American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings
American Law & Economics Association 17th Annual Meeting
The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the American Law & Economics Association will be on Saturday and Sunday, May 5-6, 2007 at Harvard Law School.
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Optimal Sentences to Induce Prisoners to Behave Well, A. Mitchell Polinsky (May 7, 2007)
Lemon Signaling in Cross-Listings, Michal Barzuza (May 4, 2007)
Market Share Exclusion, Mikko Packalen (May 4, 2007)
The Costs and Benefits of Secured Creditor Control in Bankruptcy: Evidence from the UK, John Armour, Wen-hsin Hsu, and Adrian Walters (May 4, 2007)
Bias in Judicial Citations: A Window into the Behavior of Judges?, Stephen Choi and Mitu Gulati (May 3, 2007)
The Economics of International Refugee Law, Ryan Bubb, Michael R. Kremer, and David I. I. Levine (May 3, 2007)
The Subtle Virtues of Prohibiting Excessive Pricing by Dominant Firms, David Gilo (May 3, 2007)
Paying to Save: Tax Withholding and Asset Allocation Among Low- and Moderate-Income Tax Filers, Jane Dokko and Michael S. Barr (May 3, 2007)
Tort Liability Litigation Costs, Joni Hersch and W. Kip Viscusi (May 3, 2007)
Representation Without Taxation: The Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions, Christopher R. Berry and Jacob E. Gersen (May 3, 2007)
Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges?, Jeffrey Rachlinski (May 3, 2007)
The Demographics of Tort Reform:Winners and Losers, Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd (May 3, 2007)
The Uneasy Case for Product Liability, Steven Shavell and A. Mitchell Polinsky (May 3, 2007)
Why Do Firms Adopt Insider Trading Policies? Evidence from Canadian Firms, Anita I. Anand and Laura N. Beny (May 3, 2007)
Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from U.S. Airlines, Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman (May 3, 2007)
Do Juries Add Value?: Evidence from an Empirical Study of Jury Trial Waiver Clauses in Large Corporate Contracts , Theodore Eisenberg and Geoffrey Miller (May 3, 2007)
Congressional Agency Control: The Impact of Statutory Partisan Requirements on Regulation, Daniel E. Ho (May 3, 2007)
Market versus Non-Market Assignment of Initial Ownership, Yeon-Koo Che (May 2, 2007)
Uncertainty Revisited: Legal Prediction and Legal Postdiction, Ehud Guttel and Alon Harel (May 2, 2007)
Can Corporate Governance Reforms Increase Firms' Market Values?: Evidence From India, Vikramaditya Khanna and Bernard Black (May 2, 2007)
Vertical Restraints in Franchised Chains: The Case of McDonald's Dollar Menu, itai Ater and Oren Rigbi (May 2, 2007)
Rights of First Refusal, Marcel Kahan, Shmuel Leshem, and Rangarajan K. Sundaram's (May 2, 2007)
Decision Making Under a Norm of Consensus: A Structural Analysis of Three-Judge Panels, Joshua B. Fischman (May 2, 2007)
Privatization and the Effectiveness of Monitoring Agencies, Alexander Volokh (May 2, 2007)
Plain Meaning vs. Broad Interpretation: How the Risk of Opportunism Defeats a Unitary Default Rule for Interpretation, Juliet P. Kostritsky (May 2, 2007)
Organization, Control and the Single Entity Defense in Antitrust: Part I, Dean V. Williamson (April 30, 2007)
The Role of Revenue Sharing in Movie Exhibition Contracts, ricard gil and Francine Lafontaine (April 30, 2007)
Sarbanes-Oxley and the Cross-Listing Premium, Kate Litvak (April 30, 2007)
Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting, Kenneth M. Ayotte and PATRICK BOLTON (April 30, 2007)
The Industrial Organization of the Japanese Bar: Levels and Determinants of Attorney Income,, Minoru Nakazato, J.Mark Ramseyer, and Eric Bennett Rasmusen (April 30, 2007)
Which Countries Become Tax Havens?, Dhammika Dharmapala and James R. Hines Jr. (April 30, 2007)
Personal Bankruptcy Law: Abuse Prevention versus Debtor Protection, Michelle J. White (April 30, 2007)
Statistical Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System: The Case for Fines Instead of Jail, Philip A. Curry and Tilman Klumpp (April 30, 2007)
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD? ESTIMATES OF THE IMPACT OF CRIME RISK ON PROPERTY VALUES FROM MEGAN’S LAWS, Leigh Linden and Jonah Rockoff (April 30, 2007)
The Value of Board Independence in an Emerging Market: IV, DiD, and Time Series Evidence from Korea, Bernard S. Black and Woochan Kim (April 30, 2007)
Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation, Martijn Cremers and Roberta Romano (April 28, 2007)
Towards a Theory of Incomplete Property Rights, Antonio Nicita, Matteo Rizzolli, and Alessandra Maria Rossi (April 28, 2007)
The Disputed Quality of Software Patents, Ronald J. Mann (April 26, 2007)
Rebuilding Illinois Bricks: A Functionalist Approach to the Indirect Purchaser Rule, Barak D. Richman and Christopher R. Murray (April 26, 2007)
Estimating the Degree of Expert's Agency Problem: The Case of Medical Malpractice Lawyers, Yasutora Watanabe (April 26, 2007)
Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms, Jesse M. Fried and Brian Broughman (April 26, 2007)
Offsetting Risks, Ariel Porat (April 26, 2007)
Credit Derivatives & The Future of Chapter 11, Stephen J. Lubben (April 26, 2007)
Information and the Market for Union Representation, Matthew T. Bodie (April 26, 2007)
The Economics of a Centralized Judiciary: Uniformity, Forum Shopping and the Federal Circuit, SCOTT E. ATKINSON, Alan C. Marco, and John L. Turner (April 26, 2007)
Unpacking Backdating: Economic Analysis and Observations on the Stock Option Scandal, David I. Walker (April 26, 2007)
Less Can Be More: Conflicting Ballot Proposals and the Highest Vote Rule, Michael D. Gilbert and Josh Levine (April 26, 2007)
Products Liability, Signaling and Disclosure, Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum (April 26, 2007)
Transnational Tort Litigation as a Trade and Investment Issue, Alan O. Sykes (April 26, 2007)
The Vertical Restraints’ Paradox: Justifying the Different Legal Treatment of Price and Non-price Vertical Restraints, Ittai Paldor (April 26, 2007)
Judicial Deference and the Credibility of Agency Commitments, Jonathan Masur (April 26, 2007)
The Lifespan of Written Constitutions, Tom Ginsburg, Zach Elkins, and James Melton (April 26, 2007)
Bankruptcy Resolution: Priority of Claims with the Secured Creditor in Control, lawrence a. weiss and Vedran Capkun (April 26, 2007)
Rationalizing Drennan: On Irrevocable Offers, Bid Shopping and Binding Range, Ofer Grosskopf and Barak Medina (April 26, 2007)
Taxation and Social Security, Louis Kaplow (April 26, 2007)
Erroneous accounting and the efficiency of industry investment, Art Durnev (April 26, 2007)
Organization, Control and the Single Entity Defense in Antitrust: Part I, Dean V. Williamson (April 26, 2007)
Acknowledging Guilt: Forcing Self-Identification in Post-Conviction DNA Testing, Tonja Jacobi and Gwendolyn Carroll (April 26, 2007)
The Effect of Joint and Several Liability under Superfund on Brownfields, Howard F. Chang and Hilary Sigman (April 26, 2007)
Where are all the Transnational Bankruptcies?, Bob Rasmussen (April 19, 2007)
Legal Origins and the Evolution of Institutions: Evidence from American State Courts, Daniel Berkowitz and Karen B. Clay (April 19, 2007)
Illuminating Secrecy: A New Economic Analysis of Confidential Settlements, Scott A. Moss (April 19, 2007)
Why do Managers Dismantle Staggered Boards?, Mira Ganor (April 19, 2007)
Completing contracts in the shadow of costly verification, George Triantis and Albert Choi (April 19, 2007)
The Enduring Problem of WTO Export Subsidies Rules, Andrew J. Green, Michael Trebilcock, and Vivien Milat (April 19, 2007)
PAY DISTRIBUTION IN THE TOP EXECUTIVE TEAM, Urs C. Peyer, K. J. Martijn Cremers, and Lucian Arye Bebchuk (April 19, 2007)
Should Legal Empiricists Go Bayesian?, JEFF STRNAD (April 19, 2007)
Discouraging Patent Holdouts through Reciprocal Commitments, Doug Lichtman and Scott A. Baker (April 19, 2007)