Jesse Bull

Associate Professor

Department of Economics

Florida International University

bullj “at” fiu.edu

PhD: University of California, San Diego

All course information is on Canvas

Research

CV

Working Papers:

Interrogation and Disclosure of Evidence (under review)

Jury Priors and Observable Defendant Characteristics, (under revision)

Publications:

“International Entrepreneurship by Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada” Journal of Comparative International Management, special issue on “International Entrepreneurs and SMEs in a Turbulent World: New Opportunities and New Challenges,” accepted for publication in 2024. (working paper version)

Via Vtriusque Iuris Œconomice Conspecta: Mechanism Design, Path Dependence and Law, with Juan Javier del Granado, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, 2021.

“Incentive Contracts,” in eds. van Rooij and Sokol, Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, Cambridge University Press (2021) 373-382. (working paper version) (handbook)

“The Province of the Rule of Law (Finally) Determined,” with Juan Javier del Granado, Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics 10:4 (2020) 173-186.

“Statistical Evidence and the Problem of Robust Litigation,” with Joel Watson, The RAND Journal of Economics, 50: 4 (2019) 974-1003. (working paper version) (paper)

“Contract-Based Demand Response Model for HPC Systems,” with Kishwar Ahmed and Jason Liu, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), Melbourne, Australia, December 2018.

“Third-Party Budget Breakers and Side Contracting in Team Production,” Economics Bulletin, 32: 3 (2012), 2606-2614.

“An Economic Analysis of Legal Reasoning,” with Juan Javier del Granado, International Journal of Contemporary Laws (2012), Vol 1, 4.

“Costly Evidence and Systems of Fact-Finding,” Bulletin of Economic Research, 61 (2009) 103-125.

“Mechanism Design with Moderate Evidence Cost,” B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, (2008), Vol. 8: No. 1, Article 15.

“Costly Evidence Production and the Limits of Verifiability,” B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, (2008), Vol. 8: No. 1, Article 18.

“Hard Evidence and Mechanism Design,” with Joel Watson, Games and Economic Behavior, 58 (2007) 75-93.

“Evidence Disclosure and Verifiability,” with Joel Watson, Journal of Economic Theory, 118 (2004) 1-31.

Instructor’s Manual for Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory, with Joel Watson, W.W. Norton, 2001. 

Instructor’s Manual for Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory, with Joel Watson, W.W. Norton, Second edition, 2008.

Instructor’s Manual for Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory, with Joel Watson, W.W. Norton, Third edition, 2011.

Current Research:

My current research focuses on hard evidence, jury decision making, and dispute resolution.