Day One of the Second Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at NYU Law School in NY, NY. (Authors, Papers, and Discussants after the jump.)
9:00-11:00 Courts & Judges I
Frank Cross, Thomas Smith & Antonio Tmarchio, Determinants of Cohesion in the Supreme Court’s Network of Precedents (Discussant: Tracey George)
Charles Cameron & Thomas Clark, The Macro-Politics of the Supreme Court (Discussant: Nicola Persico)
Jeffrey Segal, Chad Westerland & Stafanie Lindquist, Congress, the Supreme Court, and Judicial Review: Testing a Constitutional Separation of Powers Model (Discussant: Lewis Kornhauser)
9:00-11:00 Corporate I
Martijn Cremers, Vinay Nair & Urs Peyer, Takeover Defenses and Competition (Discussant: Daniel Wolfenzon)
Rejin Guo, Timothy Kruse & Tom Nohel, Undoing the Powerful Anti-Takeover Force of Staggered Boards (Discussant: Guhan Subramanian)
Xavier Grioud & Holger Mueller, Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries (Discussant: Andrew Metrick)
9:00-11:00 Bankruptcy I
Lynn LoPucki & Joseph Doherty, The Determinants of Professional Fees in Large Bankruptcy Reorganization Cases Revisited (Discussant: Ed Morrison)
Jay Westbrook & Elizabeth Warren, Chapter 11: Conventional Wisdom and Reality (Discussant: Antoinette Schoar)
Ronald Mann, Making Sense of Nation-Level Bankruptcy Filing Rates (Discussant: Stephen J. Lubben)
9:00-11:00 Civil Litigation I
Kuo-Chang Huang, Does Discovery Promote Settlement? A Lesson from Taiwan (Discussant: Keith Hylton)
Seth Seabury, Inferring Beliefs from Selected Samples: Evidence from Civil Litigation (Discussant: Anup Malani)
Gillian Hadfield, Settlement Values: How 9/11 Victims Saw the Choice Between Money and Going to Court (Discussant: Robert Rabin)
9:00-11:00 Criminal I
Nancy King, Fred Cheesman & Brian Ostrom, Habeas Litigation in the U.S. District Courts (Discussant: Trevor Morrison)
Jeffrey Fagan, Aaron Kupchik & Akiva Liberman, Be Careful What You Wish For: Legal Sanctions and Public Safety Among Adolescent Offenders in Juvenile and Criminal Court (Discussant: Samuel Gross)
9:00-11:00 Intellectual Property
James Bessen & Michael Meurer, The Private Costs of Patent Litigation (Discussant: Jay Kesan)
Mark Lemley & Bhaven Sampat, Is the Patent Office a Rubber Stamp? (Discussant: Katherine Strandburg)
Paul Heald, Property Rights and the Efficient Exploitation of Copyrighted Works: An Empirical Analysis of Public Domain and Copyrighted Fiction Best Sellers (Discussant: Barton Beebe)
11:00-1:15 Law & Politics I
Michael Alvarez, Delia Bailey & Jonathan Katz, Estimating the Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout (Discussant: Andrew Martin)
Jonathan Nagler & Jan Leighley, Electoral Laws and Turnout, 1972-2004 (Discussant: Charles Cameron)
Adam Cox & Thomas Miles, Judging the Voting Rights Act (Discussant: Ellen Katz)
11:15-1:15 Corporate II
Alexander Dyck, Adair Morse & Luigi Zingales, How Pervasive Is Corporate Fraud? (Discussant: Jennifer Arlen)
Jonathan Karpoff, Scott Lee & Gerald Martin, The Determinants of Managerial Decisions to Cook the Books (Discussant: Mark Cohen)
Anup Agrawal & Tommy Cooper, Corporate Governance Consequences of Accounting Scandals: Evidence from Top Management, CFO and Auditor Turnover (Discussant: Cindy Alexander)
11:15-1:15 Bankruptcy II
Rainer Haselmann & Paul Wachtel, Institutions and Bank Behavior (Discussant: Curtis Milhaupt)
Tom Chang & Antoinette Schoar, Judge Specific Differences in Chapter 11 and Firm Outcomes (Discussant: Alan Schwartz)
Kenneth Ayotte & Edward Morrison, Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11 (Discussant: Barry Adler)
11:15-1:15 Experimental Dispute Resoltuion I
Russell Korobkin & Joseph Dorety, Who Wins in Settlement Negotiations? (Discussant: Charles Silver)
Juan Carrillo & Thomas Palfrey, The Compromise Game: Two-Sided Adverse Selection in the Laboratory (Discussant: Kathy Zeiler)
Claudia Landeo, Tort Reform and Disputes Under Endogenous Beliefs (Discussant: Dan Simon)
11:15-1:15 Criminal II
Randi Hjalmarsson, Crime and Expected Punishment: Changes in Perceptions at the Age of Criminal Majority (Discussant: Justin McCrary)
Danton Berube & Donald Green, The Effects of Sentencing on Recidivism: Results from a Natural Experiment (Discussant: Daniel Ho)
David Abrams, Marianne Betrand & Sendhil Mullainathan, Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race? (Discussant: Justin Wolfers)
11:15-1:15 Empirical Analysis
Anup Malani, Expectations of Future Laws (Discussant: Eric Talley)
Michael McDonald & Justin Levitt, Seeing Double Voting: An Extension of the Birthday Problem (Discussant: Dan Rubinfeld)
William Anderson & Martin T. Wells, Numerical Analysis in Least Squares Regression with an Application to the Abortion-Crime Debate (Discussant: Bruce Spencer)
2:15-4:15 Courts & Judges II
Christina Boyd, Lee Epstein & Andrew Martin, Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging (Discussant: Kevin Quinn)
Tracey George & Albert Yoon, Chief Judges: The Limits of Attiudinal Theory and Possible Paradox of Managerial Judging (Discussant: Jeff Segal)
Matthew Sag, Tonja Jacobi & Maxim Sytch, The Effect of Judicial Ideology in Intellectual Property Cases (Discussant: Patrick Egan)
2:15-4:15 Corporate III
Yair Listokin, Management Always Wins the Close Ones (Discussant: Edward Rock)
Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers & Urs Peyer, CEO Centrality (Discussant: Paul Oyer)
Howard Rosenthal & Erik Voeten, Measuring Legal Systems (Discussant: Katharina Pistor)
2:15-4:15 Commercial Contracts
Adair Morse, Payday Lenders: Heroes or Villains? (Discussant: Larry White)
Christopher Lewis Peterson, Usury Law, Payday Loans, and Statutory Slight of Hand: An Empirical Analysis of American Credit Pricing Limits (Discussant: Michael Barr)
Katherine Porter, Profiting from ‘Profligates’: The Credit Industry’s Business Model for Postbankruptcy Lending (Discussant: Oren Bar-Gill)
2:15-4:15 Torts
Paul Rubin & Joanna Shepherd, The Demographics of Tort Reform: Winners and Losers (Discussant: Theodore Eisenberg)
Eric Helland, Crash & Learn: Consumption Externalities and the Reduction of Aircraft Accidents (Discussant: MIchael Heise)
Alan Marco & Casey Salvietti, What Does Tort Law Deter? Precaution and Activity Levels in No-Faul Automobile Insurance (Discussant: Bentley MacLeod)
2:15-4:15 Criminal III
Beth Simmons & Allison Danner, Credible Commitments and the International Criminal Court (Discussant: Andrew Guzman)
Samuel Gross & Barbara O’Brien, Frequency and Predictors of False Conviction: The Problem, and Some Data on Capital Cases (Discussant: John Blume)
Stephane Mechoulan, The External Effects of Black-Male Incarceration on Black Females (Discussant: JJ Prescott)
2:15-4:15 Experimental II: Decisionmaking about Risk
John Darley, Lawrence Solan, Matthew Kugler & Joseph Sanders, Liability for Risk: Citizens’ Perspectives on Liability for Loss of Chance (Discussant: Richard Lempert)
Dan Kahan, Paul Slovic, Donald Braman, John Gastil & Geoffrey Cohen, Affect, Values and Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions: An Experimental Investigation (Discussant: Robert MacCoun)
4:30-5:50 Courts & Judges III
James Gibson & Gregory Caldeira, Knowing About Courts (Discussant: Neal Beck)
Jed Shugerman, The Twist of Long Terms: Disasters, Elected Judges, and American Tort Law (Discussant: Sandy Gordon)
4:30-5:50 Securities I
Howell Jackson & Mark Roe, Public Enforcement of Securities Laws: Preliminary Evidence (Discussant: Jack Coffee)
Karen Nelson & Adam Pritchard, Litigation Risk and Voluntary Disclosure: The Use of Meaningful Cautionary Language (Discussant: Jill Fisch)
4:30-5:50 Contracts
Jonathan Klick, Bruce Kobayashi & Larry Ribstein, The Effect of Contract Regulation: The Case of Franchising (Discussant: Gillian Hadfield)
John Horton, Contract Characteristics and the Probability of Litgation (Discussant: Alan Marco)
4:30-5:50 Legal Profession
Paul Oyer & Scott Schaefer, Personnel-Economic Geography: Evidence from Large US Law Firms (Discussant: Geoffrey Miller)
Herbert Kritzer, To Lawyer, or Not to Lawyer, Is That the Question? (Discussant: Tom Baker)
4:30-5:50 Finance, Bankruptcy & Coporate Governance I
Vladimir Atanasov, Bernard Black, Conrad Ciccotello, Stanley Gyoshev, How Does Law Affect Finance? An Examination of Financial Tunneling in an Emerging Market (Discussant: Alexander Dyck)
Art Durney & larry Fauver, Stealing from Thieves: Firm Governance and Performance When States Are Predatory (Discussant: Vik Khanna)
4:30-5:50 Taxation I
Chris Sanchirico, Progressivity and Potential Income: Measuring the Effect of Changing Work Patterns on Income Tax Progressivity (Discussant: Daniel Shaviro)
Joel Slemrod, Why Is Elvis on Burkina Faso Postage Stamps? The Commercialization of State Sovereignty (Discussant: Jon Bakija)
