SSRN CELS 2008 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (Archive)

1.

Private Enforcement of Corporate Law: An Empirical Comparison of the UK and US

as published in Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Vol. 6, pp. 687-722, 2009, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 89, McCombs Research Paper Series, Paper No. FIN-02-07, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1105355, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 120, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 234

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2010

Accepted Paper Series

John Armour, Bernard S. Black, Brian R. Cheffins and Richard Nolan

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and University of York - York Law School

Downloads 2,193

2.

Whose Eyes are You Going to Believe? Scott v. Harris and the Perils of Cognitive Illiberalism

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 122, 2009, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 159, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-18, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, David A. Hoffman and Donald Braman

Yale University - Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School and George Washington University - Law School

Downloads 2,189

3.

Agency Problems at Dual-Class Companies

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 209/2008

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 May 2008 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Ronald W. Masulis, Cong Wang and Fei Xie

University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and University of Delaware

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,831

4.

Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?

Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 54, No. 1, February 2011, Columbia Business School Research Paper

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2015

Accepted Paper Series

J.J. Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff

University of Michigan Law School and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,713

5.

Corporate Governance and Innovation: Theory and Evidence

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 08-05

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014

Working Paper Series

Haresh Sapra, Ajay Subramanian and Krishnamurthy Subramanian

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Georgia State University and Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,610

6.

Are All Inside Directors the Same? Evidence from the External Directorship Market.

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 241/2009, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 22 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Ronald W. Masulis and Shawn Mobbs

University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business and University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration

Downloads 1,545

7.

Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 71, No. 3, 2010, U of Michigan Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 08-004, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Daniel Martin Katz and Derek K. Stafford

Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Michigan - Department of Political Science

Downloads 1,516

8.

Does the Market for CEO Talent Explain Controversial CEO Pay Practices?

Review of Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 26 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Martijn Cremers and Yaniv Grinstein

University of Notre Dame and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Downloads 1,403

9.

How the Merits Matter: D&O Insurance and Securities Settlements

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, pp. 755, 2009, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-22, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1101068

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 17 May 2008 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith

University of Pennsylvania Law School and Fordham University School of Law

Downloads 1,240

10.

Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Reversal Rates in Patent Cases

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 107, p. 223, 2008, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property, Science & Technology Research Paper No. 09-016

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2010

Accepted Paper Series

David L. Schwartz

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 1,225

11.

The Real Student-Loan Scandal: Undue Hardship Discharge Litigation

American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83, No. 1, 2009, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Rafael I. Pardo and Michelle R. Lacey

Emory University School of Law and Tulane University

Downloads 1,088

12.

Corporate Governance, Enforcement, and Firm Value: Evidence from India

U of Michigan Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 08-005, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2012

Working Paper Series

Dhammika Dharmapala and Vikramaditya S. Khanna

University of Chicago Law School and University of Michigan Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,075

13.

What Is Judicial Ideology, and How Should We Measure It?

29 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 133 (2009), 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 08-47

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Joshua B. Fischman and David S. Law

University of Virginia School of Law and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

Downloads 946

14.

Changing the Paradigm of Stock Ownership: From Concentrated Towards Dispersed Ownership? Evidence from Brazil and Consequences for Emerging Countries

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 105 Posted: 11 Sep 2008

Working Paper Series

Érica Gorga

Yale University - Center for the Study of Corporate Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 812

15.

Want Your Opinions Reversed? Hire a Yale Clerk (and Don't Require the Bar)

U of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-8, CLEA 2008 Meetings Paper, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2012

Working Paper Series

Royce de Rohan Barondes

University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law

Downloads 792

16.

The Evolution of a Legal Rule

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Apr 2008

Working Paper Series

Anthony Niblett, Richard A. Posner and Andrei Shleifer

University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, University of Chicago Law School and Harvard University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 733

17.

Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities

American Economic Review, Forthcoming, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 604, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 28 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Claudia M. Landeo and Kathryn E. Spier

University of Alberta - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Law School - Faculty

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 732

18.

Creditor Rights and Corporate Risk-Taking

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 17 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2009

Working Paper Series

Viral V. Acharya, Yakov Amihud and Lubomir P. Litov

New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University - Stern School of Business and University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business

There are 6 versions of this paper

Downloads 675

19.

Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2009

Working Paper Series

Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala

Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 670

20.

Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-22, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1127282

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 02 May 2008 Last Revised: 07 May 2008

Working Paper Series

Stephen J. Choi, Jill E. Fisch and Marcel Kahan

New York University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School - Institute for Law and Economics and New York University School of Law

Downloads 634

21.

Capital Flows and Hedge Fund Regulation

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2009

Working Paper Series

Douglas J. Cumming and Na Dai

York University - Schulich School of Business and State University of New York at Albany - School of Business & Center for Institutional Investment Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 599

22.

Board of Directors' Responsiveness to Shareholders: Evidence from Shareholder Proposals

AAA 2007 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2012

Working Paper Series

Fabrizio Ferri, Yonca Ertimur and Stephen Stubben

Columbia Business School - Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Accounting and University of Utah

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 588

23.

Reverse Termination Fee Provisions in Acquisition Agreements

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2009

Working Paper Series

Elizabeth Nowicki

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 561

24.

Where are Limited Liability Companies Formed? An Empirical Analysis

U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 126, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 05 May 2008

Working Paper Series

Jens Dammann and Matthias Schundeln

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Goethe University Frankfurt

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 539

25.

Uncertain Justice: Litigating Claims of Employment Discrimination in the Contemporary United States

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, American Bar Foundation Research Paper No. 08-04

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 16 Apr 2008

Working Paper Series

Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson and Ryon Lancaster

American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University and University of Chicago

Downloads 529

26.

The Devil in the Details: The Interrelationship Among Citizenship, Rule of Law and Form-Adhesive Contracts

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, December 2008, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Zev J. Eigen

Littler Mendelson

Downloads 510

27.

Life and Death Decisions: Prosecutorial Discretion and Capital Punishment in Missouri

Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 08-03, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 18 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2008

Working Paper Series

Katherine Y. Barnes, David L. Sloss and Stephen C. Thaman

University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, Santa Clara University - School of Law and Saint Louis University - School of Law

Downloads 491

28.

Dead or Alive: An Investigation of the Incidence of Estate and Inheritance Taxes

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 May 2008 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2008

Working Paper Series

Lily L. Batchelder and Surachai Khitatrakun

New York University School of Law and Tax Policy Center

Downloads 466

29.

Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 222/2008

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 12 May 2014

Working Paper Series

Andrew Ellul, Marco Pagano and Fausto Panunzi

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance, University of Naples Federico II - Department of Economics and Statistics and Bocconi University - Department of Economics

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 460

30.

Mergers and Acquisitions - Comparative Economic Analysis of Laws: France v. U.S.A.

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2013

Working Paper Series

Georges A. J. Cavalier Jr. and Thomas Straub

University of Lyon 3 and University of Geneva - School of Business Management Fribourg (CH)

Downloads 459

31.

Dispute Resolution and the Vanishing Trial: Comparing Federal Government Litigation and ADR Outcomes

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2009

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 02 May 2008 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Lisa Blomgren Amsler (formerly Bingham), Tina Nabatchi, Jeffrey M. Senger and Michael Scott Jackman

Indiana University Bloomington - School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Syracuse University, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Indiana University

Downloads 457

32.

Financial Services, Savings and Borrowing Among Low- and Moderate-Income Households: Evidence from the Detroit Area Household Financial Services Survey

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Apr 2008

Working Paper Series

Michael S. Barr

University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 446

33.

From the 'Econometrics of Capital Punishment' to the 'Capital Punishment' of Econometrics: On the Use and Abuse of Sensitivity Analysis

Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-18, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 07-21, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2012

Working Paper Series

Hashem Dezhbakhsh and Paul H. Rubin

Emory University - Department of Economics and Emory University - Department of Economics

Downloads 418

34.

Use of Judicial Doctrines in Federal Tax Cases Decided by Trial Courts, 1993-2006: A Quantitative Assessment

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2008

Working Paper Series

Daniel M. Schneider

Northern Illinois University - College of Law

Downloads 372

35.

Wireless Net Neutrality Regulation and the Problem with Pricing: An Empirical, Cautionary Tale

Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2009

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 07 May 2008 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Babette Boliek

Pepperdine University School of Law

Downloads 365

36.

A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 08-08

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2008

Working Paper Series

Eric A. Kades

William & Mary Law School

Downloads 357

37.

Boardroom Brawls: An Empirical Analysis of Disputes Involving Directors

EFA 2008 Athens Meetings Paper, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 17 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2008

Working Paper Series

Anup Agrawal and Mark A. Chen

University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and Georgia State University - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 349

38.

The Changing Economic Geography of Large U.S. Law Firms

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 May 2008 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2013

Working Paper Series

William D. Henderson and Arthur S. Alderson

Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Sociology

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 346

39.

Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2011

Working Paper Series

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

There are 5 versions of this paper

Downloads 318

40.

An Empirical Study of Compensation Paid in Eminent Domain Settlements: New York City 1990 - 2002

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 39, pp. 201-244, 2010, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-52

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Yun-chien Chang

Academia Sinica - Institutum Iurisprudentiae (IIAS)

Downloads 317

41.

Where Have All the Women Gone? The Gender Gap in Supreme Court Clerkships

Jurimetrics, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2009, Penn State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-2010

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 10 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2012

Accepted Paper Series

David H. Kaye and Joseph L. Gastwirth

Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law and George Washington University - Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Downloads 313

42.

Cash-Flow and Market Response to Repatriation

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Jun 2008

Working Paper Series

Thomas J. Brennan

Harvard Law School

Downloads 304

43.

Defensive Management: Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Discourage Corporate Risk-Taking?

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 108

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2008

Working Paper Series

Kate Litvak

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 295

44.

Testing the Over- and Under-Exploitation Hypotheses: Bestselling Musical Compositions (1913-32) and Their Use in Cinema (1968-2007)

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 234, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 429, University of Georgia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1115405, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 14 Sep 2010

Working Paper Series

Paul J. Heald

University of Illinois College of Law

Downloads 295

45.

When Perception Changes Reality: An Empirical Study of Investors' Views of the Fairness of Securities Arbitration

Journal of Dispute Resolution, Vol. 2008, p. 349, 2008, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, U of Cincinnati Public Law Research Paper No. 09-12

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 11 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Jill Gross and Barbara Black

Pace Law School and University of Cincinnati - College of Law

Downloads 288

46.

Commercial Surety Bail and the Problem of Missed Court Appearances and Pretrial Detention

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 May 2008 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2009

Working Paper Series

Thomas H. Cohen

Government of the United States of America - Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Downloads 277

47.

Settlement at Policy Limits and the Duty to Settle: Evidence From Texas

U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper LE09-002, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-16, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 142, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 May 2008 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2010

Working Paper Series

David A. Hyman, Bernard S. Black and Charles Silver

Georgetown University, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 277

48.

How Does Negative Emotion Cause False Memories?

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Jul 2008

Working Paper Series

Charles J. Brainerd, Lilian Milnitsky Stein, R. A. Silveira, Gustavo Rohenkohl and Valerie F. Reyna

Cornell University, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, University of Santa Cruz do Sul, University of Oxford - Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Cornell University

Downloads 276

49.

Are Investors' Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Theory and Evidence

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, CLEA 2008 Meetings Paper, U of Michigan Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 09-002

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2016

Working Paper Series

Alicia J. Davis

University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 269

50.

Measuring the Value of Class and Collective Action Employment Settlements: A Preliminary Assessment

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-06, NYU Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-03, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2009

Working Paper Series

Samuel Estreicher and Kristina Yost

New York University Law School and Jones Day

Downloads 250

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