NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Law
and Economics Program Meeting
Christine
Jolls, Organizer
March
2, 2007
NBER
PROGRAM
FRIDAY,
MARCH 2:
8:30 am
Shuttle
Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for
8:45 am
Continental Breakfast
9:15 am
LOUIS KAPLOW,
Optimal Policy with
Heterogeneous Preferences
Discussant: CHRIS SANCHIRICO,
10:00
am
ABRAHAM WICKELGREN, Northwestern
The Economics of
Constitutional Rights and Voting Rules
Discussant: JOSHUA FISCHMAN,
10:45
am
Break
11:00 am
BENJAMIN HERMALIN, UC,
Transparency and
Corporate Governance
(Joint with Michael Weisbach,
Discussant: NICOLA PERSICO,
11:45
am
STEVEN SHAVELL,
On Optimal Legal
Change, Past Behavior, and Grandfathering
Discussant: CHRISTOPHER SNYDER,
12:30
pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
EDWARD MORRISON,
Bargaining Around
Bankruptcy: Small Business Distress and State Law
Discussant: ALBERT CHOI,
2:00 pm
Break
Special Session on Labor Markets
for Lawyers:
2:15
pm
ALVIN ROTH,
The New Market for
Federal Judicial Law Clerks
(Joint with Christopher Avery,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and NBER; Christine Jolls, Yale Law School and NBER; and Richard A. Posner,
United States Court of Appeals)
Discussant: BETSEY STEVENSON,
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
JESSE ROTHSTEIN,
Affirmative
Action in Law School Admissions:
What Do Racial Preferences Do?
and
(Joint with Albert Yoon,
Northwestern
Discussant: JUSTIN WOLFERS,
4:00 pm
SUZANNE SCOTCHMER, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Risk Taking and
Gender in Hierarchies
Discussant: IAN AYRES,
4:45 pm
Adjourn
5:30 pm
Group Dinner
Sandrines
2/26/07