American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings
American Law & Economics Association 14th Annual Meeting
The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association was held on Friday and Saturday, May 7-8, 2004 at Northwestern University School of Law. Many of the papers presented at the Meeting are available below. For membership information, as well as a full conference program, please visit our website at www.amlecon.org.
Available Papers from "American Law & Economics Association 14th Annual Meeting"
Shakedown at Gucci Gulch: A Tale of Death, Money & Taxes, Edward J. McCaffery, Linda Cohen, and Fred McChesney (May 11, 2004)
Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary Between Antitrust Law and Patent Law, Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer (May 11, 2004)
Corporate Governance and Taxation, Mihir A. Desai, Alexander Dyck, and Luigi Zingales (May 11, 2004)
Regulation and Competition in Media Markets:the Evolution of Pay-TV in Uk, Australia and Italy, antonio nicita, Roberto Galbiati, and Giorgio Nizi (May 11, 2004)
Addressing Deterrence and Regulatory Failure in Emerging Stock Markets, Katharina Pistor (May 11, 2004)
Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information: The Option to Enforce, ronen avraham and Zhiyong Liu (May 10, 2004)
Venture Capital Limited Partnership Agreements: Understanding Compensation Arrangements, Kate Litvak (May 4, 2004)
Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects, Christine Jolls (May 4, 2004)
Leximetrics: Why the Same Laws are Longer in Some Countries than Others, Tom Ginsburg and Robert D. Cooter (May 4, 2004)
The Life-profile Theory of Marriage, Cohabitation, and Same-sex Marriage, Antony W. Dnes (May 4, 2004)
Testing the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance: Expressive Influence in an Experimental Hawk/Dove Game, Richard H. McAdams and Janice Nadler (May 4, 2004)
Initial Conditions, Institutional Dynamics and Economic Performance: Evidence from the American States, Daniel Berkowitz and Karen Clay (May 4, 2004)
The Timing, Intensity, and Composition of Interest Group Lobbying: An Analysis of Structural Policy Windows in the States, John M. de Figueiredo (May 4, 2004)
Information and Externalities in Sequential Litigation, Kathryn E. Spier and Xinyu Hua (May 4, 2004)
Probability Matching and the Law: A New Behavioral Challenge to Law and Economics, Ehud Guttel and Alon Harel (May 3, 2004)
Antitrust and Pricing in the Motion Picture Industry, Barak Y. Orbach (May 3, 2004)
Regulation of Professions in the US and Europe: A Comparative Analysis, Nuno Garoupa (May 3, 2004)
Property and Property Rules, Henry E. Smith (May 3, 2004)
The Myth of the Software Patent Thicket, Ronald J. Mann (May 3, 2004)
Heuristics and Biases Among Experts, Jeffrey Rachlinski and Chris Guthrie (May 3, 2004)
Remedies for Price Overcharges: The Deadweight Loss of Coupons and Discounts, A. Mitchell Polinsky and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (May 3, 2004)
The Inefficiency of Contractually-Based Liability with Rational Consumers, Abraham L. Wickelgren (May 3, 2004)
What You Don't See Can't Hurt You: An Economic Analysis of, Philip A. Curry and Steeve Mongrain (May 3, 2004)
On Public versus Private Provision of Corporate Law, Gillian Hadfield and Eric L. Talley (May 3, 2004)
On Discretion in the Application of Rules, Steven Shavell (May 3, 2004)
Innovation in Boilerplate Contracts: An Empirical Examination of Sovereign Bonds, Stephen J. Choi and Mitu Gulati (May 3, 2004)
Patented drugs, generic alternatives, and intellectual property regimes in developing countries, Linda R. Cohen (May 3, 2004)
Framing Effects and Regulatory Choice: The Case of Environmental Regulation, Jonathan R. Nash (May 3, 2004)
The Law and Economics of Tipping: The Laborer's Perspective, Samuel Estreicher and Jonathan R. Nash (May 3, 2004)
The Antitrust Law and Economics of Category Management, Benjamin Klein and Joshua D. Wright (May 3, 2004)
The effect of joint and several liability on the bankruptcy rate of defendants: evidence from asbestos litigation, Anup Malani and Charles Mullin (May 3, 2004)
Choosing the Next Supreme Court Justice: An Empirical Ranking of Judicial Performance , G. Mitu Gulati and Stephen Choi (May 3, 2004)
Medical Malpractice and Contract Disclosure: An Equilibrium Model of the Effects of Legal Rules on Behavior in Health Care Markets, Kathryn Zeiler (May 3, 2004)
Is the Bankruptcy Flag Binding? Access to Credit Markets for Post-Bankruptcy Households, Jonathan Fisher, Larry Filer, and Angela Lyons (April 29, 2004)
Economic Analysis in a Unified Conception of Tort Law, Mark Geistfeld (April 29, 2004)
Secrecy and Safety, Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum (April 29, 2004)
MERGERS IN DURABLE-GOODS INDUSTRIES: A RE-EXAMINATION OF MARKET POWER AND WELFARE EFFECTS, Ari D. Gerstle and Michael Waldman (April 29, 2004)
A Normative Theory of Business Bankruptcy, Alan Schwartz (April 29, 2004)
Entry, Access and Facilities-Based Competition, Randal Picker (April 29, 2004)
Staging of Venture Financing, Investor Opportunism, and Patent Law, Jochen Bigus (April 29, 2004)
The Potential Demise of another Natural Monopoly: New Technologies and the Future of Collective Administration of Copyrights, Ariel Katz (April 29, 2004)
Agreeing to Disagree: Filling Gaps in Deliberately Incomplete Contracts, Omri Ben-Sharar (April 29, 2004)
Achieving Consensus for Wealth Redistribution Through Deferred-Implementation Agreements, Ariel Porat and Omri Yadlin (April 29, 2004)
Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime, Jonathan Klick and Alexander Tabarrok (April 29, 2004)
The Myth Of Specific Performance in Civil Law Countries, henrik lando (April 28, 2004)
Post-Siliconix Freeze-Outs: Theory, Evidence & Policy, Guhan Subramanian (April 28, 2004)
The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Evidence from a "Judicial Experiment", Joanna M. Shepherd (April 28, 2004)
Matching Bankruptcy Laws to Legal Environments, Kenneth M. Ayotte and Hayong Yun (April 28, 2004)
Mandated Disclosure, Stock Returns, and the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments, Paul Oyer (April 28, 2004)
Stability and Change in International Customary Law, Vincy Fon and Francesco Parisi (April 28, 2004)
Legal Ignorance and Information-Forcing Rules, J.H. Verkerke (April 28, 2004)
The Unanticipated Effects of Insider Trading Regulation, Art A. Durnev and Amrita S. Nain (April 28, 2004)
The Evolution of Sherman Act Jurisdiction: A Roadmap for Competitive Federalism, D. Bruce Johnsen and Moin A. Yahya (April 28, 2004)
The Right to Destroy, Lior J. Strahilevitz (April 28, 2004)
Dead Man Walking: An Empirical Reassessment of the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment Using the Bounds Testing Approach to Cointegration, Paresh K. Narayan and Russell Smyth (April 28, 2004)
Negative Liability, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (April 28, 2004)
A TRANSACTION COST ECONOMIZING APPROACH TO REGULATION: UNDERSTANDING GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO THE NIMBY PROBLEM, Barak Richman and Chris Boerner (April 22, 2004)
Outside Director Liability, Bernard S. Black, Brian R. Cheffins, and Michael Klausner (April 22, 2004)
Seduction by Plastic, Oren Bar-Gill (April 22, 2004)
The Design of International Agreements, Andrew T. Guzman (April 22, 2004)
LEARNING ABOUT JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE: INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN THE STATE COURTS, Andrew Hanssen (April 22, 2004)
Regulating the Rating Agencies, Claire Hill (April 21, 2004)
Redundancy in Copyright Law, Michael Abramowicz (April 21, 2004)
Fiscal Federalism and the War on Drugs, Richard T. Boylan (April 21, 2004)
Racial and Gender Disparities in Prison Sentences: The Effect of District-Level Judicial Demographics, Max M. Schanzenbach (April 21, 2004)
Copyright's Communications Policy, Timothy Wu (April 21, 2004)
Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offenders, Winand Emons (April 21, 2004)
Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives, Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala (April 21, 2004)
The National Treatment Principle in International Trade Law, Michael Trebilcock (April 21, 2004)
The Inevitability of Aggregate Settlement: An Institutional Account of American Tort Law, Samuel Issacharoff (April 21, 2004)