Law and Economics.

PositionProgram and Working Group Meeting

Members of the NBER's Law and Economics Program met February 15 in Cambridge. Program Director Christine Jolls of Yale University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University, "Reducing Unjust Convictions: Plea Bargaining, Trial, and Evidence Suppression/Disclosure"

* Albert Choi, University of Virginia, and Kathryn E. Spier, Harvard University and NBER, "Class Actions and Private Antitrust Litigation"

* Martijn Cremers, University of Notre Dame; Scott Guernsey, University of Cambridge; and Simone M. Sepe, University of Arizona, "Directors' Duties Laws and Long-Term Firm Value"

* Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University, and Brett W. Myers, Texas Tech University, "The Selective Enforcement of Government Regulation: Battleground States and the EPA"

* Alexander Dyck, University of Toronto; Adair...

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