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NATIONAL
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Law
and Economics Program Meeting |
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Christine
Jolls, Organizer |
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NBER |
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2rd
floor Conference Room |
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1050
Massachusetts Avenue |
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Cambridge,
MA |
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February
20, 2015 |
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PROGRAM |
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7:15 am |
Shuttle van departs from the Royal Sonesta
Hotel for the NBER |
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7:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:00 am |
Felix Oberholzer-gee, Harvard
Business School and NBER |
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(Joint with Megan Lawrence is at Harvard
Business School and Victor Canalog, Reiss, Inc.) |
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Bidding
for Business: Tax Discrimination as Local Industrial Policy |
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Discussant: Eric Zitzewitz,
Dartmouth College and NBER |
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8:55 am |
Brad Larsen, Stanford
University and NBER |
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Discussant: Lisa Kahn, Yale
School of Management and NBER |
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9:50 am |
Break |
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10:00 am |
Lauren Cohen,
Harvard Business School and NBER |
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(Joint with Umit
G. Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas, and Scott
Duke |
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Kominers, Harvard University) |
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Patent Trolls: Evidence from
Targeted Firms |
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Discussant: Mariassunta
Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics |
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10:55 am |
Kathryn Spier, Harvard Law
School and NBER, and JJ Prescott, University of Michigan Law School |
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Discussant: Rohan Pitchford, Australian National University |
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11:50 am |
Andrew Daughety
and Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University |
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Informal
Sanctions on Prosecutors and Defendants and the Disposition of |
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Discussant: Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School |
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12:45 pm |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
Adair Morse, Haas
School, University of California at Berkeley, and NBER |
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(Joint with Wei Wang, Queens
University, and Serena Wu, Queens University) |
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Discussant: Scott Schaefer,
Eccles School of Business, University of Utah |
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2:25 pm |
Jialan
Wang, Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau |
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(Joint
with Benjamin J. Keys, Harris School of Public Policy, University of |
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Chicago) |
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Discussant: Damon Jones, Harris
School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, and NBER |
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3:20 pm |
Break |
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3:40 pm |
Mauricio Larrain, Columbia
Business School |
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(Joint with Charles W. Calomiris,
Columbia Business School and NBER, Jose Liberti, DePaul University, and Jason
Sturgess, DePaul University) |
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Discussant: Baozhong Yang,
Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University |
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4:35 pm |
Crystal Yang, Harvard Law School |
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(Joint with Will Dobbie, Princeton University and NBER,
and Paul Goldsmith- |
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Pinkham, Harvard University) |
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Discussant: Geng Li, Federal
Reserve Board |
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5:30 pm |
Adjourn |
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6:00 pm |
Group Dinner Sandrine's
Bistro, 8 Holyoke Street, Cambridge, MA |