NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003
Law and Economics Workshop
Daniel Kessler and W. Kip Viscusi,
Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
August 1 and 2, 2003
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM KATHRYN SPIER, Northwestern University and NBER
BRUCE
HAY, Harvard University
Manufacturer Liability
for Harms Caused by Consumers to Others
Discussant:
HOWARD CHANG, University of Michigan
1:45 PM Break
2:00 PM ANDREW DAUGHETY and JENNIFER REINGANUM, Vanderbilt
University
Markets, Torts, and Social
Inefficiency
Discussant:
JOHN DE FIGUEIREDO, MIT and NBER
2:45 PM A. MITCHELL POLINSKY, Stanford University and NBER
DANIEL
RUBINFELD, UC, Berkeley
Remedies for Price Overcharges: The Deadweight Loss of Coupons and Discounts
Discussant:
IAN AYRES, Yale University
3:30 PM Break
3:45 PM RONALD GILSON, Stanford University
ALAN
SCHWARTZ, Yale University
Discussant:
ALLEN FERRELL, Harvard University
4:30 PM EZRA FRIEDMAN, Yale University
ABRAHAM
WICKELGREN, Federal Trade Commission
Chilling,
Settlement, and the Accuracy of the Legal System
Discussant:
DAVID ANDERSON, Centre College
5:15 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Group Dinner
Davios
Restaurant
Royal
Sonesta Hotel
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
8:45 AM DANIEL KLERMAN,
University of Southern California
PAUL
MAHONEY, University of Virginia
The
Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from 18th Century England
Discussant:
EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM JONI HERSCH,
Harvard University
Discussant:
KEITH HYLTON, Boston University
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM FELIX
OBERHOLZER-GEE, University of Pennsylvania
MIKI
MITSUNARI, Fuji Research Institute Corporation
Information
Regulation: Do the Victims of Externalities Pay Attention?
Discussant:
KIP VISCUSI, Harvard University and NBER
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM DANIEL LEVY,
Bar-Ilan University
BENJAMIN
ZELIGER, Cornell University
PAUL
RUBIN, Emory University
SOURAV
RAY, Concordia University
MARK
BERGEN, University of Chicago
On
the Inefficiency of Item Pricing Laws
Discussant:
JOEL WALDFOGEL, Univeristy of Pennsylvania and NBER
12:15 PM Adjourn