NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Law and Economics Program Meeting

Christine Jolls, Organizer

February 8, 2008

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7:

7:00 pm Group Dinner

Restaurant Dante at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8:

8:45 am Continental Breakfast

9:15 am Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

(coauthored with Anthony Niblett, Harvard University, and Richard Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals)

The Evolution of a Legal Rule

Discussant: Richard Holden, Sloan School, MIT, and NBER

10:10 am Suzanne Scotchmer, UC-Berkeley and NBER
(coauthored with Nisvan Erkal, University of Virginia)
Scarcity of Ideas and Options for R&D

Discussant:  Louis Kaplow, Harvard Law School and NBER

11:05 am Coffee

11:20 am Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER

Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago School of Law
Extremism and Social Learning

Discussant: Oliver Hart, Harvard University and NBER

12:15 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Mireille Jacobson, UC-Irvine

(coauthored with Heather Royer, Case Western University)
TRAPs:  How Do Clinic Regulations Affect the Market for Abortions?

Discussant: Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University and NBER

1:55 pm C. Fritz Foley, Harvard Business School and NBER

Welfare Payments and Crime

Discussant: Lars Lefgren, Brigham Young University

2:50 pm Break

3:10 pm Betsey Stevenson, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Beyond the Classroom

Discussant: J. J. Prescott, University of Michigan Law School

4:05 pm John de Figueiredo, Anderson School of Business, UCLA, and NBER

(coauthored with Charles Cameron, Princeton University) 

Endogenous Cost Lobbying:  Theory and Evidence

Discussant: Joshua Fischman, Tufts University

5:00 pm Adjourn

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