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NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Law and
Economics Program Meeting
Christine
Jolls, Organizer
NBER
1050
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
February 7,
2014
DRAFT
PROGRAM
8:15 am Shuttle van
departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am NICOLA
PERSICO, Northwestern University and NBER
(Joint
with Decio Coviello, HEC Montreal)
An Economic Analysis of Black-White Disparities in NYPD's
Stop and Frisk Program
Discussant:
JENNIFER
DOLEAC, University
of Virginia
9:55 am EDWARD MORRISON,
University of Chicago Law School
(Joint with
Arpit Gupta, Columbia University Business School; Lenora Olson,
University of Utah School of Medicine; Lawrence Cook, University of
Utah School of Medicine; and Heather Keenan, University of Utah School of
Medicine)
Health
And Financial Fragility: Evidence From Car Crashes And
Consumer Bankruptcy
Discussant:
TAL GROSS, Columbia University and NBER
10:50 am Break
11:05 am WEI JIANG, Columbia
University School of Business
(Joint with Vyaheslav Fos, College of Business, University of Illinois at
Urbana-
Champaign)
Out-Of-The-Money CEOs:
Private Control Premium and Option Exercise by CEOs
Discussant:
OGUZHAN KARAKAS, Boston College
12:00 pm Lunch
12:45 pm MARIASSUNTA
GIANNETTI, Stockholm School of Economics
(Joint
with Tracy Yue Wang, University of Minnesota)
Corporate
Scandals and Household Stock Market Participation
Discussant:
ALLEN FERRELL, Harvard Law School
1:40 pm Break
Special Session on Consumer Finance:
1:50 pm JOHANNES STROEBEL,
Stern School of Business, New York University
(Joint with Sumit
Agarwal, NUS Business School; Souphala Chomsisengphet,
Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency, United States Department of Treasury; and Neale
Mahoney, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and NBER)
Regulating
Consumer Financial Products: Evidence from Credit Cards
Discussant: JIALAN WANG, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania
2:45 pm ROHAN PITCHFORD,
Australian National University, and CHRISTOPHER
SNYDER, Dartmouth College and NBER
Mortgage
Origination and the Rise of Securitization: An Incomplete-Contracts Model
Discussant: TOMASZ
PISKORSKI, Columbia Business School
3:40 pm Break
3:50 pm MICHEL
MARECHAL, University of
Zurich
(Joint
with Alain Cohn, University
of Zurich, and Thomas Noll, Swiss Prison
Staff Training Center)
Bad
Boys: How Criminal Identity Affects Rule Violation
Discussant: JOSEPH DOYLE, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and NBER
4:45 pm ROBERT TUMARKIN,
Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales
(Joint
with Jared Stanfield, Australian School of Business, University of New South
Wales)
The
Effect of the Political Power of Unions on Firm Value
Discussant: BARRY HIRSCH, Georgia State University
5:40 pm Adjourn
6:00 pm Group Dinner - Sandrine's Bistro, 8 Holyoke Street, Cambridge, MA