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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Law and Economics Program Meeting
Christine Jolls, Organizer
March 24-25, 2011
NBER
3rd floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, MARCH 24:
6:00pm	Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd. in Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
FRIDAY, MARCH 25:
8:00 am	Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:15 am 8:45 am	Continental Breakfast JONATHAN B. COHN, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
	(Joint with Stuart L. Gillan, Rawls College of Business Administration,
	Texas Tech University, and Jay C. Hartzell, McCombs School of Business,
	University of Texas at Austin)
	On the Optimality of Shareholder Control: Evidence from the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act Discussant: DANIEL CHEN, Duke Law School
Special Session on Corporate Governance
9:35 am	ROBIN GREENWOOD, Harvard Business School and NBER
	(joint with Sergey Chernenko, Harvard Business School, and C. Fritz Foley,
	Harvard Business School and NBER)
	Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure
10:05 am	Break
10:20 am	ALEX EDMANS, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
	(joint with Xavier Gabaix, Stern School, New York University, and NBER; Tomasz Sadzik, New York University; and Yuliy Sannikov, Princeton University)
	Dynamic CEO Compensation
10:50 am	VIRAL ACHARYA, Stern School, New York University, and NBER
	(joint with Marc Gabarro, London Business School, and Paolo Volpin, London
	Business School)
	Competition for Managers, Corporate Governance and Incentive Compensation
11:20 am	Special Session on Corporate Governance -- Discussion Discussants: DALIDA KADYRZHANOVA, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and AJAY SUBRAMANIAN, Georgia Business School
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	KENNETH AYOTTE, Northwestern University School of Law
	(joint with Henry Hansmann, Yale Law School)
	A Nexus of Contracts Theory of Legal Entities
	Discussant: BENTLEY MACLEOD, Columbia University and NBER
2:05 pm	KATHRYN SPIER, Harvard Law School and NBER
	ALBERT CHOI, University of Virginia Law School
	Should Consumers be Permitted to Waive Products Liability? Product Safety, Private Contracts, and Adverse Selection
	Discussant: CHRISTINE JOLLS, Yale Law School and NBER
2:55 pm	Break
3:20 pm	JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Minnesota and NBER
	Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie? The Supply of New Recorded Music Since Napster Discussant: HEIDI WILLIAMS, M.I.T. and NBER
4:10 pm	HOWARD F. CHANG, University of Pennsylvania Law School
	(joint with Hilary Sigman, Rutgers University and NBER)
	An Empirical Analysis of Cost Recovery in Superfund Cases: Implications for Brownfields and Joint and Several Liability Discussant: JJ PRESCOTT, University of Michigan Law School
5:00 pm	Adjourn