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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Regulation and Litigation Conference
Daniel Kessler and Andrei Shleifer, Organizers
The Boulders Resort
Country Club
Carefree,
1:00 pm Opening Talk: Jeremy Stein, Harvard University and NBER
1:30 pm Break
1:45 pm Regulation vs. Litigation: Overview
Richard Posner, United States Court of Appeals
Regulation vs. Litigation:
An Analytical Framework
(handout only - not to be presented)
Andrei
Shleifer,
Frederick
Schauer,
Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard University and NBER
Discussant: Daniel Kessler,
Stanford University and NBER
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Part I: Public Health
Joni Hersch, Vanderbilt University
Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Tobacco
Regulation through Litigation: The Master Settlement Agreement
Discussant: Frank Sloan, Duke University and NBER
Philip Cook, Duke University and NBER
Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER
Adam
Samaha,
Gun Control after Heller: Litigating against Regulation
Discussant: John Donohue, Yale University and NBER
5:00 pm Adjourn and Shuttle to El Pedregal
6:00 pm Reception and Dinner Tohono
Foyer (El Pedregal)
8:00 am Continental
Breakfast
8:15 am Part II: Financial Markets
John Coates,
M&A Break Fees: US
Litigation vs. UK Regulation
Discussant: Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
9:00 am Break
9:15 am Part III: Medical Care
Dana Goldman, RAND and NBER
Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago and NBER
Eric Sun,
The
Effects of Product Liability Exemption in the Presence of the FDA
Discussant: Iain Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Stephen
Parente,
Exploring Ex Ante Regulatory Mechanisms for
Detecting Prescription Drug Misuse
Tom
Chang,
Mireille Jacobson, RAND and NBER
Using Cap-and-Trade to Regulate Hospitals Provision of Essential Services
Discussant: Anup Malani, University of Chicago and NBER
12:15 pm Lunch - Rustys (Country Club)
1:15 pm Part IV: Workplace Safety
Alison Morantz, Stanford University
Opting Out of Workers Compensation in
Texas: A Survey of Large, Multi-State
Nonsubscribers
Adam Gailey and Seth
Seabury,
The Impact of Employment Protection on Workers
Disabled by Workplace Injuries
Discussant: Richard Butler,
2:45 pm Adjourn
The format for each paper will be a 20-minute
presentation by the author, followed by one 15-minute discussion, and then
another 10 minutes of general audience discussion.