Workshop Year 2015-2016

October 1, 2015

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Professor of Law and Economics, University of Amsterdam Faculties of Law and of Economics, and Co-Director, Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics, “The Emergence of the Corporate Form.”

October 8, 2015

David Webber, Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law, “Does the Quality of the Plaintiffs’ Law Firm Matter in Deal Litigation?” Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics and Organization Workshop

October 29, 2015

Emiliano M. Catan, Associate Professor, New York University School of Law, “The Law and Finance of Anti-Takeover Statutes.” Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics and Organization Workshop

November 19, 2015

Victor Fleischer, Professor, University of San Diego Law School, “Alpha: Labor is the New Capital.”  Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics and Organization Workshop

January 21, 2016

Holger Spamann, Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School, “Justice is Less Blind, and Less Legalistic, Than We Thought: Evidence from an Experiment with Real Judges.” Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics and Organization Workshop

February 4, 2016

Xavier Gabaix, Professor, New York University Stern School of Business, “Optimal Taxation with Behavioral Agents” (Paper with Emmanuel Farhi). Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics and Organization Workshop

February 24, 2016

David M. Schizer ’93, YLS Visiting Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus and Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law and Economics, Columbia Law School, “Energy Subsidies: Worthy Goals, Competing Priorities and Flawed Institutional Design.”

March 3, 2016

Martin Hellwig, Director, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Professor of Economics, University of Bonn, “Financial Stability and Monetary Policy in a Time of Crisis.” Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics and Organization Workshop

March 24, 2016

Simone Sepe, Professor of Law and Finance, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and Eller College of Management, “Hedge Fund Activism and Long-Term Firm Value.” Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics and Organization Workshop