NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Regulation and Litigation Preconference

Daniel Philip Kessler, Organizer

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

September 19, 2008

Program

Thursday, September 18
6:30 p.m.	Dinner, Restaurant Dante, Royal Sonesta Hotel
Friday, September 19
8:15 a.m.	Shuttle van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER
8:30 a.m.	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 a.m.	Part I: Public Health
	W. KIP VISCUSI, Vanderbilt University and NBER
	JONI HERSCH, Vanderbilt University
	The Performance of the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
	JENS LUDWIG, University of Chicago and NBER
	PHILIP COOK, Duke University and NBER
	ADAM SAMAHA, University of Chicago
	Gun Control after Heller: Litigating against Regulation
10:15 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	Part II: Workplace Safety
	ALISON MORANTZ, Stanford University
	Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation?
	SETH SEABURY, RAND Corporation
	The Consequences of Employment Protection for Workers Disabled by Workplace Injury
12:00 noon	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	Part III: Medical Care
1:00 p.m.	STEPHEN PARENTE, University of Minnesota
	Using Health Insurance Claims Data to Target Fraud and Abuse Enforcement
	DANA GOLDMAN, RAND Corporation, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago and NBER
	ERIC SUN, University of Chicago
	Who Needs the FDA? An Analysis of the Roles of Regulation and Product Liability in Ensuring Drug Safety
	MIREILLE JACOBSON, UC, Irvine and NBER
	TOM CHANG, MIT
	Using Cap-and-Trade to Regulate Hospitals' Provision of Essential Services
3:30 p.m.	Break
3:45 p.m.	Concluding Discussion
4:15 p.m.	Adjourn
	Please plan on 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion of each paper.