Law and Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Law and Economics Program, directed by Christine Jolls of Yale University, met in Cambridge on February 20. These papers were discussed:

* Megan Lawrence, Harvard University; Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard University and NBER; and Victor Calanog, Reis, Inc, "Bidding for Business: Tax Discrimination as Local Industrial Policy"

* Bradley Larsen, Stanford University and NBER, "Occupational Licensing and Quality: Distributional and Heterogeneous Effects in the Teaching Profession"

* Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and NBER; Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas; and Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University, "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms" (NBER Working Paper No. 20322)

* Kathryn Spier, Harvard University and NBER, and J.J. Prescott, University of Michigan, "Tailored Suits: Contracting on Litigation"

* Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University, "Informal Sanctions on Prosecutors and Defendants and the Disposition of Criminal Cases"

* Adair Morse, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER, and Wei Wang...