SI 2015 Law & Economics

Christine Jolls, Organizer

July 22-23, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 22
8:30 am
8:30 am
Ron Siegel, Pennsylvania State University
Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University

On the Design of Criminal Trials: the Benefit of Three-Verdict Systems
9:25 am
Aaron Edlin, University of California at Berkeley

Conservatism and Switcher's Curse
10:40 am
Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University and NBER
Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, University of Bristol

Short-term,Long-term, and Continuing Contracts
11:35 am
11:35 am
Bo Sun, Federal Reserve Board
Qi Liu, Peking University
Tse-Chun Lin, University of Hong Kong

Contracting with Feedback
1:15 pm
Mark Curtis, Wake Forest University
Mary Schroeder, University or Iowa
Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University

Evaluating Workplace Mandates with Flows versus Stocks: An Application to California Paid Family Leave
3:20 pm
Mason Ameri, Rutgers University
Lisa Schur, Rutgers University
Meera Adya, Syracuse University
Scott Bentley, Rutgers University
Patrick McKay, Rutgers University
Douglas L. Kruse, Rutgers University and NBER

The Disability Employment Puzzle: A Field Experiment On Employer Hiring Behavior
Thursday, July 23
8:30 am
8:30 am
Eugene Kandel, Hebrew University
Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
Konstantin Kosenko
Yishay Yafeh, Hebrew University

The Great Pyramids of America
8:30 am
Eugene Kandel, Hebrew University
Konstantin Kosenko
Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
Yishay Yafeh, Hebrew University

The Great Pyramids of America
9:25 am
9:25 am
Stefano Rossi, Bocconi University
Hayong Yun, Michigan State University

What Drives Financial Reform? Economics and Politics of the State-Level Adoption of Municipal Bankruptcy Laws
10:40 am
10:40 am
Martin C. Schmalz, University of Oxford
Isabel K. Tecu, Charles River Associates

Anti-Competitive Effects of Common Ownership
11:35 am
11:35 am
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ugo Troiano, University of California, Riverside

Shaming Tax Delinquents: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States
1:15 pm
1:15 pm
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Privacy Protection, Personalized Medicine and Genetic Testing
3:25 pm
3:25 pm
Wei Jiang, Emory University and NBER

How Quickly Do Markets Learn? Private Information Dissemination in a Natural Experiment
4:20 pm
Sule Alan, European University Institute
Mehmet Cemalcılar, Yapi Kredi Bank
Dean Karlan, Northwestern University and NBER
Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER

Unshrouding Effects on Demand for a Costly Add-on: Evidence from Bank Overdrafts in Turkey