NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000

Law and Economics

Dan Kessler and Kip Viscusi, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

August 4 and 5, 2000

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4

12:00 N Lunch

1:00 PM CHRISTINE JOLLS, Harvard University and NBER

Employment Mandates and Antidiscrimination Law

Discussant: HENRY FARBER, Princeton University and NBER

1:45 PM Break

2:00 PM JASON JOHNSTON, University of Pennsylvania

JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Does Repeat Play Elicit Cooperation? Evidence from Federal Civil Litigation

Discussant: DANIEL KLERMAN, University of Southern California

2:45 PM AARON EDLIN, UC, Berkeley and NBER

PINAR KARACA, UC, Berkeley

The Accident Externalities from Driving

Discussant: IAN AYRES, Yale University

3:30 PM Break

3:45 PM KIP VISCUSI, Harvard University and NBER

Jurors, Judges, and Mistreatment of Risk by the Courts

Discussant: LINDA BABCOCK, Carnegie-Mellon University

4:30 PM WEI FAN and MICHELLE WHITE, University of Michigan

Personal Bankruptcy and the Level of Entrepreneurial Activity

Discussant: ALAN SCHWARTZ, Yale University

5:15 PM Adjourn

6:30 PM Group Dinner

Legal Sea Foods

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA

SI00 LE Program

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 5:

8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

8:45 AM HOWARD CHANG, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

A Liberal Theory of Social Welfare: Fairness, Utility, and the Pareto Principle

LOUIS KAPLOW and STEVEN SHAVELL, Harvard University and NBER

Any NonWelfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principal

(No discussant this session)

9:45 AM Break

10:00 AM EDWARD GLAESER and ANDREI SHLEIFER, Harvard University and NBER

Incentives for Enforcement

Discussant: JOHN COATES, Harvard University

10:45 AM A. MITCHELL POLINSKY, Stanford University and NBER

STEVEN SHAVELL, Harvard University

Corruption and Optimal Law Enforcement

Discussant: THOMAS ULEN, University of Illinois

11:30 AM Break

11:45 AM KATHRYN SPIER, Northwestern University and NBER

Settlement with Multiple Plaintiffs: The Role of Insolvency

Discussant: ANDREW DAUGHETY, Vanderbilt University

12:30 PM Adjourn

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