SI 2018 Law and Economics
Christine Jolls, Organizer
July 25-26, 2018
University Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel
| 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
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| 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, William & Mary Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt
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| 11:05 am | Break | |||
| 11:20 am |
Paul D. Adams, Innovations for Poverty Action Stefan Hunt, AlixPartners 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
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch | |||
| Special Session on Consumer Finance cont. (1:15 pm - 2:10 pm) | ||||
| 1:15 pm |
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 Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era
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| 2:10 pm | Break | |||
| 2:25 pm |
Ron Siegel, The Pennsylvania State University Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University Judicial Mechanism Design
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| 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
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| 4:35 pm |
Sarath Sanga, Yale University Network Effects in Corporate Governance
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| 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
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| 9:50 am |
Patrick Bolton, Columbia University Tao Li, University of Florida Enrichetta Ravina, Northwestern University Howard Rosenthal, New York University Investor Ideology
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| 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
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| 11:50 am |
Liad Wagman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jian Jia, Illinois Institute of Technology Platform, Anonymity, and Illegal Actors: Evidence of Whac-A-Mole Enforcement from Airbnb
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| 12:45 pm | Adjourn and Lunch | |||