Publication: NBER Reporter
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
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The NBER's Program on Law and Economics met in Cambridge on March 2. Program Director Christine M. Jolls of Yale Law School organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:
Louis Kaplow, Harvard Law School and NBER, "Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences"
Discussant: Chris Sanchirico, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Abraham Wickelgren, Northwestern University School of Law, "The Economics of Constitutional Rights and Voting Rules"
Discussant: Joshua Fischman, Tufts University
Benjamin E. Hermalin, University of California, Berkeley, and Michael S. Weisbach, University of Illinois and
NBER, "Transparency and Corporate Governance"(NBER Working Paper No. 12875)
Discussant: Nicola Persico, New York University and NBER
Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School and NBER, "On Optimal Legal Change, Past Behavior, and Grand fathering"
Discussant: Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College
Edward Morrison, Columbia Law School, "Bargaining Around Bankruptcy: Small Business Distress and State Law"
Discussant: Albert Choi, University of Virginia School of Law
Christopher Avery and Alvin E. Roth, Harvard University and NBER; Christine M. Jolls; and Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals, "The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks"
Discussant: Betsey Stevenson, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Jesse Rothstein, Princeton University and NBER, and Albert H. Yoon, Northwestern University School of Law "Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?" and "Mismatch in Law School"
Discussant: Justin Wolfers, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Suzanne Scotchmer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies"
Discussant: Ian Ayres, Yale Law School and NBER
Optimal policy rules--including those regarding income taxation, commodity taxation, public goods, and externalities--are typically derived in models with preferences that are homogeneous. Kaplow reconsiders many central results for the case in which preferences for commodities,...
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