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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2012

 

Law and Economics Workshop

 

Christine Jolls, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

University B/C

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 25-26, 2012

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

8:30 am

Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Baozhong Yang, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University

 

(Joint with Ajay Subramanian, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University)

 

Dynamic Prudential Regulation

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jun Yang, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

 

 

9:55 am

Break

 

 

Special Session on Consumer Finance

 

 

10:10 am

Jennifer Brown, Kellogg School, Northwestern University, and NBER

 

(Joint with Dylan Minor, Northwestern University)

 

Misconduct in Credence Good Markets

 

 

 

Discussant:  Bruce Carlin, Anderson School, UCLA, and NBER

 

 

11:05 am

Tal Gross, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

 

(Joint with Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and NBER, and Jialan Wang, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, and NBER)

 

Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates

 

 

 

Discussant:  Santosh Anagol, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Fabrizio Ferri, Columbia Business School

 

(Joint with Yonca Ertimur, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and David Oesch, University of St. Gallen)

 

Shareholder Votes and Proxy Advisors: Evidence from Say on Pay

 

 

 

Discussant:  Camelia Kuhnen, Kellogg School, Northwestern University

 

 

2:10 pm

Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER

 

(Joint with Jason Brown, United States Department of Treasury; Mark Duggan, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and NBER; and William Woolston, Stanford University)

 

How Does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program

 

 

 

Discussant: Amanda Kowalski, Yale University and NBER

 

 

3:05 pm

Break

 

 

Special Session on Discrimination

 

 

3:20 pm

Asaf Zussman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Ethnic Discrimination: Lessons from the Israeli Online Market for Used Cars

 

 

 

Discussant:  Enrichetta Ravina, Columbia Business School

 

 

4:15 pm

Raymond Fisman, Columbia Business School and NBER

 

(Joint with, Daniel Paravisini, London School of Economics and NBER, and Vikrant Vig, London Business School)

 

Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jeremy Tobacman, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and NBER

 

 

5:10 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Dinner

Bambara Restaurant
25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

8:00 am

Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

Alan Schwartz, Yale Law School

 

(Joint with Tracy R. Lewis, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University)

 

Long Term Contracting with Private Information

 

 

 

Discussant:  Niko Matouschek, Kellogg School, Northwestern University

 

 

9:25 am

Viral Acharya, Stern School, New York University, and NBER

 

(Joint with Bart M. Lambrecht, Lancaster University Management School)

 

A Theory of Income Smoothing When Insiders Know More than Outsiders

 

 

 

Discussant:  Dalida Kadryzhanova, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

 

 

10:20 am

Break

 

 

10:40 am

Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum, Vanderbilt University

 

Cumulative Harm and Resilient Liability Rules for Product Markets

 

 

 

Discussant:  Christopher Synder, Dartmouth College and NBER.

 

 

11:35 am

Shamena Anwar, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University

 

(Joint with Patrick Bayer, Duke University, and Randi Hjalmarsson, University of London)

 

A Fair and Impartial Jury? The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes

 

 

 

Discussant:  David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania Law School

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

Joint session with the Economics of Crime Working Group

 

 

1:45 pm

Dara Lee, University of Missouri

 

The Digital Scarlet Letter:  The Effect of Online Criminal Records on Crime and Recidivism

 

 

 

Discussant:  JJ Prescott, University of Michigan Law School

 

 

2:45 pm

Break

3:00 pm

Rosalie Pacula, RAND

 

(Joint with Nancy Nicosia, RAND, and John MacDonald, Pennsylvania State University)

 

Does Mandatory Diversion to Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities in the Incarceration of Drug Offenders?  An Examination of California’s Proposition 36

 

 

Discussant:  Patrick Bayer, Duke University

 

 

4:00 pm

Jennifer Doleac, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia

 

The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime

 

 

 

Discussant:  Christopher Winship, Harvard University

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn