Vanderbilt University Law School
Jennifer F. Reinganum
Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 322-2937
Fax: (615) 343-8495
Email: jennifer.f.reinganum@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 106
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Research Interest(s)
Settlement negotiation; courts and court systems; products liability and safety, and privacy
Education
B.A., Oberlin College, Economics and Mathematics
M.S., Northwestern University, Quantitative Methods
Ph.D., Northwestern University, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
Biography
Jennifer Reinganum's research relating to law focuses on models of settlement negotiation, models of courts and court systems, products liability and safety, and privacy. She is an editor of the RAND Journal of Economics and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association. Before joining Vanderbilt University's Department of Economics in 1995, she served as a professor of economics at the University of Iowa and the California Institute of Technology.
Representative Publications
Articles
“Population-Based Liability Determination, Mass Torts and the Incentives for Suit, Settlement, and Trial," Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization (forthcoming 2010) (with Andrew Daughety)
"Communicating Quality: A Unified Model of Disclosure and Signaling," RAND Journal of Economics 39 (4) (Winter 2008), 973-989 (with Andrew Daughety)
“Products Liability, Signaling and Disclosure,” 164 (1) Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics 106 (March 2008) (with Andrew Daughety)
"Markets, Torts and Social Inefficiency,” 37 (2) RAND Journal of Economics 300 (Summer 2006) (with Andrew Daughety)
“Speaking Up: A Model of Judicial Dissent and Discretionary Review,” 14 Supreme Court Economic Review 1 (2006) (with Andrew Daughety)
Economic Theories of Settlement Bargaining,” 1 Annual Review of Law & Social Science 35 (2005) (with Andrew Daughety)
"Secrecy and Safety,” 95 (4) American Economic Review 1074 (2005) (with Andrew Daughety)
“Exploiting Future Settlements: A Signaling Model of Most-Favored-Nation Clauses in Settlement Bargaining,” 35 (3) RAND Journal of Economics 467 (Autumn 2004) (with Andrew Daughety)
“Found Money? Split-Award Statutes and Settlement of Punitive Damages Cases,” 5 (1) American Law & Economics Review 134 (Spring 2003) (with Andrew Daughety)
"Appealing Judgments,” 31 (3) RAND Journal of Economics 502 (Autumn 2000) (with Andrew Daughety)
Working Papers
"A Dynamic Model of Lawsuit Joinder and Settlement" (with Andrew Daughety
“Privacy, Publicity, and Choice" (with Andrew Daughety)
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