Professor Jennifer Arlen '86

The Law & Economics Workshop is designed for NYU faculty to present papers to an audience strongly interested in law and economics. It is a particularly useful place to present papers that are at a relatively early stage, have a model, are empirical, or would benefit from the format of this workshop.

Fall 2024 Schedule of Presenters

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Elliott Ash
Title:  Do Words Matter? The Value of Collective Bargaining Agreements (with Benjamin Arold, W. Bentley MacLeod, and Suresh Naidu)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Oren Bar-Gill
Title: Uncertainty about Signal Correlation (with Alon Bebchuk, Anat Bracha and Alma Cohen)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Scott Hemphill
Title: SHORTING YOUR RIVAL:  NEGATIVE OWNERSHIP AS AN ANTITRUST REMEDY (with Ian Ayres and Abraham L. Wickelgren)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Tamar Kricheli-Katz
Title: Gender-Neutral Language and Gender Disparities (with Alma Cohen, Tzur Karelitz, Sephi Pumpian, and Tali Regev)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Prabha Kotiswaran
Title: TBA
Location: Snow Dining Room

Spring 2025 Schedule of Presenters

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Kevin Davis
Title: TBA
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Michael Ohlrogge
Title: TBA
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Omar Vasquez Duque
Title: TBA
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Daniel Francis
Title: TBA
Location: VH 208

Spring 2024 Schedule of Presenters

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Michael Frakes
Title: Deadlines Versus Continuous Incentives: Evidence from the Patent Office (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Stephan Tontrup
Title: Trading and Attentional Focus – Why we may overestimate the Impact of the Endowment Effect
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
Title:  A Coding Approach for Automated Legal Interpretation: The Case of Privacy Policies (with David Stein)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Kobi Kastiel
Title: What Happens in Delaware: Courts, Legislatures and Corporate Law (with Assaf Hamdani)
Location: VH 208

Fall 2023 Schedule of Presenters

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Lewis Kornhauser
Title:  A Theory of Expertise in Adjudication (with Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Presenter: Vicki Been
Title: Supply Skepticism Revisited (with Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Katherine O’Regan)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Stephen Choi
Title: COVID Risk Factor Disclosures (with Mitu Gulati, Xuan Liu, & A.C. Pritchard)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Daniel Hemel
Title: Redistributive Regulations and Deadweight Loss
Location: VH 208

Spring 2023 Schedule of Presenters

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Robert Jackson and Edwin Hu
Title: Regulatory Leakage Among Financial Advisors:  Evidence From FINRA Regulation of “Bad” Brokers
(with Colleen Honigsberg)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Ryan Bubb, Emiliano Catan and Holger Spamann
Title: Shareholder Rights and the Bargaining Structure in Control Transactions
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Murat Mungan
Title: TBA
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Kevin Davis
Title: Corruption and Controlling Shareholders (with Mariana Pargendler)
Location: VH 208

Fall 2022 Schedule of Presenters

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Marcel Kahan and Ed Rock
Title:  The Emergence of Welfarist Corporate Governance
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Daniel Hemel
Title: Valuing Future Lives (with Jonathan Masur)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Richard Brooks
Title: Incomplete Contracts, Writings and the Duty to Perform in Good Faith and Best Efforts Clauses (with Patrick Bolton)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Jennifer Arlen
Title: Battle for our Souls:  A Psychological Justification for Corporate and Individual Liability for Organizational Misconduct (with Lewis Kornhauser)
Location: VH 208

Spring 2022 Schedule of Presenters

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Harald Halbhuber
Title: An Economic Substance Approach to SPAC Regulation
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Jonah Gelbach
Title: Testing Economic Models Of Discrimination In Criminal Justice
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

April Klein
Title: Investors’ Response to the #MeToo Movement:  Does Corporate Culture Matter? (with Mary Billings and Yanting [Crystal] Shi)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Arpit Gupta
Title: Community Impacts of Mass Incarceration (with Christopher Hansman and Evan Riehl)
Location: VH 208

 

Fall 2021 Schedule of Presenters

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Emiliano Catan and Marcel Kahan
Title: Corporate Governance and Firm Value
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Ádám Fehér
Title: Noncompete and Dedicated Human Capital
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Michael Ohlrogge
Title: Is SPAC Sponsor Compensation Evolving? A Sober Look at Earnouts (With Michael Klausner)
Location: VH 208

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Kevin Davis
Title: Legal Disagreement (with Alfredo Guerra Guevara)
Location: VH 208

 

Spring 2021 Schedule of Presenters

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Scott Hemphill and Marcel Kahan
Title: Endogenous Choice of Stakes Under Common Ownership
Location: online

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Robert Jackson
Title: Wandering Financial Advisors (with Colleen Honigsberg and Edwin Hu)
Location: online

 

Fall 2020 Schedule of Presenters

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

April Klein
Title: Across the Pond: The Impact of the GDPR on the Resiliency of U.S. Firms’ Board of Directors (with Raffaele Manini and Yanting [Crystal] Shi)
Location: online

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Ryan Bubb and Emiliano Catan
Title: The Party Structure of Mutual Funds
Location: online

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Kevin Davis and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
Title: Regulatory Spillovers: The Case of GDPR
Location: online

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Stephen Choi and Jessica Erickson
Title: Coalitions among Plaintiffs’ Attorneys in Securities Class Actions (with A.C. Pritchard)
Location: online

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Michael Ohlrogge
Title: A Sober Look at SPACs (with Michael Klausner)
Location: online

 

Spring 2020 Schedule of Presenters

 

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Marcel Kahan and Scott Hemphill
Title: Measuring Common Ownership
Location: Vanderbilt Hall 208

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Yijia Lu
Title: TESTING A FINE IS A PRICE IN THE LAB (with Lewis Kornhauser and Stephan Tontrup)
Location: Vanderbilt Hall 208

Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - CANCELED

Stephen Choi
Title: TBA
Location: Vanderbilt Hall 208

Wednesday, April 8, 2020 - CANCELED

Florencia Marotta-Wurgler & Kevin Davis
Title: TBA
Location: Vanderbilt Hall 208

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - CANCELED

Emiliano Catan and Marcel Kahan
Title: TBA
Location: Vanderbilt Hall 208