NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002
Law and Economics Workshop
Daniel Kessler and W. Kip Viscusi, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
August 2 and 3, 2002
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM ELIZABETH KLEE, Federal Reserve Board
LEWIS KORNHAUSER, New York University
Comparisons of the Incentive for Insolvency under Different Legal Regimes
Discussant: DANIEL KLERMAN, University of Southern California
1:45 PM Break
2:00 PM MICHELLE WHITE, UC, San Diego and NBER
Asbestos Litigation: The Role of Procedural Innovations in Mass Tort
Discussant: DONALD DEWEES, University of Toronto
2:45 PM DAVID BECKER, Stanford University
DANIEL KESSLER and MARK MCCLELLAN, Stanford University and NBER
Detecting Medicare Abuse
Discussant: IAN AYRES, Yale University
3:30 PM Break
3:45 PM CHRISTINE JOLLS, Harvard University and NBER
Disability Discrimination Law, Disabled Employment, and the Relative Role of
"Reasonable Accommodations" Requirements and Firing Costs
Discussant: HOWARD CHANG, University of Pennsylvania
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4:30 PM SIMEON DJANKOV, The World Bank
RAFAEL LA PORTA, Harvard University and NBER
FLORENCIO LOPEZ-de-SILANES, Yale University and NBER
ANDREI SHLEIFER, Harvard University and NBER
Discussant: MARK RAMSEYER, Harvard University
5:15 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Group Dinner
Davio's Restaurant
Royal Sonesta Hotel
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3:
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
8:45 AM A. MITCHELL POLINSKY, Stanford University and NBER
Optimal Sanctions When Wealth Can be Audited
Discussant: JASON JOHNSTON, University of Pennsylvania
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM ROBERTA ROMANO, Yale University and NBER
Does Confidential Proxy Voting Matter?
Discussant: ALLEN FERRELL, Purdue University
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM KATHRYN SPIER, Northwestern University and NBER
The Use of Most-Favored-Nation Clauses in Settlement of Litigation
Discussant: ANDREW DAUGHETY, Vanderbilt University
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM LOUIS KAPLOW and STEVEN SHAVELL, Harvard University and NBER
Moral Rules and Moral Sentiments: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System
Discussant: EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER
12:15 PM Adjourn
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