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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Law and Economics Program Meeting
Christine Jolls, Organizer
March 19, 2010
NBER
3rd floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, MARCH 18:
6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
FRIDAY, MARCH 19:
8:00 am	Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	NICOLA PERSICO, NYU and NBER
	(joint with Edoardo di Porto, EQUIPPE, USTL Lille and Nicolas Sahuguet, HEC Montréal)
	Tax Auditing Without Commitment, With an Application to Labor Tax Evasion in Italy
	Discussant: ALEX EDMANS, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
9:25 am	WEI JIANG, Columbia Business School
	(joint with Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University; Yuehua Tang, Georgia State University; and Baozhong Yang, Georgia State University)
	Do Institutional Investors Have an Ace up Their Sleeves? Evidence from Confidential Filings of Portfolio Holdings
	Discussant: FELIX OBERHOLZER-GEE, Harvard Business School and NBER
10:20 am	Break
Special Session -- Issues in Corporate Governance:
10:35 am	VIRAL ACHARYA, Stern School of Business, NYU, and NBER
	(joint with Stewart C. Myers, Sloan School of Management, MIT, and NBER, and Raghuram Rajan, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and NBER)
	The Internal Governance of Firms
	Discussant: JOHN COATES, Harvard Law School
11:30 am	STEFANIA ALBANESI, Columbia University and NBER
	(joint with Claudia Olivetti, Boston University and NBER)
	Gender and Dynamic Agency: Theory and Evidence on the Compensation of Top Executives
	Discussant: KAREN SELODY, UC Berkeley
12:25 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	MAX SCHANZENBACH, Northwestern University School of Law
	(joint with Ronen Avraham, University of Texas School of Law, and Leemore S. Dafny, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and NBER)
	The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums
	Discussant: BENTLEY MACLEOD, Columbia University and NBER
2:10 pm	BRUCE CARLIN, Anderson School of Management, UCLA, and NBER
	(joint with Simon Gervais, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University)
	Legal Protection in Retail Financial Markets
	Discussant: ERIC ZITZEWITZ, Dartmouth College
3:05 pm	Break
3:20 pm	CHRISTOPHER SNYDER, Dartmouth College
	(joint with Wallace P. Mullin, George Washington University)
	Deterring Nuisance Suits through Employee Indemnification
	Discussant: KATHRYN SPIER, Harvard Law School and NBER
4:15 pm	Adjourn
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