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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Regulation and Litigation Conference

 

September 11-12, 2009

 

Daniel Kessler and Andrei Shleifer, Organizers

 

The Boulders Resort

Country Club

34631 N. Tom Darlington Drive

 Carefree, Arizona

 

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, September 10:

 

6:00 pm            Reception and Dinner – Latilla (Main Dining Room)

 

 

Friday, September 11:

 

12:00 pm          Lunch – Rusty’s (Country Club)

 

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, Harvard University and NBER

                        Efficient Regulation

 

                        Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia

Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard University and NBER

                        The Trouble with Cases

 

                        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, University of Chicago

                        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)

                       

 

Saturday, September 12:

 

8:00 am            Continental Breakfast

 

8:15 am            Part II:  Financial Markets

                       

                        John Coates, Harvard University

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, RAND

                        The Effects of Product Liability Exemption in the Presence of the FDA

 

                        Discussant:  Iain Cockburn, Boston University and NBER

 

                        Stephen Parente, University of Minnesota

Exploring Ex Ante Regulatory Mechanisms for Detecting Prescription Drug Misuse

 

                        Tom Chang, University of Southern California

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 - Rusty’s (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, RAND

The Impact of Employment Protection on Workers Disabled by Workplace Injuries

 

                        Discussant:  Richard Butler, Brigham Young University

 

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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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