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Book Project Presentation – “Dynamic Regulation” – Tilburg University Netherlands – June 22-23rd, 2015

Hosted By Prof. Erik P.M. Vermeulen – Professor of Business and Financial Law at Tilburg University and Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) in the Netherlands. Below are abstracts and SSRN links of my prior 4 articles on “Dynamic Regulation”: Evolution of Law: Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework Festschrift in Honor of Christian […]

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AALS Section on Securities Regulation – Call for Papers – 2016 AALS Annual Meeting

The AALS Section on Securities Regulation invites papers for its program on “The Future of Securities Regulation: Innovation, Regulation and Enforcement.” January 6-10, 2016 New York, NY TOPIC DESCRIPTION: This panel discussion will explore the current trends and future implications in the securities regulation field including transactional and financial innovation, the regulation of investment funds, […]

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ISNIE 2015 – Harvard Law School

ISNIE 2015 Conference Schedule Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH, 2015 4:15pm: Registration (Wasserstein, Milstein West) 5:00-6pm: Keynote Address (Wasserstein, Milstein West) Property Rights and the Efficiency of Bargaining Michael Whinston, MIT 1 FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH, 2015 7:30-8:30am: Registration & Continental Breakfast (Wasserstein, Milstein West) 8:30-10am: Session 1 PANEL 1: EXPERIMENTS ABOUT INSTITUTIONS […]

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2015 National Business Law Scholars Conference

June 4-5, 2015 Seton Hall University School of Law THURSDAY, JUNE 4th Registration & Breakfast (Room 273) Opening Remarks (Room 273) Concurrent Panels Panel A (Room 271) Regulating Financial Markets Moderator and Discussant: Alexander Dill (Chicago-Kent College of Law)   Gina-Gail S. Fletcher (Indiana University Maurer School of Law), Conflict-Based Market Manipulation   Joan MacLeod […]

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American Law and Economics Association – Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting

May 15-16, 2015  All sessions to be held at Columbia Law School Friday, May 15 (Author’s name in bold indicates person presenting paper) 8:00 – 8:45:       Registration and Continental Breakfast Panel IA:          Consumer Bankruptcy Panel Chair: Kathryn Fritzdixon Will Dobbie, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, and Crystal Yang, “Consumer Bankruptcy and Financial Health” Discussant: Frank McIntyre Rajashri Chakrabarti […]

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The Seventh Annual Roundtable Discussion on Investment Funds – Harvard Law School – December 8, 2014

Draft Program Arrival & Registration at Harvard Law School – Wasserstein Hall 2036 (Milstein East A) 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Welcome Luncheon, Opening Remarks & Keynote Address Welcome: John C. Coates, IV, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law & Economics Harvard Law School Introduction: Tamar Frankel, Professor of Law & Michaels Faculty […]

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The Effect of Non- and Deferred Prosecution Agreements on Corporate Governance: Evidence from 1993-2013

    

Non- and Deferred Prosecution Agreements (N/DPAs) are controversial because prosecutors, not judges or the legislature, are changing the governance of leading public corporations and entire industries. To analyze N/DPAs’ corporate governance implications and provide policy makers with guidance, the authors code all publicly available N/DPAs (N=271) from 1993 to 2013, identifying 215 governance categories and […]

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