Law and Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Christine Jolls
February 20, 2015
NBER, 1050 Mass. Ave. Cambridge, MA

Friday, February 20

1

Bidding for Business: Tax Discrimination as Local Industrial Policy

Megan Lawrence, Harvard University
Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard University
Victor Calanog, Reis, Inc and the University of Pennsylvania

2

Occupational Licensing and Quality: Distributional and Heterogeneous Effects in the Teaching Profession

Bradley Larsen, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

3

Tailored Suits: Contracting on Litigation

Kathryn E. Spier, Harvard University and NBER
J.J. Prescott, University of Michigan

4

Consumer Bankruptcy and Financial Health

Crystal Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Will S. Dobbie, Harvard University and NBER
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale University and NBER

5

Informal Sanctions on Prosecutors and Defendants and the Disposition of Criminal Cases

Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University
Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University

6

Executive Gatekeepers: Useful and Divertible Governance

Adair Morse, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Wei Wang, Professor, Queens University
Serena Wu, Queens University

7

Minimum Payments and Debt Paydown in Consumer Credit Cards

Benjamin J. Keys, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER