Research in Law and Economics

Appointed to the Evans School in 1981, Professor Zerbe teaches environmental ethics, microeconomics, government regulation, law and economics and benefit cost analysis. He has an adjunct appointment with law. Professor Zerbe serves as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies and is also editor of the research journal Research in Law and Economics. He has had appointments at the University of Chicago, the American Bar Foundation, a visiting appointment at Northwestern University and a fellowship to Yale Law School. He was on the executive board of the Western Economic Association and a founding member of the American Law and Economics Association when he also served on the board. He is author of over 100 publications.

• ‘Best Practice’ Standards for Regulatory Benefit–Cost Analysis.The “Benefits” of Non-Delegation: Using the Non-Delegation Doctrine to Bring More Rigor to Benefit–Cost Analysis. Benefit–Cost Analysis, Individual Differences, and Third Parties. Microeconomic Performance: Uses, Gaps, and Opportunities to Apply Benefit–Cost Analysis. Welcome to the Data-Poor Real World: Incorporating Benefit–Cost Principles into Environmental Policymaking. Agricultural Subsidies Under Decoupling. General Equilibrium in Vertical Market Structures: Overselling Versus Overbuying. The Chicago O’Hare Expansion: A Case Study of Administrative Manipulation of Benefit–Cost Principles. Notes on the Premia for Foreign Exchange and Nontradables Outlays. An Aggregate Measure for Benefit–Cost Analysis. Should Benefit–Cost Analyses Take Account of General Equilibrium Effects?. The Marginal Willingness to Pay for Longevity: A Better Way to Value Changes in Mortality Hazard. Valuing Complex Goods: or, Can You Get Anything Out of Experts Other Than a Decision?. The Rise of Cost–Benefit Rationality as Solution to a Political Problem of Distrust. Acknowledgments. List of Contributors. Introduction to Benefit–Cost Volume. Biased Valuations, Damage Assessments, and Policy Choices: The Choice of Measure Matters.