Jared Rubin

 

RESEARCH

 

Fields of Concentration                

 

Economic History

Economics of Religion

Applied Microeconomic Theory

Law and Economics

 

Publications

 

"Restricting Access to Books on the Internet: Some Unanticipated Effects of U.S. Copyright Legislation," Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues 5, no. 1 (2008): 1-31, with Paul A. David

 

“The Lender’s Curse: A New Look at the Origin and Persistence of Interest Bans Throughout History,” Dissertation Summary, Journal of Economic History 68, no. 2 (2008): 575-579.

 

Working and Submitted Papers

 

“Social Insurance, Commitment, and the Origin of Law: An Economic Theory of the Emergence of Interest Bans”

 

“Printing and Interest Restrictions in Islam and Christianity: An Economic Theory of Inhibitive Law Persistence”

 

 “Bills of Exchange, Interest Bans, and Impersonal Exchange in Islam and Christianity” (June 2008 Version)

 

Works in Progress

 

 “The Prophet Function: An Economic Theory of Sacred Space and Spiritual Capital”, with Laurence R. Iannaccone and Colleen E.H. Brandt

 

“Keeping the Club Kosher: Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs”, with Jason Aimone, Laurence R. Iannaccone, and Michael Makowsky

 

“Guns and Books: Technology Adoption in the Ottoman Empire”, with Metin Coşgel and Thomas Miceli

 

“Indefinitely Renewable Copyright?”, with Paul A. David

 

“A Simple Regression Model of the Copyright Renewal Rate”, with Paul A. David