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According to Wikipedia, Ian Ayres is an American lawyer and economist. Ayres is a professor at the Yale Law School and at the Yale School of Management. Early life and education Ayres grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where they graduated from Pembroke Country Day School in 1977. They played varsity basketball, ran cross country, and served as executive editor of their high school newspaper. Ayres wrote an op-ed piece their senior year called "Black Like Me" , a controversial piece detailing the consequences of their checking the "African- American" box for race on his PSAT, which led to consideration for academic awards. Ayres graduated summa cum laude in 1981 from Yale University with a dual degree in Russian studies and economics. Ayres then received their J.D. at Yale Law School in 1986, where Ayres was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Ayres received their Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988.

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Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate (1993) (2122)
Evidence from Two Large Field Experiments that Peer Comparison Feedback Can Reduce Residential Energy Usage (2009) (675)
Race and Gender Discrimination in Bargaining for a New Car (1995) (654)
Filling gap in incomplete contracts: an economic theory of default rules (1989) (471)
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack (1997) (326)
Fair Driving: Gender and Race Discrimination in Retail Car Negotiations (1991) (248)
Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis (2002) (218)
Deficit Reduction Through Diversity: How Affirmative Action at the FCC Increased Auction Competition (1996) (161)
Solomonic Bargaining: Dividing a Legal Entitlement To Facilitate Coasean Trade (1995) (154)
Strategic Contractual Inefficiency and the Optimal Choice of Legal Rules (1992) (148)
A Market Test for Race Discrimination in Bail Setting (1994) (138)
Outcome Tests of Racial Disparities in Police Practices (2002) (134)
Racial equity in renal transplantation. The disparate impact of HLA-based allocation. (1993) (127)
Limiting Patentees' Market Power Without Reducing Innovation Incentives: The Perverse Benefits of Uncertainty and Non-Injunctive Remedies (1999) (117)
Tripartism: Regulatory Capture and Empowerment (1991) (107)
Race Effects on Ebay (2011) (102)
Pervasive Prejudice?: Unconventional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination (2001) (96)
To Insure Prejudice: Racial Disparities in Taxicab Tipping (2003) (92)
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart (2007) (88)
The No Reading Problem in Consumer Contract Law (2013) (88)
Determinants of Citations to Articles in Elite Law Reviews (2000) (87)
THE INCORPORATION CHOICES OF IPO FIRMS (2002) (75)
Further Evidence of Discrimination in New Car Negotiations and Estimates of Its Cause (1995) (71)
Does Affirmative Action Reduce the Number of Black Lawyers (2005) (65)
The Latest Misfires in Support of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis (2003) (57)
Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements (2005) (49)
Nondiscretionary concealed weapons law: a case study of statistics, standards of proof, and public policy (1999) (47)
Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done (2010) (41)
More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977 – 2006 (2009) (41)
Regulating Opt Out: An Economic Theory of Altering Rules (2011) (41)
How Cartels Punish: A Structural Theory of Self-Enforcing Collusion (1987) (39)
Legal Entitlements as Auctions: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Beyond (1996) (39)
A Market Test for Bayh-Dole Patents (2016) (38)
Economic Rationales for Mediation (1994) (36)
The Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on U.S. Opioid Prescriptions (2018) (34)
The Donation Booth: Mandating Donor Anonymity To Disrupt the Market for Political Influence (1998) (33)
Valuing Modern Contract Scholarship (2003) (31)
Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance (2002) (31)
Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big And Small (2003) (30)
Three Tests for Measuring Unjustified Disparate Impacts in Organ Transplantation: The Problem of "Included Variable" Bias (2005) (30)
The Employment Contract (1999) (28)
Randomizing Law (2010) (27)
In Praise of Honest Pricing (2003) (27)
Distinguishing between Consensual and Nonconsensual Advantages of Liability Rules (1995) (26)
Optimal Delegation and Decoupling in the Design of Liability Rules (2001) (24)
Relational Investing and Agency Theory (1994) (23)
Beyond Diversification: The Pervasive Problem of Excessive Fees and 'Dominated Funds' in 401(k) Plans (2014) (23)
Majoritarian vs. Minoritarian Defaults (1999) (23)
Playing Games with the Law (1990) (21)
A Dilution Mechanism for Valuing Corporations in Bankruptcy (2001) (21)
The Twin Faces of Judicial Corruption: Extortion and Bribery (1997) (21)
Rationalizing Antitrust Cluster Markets (1985) (21)
Skeletons in the Database: An Early Analysis of the CFPB's Consumer Complaints (2013) (18)
Common Knowledge as a Barrier to Negotiation (1997) (18)
Analyzing Stock Lock-Ups: Do Target Treasury Sales Foreclose or Facilitate Takeover Auctions? (1990) (18)
Substitutes for Insider Trading (2001) (18)
Megaregions : The Importance of Place (2008) (17)
A Separate Crime of Reckless Sex (2004) (17)
Threatening Inefficient Performance of Injunctions and Contracts (1999) (17)
Diversification Across Time (2010) (17)
Evidence and Extrapolation: Mechanisms for Regulating Off-Label Uses of Drugs and Devices (2014) (16)
Mutual and Unilateral Mistake in Contract Law (1993) (15)
Correlated Values in the Theory of Property and Liability Rules (2003) (15)
Lifecycle Investing: A New, Safe, and Audacious Way to Improve the Performance of Your Retirement Portfolio (2010) (15)
Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent (2005) (15)
Protecting Property with Puts (1998) (15)
Straightforward: How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights (2005) (14)
Unequal Racial Access to Kidney Transplantation (1993) (14)
Yet Another Refutation of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesisâ€”With Some Help From Moody and Marvell (2009) (13)
Ya-Huh: There Are and Should Be Penalty Defaults (2006) (13)
Effect of Perineal Self-Acupressure on Constipation: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2015) (12)
Preliminary Thoughts on Optimal Tailoring of Contractual Rules (1993) (12)
Internalizing Outsider Trading (2002) (12)
Responsive regulation: A co-author's appreciation (2013) (11)
YALE LAW SCHOOL (2010) (11)
The Rule of Probabilities: A Practical Approach for Applying Bayes' Rule to the Analysis of DNA Evidence (2015) (11)
HLA matching in renal transplantation. (1995) (11)
The Q-Word as Red Herring: Why Disparate Impact Liability Does Not Induce Hiring Quotas (1996) (10)
Making a Difference: The Contractual Contributions of Easterbrook and Fischel (1992) (10)
Innovation Sticks: The Limited Case for Penalizing Failures to Innovate (2014) (10)
The Inclusive Command: Voluntary Integration of Sexual Minorities into the U.S. Military (2004) (10)
Cost Benefit Analysis of Limited Reopening Relative to a Herd Immunity Strategy or Shelter in Place for SARS-CoV-2 in the United States (2020) (10)
When Does Private Discrimination Justify Public Affirmative Action (1998) (10)
The Chastain effect: Using Title IX to measure the causal effect of participating in high school sports on adult women's social lives (2014) (9)
Institutional and Evolutionary Failure and Economic Development in the Middle East (2005) (9)
Threatening inefficient performance (2000) (9)
Judging Close Corporations in the Age of Statutes (1992) (8)
Back to Basics: Regulating How Corporations Speak to the Market (1991) (8)
Money and Politics (2021) (8)
Mark(et)ing Nondiscrimination: Privatizing ENDA with a Certification Mark (2005) (8)
Market Power and Inequality: A Competitive Conduct Standard for Assessing When Disparate Impacts Are Unjustified (2007) (8)
Tradable Patent Rights (2007) (8)
A Theory of Mandatory Rules: Typology, Policy, and Design (2020) (7)
Marketing Privacy: A Solution for the Blight of Telemarketing (and Spam and Junk Mail) (2002) (7)
Tops, Bottoms, and Versatiles: What Straight Views of Penetrative Preferences Could Mean for Sexuality Claims Under Price Waterhouse (2013) (7)
Promissory Fraud Without Breach (2004) (6)
Supply-Side Inefficiencies in Corporate Charter Competition: Lessons from Patents, Yachting and Bluebooks (1995) (6)
Partial-Industry Regulation: A Monopsony Standard for Consumer Protection (1992) (6)
Don't Tell, Don't Ask: Narrow Tailoring after Grutter and Gratz (2007) (6)
A lottery test of the effect of dispensaries on emergency room visits in Arizona. (2020) (6)
Anti-Herding Regulation (2014) (6)
Posner's Symphony No. 3: Thinking About the Unthinkable (1987) (6)
Tradable Patent Rights: A New Approach to Innovation (2007) (6)
Why Motives Matter: Reframing the Crowding Out Effect of Legal Incentives (2013) (5)
The Economics of the Insurance Antitrust Suits: Toward an Exclusionary Theory (1989) (5)
A Critique of 'Tangibility' as the Basis for Property Rules (2001) (5)
Encouraging Suggestive Behavior (2004) (5)
How to Make COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps work: Insights From Behavioral Economics (2020) (5)
The Secret Refund Booth (2006) (5)
Life-Cycle Investing and Leverage: Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk (2008) (4)
Alternative Grounds: Epstein's Discrimination Analysis in Other Market Settings (1994) (4)
Fix Medicare’s Bizarre Auction Program (2012) (4)
Voluntary Taxation and Beyond - The Promise of Social-Contracting Voting Mechanisms (2016) (4)
Do Languages Generate Future-Oriented Economic Behavior? (2020) (4)
Using Commitment Contracts to Further Ex Ante Freedoms: The Twin Problems of Substitution and Ego Depletion (2010) (4)
Should Campaign Donors Be Identified (2001) (4)
Unhappy Meals: Sex Discrimination in Toy Choice at Mcdonald's (2014) (4)
Three Proposals for Regulating the Distribution of Home Equity (2013) (4)
Never Confuse Efficiency with a Liver Complaint (1997) (4)
The New Paradigm Revisited (2003) (4)
Bias in Child Maltreatment Reporting (4)
Anxiety Psychoeducation for Law Students: A Pilot Program (2017) (4)
Empire or Residue: Competing Visions of the Contractual Canon (1999) (4)
Determinants of airline carrier conduct (1988) (3)
Mutual versus Unilateral Mistake in Contracts (1993) (3)
Voting with Dollars (2017) (3)
Give Freakonomics a Chance (2007) (3)
Contracting for Privacy Precaution (and a Laffer Curve for Crime) (2016) (3)
Narrow Tailoring (2019) (3)
"I'll Sell It to You at Cost": Legal Methods to Promote Retail Markup Disclosure (1990) (3)
Discrediting the Free Market (1999) (3)
Seeing Significance: Is the 95% Probability Range Easier To Perceive? (2007) (3)
A Private Revolution: Markovits and Markets (1988) (3)
Going Soft on Microsoft? The EU's Antitrust Case and Remedy (2005) (3)
INSTANTANEOUS LIABILITY RULE AUCTIONS : THE CONTINUOUS EXTENSION OF HIGHER-ORDER LIABILITY RULES (2004) (3)
New Rules for Promissory Fraud (2006) (3)
Optimal Two Stage Committee Voting Rules (2007) (3)
Very Like a Law Professor: An Essay in Honor of Tom Ulen (2011) (3)
The Bureaucrats of Rules and Standards (1993) (2)
A Randomized Experiment Assessing the Accuracy of Microsoft's "Bing It On" Challenge (2013) (2)
Alpha Duties: The Search For Excess Returns and Appropriate Fiduciary Duties (2019) (2)
Empire or Residue: Visions of the Contractual Canon (1999) (2)
Compensating Commitments: The Law and Economics of Commitment Bonds That Compensate for the Possibility of Forfeiture (2010) (2)
Three Approaches to Modeling Corporate Games: Some Observations (1991) (2)
Voting with Votes (2003) (2)
1-1-1994 Economic Rationales for Mediation (2013) (2)
Is Discrimination Elusive (2003) (2)
Three Tests for Measuring Unjustified Disparate Impacts in Organ Transplantation: The Problem of "Included Variable" Bias (2005) (2)
RACE AND ALLOCATION OF KIDNEYS FOR TRANSPLANTATION. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1994) (2)
The Walmart Effect: Testing Private Interventions to Reduce Gun Suicide (2020) (2)
Essays on vertical foreclosure, cartel stability and the structural determinants of oligopolistic behavior (1987) (1)
Measuring Fiduciary and Investor Losses in 401(k) Plans (2012) (1)
1998 Monsanto Lecture in Tort Reform and Jurisprudence: Protecting Property With Puts (1998) (1)
"Carrots and Sticks": The New Science of High-Powered Incentives (2010) (1)
Discrimination in Consummated Car Purchases (2005) (1)
Taking Issue with Issue Advocacy (1999) (1)
Libertarian Gun Control (2019) (1)
PROTECTING CONSUMER INVESTORS BY FACILITATING "IMPROVED PERFORMANCE" COMPETITION (2015) (1)
Determinants of Citations to Articles in Elite Reviews Interpreting Legal Citations (2020) (1)
Determinants of Citations to Articles in Elite Reviews Interpreting Legal Citations (2020) (1)
Gun Owners Support the Right Not to Bear Arms (2020) (1)
Discrediting the Free Market (reviewing The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement by Barbara Fried) (1999) (1)
Commitment Bonds (2012) (1)
The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Disparate Impact Lending Litigation (2017) (1)
Your Liberty or Your Gun? A Survey of Psychiatrist Understanding of Mental Health Prohibitors (2020) (1)
Optimal voting rules for two-member tenure committees (2011) (1)
There Will Be Rich Always: Finding a New Way to Think About Income Inequality (2011) (1)
A Theoretical Fox Meets Empirical Hedgehogs: Competing Approaches to Accident Economics (1988) (1)
Do Languages Generate Future-Oriented Economic Behavior? Experimental Evidence for Causal Effects (2020) (1)
Optimal Pooling in Claims Resolution Facilities (1990) (1)
1-1-1990 Playing Games with the Law (2013) (0)
"An Economic Theory of Information Escrows", (co-authored with Cait Unkovic, U.C. Berkeley Law School) (2011) (0)
Chapter Six. Correlated Values (2019) (0)
Reactive Incentives: Harnessing the Impact of Sunk Opportunity Costs (2019) (0)
How Affirmative Action at the FCC Auctions Decreased the Deficit (2001) (0)
Guests with Guns: Public Support for “No Carry” Defaults on Private Land (2020) (0)
The E mployment Contract (1999) (0)
Crafting a Scholarly Persona: A Panel Discussion (2007) (0)
Chapter One. The Bill of Options (2019) (0)
Affirmative Action Still Hasn’t Been Shown to Reduce the Number of Black Lawyers: A Response to Sander (2021) (0)
Contracting for Privacy Precaution ( in the Shadow of State Efforts ) (0)
The Refund Booth: Using the Principle of Symmetric Information to Improve Campaign Finance Regulation (2006) (0)
Fostering the spirit of innovation in PCTs (2000) (0)
Practical Applications of Diversification Across Time (2014) (0)
Why a New Paradigm (2003) (0)
The Bill of Options (2005) (0)
Chapter Ten. Testing the Bargaining Model (2019) (0)
Current Approaches to the Dilemma 720 B . The Dilemma and Penetrative Preferences : Distinguishing Dimensions of Sexuality 725 C . The Dilemma and Penetrative Preferences (2019) (0)
on options & epidemics (2008) (0)
1-1-2012 Commitment Bonds (2014) (0)
Developing a Taste for Not Being Discriminated Against (reviewing Ian Ayres, Pervasive Prejudice? Unconventional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination (2001) and Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp & Angela P. Harris, Crossroads, Directions, and (2019) (0)
The Case for Affirmative Auction: From Conscience to Coffers (1995) (0)
1-1-1994 Relational Investing and Agency Theory (2013) (0)
The Veracity and Scienter Inquiries: Evidence of Falsity and Evidence of Culpability (2005) (0)
PROTECTING CONSUMER INVESTORS BY FACILITATING (2016) (0)
Microcompetition with Foreign DNA and the Origin of Chronic Disease (reivew) (2005) (0)
Should Heterosexuals Boycott Marriage? (2004) (0)
Pregnant with Embarrassements: An Incomplete Theory of the Seventh Amendment (1991) (0)
1-1-1996 Narrow Tailoring (2013) (0)
What Ails Us? (2020) (0)
ARTICLES THREATENING INEFFICIENT PERFORMANCE OF INJUNCTIONS AND CONTRACTS (2017) (0)
One-Legged Contracting (2019) (0)
7. Designing the Donation Booth (2017) (0)
Sunsets Are for Suckers: An Experimental Test of Sunset Clauses (2020) (0)
More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977 â•fi 2006 (2009) (0)
Chapter 6. The Veracity and Scienter Inquiries: Evidence of Falsity and Evidence of Culpability (2017) (0)
Appendix D. Costs of Administration (2017) (0)
Using the False Claims Act to Remedy Tax Expenditure Fraud (2016) (0)
Why Promissory Fraud (2005) (0)
The Campaign-Finance Crucible: Is Laissez Fair? (2003) (0)
Editorial Collaborators (2001) (0)
Puts as Well as Calls (2005) (0)
Eroding Entitlements as Litigation Commitment (1999) (0)
6. Designing Patriot (2017) (0)
Can Bayesian Extrapolation Improve FDA Regulation of Off-Label Uses of Drugs and Devices? (2014) (0)
Using Dollar Severity Weights to Assess the Aggregate Victimization Costs of Crime (2008) (0)
Halfway Home: On Powe's American Broadcasting and the First Amendment (1988) (0)
Response to Painter (1996) (0)
An Inequality Tax Trigger: The Brandeis Ratio Explained (2011) (0)
5-31-2003 The New Paradigm Revisited (2013) (0)
Bargaining in the Shadow of Different Regimes (2005) (0)
Insincere Promises (2017) (0)
Jennifer Hunt Teen Births Keep American Crime High Discussion Papers (2002) (0)
Languages and future-oriented economic behavior—Experimental evidence for causal effects (2023) (0)
Marketing Privacy (2016) (0)
Privatizing Gay Rights with Non-discrimination Promises Instead of Policies (2005) (0)
False Promise: Insincere Promising as Crime (2005) (0)
Three Proposals to Harness Private Information in Contract (1997) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Single-Chooser Rules (2005) (0)
The Possibility of Inefficient Corporate Contracts (1991) (0)
The Property/Liability Rule Debate (2005) (0)
First Amendment Bargains (2006) (0)
Chapter Seven. Multiple Takings (2019) (0)
9. Safeguarding the Guardians (2017) (0)
Passive in Name Only: Delegated Management and â•œIndexâ•š Investing (2019) (0)
The Landscape of Promissory Misrepresentation (2005) (0)
The Representation Inquiry: What Does a Promise Say? (2005) (0)
Market Power and Inequality: A Competitive Conduct Standard for Assessing When Disparate Impacts are Justified (2019) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
The Knicks Boldly Go Where Companies Have Not (2006) (0)
Chapter 8. False Promise: Insincere Promising as Crime (2017) (0)
2000 Monsanto Lecture in Tort Reform and Jurisprudence: Using Tort Settlements to Cartelize (2000) (0)
Preliminary Test of Reactive Carrot Incentives in a Practice Quit Environment with Contingency Management Incentives (0)
Appendix A. The Stabilization Algorithm (2017) (0)
An Economics Theory of Information Escrows (2011) (0)
Chapter Nine. Bargaining in the Shadow of Different Regimes (2019) (0)
Never Say No: The Law, Economics, and Psychology of Counteroffers (2010) (0)
Chapter Eight. Relaxing Other (Administrative, Informational, and Cognitive) Assumptions (2019) (0)
Book Review: Overcoming Law (1996) (0)
Using Tort Settlements to Cartelize (2011) (0)
Accuracy Versus Falsification Costs: The Optimal Amount of Evidence under Different Procedures 134 (2009) (0)
Race and Allocation of Kidneys for Transplantation-Reply (1994) (0)
Posner's Third Symphony: Thinking about the Unthinkable (1987) (0)
Falsehood and Responsibility (2005) (0)
Relaxing Other (Administrative, Informational, and Cognitive) Assumptions (2005) (0)
The Impact of Student Assistance on the Granting and Service of Temporary Restraining Orders (2019) (0)
Testing the Bargaining Model (2005) (0)
Competition or Source Identification: Allowing Consumers to Expropriate Aesthetically Functional Trade Dress (2019) (0)
Higher-Order Liability Rules (2005) (0)
Using Tort Settlement to Cartelize (2000) (0)
How to Say Things with Promises (2005) (0)
Pushing the Envelope: Antitrust Implications of the Envelope Theorem (1996) (0)
Mark(et)ing Nondiscrimination (2005) (0)
Innovation Policy Pluralism (2019) (0)
Teaching Promissory Fraud (2005) (0)
Dual-Chooser Rules (2005) (0)
Privatizing Employment Protections (2007) (0)
Improved Performance Guarantees (2014) (0)

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