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)

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)

IPO Liability and Entrepreneurial Response, James C. Spindler (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)

Fairness in an Embedded Ultimatum Game, Paul Pecorino and Mark V. Van Boening (May 3, 2005)

The Economics of Slotting Arrangements, Benjamin Klein and Joshua D. Wright (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)

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)

Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds: An Empirical Analysis of Perpetuities and Taxes, Robert H. Sitkoff and Max M. Schanzenbach (April 28, 2005)

The Just World Bias and Hate Crime Statutes, Dhammika Dharmapala, Nuno Garoupa, and Richard H. McAdams (April 28, 2005)

Self-Help and the Nature of Property, Henry E. Smith (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)

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)

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)

Empirically Assessing Hadley v. Baxendale, George Geis (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)

On the Regulation of Networks as Complex Systems, Daniel F. Spulber and Christopher S. Yoo (April 28, 2005)

Bankruptcy Legislation and Banking Behavior: Evidence From Transition Economies, RAINER F. HASELMANN, Katharina Pistor, and Vikrant Vig (April 27, 2005)