A model of the optimal complexity of legal rules

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 150-163

  Kaplow, Louis ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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