NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010
Law and Economics Workshop
Christine Jolls, Organizer
Royal Sonesta Hotel University BC
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 28 - 29, 2010
PROGRAM
TUESDAY, JULY 27:
6:00 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard,
	Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28:
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER
	(Joint with Daniel Carvell, Columbia University, and Janet Currie, Columbia
	University and NBER)
	Accidental Death and the Rule of Joint and Several Liability
	Discussant: Kathryn Spier, Harvard Law School and NBER
9:25 am	Marianne Bertrand, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago,
	and NBER
	(Joint with Adair Morse, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)
	Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases and Payday Borrowing
	Discussant: Brigitte Madrian, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and NBER
10:20 am	Break
	Special Session on Consumer Behavior
10:35 am	Marco Ottaviani, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
	University
	(Joint with Roman Inderst, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt and Imperial College London)
	How (Not) to Pay for Advice
	Discussant: Oliver Hart, Harvard University and NBER
11:30 am	Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College
	(Joint with Victor Stango, UC-Davis and NBER)
	Limited and Varying Consumer Attention: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Penalty Fees
	Discussant: Paul Oyer, Stanford Graduate School of Business and NBER
12:25 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Asaf Zussman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
	(Joint with Moses Shayo, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
	Judicial Ingroup Bias in the Shadow of Terrorism
	Discussant: Christine Jolls, Yale Law School and NBER
2:10 pm	Louis Kaplow, Harvard Law School and NBER
	On the Optimal Burden of Proof
	Discussant: Suzanne Scotchmer, UC-Berkeley and NBER
3:05 pm	Break
3:20 pm	Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt
	University
	A Dynamic Model of Lawsuit Joinder and Settlement
	Discussant: Bruno Deffains, Université Paris X
4:15 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 29:
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Irma Clots-Figueras, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
	(Joint with Ciro Avitabile, University of Naples Federico II, and Paolo Masella, University of Mannheim)
	The Effect of Birthright Citizenship on Parental Integration Outcomes
	Discussant: Joseph Doyle, Sloan School, MIT, and NBER
9:25 am	Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia Business School
	(Joint with Christopher Mayer, Columbia Business School and NBER; Edward Morrison, Columbia Law School; and Arpit Gupta, Columbia Law School)
	Mortgage Modification and Strategic Default: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide
	Discussant: Monica Singhal, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and NBER
10:20 am	Break
10:35 am	Michelle J. White, UC-San Diego and NBER
	(Joint with Wenli Li, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and Ning Zhu, UC-Davis)
	Did Bankruptcy Reform Cause Mortgage Defaults to Rise?
	Discussant: Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER
11:30 am	Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto
	Everybody Stay Cool, This Is a Robbery
	Discussant: Jens Ludwig, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, and NBER
12:25 pm	Lunch
	Special Session on Corporate Governance
1:15 pm	Camelia Kuhnen, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
	(Joint with Alexandra Niessen, University of Mannheim)
	Is Executive Compensation Shaped by Public Attitudes?
	Discussant: Darius Palia, Rutgers Business School
2:10 pm	Alex Edmans, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
	(Joint with Xavier Gabaix, Stern School, New York University, and NBER)
	The Effect of Risk on the CEO Market
	Discussant: Richard Holden, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and NBER
3:05 pm	Break
3:20 pm	Samuel Lee, Stern School, New York University
	(Joint with Petra Persson, Columbia University)
	Authority Versus Loyalty: Social Incentives and Modes of Governance
	Discussant: Allen Ferrell, Harvard Law School
4:15 pm	Yuhai Xuan, Harvard Business School
	(Joint with Chen Lin, City University of Hong Kong; Yue Ma, Lingnan
	University, Hong Kong; and Paul Malatesta, University of Washington)
	Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing
	Discussant: Yair Listokin, Yale Law School
5:10 pm	Adjourn