68 sessions, 202 papers

2010 Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association
Complete List of All Sessions

  

Session 1: Antitrust II
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 2:15 - 3:45
Predatory Pricing
Presented by: Aaron Edlin, UC Berkeley
Trust, Salience, and Deterrence: Evidence From an Antitrust Experiment
Presented by: Sven-Olof Fridolfsson, Research Institute of Industrial Ec.
Competition Policy and Financial Distress
Presented by: Ezra Friedman, Northwestern University

  

Session 2: Behavioral Law and Economics Session
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 2:15 - 3:45
Behavioral Antitrust: A New Approach to the Rule of Reason after Leegin
JEL codes: D21, D23, K21
Presented by: Avishalom Tor, University of Haifa
Monitoring Costs and the Law of Franchise Tying Contracts: A Behavioral Perspective
Presented by: Uri Benoliel, Academic Center of Law & Business
Pricing Misperception: Explaining Pricing Structure in the Cellular Service Market
Presented by: Rebecca Stone, US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  

Session 3: Compliance/Internal controls
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 2:15 - 3:45
The Value of SOX Internal Control Disclosures in the Market for Corporate Control
JEL codes: G3, G34
Presented by: Emanuel Zur, Baruch College
Regulatory Monitoring Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Presented by: Cindy2 Alexander2, SEC
Institutionalizing Self-Regulation: The Effect of Commitment, Threat and Surveillance
Presented by: Jodi Short, Georgetown University Law Center

  

Session 4: Corporate Bankruptcy
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 2:15 - 3:45
Car Trouble
[slides]
Presented by: Douglas Baird, University of Chicagp
SALES OR PLANS: A COMPARATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE “NEW” CORPORATE REORGANIZATION
Presented by: Stephen Lubben, Seton Hall University School of Law
Share Auctions and the Division of Value in Corporate Reorganizations
Presented by: Gustav Sigurdsson, The Wharton School, Univ of Pennsylvania

  

Session 5: Crime, Labor, Health 4
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 2:15 - 3:45
The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime
JEL codes: I2;J15;J18;K42
Presented by: Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
Intended and Unintended Consequences of Prison Reform
Presented by: H. Mocan, LSU
Evaluating the Youth Criminal Justice Act With Perpetrator Self-report Data
Presented by: Lihui Zhang, University of Regina

  

Session 6: Dynamics of Judicial Decisionmaking
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 2:15 - 3:45
The Judicial Business Cycle
JEL codes: E02, K34, K41
Presented by: Nancy Staudt, Northwestern University
A Theory of Rational Jurisprudence
Presented by: Scott Baker, Washington University in St. Louis
Tracking Inconsistent Judicial Behavior
Presented by: Anthony Niblett, University of Chicgao

  

Session 7: Information and Contract Design
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 2:15 - 3:45
Product Use Information and the Limits of Voluntary Disclosure
Presented by: Oren Bar-Gill, New York University
OPTIMAL LIABILITY SHARING AND COURT ERRORS: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS
Presented by: Marcel Boyer, University of Montreal
Productive Entrepreneurship and Economic Development with Limited Contract Enforcement
Presented by: Rasim Uras, Washington Univesrity in St. Louis

  

Session 8: Intellectual Property
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 2:15 - 3:45
Should Copyright Of Academic Works Be Abolished?
JEL codes: K11, O34
Presented by: Steven Shavell, Harvard University
Understanding the Doctrine of Patentable Subject Matter
[slides]
Presented by: Jing-Yuan CHIOU, IMT Lucca
Choosing the Scope of Trade Secret Law when Secrets Complement Patents
Presented by: Elisabetta Ottoz, University of Torino

  

Session 9: Medical Malpractice
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 2:15 - 3:45
Does Sorry Work? The Impact of Apology Laws on Medical Malpractice
JEL codes: K32
Presented by: Elaine Liu, University of Houston
Does Proactive Disclosure of Medical Error Prompt or Prevent Medical Malpractice Suits?
[slides]
Presented by: Lorens Helmchen, University of Illinois at Chicago
Defensive Medicine and Obstetric Practices
Presented by: Michael Frakes, Harvard Law School

  

Session 10: Mergers and Acquisitions
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 2:15 - 3:45
Do Shareholders Listen? M&A Advisor Opinions and Shareholder Voting
JEL codes: G34, G24, G38
Presented by: Jie Cai, Drexel University
The Powerful and Pervasive Effects of Ownership on M&A
Presented by: John Coates IV,
Agency Costs of Idiosyncratic Volatility, Corporate Governance, and Investment
Presented by: Dalida Kadyrzhanova, University of Maryland

  

Session 11: Bankruptcy: Empirical Studies of Consumer Bankruptcy
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 - 5:30
Lawyers Steer Clients toward Lucrative Filings: Evidence from Consumer Bankruptcies
JEL codes: K35
Presented by: Frank McIntyre, Brigham Young University
Race, Gender and Political Ideology in Personal Bankruptcy Outcomes
Presented by: Paige Skiba, Vanderbilt
Debt, Financial Distress, and Bankruptcy over the Life Course
Presented by: Ronald Mann, Columbia Law School

  

Session 12: Crime, Labor, Health 5
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 - 5:30
Strict Liability for Medical Injuries? The Impact of Increasing Malpractice Liability on Obstetrician Behavior
JEL codes: K13, I18, L11
Presented by: Brian Chen, Stanford University
How Do the Elderly Fare in Medical Malpractice Litigation? Evidence from Texas, 1988-2007
Presented by: Bernard Black, University of Texas
Tort Liability and the Market for Prescription Drugs
Presented by: Eric Helland, CMC/RAND

  

Session 13: Int'l Law
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 - 5:30
International Soft Law
JEL codes: K33
Presented by: Andrew Guzman,
The Economics of Climate Enforcement
Presented by: Anu Bradford, University of Chicago
A Liberal Theory of Compliance with International Law
Presented by: Joel Trachtman,

  

Session 14: Investment and Contract Design
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 - 5:30
Breach Remedies Inducing Hybrid Investments
JEL codes: K12, L22, J41.
Presented by: Alexander Stremitzer, Yale University
Optimal Contract Design with Unilateral Market Option
[slides]
Presented by: ANTONIO NICITA, University of Siena CLEIS
Can Contracts Solve the Hold-Up Problem? Experimental Evidence
Presented by: Eva Hoppe, University of Cologne

  

Session 15: Judicial Theory
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 - 5:30
The Business of Judicial Elections
JEL codes: K4
Presented by: Joanna Shepherd, Emory University
Judicial Review as a Constraint on Tyranny of the Majority
Presented by: F. Andrew Hanssen, Colby College
Litigation and Legal Evolution: Does Procedure Matter? (Gordon Tullock’s Case Against the Common Law – Revisited)
Presented by: Barbara Luppi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

  

Session 16: Litigation and Case Selection
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 - 5:30
Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements
JEL codes: K0, K41
Presented by: J.J. Prescott, University of Michigan
Trial Selection Theory: A Unified Model
Presented by: Keith Hylton,
The Regressive Effect of Legal Uncertainty
Presented by: Uri Weiss, The Hebrew University

  

Session 17: Modifying the Written Agreement
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 - 5:30
EMPTY PROMISES
Presented by: Oren Bar-Gill, New York University
Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Testing a Law and Economics Approach to Standard Form Contracts
Presented by: Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, NYU Law School
Explaining Adversarial Boilerplate Language in the Battle of the Forms: Are Consequential Damages in the U.C.C. Gap Fillers a Penalty Default Rule?
[slides]
Presented by: Ryan Griffee, Pepperdine University

  

Session 18: Oganizations, Law, and the Labor Market Session
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 - 5:30
STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN RELIGIOUS BODIES: HOW IT IMPACTS ON THE AGE OF LEADERS
Presented by: Donald Wittman, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Incentives Matrix: The Comparative Effectiveness of Rewards, Liabilities, Duties, and Protections for Reporting Illegality
Presented by: orly lobel, university of san diego
Great Expecations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance
Presented by: W. MacLeod, Columbia University

  

Session 19: Contracts (Sales/remedies)
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 - 5:30
The Right to Withdraw in Contract Law
Presented by: Omri Ben-Shahar, University of Chicago Law School
A rationale for the Limitation Period in Sales Law
Presented by: Henrik Lando, Copenhagen Business School
On and Off Contract Remedies
Presented by: Alexander Stremitzer, Yale University

  

Session 20: Law & Finance (disclosure)
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
The Implications of Hedge Fund Activism on the Target Firm’s Existing Bondholders
JEL codes: G30, G34
Presented by: Emanuel Zur, Baruch College
Shareholder Activism and CEO Pay
Presented by: Fabrizio Ferri, Stern School of Business NYU
Inefficiencies in the Information Thicket: A Case Study of Derivative Disclosures During the Financial Crisis
Presented by: Robert Bartlett III, University of California, Berkeley

  

Session 21: Analytical Methods
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
The Flawed Probabilistic Foundation of Law & Economics
Presented by: Alex Stein, Cardozo Law School
Academic Scribblers and Defunct Economists: Development Economics and the Law
Presented by: Robert Cooter, University of California
Beyond Individualism in Law and Economics
Presented by: Robert Ahdieh, Emory Law School

  

Session 22: Contracts (Theory, interpretation of standard terms)
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Omri Ben-Shahar, University of Chicago Law School
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Bayesian Contractual Interpretation
Presented by: Yair Listokin, Yale University
Market Conditions and Non-price Terms in Contracts
Presented by: Albert Choi, University of Virginia
Optimal Remedies for Bilateral Contract
Presented by: Barbara Luppi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

  

Session 23: Corporate Governance:
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Regulatory Dualism as a Development Strategy: Corporate Reform in Brazil, the U.S., and the EU
Presented by: Henry Hansmann, Yale University
Offensive Shareholder Activism in US Public Companies 1900-1949
Presented by: John Armour, University of Oxford
What Happens in Nevada?
Presented by: Michal Barzuza, Univeristy of Virginia

  

Session 24: Crime, Labor, Health 1
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Responses to More Severe Punishment in the Courtroom: Evidence from Truth-in-Sentencing Laws
JEL codes: K00, K41, K14
Presented by: Libor Dusek, CERGE-EI
Defendant Cooperation and Electronic Surveillance as Substitutes in Criminal Prosecutions
Presented by: Thomas Miles, University of Chicago
The Effect of Order-Maintenance Policing on Serious and Non-Serious Crime: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Presented by: Andrea Chandrasekher, Northwestern University Law School

  

Session 25: Human Capital and Legal Services
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Session Chair: Alon Klement, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Overworking in court: Evidence from young lawyers' hours of work
JEL codes: K41, L14, J44
Presented by: Rosa Ferrer, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Not Just Being There: An Economic Analysis of Fact Witness Payment
Presented by: Ezra Friedman, Northwestern University
Judges, Courts and Economic Development: the Impact of Judicial Human Capital on the Efficiency and Accuracty of the Court System
Presented by: Gwendolyn Ball, University of Illinois

  

Session 26: Law, Economics and Inequality
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
What have Calabresi & Melamed got to do with Family Affairs? Women Using Tort Law in Order to Defeat Jewish and Shari’a Law
Presented by: Benjamin Shmueli, Sha'arei Mishpat College
The Persistence of Skin Color Discrimination for Immigrants
Presented by: Joni Hersch, Vanderbilt University
Egalitarian Economic Inequality
Presented by: Terry O'Reilly, Willamette University

  

Session 27: Legal Markets
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: George Triantis, Harvard law school
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
The Death of Big Law
JEL codes: K10, K22, K41
Presented by: Larry Ribstein,
When Would a Lawyer Work for a Fixed Fee?
Presented by: Flóra Felsö, University of Amsterdam
Law for a Flat World: Legal Infrastructure and the New Economy
Presented by: Gillian Hadfield, USC

  

Session 28: Tax & Regulation
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
The Corporate Pyramid Fable
JEL codes: D21, G35, N82,
Presented by: Steven Bank, UCLA School of Law
Certainty and Uncertainty in the Taxation of Risky Returns
Presented by: Thomas Brennan, Northwestern University
Regulatory Arbitrage
Presented by: Victor Fleischer, University of Colorado

  

Session 29: The Mortgage Crisis
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Regulatory Remedies for Banking Crises: Lessons from Japan
JEL codes: G15, G21, G28
Presented by: Suparna Chakraborty, Baruch College, CUNY
Did Bankruptcy Reform Cause Mortgage Default to Rise?
Presented by: Michelle White, Univ of Calif San Diego
Mortgage Default Risk: Recent Evidence from NYC
Presented by: Michael Gedal, New York University

  

Session 30: Law & Finance (Theory)
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
A Carrot and Stick approach to Discipline Self -dealing by Controlling Shareholders
Presented by: Maria Isabel Saez,
Incentives in the Market for Mortgage-Backed Securities
Presented by: Bernard Black, University of Texas
Credit Default Swaps and The Empty Creditor Problem
Presented by: Patrick Bolton, Columbia University

  

Session 31: Adjudicator Behavior
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
How Much Does Law Matter? Theory and Evidence from Single Subject Adjudication
Presented by: Michael Gilbert, University of Virginia
The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study
Presented by: Theodore Eisenberg, Cornell University
Does Deference Promote Principled Dynamic Interpretations of Statutes?
[slides]
Presented by: Mark Humphèry, Columbia University; University of New South Wales

  

Session 32: Antitrust I
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Keith Hylton,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Robust Exclusion Through Loyalty Discounts
Presented by: Abraham Wickelgren, University of Texas at Austin
Rethinking Antitrust Sanctions
Presented by: Joshua Wright, George Mason University

  

Session 33: Contract Breach and Remedies
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Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
VIEWING UNCONSCIONABILITY THROUGH A MARKET LENS
Presented by: Ariel Porat, Tel Aviv University
Ex-Ante or Ex-post Expectation Damages?
Presented by: Ronen Avraham, University of Texas at Austin
A Comparative Analysis of Good Faith Purchase
Presented by: Alan Schwartz, Yale University

  

Session 34: Corporate: CEO Compensation
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Blockholders on Boards and CEO Compensation, Turnover and Firm Valuation
JEL codes: G32, G34, J33
Presented by: Anup Agrawal, University of Alabama
Aggregate Shareholder Value, Stock Prices, and the Optimal Design of Executive Pay
Presented by: Jesse Fried, Harvard Law School
To Each According to His Ability? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Market for CEO Talent
Presented by: Antonio Falato, Federal Reserve Board

  

Session 35: Crime, Labor, Health 2
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
The Distortionary Effect of Evidence on Primary Behavior
Presented by: Alex Stein, Cardozo Law School
Complementary use of administrative and criminal fines in enforcing environmental regulations
Presented by: Katarina Svatikova, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Recidivism and Uncertainty in Deterrence
Presented by: Gregory DeAngelo, UC Denver

  

Session 36: Discrimination Session
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing: A Quantile Regression Approach
JEL codes: K14, K40
Presented by: Beth Freeborn, College of William and Mary
Does Affirmative Action Create Educational Mismatches in Law School?
Presented by: Doug Williams, University of the South

  

Session 37: Environmental Law
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Discontinuous Behavioral Responses to Recycling Laws and Plastic Water Bottle Deposits
[slides]
JEL codes: K23 K32 Q50 Q58
Presented by: W. Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University
TAX POLICY ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Presented by: Yoram Margalioth, Tel Aviv University
Air Toxics in the Board Room: An Empirical Study of EPA's Hazardous Air Pollutant Rules
Presented by: Katherine Barnes, University of Arizona

  

Session 38: Experimental
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
PUNISHMENT DESPITE REASONABLE DOUBT - A PUBLIC GOODS EXPERIMENT WITH UNCERTAINTY OVER CONTRIBUTIONS
JEL codes: D03, H41, K14
Presented by: Kristoffel Grechenig, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Breach is for Suckers
Presented by: Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Judicial Errors and Crime Deterrence: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Presented by: Matteo Rizzolli, University of Milan - Bicocca

  

Session 39: Health and Individual Well-Being
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 7, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Valuing Foreign Lives
Presented by: David Dana, Northwestern University
Private Regulation
Presented by: Ronen Avraham, University of Texas at Austin
Internalities and Paternalism: Applying the Compensation Criterion to Multiple Selves across Tim
Presented by: Eric Rasmusen, Indiana University

  

Session 40: Appelate Court Panels
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 1:30 - 3:00
Left, Right, and Center: Strategic Information Acquisition and Diversity in Judicial Panels
JEL codes: K4; H1
Presented by: Eric Talley, UC Berkeley
WHY (AND WHEN) JUDGES DISSENT: A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
Presented by: william landes, university of chicago
Panel Effects as Social Interactions
Presented by: Joshua Fischman, University of Virginia

  

Session 41: Comparative Law
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Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 1:30 - 3:00
Plea Bargaining: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis
Presented by: Yehonatan Givati, Harvard Univeristy
Self-Assessment of Takings Compensation: An Empirical Study
[slides]
Presented by: Yun-chien Chang, Academia Sinica
Southern "Home Cooking" and the Quality of American State Courts
Presented by: Giorgio Zanarone, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros

  

Session 42: Crime, Labor, Health 3
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 1:30 - 3:00
Everybody Stay Cool, This Is a Robbery
JEL codes: K40, K42, H11
Presented by: Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Casey at the Bat (And in the Field?): An Economic Analysis of Baseball's Designated Hitter Rule
[slides]
Presented by: Steve Calandrillo, University of Washington
Cooperation's Cost
Presented by: Miriam Baer, Brooklyn Law School

  

Session 43: DISTRIBUTIVE RULES
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 1:30 - 3:00
Luxury in Ancient Rome: Scope, Timing and Enforcement of Sumptuary Laws
JEL codes: D70, K00, N00
Presented by: Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci,
A Difficulty in the Concept of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Females in Legislatures
Presented by: Dino Falaschetti, Florida State University
The Partisan Consequences of the Voting Rights Act
Presented by: Adam Cox, University of Chicago Law School

  

Session 44: Legal Reasoning and Court Errors
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Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 1:30 - 3:00
Analogical Legal Reasoning: Theory and Evidence
Presented by: Joshua Teitelbaum, Georgetown University
Does Private Selection Improve the Accuracy of Arbitrators' Decisions?
Presented by: Alon Klement, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Why Do Judges Read Statutes?
Presented by: Alexander Volokh, Emory Law School

  

Session 45: Torts II
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 1:30 - 3:00
Endogenous Assets and Liability: Why Softer Standards Are More Efficient
JEL codes: K13, K23, L51,
Presented by: Fernando Gomez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Comparative Negligence as a Buffer against Erroneus Standards
Presented by: Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci,
Doing their duty: An empirical analysis of the unintended effect of Tarasoff v Regents on homicidal activity
Presented by: Griffin Edwards, Emory University

  

Session 46: Wellbeing, Happiness, and Economics Outcomes
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 1:30 - 3:00
Well-Being Analysis
Presented by: Jonathan Masur, University of Chicago Law School
Inequality and Subjective Well-Being
[slides]
Presented by: Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania
Happiness Studies and Legal Policy
Presented by: Peter Huang, Temple University

  

Session 47: Bargaining, delegation and ex ante efficiency
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Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 1:30 - 3:00
Prosecutorial Risk Attitudes, Time Constraints and Plea Bargaining
Presented by: Serra Boranbay, Princeton University
Ex Ante Efficiency and Ex Post Equality
[slides]
Presented by: Chris Wonnell, University of San Diego
A Property Rights Approach to Legislative Delegation
Presented by: Peter Grajzl, Washington and Lee University

  

Session 48: Household/Family/Gender
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Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 1:30 - 3:00
Diverging family structure and “rational” behavior: The decline in marriage as a disorder of choice
[slides]
JEL codes: J12, J13, J15
Presented by: Amy Wax,
E-marriage: Breaking the Marriage Monopoly
Presented by: Adam Candeub, MSU
Intrahousehold Competition Over Time and Legal Regimes
[slides]
Presented by: Michael Hanlon, University of Washington

  

Session 49: Civil Rights & Affirmative Action
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Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Let My People Go: Ethnic In-Group Bias in Judicial Decisions – Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment
JEL codes: K41, K42, J15
Presented by: Oren Gazal, University of Haifa
Using Brazil's Racial Continuum to Examine the Short-Term Effects of Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Presented by: Andrew Francis, Emory University
Affirmative Action Bans and the "Chilling Effect"
[slides]
Presented by: Richard Sander, UCLA

  

Session 50: Contract and Intellectual Property
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Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Rewarding innovation efficiently: research spill-overs and exclusive IP rights
Presented by: Luigi Franzoni, Universita di Bologna
CONTRACTUAL COMPLEXITY OF R&D ALLIANCES – A two-dimensional analysis of the determinants of contractual complexity
Presented by: John Hagedoorn, University Maastricht
Intellectual Property as a Law of Organization
Presented by: Jonathan Barnett, Univ. of Southern California

  

Session 51: Corporate: Compensation and/or Turnover
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Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
CEO Tenure, Performance and Turnover in S&P 500 Companies
JEL codes: K22, M12, M51
Presented by: John Coates IV,
Why Do Insiders Hedge Their Ownership? An Empirical Examination
Presented by: Swaminathan Kalpathy, Southern Methodist University
Internal Managerial Promotions: Incentives, CEO Influence and Firm Valuation
Presented by: Shawn Mobbs, University of Alabama

  

Session 52: Crime, Labor, Health 6
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Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines
JEL codes: K14, K42, D02
Presented by: Anne Piehl, Rutgers University
Enforcement Strategies, Compliance Programs, and the Intermediary Gatekeepers
Presented by: Sharon Oded, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL
Coordinated Private and Public Enforcement of Law: Deterrence under Qui Tam
Presented by: David Kwok, University of California, Berkeley

  

Session 53: Law & Finance
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Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Recourse and Residential Mortgage Default: Theory and Evidence from U.S. States
JEL codes: G21;G28;K11;R20
Presented by: Andra Ghent, Baruch College
Investment in Financial Structured Products from Rational and Behavioral Choice Perspectives
Presented by: Moran Ofir, New York University
Worthless Warnings? Testing the Effectiveness of Disclaimers in Mutual Fund Advertisements
Presented by: Ahmed Taha, Wake Forest Law School

  

Session 54: Operation of Courts
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Are Judges Tied to the Past? Evidence of the Judicial Sunk-Cost Effect in Appellate Decision-making
Presented by: Shay Lavie, Harvard Law School
The Plaintiff’s Role in Enforcing a Court Ruling: Evidence from a Labor Court in Mexico
Presented by: Joyce Sadka, CIE-ITAM
Too many balls in the air: The impact of task juggling on workers’ productivity
Presented by: Nicola Persico, New York University

  

Session 55: Property Right Design
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Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Unscheduled Appointments
JEL codes: D23, D45, K23
Presented by: Alan Miller, California Institute of Technology
Economic Organization and the Lease-Ownership Decision in Water
Presented by: Dean Lueck, The University of Arizona
Sequential Musical Creation and Sample Licensing
Presented by: Peter DiCola, Northwestern University Law School

  

Session 56: Regulation & Federalism
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Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Interjurisdictional Linkages and the Scope for Interventionist Legal Harmonization
JEL codes: D02, D82, K40
Presented by: Peter Grajzl, Washington and Lee University
State Finance in Times of Crisis
Presented by: Brian Galle, Florida State University
THE INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS OF TRANSITION RELIEF
[slides]
Presented by: Jonathan Nash, Emory University

  

Session 57: Securities Litigation
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
The Price of Pay to Play in Securities Class Actions
JEL codes: K22; K41
Presented by: Adam Pritchard, University of Michigan School of Law
Real Time Information and Group Litigation Decisions
Presented by: W. Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University
IS “PAY-TO-PLAY” DRIVING PUBLIC PENSION FUND ACTIVISM IN SECURITIES CLASS ACTIONS? AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
Presented by: David Webber, New York University School of Law

  

Session 58: Regulation of Business
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Entrepreneurship, Compensation and the Corporation
JEL codes: M52, K22
Presented by: Henry Manne,
Public Policy and Business Creation in the United States
Presented by: Douglas Cumming, York University
Shareholders and Stakeholders: How do Directors Decide?
[slides]
Presented by: Amir Licht, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

  

Session 59: Cost-Benefit Analysis
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Against Feasibility Analysis
Presented by: Jonathan Masur, University of Chicago Law School
Relational Governance and Contract Damages: Evidence from Franchising
Presented by: Adam Badawi, University of Chicago
The Sum of Its Parts: A Comprehensive Analysis of Rezonings in New York City
Presented by: Vicki Been, New York University

  

Session 60: Courts & Politics
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
BUILDING REPUTATION IN CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS: PARTY AND JUDICIAL POLITICS
Presented by: Nuno Garoupa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai
When Do Voters Punish Corrupt Politicians? Experimental Evidence from Brazil
Presented by: Miguel de Figueiredo, Yale Law School
Language, Legal Origins, and Culture before the Courts: Cross‐Citations between Supreme Courts in Europe
Presented by: Martin Gelter, Fordham Law School

  

Session 61: Law & Finance (Regulation)
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
A New Capital Regulation for Large Financial Institutions
JEL codes: G01,G21,G24,G28
Presented by: Oliver Hart, Harvard University
If You Misrate, then You Lose: Improving Credit Rating Accuracy Through Incentive Compensation
Presented by: Yair Listokin, Yale University
Avoiding Eight-Alarm Fires in the Political Economy of Systemic Risk Management
Presented by: Jeffrey Gordon,

  

Session 62: Litigation and Reputation
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
A Dynamic Model of Lawsuit Joinder and Settlement
JEL codes: K41, D82
Presented by: Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University
Patent Settlements as a Barrier to Entry
Presented by: Anne Duchene, Drexel University
The Effect of Litigation on Venture Capitalist Reputation
Presented by: Kate Litvak, Northwestern University School of Law

  

Session 63: Property & Environmental
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
An Empirical Analysis of Cost Recovery in Superfund Cases: Implications for Brownfields and Joint and Several Liability
JEL codes: K32, K41, Q53
Presented by: Howard Chang, University of Pennsylvania
Land Demarcation and Agriculture in 19th Century California
Presented by: Dean Lueck, The University of Arizona
Tradable Environmental Allowances: Property, Non-Property, or Quasi-Property?
Presented by: Daniel Kelly, Harvard Law School

  

Session 64: Relational Contracts
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Contract Adaptation under Legal Constraints
JEL codes: D23; L14; L22
Presented by: Giorgio Zanarone, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros
Household Relational Contract, Fertility and Divorce
Presented by: Matthias Fahn, Munich Graduate School of Economics
Implicit Contracting Close to Anonymity
Presented by: Andrei Bremzen, New Economic School

  

Session 65: Securities Litigation II
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
The Supreme Court’s Impact on Securities Class Actions: An Empirical Assessment of Tellabs
JEL codes: K22; K41
Presented by: Adam Pritchard, University of Michigan School of Law
SHORT SELLING AND THE NEWS: A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
Presented by: Merritt Fox,
Uninvited U.S. Investors? Economic Consequences of Involuntary Cross-listings
Presented by: Lukas Roth, University of Alberta

  

Session 66: STANDARD OF PROOF
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
How Should Prosecutors Be Evaluated?
JEL codes: K41, D82
Presented by: Bryan McCannon, Wake Forest University
Toward a General Theory of Standards of Proof
Presented by: Fredrick Vars, University of Alabama
The Interplay between Admissibility of Expert Evidence and the Standard of Proof
[slides]
Presented by: Nancy McCarthy, George Mason University

  

Session 67: Takeovers (& insider trading)
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Insider Trading in Takeover Targets
JEL codes: G14, G18, G34
Presented by: Anup Agrawal, University of Alabama
RUNUP OF ACQUIRER STOCK IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ACQUISITIONS
Presented by: Douglas Cumming, York University
Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders
Presented by: Alma Cohen, Harvard University

   Index of Participants

Legend: C=chair, P=Presenter, D=Disscussant

Session 68: Torts I
Session Organizer: ,
Session type: invited
Date: May 8, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Ex-ante Investment, Ex-post Remedy, and Product Liability
Presented by: Xinyu Hua, HKUST
The Reasonable Person Standard: Trading Off Static and Dynamic Efficiency
Presented by: Tim Friehe, University of Konstanz
Insolvency and Biased Standards - The Case for Proportional Liability
Presented by: Alexander Stremitzer, Yale University

#	Participant	Roles in Conference
1	Agrawal, Anup	P34, P67
2	Ahdieh, Robert	P21
3	Alexander2, Cindy2	P3
4	Armour, John	P23
5	Avraham, Ronen	P39, P33
6	Badawi, Adam	P59
7	Baer, Miriam	P42
8	Baird, Douglas	P4
9	Baker, Scott	P6
10	Ball, Gwendolyn	P25
11	Bank, Steven	P28
12	Bar-Gill, Oren	P7, P17
13	Barnes, Katherine	P37
14	Barnett, Jonathan	P50
15	Bartlett III, Robert	P20
16	Barzuza, Michal	P23
17	Been, Vicki	P59
18	Ben-Shahar, Omri	P19, C22
19	Benoliel, Uri	P2
20	Black, Bernard	P12, P30
21	Bolton, Patrick	P30
22	Boranbay, Serra	P47
23	Boyer, Marcel	P7
24	Bradford, Anu	P13
25	Bremzen, Andrei	P64
26	Brennan, Thomas	P28
27	Cai, Jie	P10
28	Calandrillo, Steve	P42
29	Candeub, Adam	P48
30	Chakraborty, Suparna	P29
31	Chandrasekher, Andrea	P24
32	Chang, Yun-chien	P41
33	Chang, Howard	P63
34	Chen, Brian	P12
35	CHIOU, Jing-Yuan	P8
36	Choi, Albert	P22
37	Coates IV, John	P10, P51
38	Cohen, Alma	P67
39	Cooter, Robert	P21
40	Cox, Adam	P43
41	Cumming, Douglas	P58, P67
42	Dana, David	P39
43	Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe	P45, P43
44	Daughety, Andrew	P62
45	de Figueiredo, Miguel	P60
46	DeAngelo, Gregory	P35
47	DiCola, Peter	P55
48	Duchene, Anne	P62
49	Dusek, Libor	P24
50	Edlin, Aaron	P1
51	Edwards, Griffin	P45
52	Eisenberg, Theodore	P31
53	Fahn, Matthias	P64
54	Falaschetti, Dino	P43
55	Falato, Antonio	P34
56	Felsö, Flóra	P27
57	Ferrer, Rosa	P25
58	Ferri, Fabrizio	P20
59	Fischman, Joshua	P40
60	Fleischer, Victor	P28
61	Fox, Merritt	P65
62	Frakes, Michael	P9
63	Francis, Andrew	P49
64	Franzoni, Luigi	P50
65	Freeborn, Beth	P36
66	Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof	P1
67	Fried, Jesse	P34
68	Friedman, Ezra	P1, P25
69	Friehe, Tim	P68
70	Galle, Brian	P56
71	Garoupa, Nuno	P60
72	Gazal, Oren	P49
73	Gedal, Michael	P29
74	Gelter, Martin	P60
75	Ghent, Andra	P53
76	Gilbert, Michael	P31
77	Givati, Yehonatan	P41
78	Gomez, Fernando	P45
79	Gordon, Jeffrey	P61
80	Grajzl, Peter	P47, P56
81	Grechenig, Kristoffel	P38
82	Griffee, Ryan	P17
83	Guzman, Andrew	P13
84	Hadfield, Gillian	P27
85	Hagedoorn, John	P50
86	Hanlon, Michael	P48
87	Hansmann, Henry	P23
88	Hanssen, F. Andrew	P15
89	Hart, Oliver	P61
90	Helland, Eric	P12
91	Helmchen, Lorens	P9
92	Hersch, Joni	P26
93	Hoppe, Eva	P14
94	Hua, Xinyu	P68
95	Huang, Peter	P46
96	Humphèry, Mark	P31
97	Hylton, Keith	P16, C32
98	Kadyrzhanova, Dalida	P10
99	Kalpathy, Swaminathan	P51
100	Kelly, Daniel	P63
101	Klement, Alon	C25, P44
102	Kwok, David	P52
103	landes, william	P40
104	Lando, Henrik	P19
105	Lavie, Shay	P54
106	Licht, Amir	P58
107	Listokin, Yair	P22, P61
108	Litvak, Kate	P62
109	Liu, Elaine	P9
110	lobel, orly	P18
111	Lubben, Stephen	P4
112	Ludwig, Jens	P5
113	Lueck, Dean	P55, P63
114	Luppi, Barbara	P15, P22
115	MacLeod, W.	P18
116	Mann, Ronald	P11
117	Manne, Henry	P58
118	Margalioth, Yoram	P37
119	Marotta-Wurgler, Florencia	P17
120	Mastrobuoni, Giovanni	P42
121	Masur, Jonathan	P46, P59
122	McCannon, Bryan	P66
123	McCarthy, Nancy	P66
124	McIntyre, Frank	P11
125	Miles, Thomas	P24
126	Miller, Alan	P55
127	Mobbs, Shawn	P51
128	Mocan, H.	P5
129	Nash, Jonathan	P56
130	Niblett, Anthony	P6
131	NICITA, ANTONIO	P14
132	O'Reilly, Terry	P26
133	Oded, Sharon	P52
134	Ofir, Moran	P53
135	Ottoz, Elisabetta	P8
136	Persico, Nicola	P54
137	Piehl, Anne	P52
138	Porat, Ariel	P33
139	Prescott, J.J.	P16
140	Pritchard, Adam	P57, P65
141	Rasmusen, Eric	P39
142	Ribstein, Larry	P27
143	Rizzolli, Matteo	P38
144	Roth, Lukas	P65
145	Sadka, Joyce	P54
146	Saez, Maria Isabel	P30
147	Sander, Richard	P49
148	Schwartz, Alan	P33
149	Shavell, Steven	P8
150	Shepherd, Joanna	P15
151	Shmueli, Benjamin	P26
152	Short, Jodi	P3
153	Sigurdsson, Gustav	P4
154	Skiba, Paige	P11
155	Staudt, Nancy	P6
156	Stein, Alex	P21, P35
157	Stone, Rebecca	P2
158	Stremitzer, Alexander	P19, P14, P68
159	Svatikova, Katarina	P35
160	Taha, Ahmed	P53
161	Talley, Eric	P40
162	Teitelbaum, Joshua	P44
163	Tor, Avishalom	P2
164	Trachtman, Joel	P13
165	Triantis, George	C27
166	Uras, Rasim	P7
167	Vars, Fredrick	P66
168	Viscusi, W. Kip	P37, P57
169	Volokh, Alexander	P44
170	Wax, Amy	P48
171	Webber, David	P57
172	Weiss, Uri	P16
173	White, Michelle	P29
174	Wickelgren, Abraham	P32
175	Wilkinson-Ryan, Tess	P38
176	Williams, Doug	P36
177	Wittman, Donald	P18
178	Wolfers, Justin	P46
179	Wonnell, Chris	P47
180	Wright, Joshua	P32
181	Zanarone, Giorgio	P41, P64
182	Zhang, Lihui	P5
183	Zur, Emanuel	P3, P20

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