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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. |
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SUMMER INSTITUTE
2014 |
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Law and Economics Workshop |
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Christine Jolls, Organizer |
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Royal Sonesta Hotel |
Cambridge,
Massachusetts |
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July 23-24, 2014 |
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PROGRAM |
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
9:00 am |
Bard Harstad, University
of Oslo |
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(Joint with Steven Callander, Stanford Graduate School of Business) |
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Discussant: Glen Weyl,
University of Chicago |
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9:55 am |
Break |
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Special Session on
Discrimination |
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10:10 am |
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER |
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(Joint with
Pedro Bordalo, University of London, and
Nicola Gennaioli, Universitá
Bocconi) |
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Discussant: Kareen Rozen, Yale University |
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11:05
am |
Prasad
Krishnamurthy, UC-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law |
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(Joint
with Aaron Edlin, UC-Berkeley and NBER) |
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Affirmative
Action and Stereotypes in Higher Education Admissions |
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Discussant: Jonah Gelbach, University
of Pennsylvania Law School |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
Alex Lee,
University of Southern California Law School |
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(Joint with Daniel Klerman, University of Southern California Law School) |
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The
Priest-Klein Hypotheses: Proofs, Generality, and Extensions |
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Discussant: Richard
Holden, University of New South Wales |
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1:55 pm |
Break |
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Special Session on
Corporate Governance |
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2:05 pm |
Kelly
Shue, University of Chicago Booth School of
Business and NBER |
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(Joint
with Richard Townsend, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College) |
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Growth Through Rigidity:
An Explanation for the Rise in CEO Pay |
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Discussant: Adair Morse, UC- Berkeley Haas School of
Business and NBER |
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3:00
pm |
Break |
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3:10 pm |
Todd
Gormley, Wharton School of Business, University of
Pennsylvania, and |
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David
Matsa, Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University, and NBER |
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Playing it Safe? Managerial
Preferences, Risk, and Agency Conflicts |
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Discussant: Jonathan Cohn, McCombs School of Business,
University of Texas |
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4:05
pm |
Konstantinos
Zachariadis, London School of Economics |
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(Joint
with Dragana Cvijanovic,
UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School, and Amil
Dasgupta, London School of Economics) |
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Ties
that Bind: How Business Connections Affect Mutual Fund Activism |
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Discussant: Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth
College and NBER |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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6:00 pm |
Group Dinner at
Hotel Marlowe, Muse B |
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THURSDAY, JULY 24: |
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8:00
am |
Coffee
and Pastries |
8:30
am |
Bentley
MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER |
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(Joint
with Elliott Ash, Columbia University) |
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Incentives in
Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts |
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Discussant: Levon Barseghyan, Cornell University |
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9:25
am |
Claire
Lim, Cornell University |
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(Joint
with Bernardo Silveira, Washington University, and
James M. Snyder, Harvard University and NBER) |
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Preference
Heterogeneity of the Judiciary and the Composition of Political Jurisdictions
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Discussant: Nathaniel Hilger,
Brown University |
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10:20
am |
Break |
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Special Session on
Reciprocity |
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10:40 am |
Yann Algan, Sciences Po |
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(Joint with Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law
School, Mayo Fuster Morell,
Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Jerome Hergueux,
University of Strasbourg and Sciences Po) |
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Cooperation in a
Peer Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia |
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Discussant: Leonardo Bursztyn,
Anderson School, UC-Los Angeles and NBER |
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11:35 am |
Florian Ederer, Yale School of Management |
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(Joint with
Alexander Stremitzer, UC-Los Angeles School of Law) |
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Discussant: Kathryn Zeiler, Georgetown
University Law Center |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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1:15 pm |
Michael
Frakes, Cornell Law School and NBER |
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(Joint
with Anupam Jena, Harvard Medical School and NBER) |
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Discussant: Kitt Carpenter,
Vanderbilt University and NBER |
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2:10 pm |
Break |
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2:25 pm |
Mitchell
Hoffman, University of Toronto |
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(Joint
with Elizabeth Lyons, University of Toronto) |
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Do Higher
Salaries Lead to Higher Performance? Evidence from State Politicians |
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Discussant: Naci Mocan, Louisiana State University and NBER |
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3:20
pm |
Pablo
Spiller, UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business and NBER |
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(Joint
with Marian Moszoro, Kozminski
University, and Sebastian Stolorz, George Mason
University) |
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Discussant: Scott Masten,
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan |
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4:15 pm |
Adjourn |