Schedule
Friday, November 18, 2016
8:00 am to 11:00am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast 3rd floor loggia |
9:00 am to 11:00am |
Panel 1: Empirical Studies of Presidential Power Room 3041 The Genesis of Independent Agencies Patrick Corrigan, Independent
Discussant: Stuart Benjamin, Duke University School of Law |
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Creating Capacity: Presidential Control and the Senior Executive Service Alexander D Bolton, Emory University
Discussant: John Brooks, Duke University |
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Presidential Signing Statements and the U.S. Federal Courts John M. de Figueiredo, Duke University School of Law; Duke University - Fuqua School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative Edward Stiglitz, Cornell University – Law School
Discussant: Kathleen Doherty, University of Southern California |
9:00 am to 11:00am |
Panel 1: Relational Contracts Room 3037 How Effective are Relational Incentive Contracts? Evidence from Entrepreneurial Firms in Russia Elena Kulchina, Duke University; Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative Joanne E. Oxley, University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
Discussant: Sarath Sanga, Northwestern University |
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Can Computers Be Fair? How Resolving Disputes Online Affects Disputants' Procedural Justice Experiences Ayelet Sela, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law
Discussant: Jonathan Katz, California Institute of Technology |
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The Role of Relational Contracts in Inter-Firm Relationships: Theory and Evidence on Multiunit Franchising Nicholas Argyres, Washington University in Saint Louis Janet Bercovitz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business Giorgio Zanarone, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF)
Discussant: Ricard Gil, John Hopkins Carey School of Business |
9:00 am to 11:00am |
Panel 1: Securities Law II Room 4047 Estimating the Compliance Costs of Securities Regulation: A Bunching Analysis of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404(B) Dhammika Dharmapala, University of Chicago Law School
Discussant: Kate Litvak, Northwestern University |
'Boilerplate' and Disclosure in Securities Dealmaking Jeremy R. McClane, University of Connecticut School of Law
Discussant: Jeff McMullin, Indiana University |
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Who Benefits from Bond Market Modernization? David K. Musto, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department Jillian A. Popadak, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
Discussant: Joshua Lerner, Duke University |
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11:00 am to 11:15 am |
Break |
11:15 am to 1:15 pm
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Panel 2: Accounting Law II Room 4000 Does Counter-Cyclical Provisioning Mitigate Lending Contractions? Evidence from Supply Shocks Sudarshan Jayaraman, University of Rochester - Simon Business School Bryce Schonberger, University of Rochester - Simon Business School Joanna Shuang Wu, University of Rochester - Simon Business School
Discussant: Travis Dyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Estimating the Effect of Corporate Governance on Firm Value Jonathan N. Katz, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences Mathew D. McCubbins, Duke University School of Law Jeff L. McMullin, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting
Discussant: Bernie Black, Northwestern University |
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Consequences of Mandatory Quarterly Reporting: The U.K. Experience Suresh Nallareddy, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business Robert Pozen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management Shivaram Rajgopal, Columbia Business School
Discussant: Dirk Black, Dartmouth College |
11:15 am to 1:15 pm
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Panel 2: Administrative Law Room 3037 Can Nudges Be Transparent and Yet Effective? Hendrik Bruns, University of Hamburg - School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences; Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Erasmus University Rotterdam Katharina Klement, University of Jena Marijane Luistro Jonsson, Stockholm School of Economics Bilel Rahali, University of Grenoble
Discussant: Amy Semet |
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Legislating for Litigation in the Age of Statute Sean Farhang University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Mark Hall |
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Does Peer Review Work? An Experiment of Experimentalism Daniel E. Ho, Stanford Law School
Discussant: Martin Wells |
11:15 am to 1:15 pm
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Panel 2: Cooperation Room 4172 An Autopsy of Cooperation: Diamond Dealers and the Limits of Trust-Based Exchange Barak D. Richman, Duke University - School of Law
Discussant: Lisa Bernstein |
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Inherited Institutions: Cooperation in the Light of Democratic Legitimacy Pascal Langenbach, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Franziska Tausch, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Discussant: German Feierherd, |
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Do Parties Negotiate After Trespass Litigation? An Empirical Study of Coasean Bargaining Yun-chien Chang, Academia Sinica - Institutum Iurisprudentiae (IIAS) Chang-Ching Lin, Academia Sinica - Institute of Economics
Discussant: David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania |
11:15 am to 1:15 pm
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Panel 2: International/Comparative Law Room 4071 The Legalization of Truth in International Fact-Finding Shiri Krebs, Stanford University, School of Law, Students; Stanford Center on International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
Discussant: Erik Wibbels, Duke University |
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Public Awareness and the Behavior of Unpopular Courts Jay Krehbiel, West Virginia University
Discussant: David Rohde, Duke University |
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Modeling States' Ideological Positions in ICC Treaty Negotiations Kevin L. Cope, University of Michigan James Morrow, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor – Department of Political Science
Discussant: Tana Johnson, Duke University |
11:15 am to 1:15 pm
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Panel 2: Law and Psychology I Room 3041 Choice Architecture versus Price: Comparing the Effects of Changes in the U.S. Student Loan Market Xiaoling Ang, Edgeworth Economics Alexei Alexandrov, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Discussant: Eric Talley, Columbia Law School |
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N-Equality: More People, Less (Concern for) Equality? Stephen M. Garcia, University of Michigan Avishalom Tor, Notre Dame Law School; University of Haifa - Faculty of Law Randall Limberg, New York University (NYU)
Discussant: Dan Simon, Cleveland State University |
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Moral Disengagement in Legal Judgments Tess M.S. Neal, Arizona State University Robert J. Cramer, Sam Houston State University
Discussant: Kristin Firth, University of Chicago |
11:15 am to 1:15 pm
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Panel 2: Relational and Incomplete Contracts I Room 4042 Barriers to Contracting in Village Economies: A Test for Enforcement Constraints Ryan Bubb, New York University School of Law Supreet Kaur, Columbia University Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Discussant: Nick Argyres, Washington University |
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Incomplete Contracts and Strategic Ambiguity: Evidence from Silicon Valley Sarath Sanga, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Discussant: Elena Kulchina, Duke University |
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Adaptation and Relational Contracting in the Airline Industry Ricard Gil, Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School Myongjin Kim, University of Oklahoma Giorgio Zanarone, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) - Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF)
Discussant: David Hoffman, Temple University |
11:15 am to 1:15 pm
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Panel 2: Antitrust Room 4046 Judging in Europe: Do Legal Traditions Matter? Angela Huyue Zhang, King's College London Jingchen Liu, Columbia University Nuno M. Garoupa, Texas A&M University School of Law; Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) - Católica Global School of Law
Discussant: Jens Frankenreiter, Center for Law and Economics, ETH Zurich |
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Is EU Antitrust Enforcement a Tool for Protectionism? An Empirical Analysis Anu Bradford, Columbia University Robert J. Jackson Jr., Columbia Law School Jonathon Zytnick, Columbia University
Discussant: Christoph Engel, Max Planck Institute for Research on Common Goods |
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Maverick: Experimentally Testing a Conjecture of the Antitrust Authorities Christoph Engel, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods; University of Bonn - Faculty of Law & Economics; Universität Osnabrück - Faculty of Law Axel Ockenfels, University of Cologne - Department of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)
Discussant: Matt Sawchuk, Wake Forest University |
1:15 pm to 2:15 pm |
Lunch 3rd and 4th floor loggias |
2:15 pm to 4:15 pm |
Panel 3: Criminal Justice II Room 3000 The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detent Paul S. Heaton, University of Pennsylvania Law School Sandra G. Mayson, University of Pennsylvania Law School Megan Stevenson, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Discussant: Robert Mosteller, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill |
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A Spatial Analysis of Criminality: Evidences for Metropolitan Area of Porto Alegre City Ricardo Capra Schuch, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Giacomo Balbinotto Neto, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Daniel Uhr, Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL)
Discussant: Carissa Hessick, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill |
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The Economics of Rights: Does the Right to Counsel Increase Crime? Itai Ater, Tel Aviv University - The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration Yehonatan Givati, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law Oren Rigbi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Discussant: Ronald Wright, Wake Forest University |
2:15 pm to 4:15 pm |
Panel 3: Contracts: Policy Room 4046 Do FTC Privacy Enforcement Actions Matter? Compliance Before and after USES Safe Harbor Agreement Actions Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, New York University School of Law Dan Svirsky, Harvard Business School
Discussant: Jed Stiglitz, Cornell University-Law School |
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Can CEO Option Compensation Undercut Firm Performance? Evidence from Product Market Relationships Claire Yang Liu, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Ronald W. Masulis, University of New South Wales – Australian School of Business; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Financial Research Network (FIRN) Jared R. Stanfield, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Banking and Finance; Financial Research Network (FIRN)
Discussant: Lang Thai, Deaking University School of Law |
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Noncompetes and Employee Mobility Evan P Starr, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business J.J. Prescott, University of Michigan Law School Norman Bishara, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
Discussant: Michael Heise, Cornell University |
2:15 pm to 4:15 pm |
Panel 3: Security Policy and Investment Room 3037 Investing Near the National Security Black Hole Ji Li, Rutgers Law School
Discussant: Jim Cox, Duke University School of Law |
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When Does the Chinese Executive Branch Make Law? Wei Cui, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Faculty of Law Jie Cheng, University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law
Discussant: Dawn Chutkow, Cornell University |
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Reciprocity and Public Opposition to Foreign Direct Investment Adam Chilton, University of Chicago Helen Milner, Princeton University- Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Dustin Tingley, Harvard University- Department of Government
Discussant: Wei Cui, University of British Columbia (UBA)- Faculty of Law |
2:15 pm to 4:15 pm |
Panel 3: Corporate Law & Governance I Room 4042 The Impact of Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from India's Companies Act of 2013 Vikramaditya S. Khanna, University of Michigan Law School Dhammika Dharmapala, University of Chicago Law School
Discussant: Rob Jackson, Columbia Law School |
Why Don’t General Counsels Stop Corporate Crime? Sureyya Burcu Avci, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business H. Nejat Seyhun, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Discussant: Jessica Bregant, University of Chicago- Booth School of Business |
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Opportunistic Proposals by Union Shareholders John G. Matsusaka, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business; USC Gould School of Law Oguzhan Ozbas, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department Irene Yi, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics
Discussant: Michael Munger, Duke University |
2:15 pm to 4:15 pm |
Panel 3: Judges & Judging: Ideology and Strategy Room 3041 Do Law Clerks Influence Voting on the Supreme Court? Adam Bonica, Stanford University Department of Political Science Adam S. Chilton, University of Chicago – Law School Jacob Goldin Stanford Law School Kyle Rozema, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law Maya Se, Harvard University – Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
Discussant: Michael Munger, Duke University |
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Strategic Publication Ben Grunwald, University of Chicago Law School
Discussant: Jack Knight, Duke University School of Law |
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Judicial Egoism Daniel L. Chen, Toulouse School of Economics / The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse/ LWP, HLS; Harvard Law School
Discussant: Kristen Renberg, Duke University |
2:15 pm to 4:15 pm |
Panel 3: Law & Psychology II Room 4047 Revisiting the Rationality Assumption of Disclosure Laws: An Empirical Analysis Uri Benoliel, College of Law and Business Jenny Buchan UNSW Australia Business School, School of Taxation and Business Law; University of New South Wales Tony Gutentag, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Psychology
Discussant: Robert MacCoun, Stanford University |
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Social Influence on Policy Preferences? Meirav Furth-Matzkin, Harvard Law School
Discussant: Jeff Rachlinski, Cornell University |
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Examining Jurors: Using Conversation Analysis to Explore the Influence of Race on Prosecutor Speech in North Carolina Capital Jury Selection Catherine M. Grosso, Michigan State University College of Law Barbara O'Brien, Michigan State University - College of Law Abijah Taylor, Michigan State University - College of Law Richard E. Lucas, Michigan State University
Discussant: Neil Vidmar, Duke University School of Law |
2:15 pm to 4:15 pm |
Panel 3: Public Sector Personnel Economic, Politics and Law Room 4172 |
Measuring and Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in the Federal Government Alexander Bolton, Duke University - Social Science Research Institute John M. de Figueiredo, Duke University School of Law; Duke University - Fuqua School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative
Discussant: Patrick Corrigan, Independent |
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Controlling Agency Choke Points: Presidents and Regulatory Personnel Turnover Kathleen Doherty, University of Southern California David E. Lewis, Vanderbilt University - Department of Political Science; Vanderbilt University - Law School Scott Limbocker, Vanderbilt University
Discussant: Alex Bolton, Duke University- Social Science Research Institute |
4:15 pm to 4:30 pm |
Break |
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
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Panel 4: Criminal Justice I Room 3000 The Fall of Capital Punishment and the Rise of Prisons: How Expected Sentences Affect Jury Verdicts Anna Bindler, University of Gothenburg Randi Hjalmarsson, University of Gothenburg; Queen Mary, University of London
Discussant: Dan Klerman, University of Southern California |
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Public Defenders vs. Private Court Appointed Attorneys: An Investigation of Indigent Defense Systems (Initial Draft and Results) Yotam Shem-Tov, University of California Berkeley
Discussant: Lisa Kern Griffin, Duke University School of Law |
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Concocting Criminal Intent Deborah W. Denno, Fordham University School of Law
Discussant: Sara Sun Beale, Duke University, School of Law |
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
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Panel 4: Contracts: Experimental Room 3041 Insuring Your Donation: An Experiment Renate Buijze, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Law Christoph Engel, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods; University of Bonn - Faculty of Law & Economics; Universität Osnabrück - Faculty of Law Sigrid Hemels, Erasmus University
Discussant: Stephan Tontrup, |
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From Promise to Form: How Contracting Online Changes Consumers David A. Hoffman, Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law; Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School
Discussant: Meirav Furth |
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Why Do People Keep Their Promises? Dorothee Mischkowski, University of Goettingen (Gottingen) Rebecca Stone, UCLA School of Law Alexander Stremitzer, UCLA School of Law
Discussant: Tess Wilkinson-Ryan |
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
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Panel 4: Litigation and Settlement Room 4047 The Effect of Consumer Litigation Funding on Medical Malpractice Litigation Jean Xiao, Vanderbilt University - Law School, Law and Economics
Discussant: Maya Steinitz, |
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Dollars for Days: An Empirical Assessment of Per Diem and Anchoring Arguments John E. Campbell, University of Denver Sturm College of Law Bernard Chao, University of Denver Sturm College of Law Christopher T. Robertson, University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law; Harvard University - Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
Discussant: David Abrams, |
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Tort Liability and Settlement Failure: Evidence on Litigated Auto Insurance Claims Danial Asmat, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division Sharon L. Tennyson, Cornell University - Department of Policy Analysis & Management (PAM)
Discussant: Dan Klerman, |
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
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Panel 4: Tax I Room 4046 The Effects of Refund Anticipation Loans on Tax Filing and EITC Takeup Andrew T. Hayashi, University of Virginia – School of Law
Discussant: Kyle Rozema |
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Hotel Tax Incidence with Heterogeneous Firm Evasion: Evidence from Airbnb Remittance Agreements Eleanor Wilking, University of Michigan
Discussant: Orli Oren-Kolbinger |
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Do Court Mandates Change the Distribution of Taxes and Spending?: Evidence from School Finance Litigation Zachary D. Liscow, Yale University - Law School
Discussant: Jonathan Katz |
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
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Panel 4: Judges & Judging: Decisionmaking Room 3037 Triaging the Law: Developing the Common Law on the Indian Supreme Court Andrew James Green, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law Albert Yoon, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Discussant: Adam Chilton, |
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The Politics of Citations at the ECJ: Policy Preferences of EU Member State Governments and the Citation Behavior of Members of the European Court of Justice Jens Frankenreiter, Center for Law and Economics, ETH Zurich
Discussant: Eddy Malesky |
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What Matters: Agreement between U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges Daniel L. Chen, Toulouse School of Economics / The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse/ LWP, HLS; Harvard Law School Xing Cui, New York University (NYU) - Center for Data Science Lanyu Shang, New York University (NYU) – Center for Data Science Junchao Zheng, New York University (NYU)
Discussant: Anthony Niblett |
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
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Panel 4: Securities Law I Room 4042 Halliburton and the Costs of Securities Class Actions James J. Park, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Discussant: Andrew Verstein |
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The 8-K Trading Gap Alma Cohen, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics; Harvard Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Robert J. Jackson Jr., Columbia Law School Joshua Mitts, Columbia Law School; Columbia University – Columbia Business School
Discussant: Emiliano Catan |
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Winning and Losing at the SEC Urska Velikonja, Emory University School of Law; Georgetown University Law Center
Discussant: Kathryn Zeiler |
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
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Poster session and Reception Washington Duke Inn • To Plea or Not to Plea: Evidence from North Carolina PDF David S. Abrams, University of Pennsylvania Law School Ryan Fackler, University of Pennsylvania
• Medical Malpractice and Physician Discipline: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly PDF David A. Hyman, University of Illinois College of Law Mohammad H. Rahmati, Sharif University of Technology Bernard S.Black, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
• Formalities and Utilitarian Decision: An Experimental Investigation of Chinese Judges PDF Zhuang Liu, University of Chicago
• Extradition: An Empirical Test of International Cooperation PDF Robert Parrillo, Ball State University
• Defining and Measuring the Rule of Law PDF Jack Knight, Duke University School of Law Mathew D. McCubbins, Duke University School of Law
• The Constitution of Tyranny: Regimes of Exception and the Interruption of Executive and Legislative Power, 1900-2013 PDF Jonathan N. Katz, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
• The Genealogy of Ideology: Predicting Agreement and Persuasive Memes in the U.S. Courts of Appeals Daniel L. Chen, Toulouse School of Economics / The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse/ LWP, HLS Adithya Parthasarathy, New York University (NYU) - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Shivam Verma, New York University (NYU) - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• Moral Language in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis PDF Hadar Y. Jabotinsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law School Eyal Sagi, Northwestern University
• Could Judicial Diffusion Be a Thing in China? Evidence from an Experiment PDF Benjamin M Chen Zhiyu Li, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Student
• Corporate Litigation, Takeover Activities, and Shareholder Wealth Implications PDF Chelsea Liu, University of Adelaide - Business School Alfred Yawson, University of Adelaide Business School
• Determinants of Judicial Efficiency Change: Evidence from Brazil PDF Thiago A. d.* Fauvrelle, University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics Alessio T.Almeida, Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) – Economics
• Costly Corporate Governance: Evidence from Shareholder Approval in Mergers and Acquisitions PDF Fangjian Fu, Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business Wayne R.Guay, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department Wei Zhang, Singapore Management University
• The Incidence of Workplace Breastfeeding Benefits PDF Siying Liu, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
• Wolves at the Door: A Closer Look at Hedge-Fund Activism PDF Yu Ting Forester Wong, University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting
• Geopolitics and Culture in the United Nations Human Rights Committee PDF Vera Shikhelman, University of Chicago Law School
• Litigations and Mutual Fund Runs PDF BaÅŸak Tanyeri, Bilkent University Meijun Qian, Australian National University (ANU) - College of Business and Economics
• Efficiency of Commercial Courts in Poland a Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approach Jaroslaw M. Beldowski, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) Wiktor Wojciechowski Dabros, Lukasz, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)
• The Costs of Suicide PDF Shahar J. Dillbary, University of Alabama School of Law Griffin S.*Edwards, University of Alabama at Birmingham - Department of Marketing, Industrial Distribution &Economics Fredrick E. Vars, University of Alabama - School of Law
• Does Rejection of the Third Party Doctrine Change Use of Electronic Surveillance? Evidence from the Wiretap Reports PDF Anne E. Boustead
• Criminal Justice and Wealth Inequality: How Much Freedom Can Money Buy in Russia? PDF Madina Kurmangaliyeva, European University Institute, Department of Economics
• Judicial Politics in Unconsolidated Democracies: An Empirical Analysis of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2008-2016) PDF Jose Luis Castro-Montero, Tilburg University Gijs van Dijck, Maastricht University - Faculty of Law
• Defendant Should Have the Last Word: Experimentally Manipulating Order and Provisional Assessment of the Facts in Criminal Procedure PDF Christoph Engel, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Andreas Gloeckner, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Sinika Timme, University of Gottingen
• Expressing What? Evaluating the Expressive Value of Punishment PDF Jessica L. Bregant, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business Alex W. Shaw, University of Chicago - Department of Psychology Eugene M.Caruso, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
• When a Buyer Gets Cold Feet: What is the Value of a Bidder Termination Provision in a Takeover? PDF Hamed Mahmudi, University of Oklahoma - Division of Finance Aazam Virani, University of Arizona - Department of Finance Xiaofei Zhao, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management
• Who Cares About Agency Costs in Executive Compensation? Minor Myers, Brooklyn Law School Justin Sevier, Florida State University - College of Law
• The Replicability of Experimental Legal Studies PDF Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, University of Pennsylvania Law School Kristin Firth, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Students David A. Hoffman, Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law |
7:30 pm |
Keynote Dinner Presidential Ballroom, Washington Duke Inn |
Saturday, November 19, 2016
7:00 am to 9:30 am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast 3rd floor loggia |
8:45 am to 10:45 am |
Panel 5: Elections Room 3041 |
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The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on Municipal Reform and Pensions Richard T. Boylan, Rice University - Department of Economics
Discussant: Daniel Ho |
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Electoral Laws, Political Institutions and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Latin America, 1800-2012 Rok Spruk, Universiteit Utrecht, Department of Economic and Social History
Discussant: Eisha Jain, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on Municipal Reform and Pensions Richard T. Boylan, Rice University - Department of Economics Judicial Federalism and Representation Jonathan P. Kastellec, Princeton University - Department of Political Science
Discussant: Georg Vanberg, |
8:45 am to 10:45 am |
Panel 5: Accounting & Law I Room 4047 Whistleblowers and Outcomes of Financial Misrepresentation Enforcement Actions Andrew C. Call, Arizona State University (ASU) - School of Accountancy Gerald S. Martin, American University – Kogod School of Business Nathan Y. Sharp, Texas A&M University - Department of Accounting Jaron H. Wilde, University of Iowa -Henry B. Tippie College of Business
Discussant: John Treu |
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Did Regulation Fair Disclosure Prevent Selective Disclosure? Direct Evidence from Intraday Volume and Returns John L. Campbell, University of Georgia - J.M. Tull School of Accounting Brady J. Twedt, Indiana University – Kelley School of Business – Department of Accounting Benjamin C. Whipple, University of Georgia - C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business
Discussant: Christina Synn |
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A Plain English Measure of Financial Reporting Readability Samuel B. Bonsall IV, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems Andrew J. Leone, University of Miami Brian P. Miller, Indiana University – Kelley School of Business – Department of Accounting Kristina M. Rennekamp, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Discussant: Lorein Stice-Lawrence |
8:45 am to 10:45 am |
Panel 5: Corporate Law and Governance II Room 3037 |
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Can Lax Corporate Law Increase Shareholder Value? Evidence from Nevada Ofer Eldar, Duke Universit, School of Law
Discussant: William Hubbard |
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Shareholder Reaction to Dead Hand Proxy Puts: Efficient Contracting and Hedge Fund Activism Sean J. Griffith, Fordham University School of Law Natalia Reisel, Fordham University
Discussant: Elisabeth de Fontenay, Duke University School of Law |
8:45 am to 10:45 am |
Panel 5: Bankruptcy I Room 4046 |
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The Consequences of Online Payday Lending Kathryn Fritzdixon, Vanderbilt University Paige Marta Skiba, Vanderbilt University - Law School
Discussant: Carlos Parra |
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'No Money Down' Bankruptcy Pamela Foohey, Indiana University Maurer School of Law Robert M. Lawless, University of Illinois College of Law Katherine M.Porter, University of California - Irvine School of Law Deborah Thorne, Ohio University - Department of Sociology
Discussant: Susan Hauser |
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Cracking the Code: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Bankruptcy Outcomes Sara Sternberg Greene, Duke University School of Law Katherine M. Porter, University of California - Irvine School of Law Parina Patel, Georgetown University
Discussant: Mark Linblad |
8:45 am to 10:45 am |
Panel 5: Intellectual Property I Room 4042 |
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Patent Races in the Real World: They're Different than Theory Suggests Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management Jeffrey M. Kuhn, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business; University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Discussant: Melissa Wasserman |
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The Price of Moral Rights: A Field Experiment Stefan Bechtold, ETH Zurich Christoph Engel, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods; University of Bonn - Faculty of Law & Economics; Universität Osnabrück - Faculty of Law
Discussant: Albert Yoon, |
8:45 am to 10:45 am |
Panel 5: Med Mal I Room 3000 |
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Damage Caps and Defensive Medicine: Reexamination with Patient Level Data Ali Moghtaderi, George Washington University Steven Farmer, George Washington University - School of Medicine and Health Sciences Bernard S. Black, Northwestern University – Pritzker School of Law; Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Discussant: Michael Frakes, Duke University School of Law |
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Looking Under the Cap: How Limitations to Damages Shape Hospitals’ Performance. An Empirical Investigation Paola Bertoli, University of Economics, Prague; Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute) Veronica Grembi, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Zenon Zabinski |
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Coevolution of Medical Malpractice Claims and Mortality Due to Complications from Medical Care Bryce Bartlett, Duke University, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Sociology, Students
Discussant: Rebecca Haffajee |
10:45 am to 11:00 am |
Break |
11:00 am to 1:00 pm |
Panel 6: Criminal Justice III Room 3000 Monitoring Police Officer Conduct Through Civilian Allegations: An Analysis Using Chicago Data Author: Kyle Rozema, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law Max M. Schanzenbach, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Discussant: Mat McCubbins, Duke University School of Law |
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What We Think, What We Know and What We Think We Know About False Convictions Samuel R. Gross, University of Michigan Law School
Discussant: Dan Simon |
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Using a Ratio Test to Estimate Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates David Bjerk, Claremont Colleges - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Eric Helland, Claremont McKenna College – Robert Day School of Economics and Finance; RAND
Discussant: Daniel Ho |
11:00 am to 1:00 pm |
Panel 6: Judges & Judging: Ideology and Policy Room 3041 Judith Spirig, University of Zurich - Institute for Political Science
Discussant: Valerie Hans |
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Religion and Judging on the Federal Courts of Appeals Author: Sepehr Shahshahani, Princeton University, Department of Politics, Students Lawrence J. Liu, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Students
Discussant: Stuart Benjamin, Duke University School of Law |
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The Role of Judicial Characteristics in Influencing Opinion Text Keith Carlson, Dartmouth College Michael A. Livermore, University of Virginia School of Law Daniel Rockmore, Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics; Dartmouth College -Department of Computer Science
Discussant: David Rohde, Duke University |
11:00 am to 1:00 pm |
Panel 6: Corporate Law and Governance III Room 3037 Piling On? An Empirical Study of Parallel Derivative Suits Stephen J. Choi, New York University School of Law Jessica Erickson, University of Richmond School of Law Adam C. Pritchard, University of Michigan Law School
Discussant: Minor Myers |
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Director Liability Reduction Laws and Conditional Conservatism Sudipta Basu, Temple University - Department of Accounting Yi Liang, Temple University - Department of Accounting
Discussant: Bryce Schonberger |
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Corporate Governance Changes as a Signal: Contextualizing the Performance Link Merritt B. Fox, Columbia University - Law School Ronald J. Gilson, Stanford Law School; Columbia Law School; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Darius Palia, Rutgers Business School; Center for Contract & Economic Organization
Discussant: Kate Litvak |
11:00 am to 1:00 pm |
Panel 6: Bankruptcy II Room 4046 Carlos Parra, The University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance, Students
Discussant: Robert Lawless |
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Waiting to File: Mortgage Arrears, Personal Bankruptcy, and the Foreclosure Discount Sarah Riley, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Discussant: Sara Greene, Duke University School of Law |
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Personal Bankruptcy, Asset Risk, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Tenancy by the Entirety Laws Jeffrey Traczynski, University of Hawaii - Department of Economics; FDIC, Division of Insurance and Research
Discussant: Pamela Foohey |
11:00 am to 1:00 pm |
Panel 6: Intellectual Property II Room 4042 David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania Law School Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Gokhan Oz, University of Pennsylvania - School of Arts & Sciences
Discussant: Neal Sukhatme |
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Low-Quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder: Evidence from Multiple Examiners Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Adam B. Jaffe Motu, Economic and Public Policy Research; Brandeis University; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Elizabeth Webster Swinburne, University of Technology; University of Melbourne – Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Discussant: Arti Rai, Duke University School of Law |
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Procrastination in the Workplace: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office Michael Frakes, Duke Law School Melissa F. Wasserman, The University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
Discussant: Kyle Rozema |
11:00 am to 1:00 pm |
Panel 6: Civics Room 4047 John G. Bullock, University of Texas at Austin Kelly Rader, Yale University
Discussant: Jessica Bregant |
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The Impact of Individualized Feedback on Law Student Performance Daniel Schwarczm, University of Minnesota Law School Dion Farganis, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law
Discussant: Mark Hall |
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Is Economics Research Replicable? Sixty Published Papers from Thirteen Journals Say 'Usually Not' Andrew C. Chang, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Phillip Li, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Discussant: Robert MacCoun |
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
Lunch Star Commons |
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm |
Panel 7: Criminal Justice IV Room 3000 Rasmus Landersø, Rockwool Foundation Research Unit Anne Sofie Tegner, Anker Rockwool Foundation Research Unit
Discussant: Richard Myers |
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Punishment and (Non- )Deterrence: Evidence on First-Time Drug Offenders from Regression Discontinuities Kevin T. Schnepel, University of Sydney; IZA
Discussant: Joseph Kennedy |
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm |
Panel 7: Predatory Practices Room 4042 Ronit Levine-Schnur, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Radzyner School of Law
Discussant: Dawn Chutkow |
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Inequality and the Mortgage Interest Deduction Daniel Jacob Hemel, University of Chicago Law School Kyle Rozema, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Discussant: Jed Stiglitz |
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Victim Oriented Tort Law in Action: An Empirical Examination of Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Cases Gijs van Dijck, Maastricht University - Faculty of Law
Discussant: Paola Bertoli |
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm |
Panel 7: Civil Rights Room 4047 Szilvia Altwicker-Hamori, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Health Professions, Centre for Health Sciences Tilmann Altwicker, University of Basel - Faculty of Law Anne Peters, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Discussant: Michael Heise |
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Rights, Redistribution, and the Rise of the 'Litigation State': The Case of Disability Discrimination Laws David Freeman Engstrom, Stanford Law School David Hausman, Stanford University, Department of Political Science
Discussant: Jeff Rachlinski |
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Targeted Ethnic Subsidies in Japan J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy
Discussant: Rok Spruk |
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm |
Panel 7: Corporate Law and Governance IV Room 3037 William C. Johnson, Suffolk University – Sawyer School of Management Jonathan M. Karpoff, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business Sangho Yi, Sogang University
Discussant: Ofer Eldar, Duke University School of Law |
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The Changing Landscape of Auditor Litigation Colleen Honigsberg, Stanford Law School Shivaram Rajgopal, Columbia Business School Suraj Srinivasan, Harvard Business School
Discussant: Kathryn Zeiler |
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Regulatory Competition and the Market for Corporate Law Ofer Eldar, Duke University School of Law Lorenzo Magnolfi, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
Discussant: Stuart Benjamin, Duke University School of Law |
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm |
Panel 7: Bankruptcy III Room 4046 Richard M. Hynes. University of Virginia School of Law Anne Lawton, Michigan State University - College of Law Margaret Howard, affiliation not provided to SSRN
Discussant: Luis Guirola, Duke University |
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What Drives Bankruptcy Forum Shopping? Evidence from Market Data Jared A. Ellias, University of California, Hastings
Discussant: Jeffrey Traczynski |
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Collateral, Ease of Repossession, and Leases: Evidence from Anti- Recharacterization Laws Yongqiang Chu, University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business
Discussant: Jared Ellias, University of California, Hastings |
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm |
Panel 7: Law and Finance I Room 3041 Financial Reporting Differences Around the World: What Matters? Helena IsidroI, SCTE IUL Business School Dhananjay Nanda, University of Miami - School of Business Administration Peter D. Wysocki, University of Miami - School of Business Administration
Discussant: Christoph Engel |
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Tapping Untapped Equity: Financing Frictions and Firm Acquisition Behavior Peter H. Haslag, Washington University in Saint Louis - John M. Olin Business School
Discussant: Srinivasan Krishnamurthy, North Carolina State University |
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The SEC’S Busted Randomized Experiment: What Can and Cannot Be Learned Kate Litvak, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law Bernard S. Black, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law; Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Discussant: Mat McCubbins, Duke University School of Law |
4:00 pm |
Conference ends |