SI 2016 Law & Economics
Christine Jolls, Organizer
July 27-28, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Summer Institute 2016 master schedule
| Wednesday, July 27 | ||
| 9:00 am |
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Stanford University and NBER Steven Shavell, Harvard University and NBER The Theory of Insurance When Suits Can Be Brought for Losses Suffered |
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| 9:55 am |
Bhaven N. Sampat, Arizona State University and NBER Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER How Do Patents Affect Follow-On Innovation? Evidence from the Human Genome |
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| 11:05 am |
Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College Marit Rehavi, University of British Columbia Tipping the Scales? Testing for Political Influence on Public Corruption Prosecutions |
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| 1:00 pm |
David Neumark, University of California, Irvine and NBER Ian Burn, University of Liverpool Patrick Button, Tulane University and NBER Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment |
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| 1:55 pm |
Mirco Tonin, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Michael Vlassopoulos, University of Southampton Corrado Giulietti, University of Southampton Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US |
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| 3:05 pm |
Crystal Yang, Harvard University and NBER Local Labor Markets and Criminal Recidivism |
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| Thursday, July 28 | ||
| 8:30 am |
Victor Stango, University of California at Davis Joanne Yoong, National University of Singapore and RAND Corporatio Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER From Proliferation to Parsimony in Behavioral Economics: New Elicitation Methods, Summary Statistics, and Links to Real-World Outcomes |
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| 9:25 am |
Ryan Bubb, New York University Patrick L. Warren, Clemson University A Positive Theory of Retirement Plan Design |
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| 10:35 am |
Arpit Gupta, New York University Edward Morrison, Columbia University and NBER Catherine R. Fedorenko, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Scott D. Ramsey, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Cancer Diagnoses and Household Debt Overhang |
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| 1:15 pm |
Claudia M. Landeo, University of Alberta Maxim Nikitin, International College of Economics and Finance - NRU HSE Financially-Constrained Lawyers: An Economic Theory of Legal Disputes |
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| 2:25 pm |
Albert Choi, University of Michigan Kathryn E. Spier, Harvard University and NBER Taking a Financial Position in Your Opponent in Litigation |
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| 3:20 pm |
Aleksander Andonov, University of Amsterdam Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER Pension Fund Board Composition and Investment Performance: Evidence from Private Equity |
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