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Overview

J. Mark Ramseyer is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, law, and cultural studies.

The scientist's research topics cover diverse areas such as Japanese history and culture, historical economic and social studies, law, economics, and judicial systems, crime patterns and interventions, defense, military, and policy studies, culture, economy, and development studies, and judicial and constitutional studies.

Notable recent papers authored by J. Mark Ramseyer include:

  • Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War (2020), International Review of Law and Economics
  • Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War: A Response to My Critics (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan (2020), Japanese Studies
  • Contracting for Terroir in Sake (2021), Law & Social Inquiry
  • Contracting for Compassion in Japanese Buddhism (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal

J. Mark Ramseyer has published extensively in the SSRN Electronic Journal, contributing eleven papers. Other frequent publication venues include the European Journal of Law and Economics, the International Review of Law and Economics, Japanese Studies, and Law & Social Inquiry.

The scientist has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Avihay Dorfman, C. Alexander Evans, Eric Rasmusen, Chiara Cordelli, and Louis-Philippe Hodgson.

In addition to journal publications, J. Mark Ramseyer has authored books published by Cambridge University Press. Among these are "The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization" (2021) and "Contracting in Japan" (2023).

Best Publications

  • Japan's Political Marketplace

    J. Mark Ramseyer;Frances McCall Rosenbluth

  • The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach

    J. Mark Ramseyer

  • Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan

    J. Mark Ramseyer;Eric B. Rasmusen

  • Japanese Law: An Economic Approach

    J. Mark Ramseyer;実 中里

  • Explicit Reasons for Implicit Contracts: The Legal Logic to the Japanese Main Bank System

    J. Mark Ramseyer

  • The Rational Litigant: Settlement Amounts and Verdict Rates in Japan

    J. Mark Ramseyer;Minoru Nakazato

  • Judicial Independence in a Civil Law Regime: The Evidence From Japan

    J. Mark Ramseyer;Eric B. Rasmusen

  • The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan

    J. Mark Ramseyer;Frances McCall Rosenbluth

  • The Market for Children: Evidence from Early Modern Japan

    J. Mark Ramseyer

  • Credibly Committing to Efficiency Wages: Cotton Spinning Cartels in Imperial Japan

    J. Mark Ramseyer

  • Cheap bribes and the corruption ban: A coordination game among rational legislators

    Eric Bennett Rasmusen;J. Mark Ramseyer

  • Naked Exclusion: A Reply

    Eric Bennett Rasmusen;J. Mark Ramseyer;John Shepard Wiley Jr.

  • Who Appoints Them, What Do They Do? Evidence on Outside Directors from Japan

    Yoshiro Miwa;J. Mark Ramseyer

  • The Fable of the Keiretsu

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  • Convictions versus Conviction Rates: The Prosecutor's Choice

    Eric Rasmusen;Manu Raghav;J. Mark Ramseyer

  • Corporate Governance in Transitional Economies: Lessons from the Prewar Japanese Cotton Textile Industry

    Yoshiro Miwa;J. Mark Ramseyer

  • Reluctant Litigant Revisited: Rationality and Disputes in Japan

    J. Mark Ramseyer

  • Banks and Economic Growth: Implications from Japanese History

    Yoshiro Miwa;J. Mark Ramseyer

  • The fable of the keiretsu

    Yoshiro Miwa;J. Mark Ramseyer

  • Why Are Japanese Judges so Conservative in Politically Charged Cases

    J. Mark Ramseyer

  • The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy

    Yoshiro Miwa;J. Mark Ramseyer

  • Legal Rules in Repeated Deals: Banking in the Shadow of Defection in Japan

    J. Mark Ramseyer

  • Rethinking Relationship-Specific Investments: Subcontracting in the Japanese Automobile Industry

    Yoshiro Miwa;J. Mark Ramseyer

  • The Implications of Trade Credit for Bank Monitoring: Suggestive Evidence from Japan

    Yoshiro Miwa;J. Mark Ramseyer

  • Japan's Political Marketplace

    Donald Zagoria;J. Mark Ramseyer;Frances McCall Rosenbluth

  • Judicial Independence in Civil Law Regimes: Econometrics from Japan

    J. Mark Ramseyer;Eric Bennett Rasmusen

  • The Politics of Oligarchy: CONCESSION OR FACADE: THE MEIJI CONSTITUTION

    J. Mark Ramseyer;Frances McCall Rosenbluth

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Bennett Rasmusen
Eric Bennett Rasmusen Indiana University
Curtis J. Milhaupt
Curtis J. Milhaupt Stanford University
Stephen M. Bainbridge
Stephen M. Bainbridge University of California, Los Angeles
Roberta Romano
Roberta Romano Yale University
Steven N. Kaplan
Steven N. Kaplan University of Chicago
Steven Shavell
Steven Shavell Harvard University
Benjamin E. Hermalin
Benjamin E. Hermalin University of California, Berkeley

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