{"id":18,"date":"2023-08-07T13:53:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/ts\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-03-12T04:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:13:24","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/holger-spamann\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Working Papers<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. &#8220;Civil v. Common Law: The Emperor Has No Clothes.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4937647\">SSRN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uHrtq-hCiwo\">Related talk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HTL9kUB7y_g\">Related interview<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ryan Bubb, Emiliano Catan, and Holger Spamann. &#8220;Shareholder Rights and the Bargaining Structure in Control Transactions.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4929197\">ECGI Working Paper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allen Hu and Holger Spamann. Working Paper. \u201cInference with Cluster Imbalance: The Case of State Corporate Laws.&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3499101\">SSRN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/corpgov.law.harvard.edu\/2019\/12\/19\/on-inference-when-using-state-corporate-laws-for-identification\">Non-technical summary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forthcoming<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann, Jasper Kunstreich, Markus Lieberknecht, Heinrich Nemeczek, and Stefan Vogenauer. 2026. &#8220;The Reasons Highest Courts Give: England vs. France vs. Germany, 1880-1889 vs. 2007-2016,&#8221; Journal of Legal Studies. <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5001305\">SSRN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7910\/DVN\/SELPQ9\">Replication files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2025<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Lukas Holste and Holger Spamann. 2025. \u201cExperimental Investigations of Judicial Decision-Making.\u201d In The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence 306-328 (Kevin Tobia ed.).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4375745\">SSRN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2024<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann and Jacob Fisher. 2024. \u201cCorporate Purpose: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations\/Confusions.\u201d In Corporate Purpose, CSR, and ESG: A Transatlantic Perspective. Oxford University Press.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4269517\">SSRN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann and Lars Kl\u00f6hn. 2024. \u201cCan Law Students Replace Judges in Experiments of Judicial Decision-Making?\u201d, Journal of Law &amp; Empirical Analysis 1\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/2755323X231210467\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7910\/DVN\/3SRIDI\">Replication files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel M. Klerman and Holger Spamann. 2024. \u201cLaw Matters \u2013 Less Than We Thought.\u201d Journal of Law, Economics &amp; Organization 40:108-128.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/track.smtpsendmail.com\/9032119\/c?p=TYQJVkF-G58lFnBlrCvFTY09dm_SITJgJ8YISDc5GnYKBvlF0ikxkM7VfzNpQOgbvMXrpwkf2s0eEL4r6UiCifPrmZVQy7kX7diYbeiki1QAlZXZaSS6LS20cDCGFLZ-lD4RVh5fVu9dyj4VXX6lTaKbdg49XrM0i9HqQq9IjjJmDBn60CXEmslxKuH74spAedgIHjUs4AYnkOKNFo-qKtdqaNtlBask4kKdZ8_na-vframDoZypTHNi6oUYf_BsI94DG-QLOFpUeu3lQDK34YMO_zxXQIACttI1tLRrRkL-FVDaCaEwqa6yDduSvpGwYkr2OVBRqcCU7xWKEPOJNltqFtZp4j9P65BoibOzD80=\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jleo\/article-lookup\/doi\/10.1093\/jleo\/ewac008#supplementary-data\">Experimental Materials<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7910\/DVN\/KXXA5C\">Replication files<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/aspredicted.org\/6bx2t.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Preregistration statement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2022<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 10\/2022. \u201cComment on &#8220;Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases.&#8221;  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14, 4, Pp. 519-528.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/app.20200118\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7910\/DVN\/3LOR3R\" target=\"_blank\">Replication files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann and Hao Guo. 8\/14\/2022. \u201cThe SPAC Trap: How SPACs Disable Indirect Investor Protection.\u201d  Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin, 40, Pp. 75-86.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yalejreg.com\/bulletin\/the-spac-trap-how-spacs-disable-indirect-investor-protection\/\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2022. \u201cIndirect Investor Protection: The Investment Ecosystem and Its Legal Underpinnings.\u201d  Journal of Legal Analysis, 14, Pp. 17-79.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jla\/article\/14\/1\/17\/6589361\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2021<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Lars Kl\u00f6hn, John Zhuang Liu, and Holger Spamann. 3\/2021. \u201cPrecedent and Chinese Judges: An Experiment.\u201d  American Journal of Comparative Law, 69, 1, Pp. 93-135.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ajcl\/article\/69\/1\/93\/6332318?guestAccessKey=ed440f00-1e8f-4ea4-97d2-93c75c4b866b\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7910\/DVN\/9Q79GE\">Replication files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann, Lars Kl\u00f6hn, Christophe Jamin, Vikramaditya Khanna, John Zhuang Liu, Pavan Mamidi, Alexander Morell, and Ivan Reidel. 2021. \u201cJudges in the Lab: No Precedent Effects, No Common\/Civil Law Differences.\u201d Journal of Legal Analysis, 13, 1, Pp. 110-126.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jla\/article\/13\/1\/110\/6180994\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7910\/DVN\/TTMUZK\" target=\"_blank\">Replication files<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZY9G65u72rc\">Interview about the study<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thepractice.law.harvard.edu\/article\/judges-in-the-lab\/\">Non-technical&nbsp;summary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corinna Coupette, Jyotsna Singh, and Holger Spamann. 2021. \u201cSimplify Your Law: Using Information Theory to Deduplicate Legal Documents.\u201d ICDMW, 2021, Pp. 631-638.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2110.00735\">arXiv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2020<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesse Fried and Holger Spamann. 8\/2020. \u201cCheap-Stock Tunneling Around Preemptive Rights.\u201d  Journal of Financial Economics, 137, 2, Pp. 353-370.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jfineco.2020.03.001\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 6\/2020. \u201cLawyers\u2019 Role-Induced Bias Arises Fast and Persists Despite Intervention.\u201d  Journal of Legal Studies, 49, 2, Pp. 467-485.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/10.1086\/710306\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7910\/DVN\/CRZCPT\">Replication files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2019<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Salmanowitz and Holger Spamann. 2019. \u201cDoes the Supreme Court Really Not Apply&nbsp;<em>Chevron<\/em>&nbsp;When It Should?\u201d  International Review of Law and Economics, 57, Pp. 81-89.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3243095\">SSRN<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sites\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/hspamann\/files\/salmanowitz_spamann_codebook.docx\">codebook<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sites\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/hspamann\/files\/salmanowitz_spamann_brief_coding.xlsx\">brief_coding_data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2018<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2018. \u201cAre Sleepy Punishers Really Harsh Punishers? Comment on Cho, Barnes, and Guanara (2017).\u201d  Psychological Science, 29, 6, Pp. 1006-1009.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0956797617720239\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.7910\/DVN\/TZRNKD\">Replication files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2016<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2016. \u201cCan Simple Mechanism Design Results be Used to Implement the Proportionality Standard in Discovery?: Comment.\u201d  Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 172, Pp. 227-231.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2792316\">SSRN version<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann and Lars Kl\u00f6hn. 2016. \u201cJustice is Less Blind, and Less Legalistic, Than We Thought: Evidence from an Experiment with Real Judges.\u201d Journal of Legal Studies, 45, Pp. 255-80.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/pdfplus\/10.1086\/688861\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sites\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/hspamann\/files\/spamann_kloehn_data_and_code.zip\">Replication files<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sites\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/hspamann\/files\/spamann_kloehn_appendix_highquality.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Appendix<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2016. \u201cMonetary Liability for Breach of the Duty of Care?\u201d Journal of Legal Analysis, 8, Pp. 337-373.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jla\/article-pdf\/8\/2\/337\/9668109\/law009.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2016. \u201cThe US Crime Puzzle: A Comparative Perspective on US Crime &amp; Punishment.\u201d  American Law and Economics Review, 18, 1, Pp. 33-87.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/academic.oup.com\/aler\/article\/18\/1\/33\/2195556\/The-US-Crime-Puzzle-A-Comparative-Perspective-on?guestAccessKey=20ec8754-a3cb-4d8c-82ff-e9768951488d\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sites\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/hspamann\/files\/spamann_uscrimepuzzle_replicationfiles.rar\">Replication files<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sites\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/hspamann\/files\/spamann_uscrimepuzzle_onlineappendix_missingdata.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Appendix<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2015<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2015. \u201cEmpirical Comparative Law.\u201d Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 11, Pp. 131-153.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-lawsocsci-110413-030807\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/hspamann\/publications#\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Naughton and Holger Spamann. 2015. \u201cFixing Public Sector Finances: The Accounting and Reporting Lever.\u201d UCLA Law Review, 62, Pp. 572-620.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2574308\">SSRN<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2014<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 10\/15\/2014. \u201cDerivatives Trading and Negative Voting.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2144552\">SSRN<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2011<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Dan Klerman, Paul Mahoney, Holger Spamann, and Mark Weinstein. 2011. \u201cLegal Origins or Colonial History?\u201d Journal of Legal Analysis, 3, 2, Pp. 379-409.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jla\/lar002\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sites\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/hspamann\/files\/klerman_etal_lo_v_co_replication_files.zip\">Replication files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2010<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucian Bebchuk and Holger Spamann. 2010. \u201cRegulating Bankers&#8217; Pay.\u201d Georgetown Law Journal, 98, Pp. 247-287.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1410072\">SSRN<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2010. \u201cThe Antidirector Rights Index Revisited.\u201d Review of Financial Studies, 23, Pp. 467-486.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/rfs\/article\/23\/2\/467\/1605122?guestAccessKey=7282fc1f-dd81-4658-ba00-3a0443fb7ec9\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sites\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/hspamann\/files\/spamann_adri_revisited_extrafiles.zip\">Replication files and appendix<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2010. \u201cContemporary Legal Transplants \u2013 Legal Families and the Diffusion of (Corporate) Law.\u201d BYU Law Review, 2009, Pp. 1813-1877.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.law.byu.edu\/lawreview\/vol2009\/iss6\/11\">Publisher&#8217;s Version<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2010. \u201cLegal Origins, Civil Procedure, and the Quality of Contract Enforcement.\u201d Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 166, Pp. 149-165.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1452744\">SSRN<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sites\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/hspamann\/files\/spamann_civpro_legalorigins_extrafiles.zip\">Replication files and appendix<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Holger Spamann. 2010. \u201cThe Wages of Failure.\u201d Yale Journal on Regulation, 27, Pp. 257-282.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1513522\">SSRN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sites\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/hspamann\/files\/bcs_wagesoffailure_datadocumentation.zip\">Replication files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2009<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2009. \u201cLarge Sample, Quantitative Research Designs for Comparative Law?\u201d American Journal of Comparative Law, 57, 797, Pp. 810.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1464994\">SSRN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2006<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2006. \u201cThe Myth of &#8216;Rebalancing&#8217; Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement Practice.\u201d Journal of International Economic Law, 9, Pp. 31-79.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=915605\">SSRN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2004<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 2004. \u201cStandard of Review for World Trade Organization Panels in Trade Remedy Cases: a Critical Analysis.\u201d Journal of World Trade, 38, 3, Pp. 509-555.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sites\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/hspamann\/files\/spamann_standard_of_review_38jworldtrade5092004.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">published paper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2001<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Holger Spamann. 10\/2001. \u201cConflict of Laws in a Federal System and an Internal Market.\u201d Jean Monnet Working Paper 8\/01 <a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=729623\">SSRN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working Papers Holger Spamann. &#8220;Civil v. Common Law: The Emperor Has No Clothes.&#8221; SSRN Related talk Related interview Ryan Bubb, Emiliano Catan, and Holger Spamann. &#8220;Shareholder Rights and the Bargaining Structure in Control Transactions.&#8221; ECGI Working Paper Allen Hu and Holger Spamann. Working Paper. \u201cInference with Cluster Imbalance: The Case of State Corporate Laws.&#8221;&nbsp;SSRN Non-technical &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/holger-spamann\/publications\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Publications<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/holger-spamann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/holger-spamann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/holger-spamann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/holger-spamann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/holger-spamann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/holger-spamann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/holger-spamann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}