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CELS 2017 12th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (Archive)

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1.

Crime, But Not Punishment? Children are More Lenient When the 'Spirit of the Law' is Unbroken

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Jun 2017
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Jessica Bregant, Isabel Wellbery and Alex Shaw
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Chicago - Department of Psychology
Downloads 90
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Patently Risky: Framing, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Preference

Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, v.34 (Forthcoming 2020)
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2020
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Elizabeth Hoffman, David L. Schwartz, Matthew L. Spitzer and Eric L. Talley
Iowa State University, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
Downloads 130
3.

Prison Crowding and Violent Misconduct

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2017
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Jonathan Kurzfeld
University of California, Riverside
Downloads 75
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Empirical Analysis of Expanding Insurers' Duty to Settle: Evidence from the Royal Globe Doctrine

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 Jun 2017
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Brian Richman and Sharon L. Tennyson
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell University - Department of Policy Analysis & Management (PAM)
Downloads 22
5.

Board Declassification and Firm Value: Have Shareholders and Boards Really Destroyed Billions in Value?

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 17-39
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2017
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Emiliano Catan and Michael Klausner
New York University School of Law and Stanford Law School
Downloads 420
6.

Targeting Bad Doctors: Lessons from Indiana, 1975-2015

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2018
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Jing Liu and David A. Hyman
East China University of Political Science and Law and Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads 72
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Buying the Verdict: Firms’ Strategic Response to Litigation

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2020
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Lauren Cohen and Umit G. Gurun
Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and University of Texas at Dallas

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Downloads 342
8.

Social Propensities

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Jun 2017
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Robert MacCoun and Sarah Polcz
Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School
Downloads 37
9.

Proxy Access and Optimal Standardization in Corporate Governance: An Empirical Analysis

Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law, Vol. 23, 2017
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Reilly Steel
Independent
Downloads 79
10.

Characteristics of Lawyers Who Are Subject to Complaints and Misconduct Findings

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2019), available as of April 17, 2019 as an early view , Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 18-29
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2019
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Tara Sklar, Yamna Taouk, David Studdert, Matthew J. Spittal, Ron Paterson and Marie M Bismark
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Stanford Law School, University of Melbourne, Health and Disability Commissioner and University of Melbourne

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Downloads 309
11.

Invisible Hand and Helping Hand: Private Placement of Public Equity in China

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2018
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G. Nathan Dong, Ming Gu and Hua He
Boston College - Department of Finance, Xiamen University - School of Economics and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Downloads 20
12.

The Utility of Finance

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Jun 2017
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Shlomit Azgad-Tromer and Eric L. Talley
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University - School of Law
Downloads 174
13.

Did Post-9/11 Wiretap Legislation Increase Law Enforcement Productivity?

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2020
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Jason Chan, Jin-Hyuk Kim and Liad Wagman
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management, University of Colorado at Boulder and Illinois Institute of Technology - Stuart School of Business, IIT
Downloads 88
14.

The Provocative Effect of Law: Majority Nationalism and Minority Discrimination

15(4) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2018, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2018
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Netta Barak Corren, Yuval Feldman and Noam Gidron
Harvard Law School, Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Political Science Department
Downloads 140
15.

Unveiling the Price of Obscenity: Evidence from Closing Prostitution Windows in the Netherlands

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2020
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Erasmo Giambona and Rafael P. Ribas
Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management - Finance Department; James D. Kuhn Center for Real Estate and University of Amsterdam - Finance Group
Downloads 290
16.

The Jury Sunshine Project: Jury Selection Data as a Political Issue

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2018, No. 4, 2018
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2017
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Ronald F. Wright, Kami Chavis and Gregory Scott Parks
Wake Forest University - School of Law, Wake Forest University Law School and Wake Forest University - School of Law
Downloads 594
17.

Maybe There's No Bias in the Selection of Disputes for Litigation

Forthcoming, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 2994624, USC CLASS Research Papers Series No. CLASS17-18, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 17-16
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2017
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Eric Helland, Daniel M. Klerman and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee
Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 150
18.

Across the Sloping Meadow Floor. An Empirical Analysis of Detention of Deportable Non-Citizens

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Jun 2017
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Joan-Josep Vallbé, Markus Gonzalez Beilfuss and Barak Kalir
Department of Political Science, University of Barcelona, University of Barcelona - Departament de Dret Constitucional and Department of Anthropology
Downloads 43
19.

Deferring, Deliberating, or Dodging Review? Examining the Mechanisms Behind Panel Effects

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 28 Jun 2017
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Rachael Hinkle, Michael Nelson and Morgan Hazelton
University at Buffalo, SUNY, Pennsylvania State University - Department of Political Science and Saint Louis University
Downloads 63
20.

Do Taxes Affect Marriage? Lessons from History

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 17-15
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2017
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Edward G. Fox
University of Michigan Law School
Downloads 250
21.

Outside Directors Liability: A Comparative Analysis between the US and Japan

33 Conn. J. Int'l L. 249 (2017-2018)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2018
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Maria Lucia Passador
Bocconi University - Department of Law
Downloads 28
22.

Seemingly Inextricable Dynamic Differences: The Case of Concealed Gun Permit, Violent Crime and State Panel Data

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Jun 2017
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Marjorie B. McElroy and Will Wang
Duke University and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 195
23.

Tainted Executives as Outside Directors

AAA 2018 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 24 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2020
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Leah Baer, Yonca Ertimur and Jingjing Zhang
University of Missouri at Columbia - School of Accountancy, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Accounting and McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management
Downloads 262
24.

Board Independence as Panacea to Tunneling? An Empirical Study of Related Party Transactions in Hong Kong and Singapore

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Jun 2017
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Christopher C. Chen, Wai Yee Wan and Wei Zhang
Singapore Management University School of Law, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) - Centre for Chinese & Comparative Law and Singapore Management University
Downloads 176
25.

Bankruptcy Delay and Firms' Dynamics

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Jun 2017
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Alessandro Melcarne and Giovanni Battista Ramello
Université Paris Ouest - Nanterre, La Défense and University of Esatern Piedmont Law School
Downloads 9
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Does the Concern About Local Crime Affect Trust in the Police?

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Jun 2017
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Joelson Oliveira Sampaio, Luciana Gross Cunha, Rodrigo De-Losso and Renan De Pieri
Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Sao Paulo School of Economics, Students, São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas FGV DIREITO SP, University of São Paulo (USP) - Department of Economics and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) - Sao Paulo School of Economics

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27.

Civil Asset Forfeiture, Crime, and Police Incentives: Evidence from the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 23 Jun 2017
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Shawn Kantor, Carl Kitchens and Steven Pawlowski
Florida State University, Florida State University - Department of Economics and Florida State University - Department of Economics, Students

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Downloads 137
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Mapping Employment Dismissal Law: A Leximetric Investigation of EPL Stringency and Regulatory Style

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 22 Jun 2017
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J. H. Verkerke and Benoit Freyens
University of Virginia School of Law and Australian National University - Political Science Program
Downloads 55
29.

Identifying the Mechanisms of Extralegal Enforcement

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 21 Jun 2017
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Greg Buchak
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Downloads 49
30.

An Empirical Analysis of Apologies, Case Strength, and Case Outcomes in Torts

Maastricht Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2989486
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2020
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Gijs van Dijck
Maastricht University - Faculty of Law
Downloads 76
31.

Behaviorally Efficient Remedies – An Experiment

MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2017/17
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2017
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Christoph Engel and Lars Freund
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Downloads 59
32.

Using Appellate Decisions to Evaluate the Impact of Judicial Elections

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Jun 2017
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Gregory J. DeAngelo and Bryan C. McCannon
Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University and West Virginia University - College of Business & Economics

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33.

Writing for Voters: How Electoral Competition Shapes Opinion Writing

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Jun 2017
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Michael Nelson
Pennsylvania State University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 36
34.

Investment Ramifications of Distortionary Tax Subsidies

U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Jun 2017
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James R. Hines Jr. and Jongsang Park
University of Michigan and Korea Institute of Finance

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35.

Stock Market Reactions to India's 2016 Demonetization

U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-010, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 830
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 09 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2018
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Dhammika Dharmapala and Vikramaditya S. Khanna
University of Chicago Law School and University of Michigan Law School

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Downloads 613
36.

Diffusion of Legal Innovations: The Case of Israeli Class Actions

MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2017/11, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 17-38
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2018
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Christoph Engel, Alon Klement and Keren Weinshall Margel
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Buchman Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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Downloads 81
37.

The Court of Justice and Treaty Revision: A Case of Strategic Leniency?

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2017
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Jose Luis Castro-Montero, Edwin Alblas, Arthur Dyevre and Nicolas Lampach
Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Leuven Centre for Empirical Jurisprudence and KU Leuven - Centre for Legal Theory and Empirical Jurisprudence
Downloads 125
39.

Status and Power on Multimember Courts

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-05, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 822, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 646
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 May 2017 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2020
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Daniel J. Hemel and Kyle Rozema
University of Chicago - Law School and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads 207
40.

Testing for Trademark Dilution in Court and in the Lab

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 18-06
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2018
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Barton Beebe, Roy Germano, Christopher Jon Sprigman and Joel Steckel
New York University School of Law, New York University School of Law, New York University School of Law and New York University (NYU) - Department of Marketing
Downloads 460
41.

Police Discretion and Racial Disparity in Organized Retail Theft Arrests: Evidence from Texas

SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper No. 18-3
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2018
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Michael Braun, Jeremy Rosenthal and Kyle Therrian
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Marketing Department, Rosenthal & Wadas, PLLC and Rosenthal & Wadas, PLLC

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Downloads 184
42.

Mutual Funds’ Aversion to Tax-avoiding Firms: An Anomaly?

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2019
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Thomas W. Doellman, Fariz Huseynov, Tareque Nasser and Sabuhi Sardarli
Saint Louis University - Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business, North Dakota State University - College of Business, Kansas State University and Kansas State University - Department of Finance
Downloads 114
43.

Collateral Enforcement and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Foreclosure Moratorium in Greece

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2020
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Nikolaos T. Artavanis and Ioannis Spyridopoulos
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business and American University, Kogod School of Business
Downloads 272
44.

Fintech, Regulatory Arbitrage, and the Rise of Shadow Banks

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-39, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 29 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2018
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Greg Buchak, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski and Amit Seru
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance, Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics and Stanford University

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Downloads 2,305
45.

Why Courts Fail to Protect Privacy: Race, Age, Bias, and Technology

106 California Law Review 263 (2018), U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-03, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 17-02
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 02 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 07 May 2018
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Bernard Chao, Ian P. Farrell, Catherine Durso and Christopher T. Robertson
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, University of Denver and Boston University
Downloads 308
46.

Lawyer CEOs

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2018
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M. Todd Henderson, Irena Hutton, Danling Jiang and Matthew Pierson
University of Chicago - Law School, Florida State University - College of Business, College of Business, Stony Brook University and Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Downloads 783
47.

Do Law Firms Matter for Securities Class Action Lawsuit Outcomes?

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 23 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2019
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Barry R. Oliver, Chuyi Yang and Lei Zhang
University of Queensland - Business School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) - Nanyang Business School and City University of Hong Kong
Downloads 86
48.

Ban the Box, Convictions, and Public Employment

(Forthcoming, Economic Inquiry)
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 28 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2019
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Terry-Ann Craigie
Connecticut College

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49.

The Effects of Comparable-Case Guidance on Awards for Pain and Suffering and Punitive Damages: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

37 Yale Law & Policy Review 405 (2019), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 402
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 24 May 2019
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Hillel J. Bavli and Reagan Mozer
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and Harvard University, Department of Statistics
Downloads 166
50.

Accounting Choices and the Legal Environment: The Impact of the Ex Post Loss Rule

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 24 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2018
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Samuel T. Tan
Singapore Management University
Downloads 176