American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings
American Law & Economics Association 15th Annual Meeting
The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association was held May 6-7, 2005 at New York University.
Available Papers from "American Law & Economics Association 15th Annual Meeting"
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Dividends and Politics, (June 22, 2005)
Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions as Residential Segregation, Howard F. Chang (June 14, 2005)
Asymmetries in Exchange Behavior Incorrectly Interpreted as Prospect Theory, Charles R. Plott and Kathryn Zeiler (June 14, 2005)
JURIES, JUDGES, AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES: EMPIRICAL ANALYSES USING THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS 1992, 1996, AND 2001 DATA, Theodore Eisenberg, Michael Heise, Martin T. Wells, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Brian Ostrom, Thomas Munsterman, and Neil LaFountain (May 5, 2005)
Does Wrongful Conviction Lower Deterrence?, Henrik Lando (May 5, 2005)
Beyond Competition for Incorporations, Ehud Kamar (May 5, 2005)
An Economic Approach to the Ethics of Copyright Violation , Eric Bennett Rasmusen (May 5, 2005)
IPO Liability and Entrepreneurial Response, James C. Spindler (May 3, 2005)
Too Much Pay, Too Much Deference: Behavioral Corporate Finance, CEOs, and Corporate Governance, Troy Allan Paredes (May 3, 2005)
Serial Entrepreneurs and Small Business Bankruptcies, Edward R. Morrison and Douglas G. Baird (May 3, 2005)
A Social Networks Theory of Privacy, Lior J. Strahilevitz (May 3, 2005)
Crossing the Punitive-Compensatory Divide, Catherine M. Sharkey (May 3, 2005)
Legal liability and the timing of settlement in medical malpractice, Paul Fenn and Neil Rickman (May 3, 2005)
DETERRENCE AND INFORMATION: THE OPTIMAL USE OF MONETARY AND NONMONETARY SANCTIONS REVISITED, Massimo D'Antoni and Roberto Galbiati (May 3, 2005)
A General Model of Personal Bankruptcy: Insurance, Work Effort, and Opportunism, Michelle J. White (May 3, 2005)
Property Rights and Resource Management among Nonhuman Species, Peter C. Mayer (May 3, 2005)
Fairness in an Embedded Ultimatum Game, Paul Pecorino and Mark V. Van Boening (May 3, 2005)
Why Divorce Laws Matter: Incentives for Non-Contractual Marital Investments under Unilateral and Consent Divorce, Abraham L. Wickelgren (May 3, 2005)
How Community Institutions Create Economic Advantage: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York, Barak D. Richman (May 3, 2005)
How Community Institutions Create Economic Advantage: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York, Barak D. Richman (May 3, 2005)
Power Plays and Capacity Constraints: The Selection of Defendants in WTO Disputes, Andrew T. Guzman and Beth Simmons (May 3, 2005)
The Economics of Slotting Arrangements, Benjamin Klein and Joshua D. Wright (May 3, 2005)
Decisionmaking & the Limits of Disclosure: The Problem of Predatory Lending (Working Paper), Lauren E. Willis (May 3, 2005)
Optimal Trust , Claire Hill (May 3, 2005)
The Law and Law Economics of COntract Interpretation, Richard A. Posner (May 3, 2005)
The Patent Litigation Explosion, Michael J. Meurer and James Bessen (May 3, 2005)
Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and the Presumption of Market Power: Making Sense of Alleged Nonsense, Ariel Katz (April 28, 2005)
The Essential Role of Securities Regulation, Zohar Goshen and Gideon Parchomovsky (April 28, 2005)
Judicial Precedents in Civil Law Systems: A Dynamic Analysis, Vincy Fon and Francesco Parisi (April 28, 2005)
SHARING LIABILITY BETWEEN BANKS AND FIRMS: THE CASE OF INDUSTRIAL SAFETY RISK, Marcel Boyer and Donatella Porrini (April 28, 2005)
Strategic Judging Under the United States Sentencing Guidelines: Instrument Choice Theory and Evidence, Max M. Schanzenbach and Emerson Tiller (April 28, 2005)
Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds: An Empirical Analysis of Perpetuities and Taxes, Robert H. Sitkoff and Max M. Schanzenbach (April 28, 2005)
There Are No Penalty Default Rules in Contract Law, Eric Posner (April 28, 2005)
I'd Rather Be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of California's Three Strikes Law, Radha Iyengar (April 28, 2005)
The Just World Bias and Hate Crime Statutes, Dhammika Dharmapala, Nuno Garoupa, and Richard H. McAdams (April 28, 2005)
Don't Leave Home Without It: Limited Liability and American Express, Mark Ira Weinstein (April 28, 2005)
Self-Help and the Nature of Property, Henry E. Smith (April 28, 2005)
Explaining American Litigiousness: a Product of Politics, Not Just Law, Tonja Jacobi (April 28, 2005)
The Economics of Shame: Why Less Shame is Better than More , Alon Harel and Alon Klement (April 28, 2005)
Nonprofit Housing and Neighborhood Spillovers, Ingrid Gould Ellen and Ioan Voicu (April 28, 2005)
Is the Family Friendly Workplace Possible? -- Results and Analysis, part 2, Amy Wax (April 28, 2005)
Do Analyst Conflicts Matter? Evidence from Stock Recommendations, Anup Agrawal and Mark A. Chen (April 28, 2005)
Optimal Income Transfers, Louis Kaplow (April 28, 2005)
Do the Merits Matter Less After the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act?, Stephen Choi (April 28, 2005)
Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship, John Armour and Douglas J. Cumming (April 28, 2005)
Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value, Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala (April 28, 2005)
PLEA BARGAINS ONLY FOR THE GUILTY, Oren Bar-Gill and Oren Gazal (April 28, 2005)
How Much Irrationality Does the Market Permit?, Alan Schwartz (April 28, 2005)
A Positive Theory of the War Powers Constitution, Jide O. Nzelibe (April 28, 2005)
The Customary International Law Game, George Norman and Joel P. Trachtman (April 28, 2005)
The Transfer of Property Rights by Theft - An Economic Analysis, Caspar Rose (April 28, 2005)
Empirically Assessing Hadley v. Baxendale, George Geis (April 28, 2005)
Guilt Shall Not Escape Nor Innocence Suffer: A Theory of Optimal Prosecutor Behavior when Defendant Guilt is Uncertain, David Bjerk (April 28, 2005)
Total Liability for Excessive Harm, Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat (April 28, 2005)
Is the International Court of Justice Biased?, Eric Posner and Miguel de Figueiredo (April 28, 2005)
"Agreeing Now to Agree Later: Contracts that Rule Out but do not Rule In", Oliver Hart (April 28, 2005)
On the Regulation of Networks as Complex Systems, Daniel F. Spulber and Christopher S. Yoo (April 28, 2005)
Decisionmaking & the Limits of Disclosure: The Problem of Predatory Lending (Working Paper), Lauren E. Willis (April 27, 2005)
Bankruptcy Legislation and Banking Behavior: Evidence From Transition Economies, RAINER F. HASELMANN, Katharina Pistor, and Vikrant Vig (April 27, 2005)
On Understanding the Increase in US Patent Litigation, JOSEPH P. COOK (April 27, 2005)
Selection of judges and policy enforcement: Theory and evidence from Russian commercial courts, Julia Shvets (April 25, 2005)