Workshop Series
The Law, Business, and Economics Workshop Series serves as an important focal point at the University of Texas for research on the economic analysis of law and business. The workshop generally involves presentations by guests from outside the University community. Students can take the workshop as a course, which focuses on their presentation of written critiques of each of the papers presented in the workshop series.
Workshops are held at 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., see schedule below for room location
Fall 2005
| Date | Speaker | School | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 19 | Michelle White | UCSD | Personal Bankruptcy: Insurance, Work Effort, Opportunism and the Efficiency of the 'Fresh Start' |
| September 29 | Avery Katz | Columbia | Is Electronic Contracting Different? Contract Law in the Information Age |
| October 10 | Oren Bar-Gill | NYU | Consumer Misperceptions and Market Reactions: The Case of Competitive Bundling |
| October 17 | Omri Ben-Shahar | Michigan | Boilerplate and Economic Power in Auto Manufacturing Contracts |
| October 24 | Robert Rasmussen | Vanderbilt | Private Debt and the Missing Lever of Corporate Governance |
| November 7 | Teresa Sullivan and Jay Westbrook | Texas | Twenty-First Century Bankruptcy: Two Decades of Evidence About Consumer Debt and The Stigma of Bankruptcy |
| November 21 | Albert Yoon | Northwestern | Offer-of-Judgment Rules and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Automobile Insurance Litigation in the East |
| November 28 | Jacob Ziegel | Toronto | Facts on the Ground and Reconciliation of Divergent Consumer Insolvency Philosophies |
Copies of speakers’ papers will be posted as they become available.