SI 2018 Law and Economics

Christine Jolls, Organizer

July 25-26, 2018

University Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 25
8:45 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:15 am
Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston
Jean Guillaume Forand, University of Waterloo

Don't Hatch The Messenger? On the Desirability of Restricting the Political Activity of Bureaucrats
Discussant: Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University
Special Session on Consumer Finance (10:10 am - 12:15 pm)
10:10 am
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, College of William and Mary

Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt
Discussant: Barak Richman, Duke University
11:05 am
Break
11:20 am
Paul D. Adams, Innovations for Poverty Action
Stefan Hunt, Keystone Strategy
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Redis Zaliauskas, Lloyds Banking Group

Testing the Effectiveness of Consumer Financial Disclosure: Experimental Evidence from Savings Accounts
Discussant: Daniel J. Martin, Northwestern University
12:15 pm
Lunch
Special Session on Consumer Finance cont. (1:15 pm - 2:10 pm)
1:15 pm
Robert P. Bartlett, III, University of California at Berkeley
Adair Morse, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Richard Stanton, University of California at Berkeley
Nancy Wallace, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era
Discussant: Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan and NBER
2:10 pm
Break
2:25 pm
Ron Siegel, Pennsylvania State University
Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University

Judicial Mechanism Design
Discussant: W. Bentley MacLeod, Princeton University and NBER
3:20 pm
Break
3:40 pm
Claudia M. Landeo, University of Alberta
Kathryn E. Spier, Harvard University and NBER

Optimal Law Enforcement with Ordered Leniency
Discussant: Abraham Wickelgren, University of Texas
4:35 pm
Sarath Sanga, Yale University

Network Effects in Corporate Governance
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
Alex Edmans, London Business School
Doron Y. Levit, University of Washington
Devin J. Reilly, University of Pennsylvania

Governance Under Common Ownership
Discussant: Eric Zitzewitz, Dartmouth College and NBER
9:50 am
Patrick Bolton, Columbia University
Tao Li, University of Florida
Enrichetta Ravina, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Howard Rosenthal, New York University

Investor Ideology
Discussant: Claire Lim, Queen Mary, University of London
10:45 am
Break
10:55 am
Haoran He, Beijing Normal University
Sherry X. Li, University of Arkansas
Yuling Han, Beijing Normal University

Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China
Discussant: Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University and NBER
11:50 am
Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology
Jian Jia, Illinois Institute of Technology

Platform, Anonymity, and Illegal Actors: Evidence of Whac-A-Mole Enforcement from Airbnb
Discussant: J.J. Prescott, University of Michigan
12:45 pm
Adjourn and Lunch