Authors, please upload your paper here.

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Law and Economics Program Meeting

Christine Jolls, Organizer

March 3, 2017

NBER
3rd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Friday, March 03
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	David Arnold, Princeton University Will S. Dobbie, Princeton University and NBER Crystal Yang, Harvard University Racial Bias in Bail Decisions Discussant: Jonah Gelbach, University of Pennsylvania
9:25 am	A. Mitchell Polinsky, Stanford University and NBER Paul N. Riskind, Stanford Law School Deterrence and the Optimal Use of Prison, Parole, and Probation Discussant: Kathryn Spier, Harvard Law School and NBER
10:20 am	Break
Special session on consumer/household finance
10:40 am	Saurabh Bhargava, Carnegie Mellon University George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University Justin R. Sydnor, University of Wisconsin at Madison and NBER Evaluating Health Insurance Decisions: Health Plan Choices from a Menu with Dominated Options Discussant: Eric Zitzewitz, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:35 am	Tal Gross, Columbia University and NBER Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Northwestern University and NBER Jialan Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Marginal Propensity to Consume Over the Business Cycle Discussant: Allen Ferrell, Harvard Law School
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University Information Suppression by Teams and Violations of the Brady Rule Discussant: Scott Baker, Washington University Law School
2:10 pm	Albert Choi, University of Virginia Eric Talley, Columbia University Appraising the "Merger Price" Appraisal Rule Discussant: Wei Jiang, Columbia Business School and NBER
3:05 pm	Break
3:25 pm	Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER Securing Property Rights Discussant: Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
4:20 pm	Justin Marion, University of California Santa Cruz Affirmative Action Exemptions and Capacity Constrained Firms Discussant: Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER
5:15 pm	Adjourn/Wine Reception
6:30 pm	Group Dinner - Restaurant Dante at Royal Sonesta Hotel