NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Law and Economics Program Meeting
Christine Jolls, Organizer
February 6, 2009
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, February 5:
7:00 pm	Group Dinner Restaurant Dante at the Royal Sonesta Hotel 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA
FRIDAY, February 6:
7:45 am	Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
Voting Rules:
8:30 am	RICHARD HOLDEN, MIT Sloan School of Management and NBER (joint with Rosalind Dixon, University of Chicago Law School) Amending the Constitution: Article V and the Effect of Voting Rule Inflation
	Discussant: JOHN DE FIGUEIREDO, UCLA Anderson School of Management and NBER
Law, Finance, and Innovation:
9:20 am	VIKRANT VIG, London Business School
	Access to Collateral and Corporate Debt Structure:  Evidence from a Natural Experiment
	Discussant: MICHELLE WHITE, UC San Diego and NBER
10:10 am	Break
10:25 am	ALBERTO GALASSO, University of Toronto
	MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics
	Patent Thickets and the Market for Innovation: Evidence from Settlement of Patent Disputes
	Discussant: CHRISTOPHER SNYDER, Dartmouth College
11:15 am	AJAY SUBRAMANIAN, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
	(joint with Haresh Sapra, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Goizueta Business School, Emory University)
	Corporate Governance and Innovation: Theory and Evidence
	Discussant: ANDREW METRICK, Yale School of Management and NBER
12:05 pm	Lunch
Law and Consumer Protection:
12:45 pm	EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER
	(joint with Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston)
	Regulating Misinformation
	Discussant: ALAN SCHWARTZ, Yale Law School
1:35 pm	ABRAHAM WICKELGREN, Northwestern Law School
	(joint with Marco Ottaviani, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
	Policy Timing under Uncertainty
	Discussant: ALVIN KLEVORICK, Yale Law School
2:25 pm	Break
Law and Morals:
2:40 pm	ERNESTO DAL BO, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and NBER
	(joint with Marko Tervio, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and NBER)
	Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing
	Discussant: LOUIS KAPLOW, Harvard Law School and NBER
3:30 pm	DANIEL CHEN, Harvard Law School (joint with Jasmin Sethi)
	The Effects of Sexual Harassment Law on Gender Inequality
	Discussant: BENTLEY MACLEOD, Columbia University and NBER
4:20 pm	Adjourn