American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings
The American Law and Economics Association is dedicated to the advancement of economic understanding of law and related areas of public policy and regulation. Founded in 1991, the membership includes academic and practicing lawyers and economists. The Association holds an annual two-day meeting in May at which members present papers dealing with a wide variety of topics concerning the interrelation of law and economics.
American Law & Economics Association 18th Annual Meeting
The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 16-17, 2008 at Columbia Law School.
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Immigration Restriction as Redistributive Taxation: Working Women and the Costs of Protectionism in the Labor Market, Howard F. Chang (May 8, 2008)
Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default, Alex Raskolnikov (May 7, 2008)
MERCHANTS, KINGS, AND THE CODIFICATION OF COMMERCIAL LAW, EMILY KADENS (May 7, 2008)
Global Network Finance, Katharina Pistor (May 7, 2008)
An Empirical Analysis of Drug Patent Settlements Between Rivals, C. Scott Hemphill (May 7, 2008)
Are Investors' Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence, Alicia Davis Evans (May 7, 2008)
Liability for Insufficient Risks, Ehud Guttel and David Gilo (May 7, 2008)
"Currency Manipulation" in World Trade, Alan O. Sykes (May 7, 2008)
Allocation Rules and the Stability of Mass Tort Class Actions, Joshua C. Teitelbaum (May 7, 2008)
Risk Equity: A New Proposal, Matthew D. Adler (May 7, 2008)
The Effects of the Right to Silence on the Innocent’s Decision to Remain Silent, Shmuel Leshem (May 7, 2008)
Ownership Structure and Enforcement Incentives at Self-regulatory Financial Exchanges, David Reiffen and Michel A. Robe (May 7, 2008)
Insurance and Tort: Coordination Systems and Imperfect Liability Rules, Fernando Gomez and Jose Penalva (May 7, 2008)
Vicarious Liability for Bad Corporate Governance: Are We Wrong About 10b-5?, James C. Spindler (May 7, 2008)
Reputation Nation: Law in an Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information, Lior J. Strahilevitz (May 7, 2008)
Integrating an Agreement to Induce Information Disclosure, Albert H. Choi (May 7, 2008)
Beauty, Personal Characteristics and Trust in Credit Markets, Enrichetta Ravina (May 7, 2008)
The Effect of Lawyers' Career Concerns in Litigation, Rosa Ferrer (May 7, 2008)
Tolerance and HIV, Andrew M. Francis and Hugo M. Mialon (May 7, 2008)
Liability for Lapses: First or Second Order Negligence?, Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat (May 7, 2008)
The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms in Stand-Up Comedy, Dotan Oliar and Christopher Sprigman (May 6, 2008)
Contracting Over Malpractice Liability, Jennifer Arlen (May 6, 2008)
Bankruptcy Resolution and the Restoration of Priority of Claims, Vedran Capkun and lawrence a. weiss (May 6, 2008)
Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan, J. Mark Ramseyer (May 6, 2008)
The Homeownership Experience of Households in Bankruptcy, Wenli Li and Sarah Carroll (May 6, 2008)
The Fashion Lottery: Cooperative Innovation in Stochastic Markets, Jonathan Barnett, Gilles Grolleau, and Sana El Harbi (May 6, 2008)
The Law, Economics and Psychology of Subprime Mortgage Contracts, Oren Bar-Gill (May 6, 2008)
Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points, OLIVER HART (May 6, 2008)
Progressivity and Potential Income: Measuring the Effect of Changing Work Patterns on Income Tax Progressivity, Chris William Sanchirico (May 6, 2008)
Private Enforcement of Corporate Law: An Empirical Comparison of the US and UK, John Armour, Bernard S. Black, Brian R. Cheffins, and Richard Nolan (May 6, 2008)
Expanding Restitution: Liability for Unrequested Benefits, Ariel Porat (May 6, 2008)
Contracts as Reference Points - Experimental Evidence, Christian Zehnder, OLIVER HART, and Ernst Fehr (May 5, 2008)
Strategic Statutory Interpretation by Administrative Agencies, Yehonatan Givati (May 5, 2008)
Legal Status and Effects on Children, Margaret F. Brinig and Steven L. Nock (May 5, 2008)
Federal Grants, State Decisions, Brian D. Galle (May 3, 2008)
Consumer Harm Acts? An Economic Analysis of Private Actions under State Consumer Protection Acts, Henry N. Butler and Jason S. Johnston (April 29, 2008)
Illusory Losses, Cass R. Sunstein (April 29, 2008)
By-Product Lobbying: Was Stigler Right?, Paul Pecorino (April 22, 2008)
Regulation of Consumer Finance as Development Policy, Adam K. Feibelman (April 22, 2008)
Trade Skirmishes and Safeguards: A Theory of the WTO Dispute Settlement Process, Mostafa Beshkar (April 21, 2008)
The Role of Decision Rights in Incomplete Contracts: Lessons from Automobile Franchising, Giorgio Zanarone (April 21, 2008)
Going Private But Staying Public: Reexamining the Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Firms’ Going-Private Decisions, Robert P. Bartlett III (April 21, 2008)
"Population-Based Liability Determination, Mass Torts, and the Incentives for Suit, Settlement, and Trial, Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum (April 21, 2008)
Seeking Rents in the Shadow of Coase, Francesco Parisi (April 8, 2008)
Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy Modification, Adam J. Levitin and Joshua Goodman (April 2, 2008)
UNCERTAINTY, RELIANCE, PRELIMINARY NEGOTIATIONS AND THE HOLD UP PROBLEM, Juliet P. Kostritsky (April 2, 2008)
Allocation and Uncertainty: Strategic Responses to Environmental Grandfathering, Jonathan R. Nash (April 2, 2008)
'Law and Finance' Revisited, Holger Spamann (April 1, 2008)
The Timing of Regulation, Jacob E. Gersen and Anne Josesph O'Connell (April 1, 2008)
Gender Bias in the Enforcement of Traffic Laws: Evidence based on a new empirical test, Brian Rowe (April 1, 2008)
The Choice in the Lawmaking Process: Legal Transplants vs. Indigenous Law, Peter Grajzl and Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl (April 1, 2008)
The Effect of APR Violations on the Seniority and Timing of Debt Issuance, RONALD SVERDLOVE, S. Abraham ABRAHAM Ravid, and Arturo Bris (April 1, 2008)
The Patent Quality Control Process: Can We Afford An (Rationally) Ignorant Patent Offices?, Jing-Yuan CHIOU (April 1, 2008)
The Evolution of a Legal Rule, Anthony Niblett, Richard A. Posner, and Andrei Shleifer (April 1, 2008)
What Do Bureaucrats Want? Estimating Regulator Preferences at the FCC*, Adam Candeub and Keith S. Brown (April 1, 2008)
The International Law of Economic Migration, Joel P. Trachtman (April 1, 2008)
An Empirical Investigation into Appellate Structure and the Perceived Quality of Appellate Review, Jonathan R. Nash and Rafael I. Pardo (April 1, 2008)
A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain, Eric Kades (April 1, 2008)
Should We Pay Federal Circuit Judges More?, Scott A. Baker (April 1, 2008)
OUTSOURCING AND INSOURCING CRIME: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GLOBALIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, Tomer Broude and Doron Teichman (April 1, 2008)
Reconsidering Patent Licensing In the Aftermath of MedImmune, Liza S. Vertinsky (April 1, 2008)
Securities Regulation in Low-tier Listing Venues: The rise of the Alternative Investment Market, Jose M. Mendoza (April 1, 2008)
Political Rights and the Cost of Debt, Yaxuan Qi, Lukas Roth, and John K. Wald (April 1, 2008)
Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control over Corporate Legal Markets, Gillian K. Hadfield (April 1, 2008)
Enforceability of Labor Law: Evidence from a Labor Court in Mexico, David S. Kaplan and Joyce Sadka (April 1, 2008)
Insurance and Tort: Coordination Systems and Imperfect Liability Rules, Fernando Gomez and Jose Penalva (April 1, 2008)
COMPLEXITY AND THE COGNITIVE LOAD OF R&D ALLIANCE CONTRACTS:, john hagedoorn and Geerte Hesen (April 1, 2008)
Determinants Of Delay In Litigation: Evidence and Theory, Jun Zhou Drs. (April 1, 2008)
Homeownership 2.0, Lee Anne Fennell (April 1, 2008)
Corporate Reorganization and Professional Fees, Stephen J. Lubben (April 1, 2008)