Law and economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research - Nicola Persico and Viral V. Acharya from New York University - Wei Jiang from Columbia University - Brief article - Conference notes

The NBER's Program on Law and Economics, directed by Christine Jolls of Yale Law School, met in Cambridge on March 19, 2010. These papers were discussed:

* Nicola Persico, New York University and NBER; Edoardo di Porto, EQUIPPE, USTL Lille; and Nicolas Sahuguet, HEC Montreal, "Tax Auditing Without Commitment, With an Application to Labor Tax Evasion in Italy"

* Wei Jiang, Columbia University, and Vikas Agarwal, Yuehua Tang, and Baozhong Yang, Georgia State University, "Do Institutional Investors Have an Ace up Their Sleeves? Evidence from Confidential Filings of Portfolio Holdings"

* Viral V. Acharya, New York University and NBER; Stewart C. Myers, MIT and NBER; and Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago and NBER, "The Internal Governance of Firms" (NBER Working Paper No. 15568)

* Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University and NBER, and Claudia Olivetti, Boston University and NBER, "Gender and Dynamic Agency: Theory and Evidence on the Compensation of Top Executives"

* Max Schanzenbach...