Seminar Series: Law and Economics

Past Seminars

Professor David Abrams
Tel: 215.898.7497
Email: dabrams@law.upenn.edu

2009

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Jeffrey R. Kling Associate Director for Economic Analysis, Congressional Budget Office 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Gittis 1 Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy (pdf)

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Steven M. Shavell Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Gittis 1 Should Copyright Of Academic Works Be Abolished? (pdf)

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

A. Mitchell Polinsky Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and Economics, Stanford Law School 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Gittis 1 The Uneasy Case for Product Liability (pdf)

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Jens C. Dammann Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Gittis 1 Where Are Limited Liability Companies Formed? An Empirical Analysis (pdf)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009x

Jens Ludwig McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy, University of Chicago Law School 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Gittis 1 The Effects of Court Ordered School Desegregation on Crime (pdf)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

David A. Hyman Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor, University of Illinois 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Gittis 1 Enforcing Competition Law: Benefits and Costs of a Multi-Purpose Agency (pdf)

2008

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Daniel Ho Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Tanenbaum Hall, Rm 145 "Viewpoint Diversity and Media Consolidation: An Empirical Study" (pdf)

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Orley Ashenfelter Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University and Director of the Industrial Relations Section 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Tanenbaum Hall, Rm 145 "The Effect of Mergers on Consumer Prices: Evidence from Five Selected Case Studies" (pdf)

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Kathryn Spier Professor of Law, Harvard Law School 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Tanenbaum Hall, Rm 145 "Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities" (pdf)

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Kathryn Zeiler Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Tanenbaum Hall, Rm 145 “The Endowment Effect: Implications of Recent Empirical Developments for Legal Theory” (pdf)

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Thomas Miles Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Tanenbaum Hall, Rm 145 "Racial Disparities in the Allocation of Wiretap Applications across Federal Judges" (pdf)

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Dean Lueck Bartley P. Cardon Professor, University of Arizona 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Tanenbaum Hall, Rm 145 "The Demarcation Of Land: Patterns And Economic Effects" (pdf)