Law and Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Law and Economics, directed by Christine Jolls of Yale Law School, met in Cambridge on February 28 and March 1, 2013. These papers were discussed:

* Alexander Dyck, University of Toronto, and Adair Morse and Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER, "How Pervasive is Corporate Fraud?"

* Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER, and Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School, "Why Does Balanced News Produce Unbalanced Views?"(NBER Working Paper No. 18975)

* Scott Baker, Washington University School of Law, and Albert Choi, University of Virginia Law School, "Reputation and Litigation: Using Formal Sanctions to Control Informal Sanctions"

* Louis Kaplow, Harvard Law School and NBER, "Optimal Multistage Adjudication"

* Joshua Fischman, Northwestern University School of Law, "Measuring Inconsistency, Indeterminacy, and Error in Adjudication"

* Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School and NBER, "Risk Aversion and the Optimality of Attenuated Legal Change"

* John Matsusaka and Oguzhan Ozbas, University...