SI 2018 Law and Economics
Organized by Christine Jolls
July 25-26, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Wednesday, July 25
8:45 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:15 am

Don't Hatch The Messenger? On the Desirability of Restricting the Political Activity of Bureaucrats

Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston
Jean Guillaume Forand, University of Waterloo

Discussant:
Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University
Special Session on Consumer Finance (10:10 am - 12:15 pm)
10:10 am

Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt

John Beshears, Harvard University and NBER
James J. Choi, Yale University and NBER
David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER
Brigitte C. Madrian, Brigham Young University and NBER
Bill Skimmyhorn, William & Mary

Discussant:
Barak Richman, Duke University
11:05 am
Break
11:20 am

Testing the Effectiveness of Consumer Financial Disclosure: Experimental Evidence from Savings Accounts

Paul D. Adams, Innovations for Poverty Action
Stefan Hunt, Keystone Strategy
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Redis Zaliauskas, Lloyds Banking Group

Discussant:
Daniel J. Martin, University of California, Santa Barbara
12:15 pm
Lunch
Special Session on Consumer Finance cont. (1:15 pm - 2:10 pm)
1:15 pm

Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era

Robert P. Bartlett, III, Stanford University
Adair Morse, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Richard Stanton, University of California, Berkeley
Nancy Wallace, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan and NBER
2:10 pm
Break
2:25 pm

Judicial Mechanism Design

Ron Siegel, Pennsylvania State University
Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University

Discussant:
W. Bentley MacLeod, Yale University and NBER
3:20 pm
Break
3:40 pm

Optimal Law Enforcement with Ordered Leniency

Claudia M. Landeo, University of Alberta
Kathryn E. Spier, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Abraham Wickelgren, University of Texas
4:35 pm

Network Effects in Corporate Governance

Sarath Sanga, Yale University

Discussant:
Kelly Shue, Yale University and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Thursday, July 26
8:15 am
Coffee and Pastries
Special Session on Corporate Governance (8:55 am - 10:45 am)
8:55 am

Governance Under Common Ownership

Alex Edmans, London Business School
Doron Y. Levit, University of Washington
Devin J. Reilly, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant:
Eric Zitzewitz, Dartmouth College and NBER
9:50 am

Investor Ideology

Patrick Bolton, Columbia University
Tao Li, University of Florida
Enrichetta Ravina, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Howard Rosenthal, New York University

Discussant:
Claire Lim, University of Western Ontario
10:45 am
Break
10:55 am

Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China

Haoran He, Beijing Normal University
Sherry X. Li, University of Arkansas
Yuling Han, Beijing Normal University

Discussant:
Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University and NBER
11:50 am

Platform, Anonymity, and Illegal Actors: Evidence of Whac-A-Mole Enforcement from Airbnb

Liad Wagman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jian Jia, Illinois Institute of Technology

Discussant:
J.J. Prescott, University of Michigan
12:45 pm
Adjourn and Lunch