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MATTHEW L. SPITZER

2024

Articles

• Why College Majors and Selectivity Matter: Major groupings, Occupation Specificity, and Job Skills, ___ Contemporary Economic Policy ___ (2024) (Co-authored by: Deborah M. Weiss, Colton Cronin & Neil Chin).

2023

Working Papers

• What Do First Names Signal?: Some Cautionary Findings, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 23-24, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-66 (2023) (Co-authored by: Deborah M. Weiss & Ethan Nourbash).

2021

Books

• When Does Selective College Matter? Making Your School and Your Major Fit (2021) (Co-authored by: Deborah M. Weiss, Colton Cronin & Neil Chin).

Articles

• Patently Risky: Framing, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Preferences, 34 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 191 (2020) (Co-authored by: David L. Schwartz, Elizabeth Hoffman, & Eric L. Talley).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The FTC’s Plan to Break Up Facebook Will Only Worsen Free Speech Concerns, The Hill (July 11, 2021).

Working Papers

• Review Essay: The Dubious Morality of Modern Administrative Law by Richard Epstein, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 21-04, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 21-16 (2021).

2020

Articles

• Law Professors Urge SEC to Revise Proxy Adviser Proposal, CLS Blue Sky Blog (Feb. 4, 2020) (Co-authored by: Yoon-Ho Alex Lee & Eric Talley).

2019

Articles

• Patent Trolls, Nuisance Suits, and the Federal Trade Commission, 20 North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology 75 (2018).

2017

Articles

• In Memoriam: Michael E. Levine, 11 New York University Journal of Law & Liberty 1, 16 (2017) (Co-authored by: et al.).

2016

Articles

• Preferences over Punishment and Reward Mechanisms in Social Dilemmas: Comment, 172 Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics 195 (2015).

2015

Articles

• On Experimentation and Real Options in Financial Regulation, 43 Journal of Legal Studies S121 (2014) (Co-authored by: Eric Talley).

2013

Articles

• What’s Age Got To Do With It? Supreme Court Appointees and the Long Run Location of the Supreme Court Median Justice, Arizona State Law Journal (forthcoming 2014) (Co-authored by: Jonathan Katz).

• Left, Right and Center: Strategic Information Acquisition and Mixed Judicial Panels, Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming 2013) (Co-authored by: Eric Talley).

2011

Articles

• The Enduring Power of Coase, 54 Journal of Law and Economics 563-576 (2011) (Co-authored by: Elizabeth Hoffman).

2010

Articles

• Television Mergers and Diversity in Small Markets, 6 Journal of Competition Law and Economics 705-770 (2010).

2006

Articles

• Advanced Wireless Technologies and Public Policy, 79 Southern California Law Review 595 (2006) (Co-authored by: Thomas Hazlett).