| Does falling smoking lead to rising obesity? J Gruber, M Frakes Journal of health economics 25 (2), 183-197, 2006 | 313 | 2006 |
| Does the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grant Too Many Bad Patents?: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment MD Frakes, MF Wasserman Stanford Law Review 67, 2014 | 104 | 2014 |
| Is the Time Allocated to Review Patent Applications Inducing Examiners to Grant Invalid Patents?: Evidence from Micro-Level Application Data MD Frakes, MF Wasserman NBER Working Paper, 2014 | 96 | 2014 |
| Does agency funding affect decisionmaking: an empirical assessment of the PTO's granting patterns MD Frakes, MF Wasserman Vand. L. Rev. 66, 65, 2013 | 96 | 2013 |
| The impact of medical liability standards on regional variations in physician behavior: evidence from the adoption of national-standard rules M Frakes American Economic Review 103 (1), 257-276, 2012 | 93 | 2012 |
| Defensive medicine and obstetric practices M Frakes Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 9 (3), 457-481, 2012 | 71 | 2012 |
| Does Medical Malpractice Law Improve Health Care Quality? M Frakes, AB Jena Journal of Public Econnomics, 142-158, 2016 | 52 | 2016 |
| Classified boards and firm value MD Frakes Del. J. CorP. l. 32, 113, 2007 | 52 | 2007 |
| Patent office cohorts MD Frakes, MF Wasserman Duke LJ 65, 1601, 2015 | 45 | 2015 |
| The surprising relevance of medical malpractice law MD Frakes The University of Chicago Law Review, 317-391, 2015 | 44 | 2015 |
| Defensive medicine: evidence from military immunity M Frakes, J Gruber American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 11 (3), 197-231, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| Irrational ignorance at the patent office MD Frakes, MF Wasserman Vand. L. Rev. 72, 975, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
| The failed promise of user fees: Empirical evidence from the US Patent and Trademark Office MD Frakes, MF Wasserman Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 11 (4), 602-636, 2014 | 21 | 2014 |
| Procrastination in the workplace: Evidence from the US Patent Office MD Frakes, MF Wasserman National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Review of neurosurgery medical professional liability claims in the United States AA Elsamadicy, AR Sergesketter, MD Frakes, SP Lad Neurosurgery 83 (5), 997-1006, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| The Deterrent Effect of Death Penalty Eligibility: Evidence from the Adoption of Child Murder Eligibility Factors M Frakes, M Harding American law and economics review 11 (2), 451-497, 2009 | 13 | 2009 |
| Malpractice liability and health care quality: a review MM Mello, MD Frakes, E Blumenkranz, DM Studdert Jama 323 (4), 352-366, 2020 | 9 | 2020 |
| Patent Trial and Appeal Board's Consistency-Enhancing Function MD Frakes, MF Wasserman IowA L. REv. 104, 2417, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| Challenges to reducing discrimination and health inequity through existing civil rights laws A Chandra, M Frakes, A Malani Health Affairs 36 (6), 1041-1047, 2017 | 6 | 2017 |
| Do physicians respond to liability standards? M Frakes, MB Frank, S Seabury Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics: JITE, 58-77, 2015 | 5 | 2015 |
Melissa F WassermanProfessor, University of Texas at Austin - School of LawVerified email at law.utexas.edu
Melissa F WassermanProfessor, University of Texas at Austin - School of LawVerified email at law.utexas.edu