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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2014

 

Law and Economics Workshop

 

Christine Jolls, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
University BC Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 23-24, 2014

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Bard Harstad, University of Oslo

 

(Joint with Steven Callander, Stanford Graduate School of Business)

 

Experimentation in Federal Systems

 

 

 

Discussant:  Glen Weyl, University of Chicago

 

 

9:55 am

Break

 

 

Special Session on Discrimination

 

 

10:10 am

Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER 

 

(Joint with Pedro Bordalo, University of London, and Nicola Gennaioli, Universitá Bocconi)

 

Stereotypes

 

 

 

Discussant:  Kareen Rozen, Yale University

 

 

11:05 am

Prasad Krishnamurthy, UC-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law  

 

(Joint with Aaron Edlin, UC-Berkeley and NBER)

 

Affirmative Action and Stereotypes in Higher Education Admissions

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jonah Gelbach, University of Pennsylvania Law School

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm 

Alex Lee, University of Southern California Law School

 

(Joint with Daniel Klerman, University of Southern California Law School)

 

The Priest-Klein Hypotheses: Proofs, Generality, and Extensions

 

 

 

Discussant: Richard Holden, University of New South Wales

 

 

1:55 pm

Break

 

 

Special Session on Corporate Governance

 

 

2:05 pm 

Kelly Shue, University of Chicago Booth School of Business and NBER

 

(Joint with Richard Townsend, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College)

 

Growth Through Rigidity: An Explanation for the Rise in CEO Pay

 

 

 

Discussant:  Adair Morse, UC- Berkeley Haas School of Business and NBER

 

 

3:00 pm 

Break

 

 

3:10 pm

Todd Gormley, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and

 

David Matsa, Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University, and NBER

 

Playing it Safe? Managerial Preferences, Risk, and Agency Conflicts

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jonathan Cohn, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas

 

 

4:05 pm   

Konstantinos Zachariadis, London School of Economics

 

(Joint with Dragana Cvijanovic, UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School, and Amil Dasgupta, London School of Economics)

 

Ties that Bind: How Business Connections Affect Mutual Fund Activism

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner at Hotel Marlowe, Muse B
(across the street from the Royal Sonesta)

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:30 am

Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER 

 

(Joint with Elliott Ash, Columbia University)

 

Incentives in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts

 

 

 

Discussant:  Levon Barseghyan, Cornell University

 

 

9:25 am

Claire Lim, Cornell University

 

(Joint with Bernardo Silveira, Washington University, and James M. Snyder, Harvard University and NBER)

 

Preference Heterogeneity of the Judiciary and the Composition of Political Jurisdictions

 

 

 

Discussant:  Nathaniel Hilger, Brown University

 

 

10:20 am

Break

 

 

Special Session on Reciprocity

 

 

10:40 am

Yann Algan, Sciences Po

 

(Joint with Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School, Mayo Fuster Morell, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Jerome Hergueux, University of Strasbourg and Sciences Po)

 

Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia

 

 

 

Discussant:  Leonardo Bursztyn, Anderson School, UC-Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

11:35 am

Florian Ederer, Yale School of Management

 

(Joint with Alexander Stremitzer, UC-Los Angeles School of Law)

 

Promises and Expectations

 

 

 

Discussant:  Kathryn Zeiler, Georgetown University Law Center

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Michael Frakes, Cornell Law School and NBER

 

(Joint with Anupam Jena, Harvard Medical School and NBER)

 

Does Medical Malpractice Law Improve Health Care Quality?

 

 

 

Discussant:  Kitt Carpenter, Vanderbilt University and NBER

 

 

2:10 pm

Break

 

 

2:25 pm

Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto 

 

(Joint with Elizabeth Lyons, University of Toronto)

 

Do Higher Salaries Lead to Higher Performance? Evidence from State Politicians

 

 

 

Discussant:  Naci Mocan, Louisiana State University and NBER

 

 

3:20 pm

Pablo Spiller, UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business and NBER

 

(Joint with Marian Moszoro, Kozminski University, and Sebastian Stolorz, George Mason University)

 

Rigidity of Public Contracts

 

 

 

Discussant:  Scott Masten, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

 

 

4:15 pm

Adjourn