Law and Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

NBER's Law and Economics Program met in Cambridge on February 6. Program Director Christine Jolls, NBER and Yale Law School, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Rosalind Dixon, University of Chicago Law School, and Richard Holden, MIT and NBER, "Amending the Constitution: Article V and the Effect of Voting Rule Inflation"

* Vikrant Vig, London Business School, "Access to Collateral and Corporate Debt Structure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment"

* Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto, and Mark Schankerman, London School of Economics, "Patent Thickets and the Market for Innovation: Evidence from Settlement of Patent Disputes"

* Haresh Sapra, University of Chicago; Ajay Subramanian, Georgia State University; and Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Emory University, "Corporate Governance and Innovation: Theory and Evidence"

* Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER, and Gergely...