American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings
American Law & Economics Association 16th Annual Meeting
The Association will hold our 2006 Annual Meeting on May 5-6, 2006 at University of California, Berkeley. Below are some of the papers to be presented at the meeting. We will continue to post more conference papers on this site as they become available, so please be sure to visit us again from time-to-time to view new papers.
In addition to the papers to be presented at the meeting, we are also offering attendees of the conference a chance to display up to three papers of their own, which will be posted in our on-line Authors' Bazaar. Posting a paper in our Authors' Bazaar is a terrific way to showcase your work, as the Bazaar is open for viewing, not just by attendees of the meeting, but by our entire ALEA membership as well. If you are interested in submitting a paper for the Authors' Bazaar, please click on the link above and follow the prompts. Again, this Bazaar is open to meeting attendees only. Just a reminder to please register for the meeting if you have not already done so. You may register by visiting the Association's web site (www.amlecon.org).
Available Papers from "American Law & Economics Association 16th Annual Meeting"
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Inefficient Customs in International Law, Eugene Kontorovich (May 5, 2006)
Taking Compensation Private, Abraham Bell and Gideon Parchomovsky (May 5, 2006)
Conflict or Credibility: Analyst Conflicts of Interest and the Market for Underwriting Business, James C. Spindler (May 3, 2006)
Banker Fees and Acquisition Premia for Targets in Cash Tender Offers: Challenges to the Popular Wisdom on Banker Conflicts, Charles W. Calomiris and Donna Marie Hitscherich (May 3, 2006)
The Law and Economics of Preliminary Agreements, Alan Schwartz (May 3, 2006)
Optimal negligence standards when one party is ignorant of the standards, Henrik Lando (May 3, 2006)
Incomplete Contracts and Opportunism in Franchising Arrangements, Jonathan Klick, Bruce H. Kobayashi, and Larry E. Ribstein (May 3, 2006)
Patents, Venture Capital, and Software Start-ups, Ronald Mann and Tom Sager (May 3, 2006)
Mandatory vs. Contractual Disclosure in Securities Markets: Evidence from the 1930s, Paul G. Mahoney (May 2, 2006)
Abortion Access and Risky Sex Among Teens, Jonathan Klick and THOMAS STRATMANN (May 2, 2006)
Sentencing Guidelines, TIS Legislation, and Bargaining Power, Dhammika Dharmapala, Nuno Garoupa , and Joanna M. Shepherd (May 2, 2006)
Cards, Consumer Credit & Bankruptcy, Ronald Mann (May 2, 2006)
On the optimality of negligence and causation standards in cases of uncertain causation, Gerd Muehlheusser (May 2, 2006)
Chaos, Direct Democracy, and the Single Subject Rule, Robert D. Cooter and Michael D. Gilbert (May 2, 2006)
Backdoor Federalization, Catherine M. Sharkey and Sam Issacharoff (May 2, 2006)
The Quality of Law in Civil Code and Common Law Regimes: Judicial Incentives, Legal Human Capital and the Evolution of Law, Gillian K. Hadfield (May 2, 2006)
The Impact of Attorney Compensation on the Timing of Settlements, Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick (May 2, 2006)
Strategic Judgment Proofing, Kathryn E. Spier (May 2, 2006)
The Problem of Patent Underdevelopment, Michael Abramowicz (May 2, 2006)
USES AND ABUSES OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN THE DEATH PENALTY DEBATE, John Donohue and Justin J. Wolfers (May 2, 2006)
A Signaling Theory of Termination Fees in Mergers, Shmuel Leshem (May 2, 2006)
Modularity in Contracts: Boilerplate and Information Flow, Henry E. Smith (May 2, 2006)
Not Getting Their Due Process: An Evaluation of Federal Indigent Defense Counsel, Radha Iyengar (May 2, 2006)
Bundling and Consumer Misperception, Oren Bar-Gill (May 2, 2006)
Theory and Evidence on the Bankruptcy Initiation Problem, Barry E. Adler, Vedran Capkun, and Lawrence A. Weiss (May 2, 2006)
Sentencing Guidelines and TIS Legislation, Judges and Parole Boards: Has Bargaining Power Changed in Sentencing?, Dhammika Dharmapala, Nuno M. Garoupa , and Joanna Shepherd (May 2, 2006)
Irreparable Benefits - ALEA Version, Doug Lichtman (April 30, 2006)
Strategic Precautions, Ehud Guttel (April 30, 2006)
“Should Tax Informants Be Paid? The Law and Economics of a Government Monopsony” , Kneave Riggall (April 29, 2006)
Less Rationality, More Efficiency: a Laboratory Experiment on "Lemons" Markets, Roland Kirstein and Annette Kirstein (April 26, 2006)
Spillovers, Brett M. Frischmann and Mark A. Lemley (April 26, 2006)
Slotting Contracts and Consumer Welfare, Joshua D. Wright (April 26, 2006)
Bargaining with Asymmetric Dispute Costs, Paul Pecorino and Mark V. Van Boening (April 22, 2006)
Empirically Bankrupt, Bob Rasmussen (April 22, 2006)
Analyst Conflicts and Research Quality, Anup Agrawal and Mark A. Chen (April 22, 2006)
The Effect of Segregation on Crime Rates, David J. Bjerk (April 22, 2006)
A Unilateral Accident Model under Ambiguity, Joshua C. Teitelbaum (April 22, 2006)
The Procompetitive Interest in Intellectual Property Law, Thomas F. Cotter (April 22, 2006)
Competition, Innovation and Racing for Priority at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Linda R. Cohen and Jun Ishii (April 22, 2006)
Firm Compliance with Social Insurance Obligations where there is a Weak Surveillance and Enforcement Mechanism: Empirical Evidence from Shanghai, Pushkar Maitra, Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth, and Cherrie Zhu (April 22, 2006)
Did Reform of Prudent Trust Investment Laws Change Trust Portfolio Allocation?, Max M. Schanzenbach and Robert H. Sitkoff (April 22, 2006)
The Hidden Roles of Boilerplate and Standard Form Contracts: Strategic Imposition of Transaction Costs, Segmentation of Consumers and Anticompetitive Effects, David Gilo and Ariel Porat (April 22, 2006)
Ambiguity Aversion and the Criminal Process, Alex Stein (April 22, 2006)
Voluntary vs. Mandatory Corporate Governance, Anita I. Anand, Frank Milne, and Lynnette Purda (April 22, 2006)
Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts, W. Bentley MacLeod (April 22, 2006)
Jurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of the Common Law, Daniel M. Klerman (April 22, 2006)
The Market Penalty for Mutual Fund Scandals, Stephen Choi and Marcel Kahan (April 5, 2006)
courts' decision making without commitment: a comparative analysis, Alessandro Riboni (April 5, 2006)
For-Profit Charities, Anup Malani and Eric Posner (April 5, 2006)
A Transactional View of Property Rights, Robert P. Merges (April 5, 2006)
Evaluating Affirmative Action as a Redistributive Tool , Tomer Blumkin, Yoram Margalioth, and Efraim Sadka (April 5, 2006)
How Does Law Affect Finance? An Examination of Financial Tunneling in an Emerging Market, Vladimir A. Atanasov, Bernard Black, Conrad Ciccotello, and Stanley Gyoshev (April 5, 2006)
Tort Liability and Probability Weighting Function according to Prospect Theory, Jochen Bigus (April 5, 2006)
Dividends and Tax Policy in the Long-Run, Steven A. Bank (April 5, 2006)
Centralization versus Decentralization in the Regulation and Management of Large Scale Risks, Jason S. Johnston (April 5, 2006)
Litigation and Settlement: New Evidence from Labor Courts in Mexico, David Kaplan, Joyce Sadka, and Jorge Luis Silva-Mendez (April 5, 2006)
Markets and Monitors: The Impact of Competition and Experience on Attorneys’ Fees in Securities Class Actions, Michael A. Perino (April 5, 2006)
Academic Freedom, Private-Sector Focus, and the Process of Innovation, Philippe Aghion (April 5, 2006)
Optimal Incomplete Contracts between boundedly rational agents, PATRICK BOLTON (April 5, 2006)
Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis, Ehud Kamar, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Eric Talley (April 5, 2006)
Does Shareholder Voting on Acquisitions Matter?, Ehud Kamar (April 5, 2006)