SSRN CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (Archive)

1.

Corporate Governance in the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis: Evidence from Financial Institutions Worldwide

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 18, 2012

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 29 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

David H. Erkens, Mingyi Hung and Pedro P. Matos

Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Downloads 9,068

2.

High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 255-327, 2009, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 04 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Stuart J.H. Graham, Robert P. Merges, Pamela Samuelson and Ted M. Sichelman

Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law

Downloads 4,715

3.

Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate

Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 61, No. 1, August 2011 , CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 26 May 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Daniel Martin Katz, Joshua R. Gubler, Jon Zelner, Michael James Bommarito II, Eric A. Provins and Eitan M. Ingall

Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, Brigham Young University - Department of Political Science, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Center for Study of Complex Systems, LexPredict, LLC, University of Michigan - Department of Political Science and Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

Downloads 2,833

4.

Corporate Governance and Financing Policy: New Evidence

AFA 2006 Boston Meetings, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2010

Working Paper Series

Kose John and Lubomir P. Litov

New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business

Downloads 2,736

5.

Thirty Years of Shareholder Rights and Firm Valuation

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 04 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Martijn Cremers and Allen Ferrell

University of Notre Dame and Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,632

6.

Endogeneity and the Dynamics of Internal Corporate Governance

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 15 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2015

Accepted Paper Series

M. Babajide Wintoki, James S. Linck and Jeffry M. Netter

University of Kansas - School of Business, Southern Methodist University and University of Georgia - Department of Banking and Finance

Downloads 2,385

7.

Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in 'Acquaintance Rape' Cases

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 196, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 22 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 2,246

8.

An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 7, 2010, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 10-10, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-06

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 31 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2010

Working Paper Series

Brian T. Fitzpatrick

Vanderbilt Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,038

9.

Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Consumer Attention to Standard Form Contracts

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2014, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 09-40

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 04 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Yannis Bakos, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler and David R. Trossen

New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, New York University School of Law and Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

Downloads 1,775

10.

Does Governance Travel around the World? Evidence from Institutional Investors

Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-008, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 267/2010, AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Fourth Singapore International Conference on Finance 2010 Paper

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 24 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Reena Aggarwal, Isil Erel, Miguel A. Ferreira and Pedro P. Matos

Georgetown University - Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance, Nova School of Business and Economics and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,478

11.

Did Subjectivity Play a Role in CDO Credit Ratings?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, McCombs Research Paper Series No. FIN-04-10

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 22 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

John M. Griffin and Dragon Yongjun Tang

University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance and The University of Hong Kong - School of Economics and Finance

Downloads 1,378

12.

Predicting Lawyer Effectiveness: A New Assessment for Use in Law School Admission Decisions

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 155 Posted: 01 Aug 2009

Working Paper Series

Marjorie M. Shultz and Sheldon Zedeck

Boalt Hall School of Law and University California, Berkeley

Downloads 1,303

13.

Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

Journal of Finance, forthcoming, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4741-09, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 04 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2010

Working Paper Series

Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes

University of Chicago Law School, Harvard Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,250

14.

Blockholders on Boards and CEO Compensation, Turnover and Firm Valuation

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2012

Working Paper Series

Anup Agrawal and Tareque Nasser

University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and Kansas State University

Downloads 977

15.

Executions, Deterrence and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 09-206, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2009

Working Paper Series

Franklin Zimring, Jeffrey Fagan and David T. Johnson

University of California at Berkeley, Columbia Law School and University of Hawaii at Manoa

Downloads 916

16.

Bundling and Entrenchment

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 123, No. 7, pp. 1551-1595, 2010, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 659, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C10-2

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Ehud Kamar

Harvard Law School and Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law

Downloads 892

17.

An Empirical Survey of the Population of United States Tax Court Written Decisions

Virginia Tax Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2011

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 02 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Michael James Bommarito II, Daniel Martin Katz and Jillian Isaacs - See

LexPredict, LLC, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Downloads 853

18.

Accounting Scandals in IPO Firms: Do Underwriters and VCs Help?

EFA 2008 Athens Meetings Paper, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 03 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2010

Working Paper Series

Anup Agrawal and Tommy Cooper

University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 816

19.

Fairness and the Willingness to Accept Plea Bargain Offers

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 97-116, March 2010, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 May 2009 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Avishalom Tor, Oren Gazal-Ayal and Stephen M. Garcia

Notre Dame Law School, University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and University of Michigan

Downloads 805

20.

Law Versus Ideology: The Supreme Court and the Use of Legislative History

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 51, p. 1653, 2010, Washington U. School of Law Working Paper No. 09-09-04, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 95 Posted: 06 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2011

Accepted Paper Series

David S. Law and David T. Zaring

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and University of Pennsylvania - Legal Studies Department

Downloads 755

21.

Equity Cross-Listings in the U.S. and the Price of Debt

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 274/2010, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2017

Working Paper Series

Ryan T. Ball, Luzi Hail and Florin P. Vasvari

The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and London Business School

Downloads 754

22.

On the Importance of Golden Parachutes

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 25 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Eliezer M. Fich, Anh L. Tran and Ralph A. Walkling

Drexel University - Department of Finance, Cass Business School, City University London and Drexel University - Lebow College of Business

Downloads 735

23.

Law Firm Expertise and Mergers and Acquisitions

Journal of Law and Economics, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 316/2011

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 10 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2012

Accepted Paper Series

C. N. V. Krishnan and Ronald W. Masulis

Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business

Downloads 732

24.

Interpreting DID and IV Estimates: ATE, LATE, ATET, and All That

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2011

Working Paper Series

Bernard S. Black

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 712

25.

Distinguishing Judges: An Empirical Ranking of Judicial Quality in the U.S. Court of Appeals

Missouri Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 315, 2010, Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 16 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Robert Anderson IV

Pepperdine University School of Law

Downloads 591

26.

The Role Tax Preparers Play in Taxpayer Compliance: An Empirical Investigation with Policy Implications

Buffalo Law Review Vol. 60(4), pp. 1079-1138, 2012, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 14 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Sagit Leviner

Ono Academic College Faculties of Law & Business Administration

Downloads 565

27.

Some Realism About Punishment Naturalism

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 77, 2010, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 07 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

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

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

Downloads 563

28.

Prison Conditions and Recidivism

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Aug 2009

Working Paper Series

Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati and Pietro Vertova

University of Messina, CSEF & CEPR, Department of Economics, Sciences Po-CNRS and Bocconi University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 547

29.

Doing the Right Thing: An Empirical Study of Attorney Negotiation Ethics

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 15 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2010

Working Paper Series

Art Hinshaw and Jess K. Alberts

Arizona State University and Arizona State University

Downloads 540

30.

Delaware for Small Fry: Jurisdictional Competition for Limited Liability Companies

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2011, No. 1, 2011, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE09-017

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Bruce H. Kobayashi and Larry E. Ribstein

George Mason University - School of Law and University of Illinois College of Law (deceased)

Downloads 491

31.

Unpacking the Rule of Law: A Review of Judicial Independence Measures

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Jul 2009

Working Paper Series

Julio Rios-Figueroa and Jeffrey K. Staton

CIDE - Department of Politics and Emory University - Department of Political Science

Downloads 491

32.

The Physiology of Moral Sentiments

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Jun 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Paul J. Zak

Claremont Graduate University - Center for Neuroeconomics Studies

Downloads 490

33.

If You Give Shareholders Power, Do They Use It? An Empirical Analysis

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 383, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 May 2009 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2009

Working Paper Series

Yair Listokin

Yale Law School

Downloads 478

34.

The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-011, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2009

Working Paper Series

Theodore Eisenberg, Michael Heise, Nicole L. Waters and Martin T. Wells

Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School, National Center for State Courts and Cornell University - Law School

Downloads 466

35.

Translating into Votes: The Electoral Impact of Spanish-Language Ballots

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2012

Working Paper Series

Daniel J. Hopkins

University of Pennsylvania

Downloads 433

36.

IPO Underpricing, Disclosure, and Litigation Risk

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C09-9, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 09-10, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013

Working Paper Series

James C. Spindler

University of Texas School of Law

Downloads 413

37.

Patent Rights and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Panels of Manufacturing Industries

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 09 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2013

Working Paper Series

Albert G. Z. Hu and Ivan P. L. Png

National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics and National University of Singapore (NUS)

Downloads 406

38.

Are Ideal Litigators White? Measuring the Myth of Colorblindness

UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 09-24, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2010

Working Paper Series

Jerry Kang, Nilanjana Dasgupta, Kumar Yogeeswaran and Gary Blasi

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 389

39.

Hiring Teams from Rivals: Theory and Evidence on the Evolving Relationships in the Corporate Legal Market

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 03 Aug 2009

Working Paper Series

Michele Beardslee DeStefano, Ashish Nanda, David B. Wilkins and John C. Coates, IV

University of Miami - School of Law, Harvard Law School, Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Harvard Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 383

40.

How Do Public Companies Adjust Their Board Structures?

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 16 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

David C. Cicero, M. Babajide Wintoki and Tina Yang

Harbert College of Business, Auburn University, University of Kansas - School of Business and Villanova University - School of Business

Downloads 373

41.

Implicit Racial Attitudes and Law Enforcement Shooting Decisions

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Jul 2009

Working Paper Series

Katherine M. Knight Tuttle

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 358

42.

Distance Measures for Dynamic Citation Networks

Physica A, Vol. 389, pp. 4201-4208, 2010

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 11 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Michael James Bommarito II, Daniel Martin Katz, Jon Zelner and James H. Fowler

LexPredict, LLC, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Center for Study of Complex Systems and UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences

Downloads 338

43.

The European Court of Justice as an Engine of Economic Integration: Reconsidering Evidence that the ECJ has Expanded Economic Exchange in Europe

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2009

Working Paper Series

Matthew Gabel and Clifford Carrubba

Washington University in St. Louis and Emory University - Department of Political Science

Downloads 338

44.

Electoral Laws and Turnout: 1972-2008

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2009

Working Paper Series

Jan E. Leighley and Jonathan Nagler

University of Arizona - Department of Political Science and NYU - Wilf Family Department of Politics

Downloads 315

45.

Addressing the Green Patent Global Deadlock Through Bayh-Dole Reform

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 119, p. 1727, May 2010

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette

Stanford Law School

Downloads 302

46.

Chevron as a Canon, not a Precedent: An Empirical Test of what Motivates Judges in Agency Deference Cases

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 110, No. 1727, 2010

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 04 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2011

Accepted Paper Series

William N. Eskridge Jr. and Connor Raso

Yale University - Law School and Securities and Exchange Commission

Downloads 297

47.

Myths and Mechanics of Deterrence: The Role of Lawsuits in Law Enforcement Decisionmaking

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 57, p. 1023, 2010, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 10-13

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 10 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Joanna C. Schwartz

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

Downloads 291

48.

Pot as Pretext: Marijuana, Race and the New Disorder in New York City Street Policing

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 10-242

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 07 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2010

Working Paper Series

Amanda Geller and Jeffrey Fagan

NYU Department of Sociology and Columbia Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 288

49.

Relational Governance and Contract Damages: Evidence from Franchising

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (Final Verision), Vol. 7, p. 743, 2010, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-01-06

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2011

Working Paper Series

Adam B. Badawi

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 278

50.

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 276

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