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NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. |
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Law and
Economics Program Meeting |
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Christine
Jolls, Organizer |
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February 10,
2012 |
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NBER |
Feldstein
Conference Room, Second Floor |
1050
Massachusetts Avenue |
Cambridge, MA |
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PROGRAM |
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Thursday, February 9, 2012 |
7:30 pm |
Dinner (Bambara Restaurant, 25
Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA) |
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Friday, February 10, 2012 |
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7:30 am |
Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal
Sonesta Hotel for the NBER |
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7:45 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:15 am |
GREGOR MATVOS, University of
Chicago, Booth School of Business and |
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NBER |
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(joint with Zhiguo
He, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business) |
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Debt and
Creative Destruction: Why Could Subsidizing
Corporate Debt be Optimal? |
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Discussant: MOSHE COHEN, Columbia Business School |
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9:10 am |
ALBERTO ALESINA, Harvard
University and NBER, and PAOLA GIULIANO, Anderson School, UCLA, and NBER |
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(joint with Yann Algan, Sciences
Po, and Pierre Cahuc, Ecole Polytechnique) |
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Discussant: ASAF ZUSSMAN, Hebrew
University |
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10:05 am |
Break |
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10:20 am |
OLIVER HART, Harvard University
and NBER |
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(joint with Ernst Fehr, University
of Zurich, and Christian Zehnder, University of |
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Lausanne) |
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How Do Informal Agreements and
Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points? |
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Discussant: RYAN BUBB, New York University School of
Law |
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11:10 am |
STEVEN SHAVELL, Harvard Law School
and NBER |
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A Fundamental Enforcement Cost Advantage
Of the Negligence Rule over Regulation |
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Discussant: HENRIK LANDO, Copenhagen Business School |
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12:05 pm |
Lunch |
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Special Session on Consumer
Finance |
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12:35 pm |
SANTOSH ANAGOL, Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania |
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(joint with Shawn Cole, Harvard Business
School, and Shayak Sarkar, |
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Harvard University) |
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Discussant: JUSTIN SYDNOR, School of Business,
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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1:30 pm |
PAIGE MARTA SKIBA, Vanderbilt Law
School |
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(joint with Will Dobbie, John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University) |
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Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit Markets:
Evidence from Two Payday Lending Firms |
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Discussant: BETSEY STEVENSON, Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania and NBER |
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2:25 pm |
JONATHAN ZINMAN, Dartmouth College
and NBER |
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(joint with Dean Karlan, Yale
University and NBER ) |
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Borrow Less Tomorrow |
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Discussant: DAVID MATSA, Kellogg School, Northwestern
University |
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3:20 pm |
Adjourn |
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