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Rethinking Nudge: An Information-Costs Theory of Default Rules
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William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School.
Omri Ben-Shahar
Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law, Kearney Director of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics, The University of Chicago Law School.

For helpful comments and suggestions, we thank Matthew Adler, Mireia Artigot i Golobardes, Ian Ayres, Lucian Bebchuk, Hanoch Dagan, John Donohue, Avihay Dorfman, Abigail Faust, Rosa Ferrer, Michael Frakes, Juan-José Ganuza, John Goldberg, Jacob Goldin, Fernando Gómez, Assaf Hamdani, Sharon Hannes, Alon Harel, Louis Kaplow, Kobi Kastiel, Roy Kreitner, Tamar Kricheli-Katz, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Alan Miller, A. Mitchell Polinsky, Ariel Porat, J. Mark Ramseyer, Barak Richman, Adriana Robertson, Steven Shavell, Henry Smith, Holger Spamann, Cass Sunstein, George Triantis, David Weisbach, and workshop participants at Bar-Ilan University, Chicago, Duke, Haifa University, Harvard, Stanford, Tel Aviv University, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Emily Feldstein and Haggai Porat provided outstanding research assistance.

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Algorithmic Price Discrimination When Demand Is a Function of Both Preferences and (Mis)perceptions
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William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School.

For helpful comments and suggestions, I would like to thank Omri Ben-Shahar, Yochai Benkler, Ryan Bubb, Glenn Cohen, Hanoch Dagan, Avihay Dorfman, Noah Feldman, Meirav Furth-Matzkin, Assaf Hamdani, Howell Jackson, Louis Kaplow, Alon Klement, Roy Kreitner, Tamar Kricheli-Katz, Adi Leibovitch, Adi Libson, Da Lin, Ariel Porat, Mark Ramseyer, Steve Shavell, Holger Spamann, Cass Sunstein, Doron Teichman, Eyal Zamir, and workshop and conference participants at Harvard University, Hebrew University, New York University, Tel-Aviv University, The University of Chicago, and the annual meeting of the Israeli Law and Economics Association.

To maximize profits, sellers like to engage in price discrimination—to set higher prices for consumers who are willing to pay more and lower prices for consumers who are willing to pay less.
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Searching for the Common Law: The Quantitative Approach of the Restatement of Consumer Contracts
Oren Bar-Gill
William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School

For helpful comments and suggestions, we thank Lewis Kornhauser, Richard Revesz, participants in The University of Chicago Law Review’s symposium on “Developing Best Practices for Legal Analysis,” and participants in the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts project.

Omri Ben-Shahar
Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law and Kearney Director of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics, The University of Chicago Law School
Florencia Marotta-Wurgle
Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Introduction

Applying a precedent is the fundamental craft of a common-law judge. Judges do not go back to general principles to derive novel solutions to each case at hand, along with novel justifications and renewed persuasion efforts.

Best Practices Consumer Law Contract Law Empirical Analysis

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