Professor Charles Baum
Professor of Economics
Middle Tennessee State University

"The Socio-Economic Causes of Obesity" 

Professor Andrew F. Daughety
Professor of Economics and Professor of Law
and
Professor Jennifer F. Reinganum
Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics and Professor of Law

"Divided Responsibilities and Resilient Policy Regimes: Imperfect Competition and Products Liability When Harm is Cumulative"

Jennifer Bennett Shinall
Ph.D. Candidate in Law & Economics
Vanderbilt University

"Legal Largesse or Big, Fat Failure: Do Weight-Based Discrimination Laws Improve Employment Outcomes for the Obese?" 

Professor Mark Cohen
Professor of Management, Professor of Law (by courtesy)
Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
Vice President for Research, Resources for the Future

"Does Inspector Group Size Matter? Evidence from Inspections of Oil Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico" 

Dr. Sharon Shewmake
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Law & Economics
Vanderbilt University Law School

"The Impacts of HOV Lanes" 

Professor Shoshana Grossbard
Professor of Economics
San Diego State University

"Income Pooling, Household Production, and the Price of Maids" 

Professor Justin Sevier
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
University of Illinois College of Law

"Motivation and the Hearsay Doctrine: An Experimental Test of Juror Inferences" 

Professor Philip J. Cook
ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Economics and Sociology
Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy

"The Role of Private Action in Controlling Crime"

Professor Steven M. Shavell
Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law and Economics
Director, John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business
Harvard Law School

"Corrective Taxation versus Liability"

Professor Nora Gordon
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Georgetown Public Policy Institute

"Private Contracting by Public Schools: Evidence from the Market for Comprehensive School Reform"

Professor Omri Ben-Shahar
Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law
The University of Chicago Law School

"More than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure"

Professor Alan Schwartz
Sterling Professor of Law
Yale Law School

"Rethinking the Laws of Good Faith Purchase"
by Alan Schwartz and Robert E. Scott
 

Professor Richard Brooks
Professor of Law
Yale Law School

"Flying Horses and Usable Other Fictions: Race, Social and Spatial Distance"

Professor Robert A. Pollak 
Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics, Professor of Law
Olin Business School and Department of Economics
Washington University in St. Louis 

"Family Bargaining and Long Term Care of the Disabled Elderly"

 

Professor Patricia B. Reagan
Professor of Economics, Professor of Nursing
Center for Human Resource Research
The Ohio State University

"Intergenerational Transmission of Health Capital"

Professor Rita J. Simon
University Professor
School of Public Affairs
American University

"Attitudes of the American Public toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy"
Keynote Address
New Immigrant Survey Conference

Professor Jeffrey O'Connell
Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law

"Tort Liability as Social Insurance"

Professor Shane Frederick
Sarofim Family Career Development Professor and
Associate Professor of Management Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Cognitive Reflection and Decision Making"
 

Professor Andrew F. Daughety
Professor of Economics and Professor of Law
and
Professor Jennifer F. Reinganum
Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics and Professor of Law

"Mass Torts and the Incentives for Suit, Settlement, and Trial"
by Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum

Professor Joni Hersch
Professor of Law and Economics
and
Professor W. Kip Viscusi
University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics, and Management

"The Mortality Cost to Smokers"
by W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch

Professor George Loewenstein
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology
Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University

"The Economist as Therapist: Methodological Ramifications of 'Light' Paternalism"
by George Loewenstein and Emily Haisley

Joseph E. Aldy, Ph.D.
Fellow
Resources for the Future

"Temperature Shocks, Energy Prices and U.S. Mortality: An Assessment of the Health Impacts of Climate Change"

Professor Owen R. Phillips
Professor of Economics
University of Wyoming

"Bidding Rings in Repeated Ascending Auctions"
 

Dean Emeritus Henry Manne
George Mason University School of Law

"What Every Lawyer Should Know about the Intellectual History of Law and Economics" 

Professor Frank A. Sloan
J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management
Director of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management
Professor of Economics
Duke University

"Do Smokers Really Underestimate Risks? Evidence from Subjective Beliefs about Mortality and Health"
by Ahmed Khwaja, Dan Silverman, and Frank Sloan

Professor Charles L. Baum II
Associate Professor of Economics
Middle Tennessee State University

"The Effects of Cigarette Taxes on Obesity"