinsky

Biographic Data

ID5989657
NAMEA Mitchell Polinsky
GIVEN NAMESA Mitchell
FAMILY NAMEPolinsky
SIGNATUREPOLINSKY A M
AFFILIATIONSStanford Law School and National Bureau of Economic Research.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS23
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
H-INDEX1

  • The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law

    Maria Polinsky, A Mitchell Polinsky et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Literature2000

    This article surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law—the use of public agents (inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal rules. We first present the basic elements of the theory, focusing on the probability of imposition of sanctions, the magnitude and form of sanctions, and the rule of liability. We then examine a variety of extensions of the central theory, concerning accidental harm…

  • Contribution and Claim Reduction among Antitrust Defendants

    Maria Polinsky, A Mitchell Polinsky et al.ARTICLEStanford Law Review1981

  • Resolving Nuisance Disputes

    Maria Polinsky, A Mitchell PolinskyARTICLEStanford Law Review1980Cited by: 1

    In nuisance-type cases, legal commentators generally recommend -- and the courts seem to increasingly use -- the award of damages rather than the granting of an injunction of the harmed party. This essay compares the economic consequences of injunctive and damage remedies under a variety of circumstances. The discussion focuses on the ability of the remedies to deal with the strategic behavior of the litigants, the cost of redistributing income a…

  • An Empirical Reconciliation of Micro and Grouped Estimates of the Demand for Housing

    Maria Polinsky, A Mitchell Polinsky et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1979

    A. Mitchell Polinsky, David T. Ellwood, An Empirical Reconciliation of Micro and Grouped Estimates of the Demand for Housing, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 61, No. 2 (May, 1979), pp. 199-205

  • The long-run effects of a residential property tax and local public services

    Open AccessMaria Polinsky, A Mitchell Polinsky et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics1978Cited by: 22References: 14

  • The Demand for Housing

    Maria Polinsky, A Mitchell PolinskyARTICLEEconometrica1977

    The low estimates of the income elasticity of housing demand obtained when individual households are the unit of observation are theoretically reconciled with the high estimates obtained when metropolitan-wide averages are used. The omission of the housing price term biases the ungrouped (whether stratified by metropolitan areas or not) estimate(s) downward and the grouped estimate upward. The inclusion of a metropolitan-wide average housing pric…