Second Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies: Day Two
| November 10, 2007 |
Day Two 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 Law & Politics II
Christopher Berry & Jacob Gersen, The Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions (Discussant: Eric Helland)
Delia Bailey & Jonathan Katz, Re-Assessing the Impact of Majority-Minority Districts on Congressional Elections (Discussant: Nate Persily)
Anna Bassi, Rebecca Morton & Jessica Trounstine, How the Delegation of Voting Rights Affects the Measurement of Voting Behavior (Discussant: Matt McCubbins)
9:00-11:00 Corporate IV
John Armour, Simon Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar, Mathias Siems, Ajit Singh, Shareholder Protection & Stock Market Development: Test of Legal Origins Hypothesis (Discussant: Howell Jackson)
Simi Kedia & Shivaram Rajgopal, Neighborhood Matters: The Impact of Location on Broad Based Stock Option Plans (Discussant: Scott Schaefer)
James Brown, Dino Falaschetti & Michael Orlando, Auditor Independence and Earnings Quality: Evidence for Market Discipline vs. Sarbanes-Oxley Proscriptions (Discussant: April Klein)
9:00-11:00 Finance, Bankruptcy & Corporate Governance II
Vedran Capkun, Bankruptcy Resolution: Duration, APR Violations, DIP Financing & Delaware (Discussant: Richard Hynes)
Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Frederick Tung & Xue Wang, Law, Agency Costs and Project Finance: An Empirical Analysis (Discussant: Kose John)
Marina Martynova & Luc Renneboog, A Corporate Governance Index: Convergence and Diversity of National Corporate Governance Regulations (Discussant: Hannes Wagner)
9:00-11:00 Medical Malpractice
Michelle Mello & David Studdert, Deconstructing Negligence: The Role of Individual and System Factors in Causing Medical Injuries (Discussant: John Rolph)
David Hyman, Bernard Black, Charles Silver & William Sage, The Effect of Caps on Non-Economic Damages on Jury Verdicts, Post-Verdict Payouts, and Settlements: Evidence from Texas Medical Malpractice Cases (Discussant: Cathy Sharkey)
Ronen Avraham & Alvaro Bustos, The Unexpected Effect of Tort Reform: Do Caps Delay Settlements? (Discussant: Kathy Spier)
9:00-11:00 Race and Sex
Joseph Price & Justin Wolfers, Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees (Discussant: Ian Ayres)
Amit Gandi, Matthew L. Spitzer & Simon Wilkie, Cheap Sex and the Changing Economics of Broadcast Television (Discussant: Dan Crane)
Katerina Linos, What Accounts for the Development of Employment Anti-Discrimination Laws Across OECD Countries? (Discussant: Kim Yuracko)
9:00-11:00 Property & Environment I
Hilary Sigman, Environmental Liability and Redevelopment of Old Industrial Land (Discussant: Richard Stewart)
Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Michael Gedal & Ioan Voicu, The Impact of Supportive Housing on Surrounding Neighborhoods (Discussant: Jay Weiser)
Jonathan Remy Nash, Packaging Property: The Effect of Paradigmatic Framing of Property Rights (Discussant: Richard Epstein)
11:00-12:35 Law & Politics III
Sanford Gordon, An Analysis of Partisan Bias in Federal Public Corruption Prosecutions (Discussant: Anne Morrison Piehl)
Cheryl Boudreau & Mathew McCubbins, From Competition to Competence? Theory and Experiments Regarding Deliberation and Citizen Learning (Discussant: Rebecca Morton)
11:15-12:35 Corporate V
Marco Becht, Colin Mayer, Hannes Wagner, Where Do Firms Incorporate? Deregulation and the Cost of Entry (Discussant: Jens Damann)
Cindy Alexander, Mark Chen, Duane Seppi, Chester Spatt, The Role of Advisory Services in Proxy Voting (Discussant: Edward Rock)
11:15-12:35 Securities II
Artyom Durnev, Merritt Fox, Randall Morck & Bernard Yeung, Required Line of Business Reporting and Share Price Accuracy (Discussant: Allen Ferrell)
Alicia Davis Evans, Do Individual Investors Affect Share Price Accuracy? Some Preliminary Evidence (Discussant: Stephen Choi)
11:15-12:35 Taxation II
Mihir Desai & Dhammika Dharmapala, Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities (Discussant: David Walker)
Michael Barr & Jane Dokko, Paying to Save: Tax Withholding and Asset Allocation Among Low- and Moderate-Income Taxpayers (Discussant: Nadia Eissa)
11:15-12:35 Family Law
Ira Mark Ellman, Sanford Braver & Robert MacCoun, Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support (Tess Wilkinson-Ryan)
Betsey Stevenson, Divorce-Law Changes, Household Bargaining, and Married Women’s Labor Supply Revisited (Discussant: Lynn Mather)
11:15-12:35 Property & Environment II
Janice Nadler & Shari Seidman Diamond, Eminent Domain and the Psychology of Property Rights (Discussant: Robert Ellickson)
David Markell & Tom Tyler, Using Empirical Research to Explore the Ways to Enhance Citizen Roles in Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (Discussant: Jeffrey Rachlinski)
1:35-3:35 Courts & Judges IV
Clifford Carrubba, Barry Friedman, Andrew Martin & Georg Vanberg, The Power on the Supreme Court (Discussant: Daniel Rodriguez)
Jonathan Kastellec & Jeffrey Lax, Case Selection and the Study of Judicial Politics (Discussant: Dan Klerman)
Stephen Choi, Gaurang Mitu Gulati & Eric Posner, Professionals or Politicians: The Uncertain Empirical Case for an Elected Rather than Appointed Judiciary (Discussant: Stefanie Lindquist)
1:35-3:35 Corporate VI
Kate Litvak, Long-Term Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley on Cross-Listing Premia (Discussant: Craig Doidge)
Vitaliy Zheka, Does Corporate Governance Causally Predict Firm Performance? Panel Data and Instrumental Variables Evidence (Discussant: Mathias Siems)
Xi Li, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Cross-Listed Foreign Private Issuers (Discussant: Reinier Kraakman)
1:35-3:35 Financial Institutions
Martin Cihak & Richard Podpiera, Are More Integrated Prudential Supervision Agencies Characterized by Better Regulation and Supervision? (Discussant: Richard Scott Carnell)
Bart Leyman & Koen Schoors, Loan Securities and Bank Debt Restructuring of Small to Medium-Sized Distressed Firms (Discussant: Charles Calomiris)
Donato Masciandaro, Determinants of Financial Supervision Regimes: Markets, Institutions, Politics, Law or Geography? (Discussant: Geoffrey Miller)
1:35-3:35 Health
Barak Richman, Insurance Mandates: Do They Hurt Those They’re Designed to Help? (Discussant: Russell Korobkin)
Pascoe Pleasence, Nigel Balmer & Alexy Buck, Mental Health and the Experience of Problems Involving Rights (Discussant: Sherry Glied)
Jill Horwitz & Austin Nichols, What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix (Discussant: Henry Hansmann)
1:35-3:35 Juries and Judges
Alayna Jehle, Monica Miller & Markus Kemmelmeier, The Influence of Accounts and Remorse on Mock Jurors’ Judgments of Offenders (Discussant: Jennifer Robbennolt)
Jeffrey Rachlinski, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Andrew Wistrich, Chris Guthrie, Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges? (Discussant: Kristin Lane)
Mary Rose, Christopher Ellison & Shari Seidman Diamond, Preferences for Juries over Judges Across Racial and Ethnic Groups (Discussant: Valerie Hans)
1:35-3:35 Civil Litigation II
Thomas Cohen, Do Federal and State Courts Differ in How They Handle Civil Trial Litigation: A Portrait of Civil Trials in State and Federal District Courts (Discussant: Nicole Waters)
Rebecca Eyre, Joe Cecil & Eric Topor, Judicial Management of Patent Claim Construction (Discussant: Bhaven Sampat)
Thomas Bak, John Golmant & James Woods, A Comparison of the Effects of the 1978 and 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Legislation (Discussant: Vedran Capkun)
