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)

Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information: The Option to Enforce, ronen avraham and Zhiyong Liu (May 10, 2004)

Leximetrics: Why the Same Laws are Longer in Some Countries than Others, Tom Ginsburg and Robert D. Cooter (May 4, 2004)

Information and Externalities in Sequential Litigation, Kathryn E. Spier and Xinyu Hua (May 4, 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)

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)

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)

Is the Bankruptcy Flag Binding? Access to Credit Markets for Post-Bankruptcy Households, Jonathan Fisher, Larry Filer, and Angela Lyons (April 29, 2004)

Secrecy and Safety, Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum (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)

Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime, Jonathan Klick and Alexander Tabarrok (April 29, 2004)

Post-Siliconix Freeze-Outs: Theory, Evidence & Policy, Guhan Subramanian (April 28, 2004)

Matching Bankruptcy Laws to Legal Environments, Kenneth M. Ayotte and Hayong Yun (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)

Negative Liability, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (April 28, 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)

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)

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)