Midwestern Law and Economics Association 2024 Annual Meeting

Schedule

(Author's name in bold indicates person presenting paper)

Friday, Sept. 20

8:30-9:00
Breakfast

9:00-9:15
Welcome – Dean Stephen Mazza

9:15-10:45
Judges’ Chambers
Kevin Cope (Virginia), Christopher A. Cotropia (Richmond), Jonathan R. Nash (Emory)

Flames of Scale? The Legacy of the Great Chicago Fire on Law Firm Clustering
Gregory Shill (Iowa)

Climate Change, Uncertainty, Inequality and Hoarding
Shi-Ling Hsu (Florida State)

11:00-12:00
From WTP to WTF: Valuation and Provocation
Lee Anne Fennell (Chicago)

Before/After Law
Peter B. Oh (Pittsburgh)

12:00-1:00
Lunch

1:00-2:30
The Practice of Apportioned Direct Taxation
Conor Clarke (Wash U) & Ari Glogower (Northwestern)

Micromanaging Technology
Yunsieg P. Kim (Hofstra)

Enforcing the Community Reinvestment Act
Jeremy C. Kress (Michigan Business) & Jeffery Y. Zhang (Michigan)

2:45-4:15
The Original SEC Whistleblower Program
Andrew K. Jennings (Emory)

The IPO Bureaucracy
Alex Platt (Kansas)

Behind the Stock Market
Paolo Saguato (George Mason)

5:30 Drinks; 6:00 Dinner
 

Saturday, Sept. 21

8:30-9:00
Breakfast

9-10:30
On Entityness and Takeovers: Acquisition Valuation, Theory of the Firm, and Coase’s Error
Robert J. Rhee (Florida)

The Regulatory Nature of the Firm
Aneil Kovvali (Indiana-Bloomington)

The Least Violence Avoider
Joseph Blocher (Duke), Guha Krishnamurthi (Maryland), & Peter N. Salib (Houston)

10:45-11:45
Assessing Market Efficiency in Fair Value Litigation
Charles Korsmo (Case Western) & Minor Myers (Connecticut)

Personalizing the Law of Wills
Jeff Stake (Indiana-Bloomington)

11:45-12:45
Lunch

12:45-2:15
Arbitrating a Bankruptcy
Stephen J. Ware (Kansas)

Learning about Reorganizations from Business Foreclosures/Juniors to Bid
Nicholas Georgakopoulos (Indiana-Indianapolis)

The Impact of Health Insurance on Healthcare Utilization and Health: Evidence from Medicaid Expansion in Wisconsin
Sadia Farzana (Northwestern – Kellogg School), Bernard Black (Northwestern), et al.

2:30-3:30
Government Venture Capital
Patrick Perkins (Kansas)

Error in the Loop
Ryan Copus (UMKC), Hannah Laqueur (Cal-Davis), Cait Spackman