Organizers:

Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University

Session Chairs:

Robert Whaples, Wake Forest University

Papers:

"Financial Crisis on Financial Crisis: How Likely Was Output to Go Its Own Way?"
Jim Nason, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (Contact Author)
Ellis W. Tallman, Oberlin College and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

"Closing the Gap? The Effect of Private Philanthropy on the Provision of African-American Schooling in the U.S. South"
Celeste K. Carruthers, The University of Tennessee (Contact Author)
Marianne H. Wanamaker, The University of Tennessee

"Spatial Analysis of Delegate Voting at the Constitutional Convention"
Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University (Contact Author)
Keith L. Dougherty, The University of Georgia

"Organization and Transportation Technology in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires"
Claudia Rei, Vanderbilt University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mary Eschelbach Hansen, American University
F. Andrew Hanssen, Clemson University
Kenneth Snowden, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Organizers:

Paul Pecorino, The University of Alabama
Amy Farmer, University of Arkansas

Session Chairs:

Paul Pecorino, The University of Alabama

Papers:

"Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gaps: The Legal Implications of Recent Empirical Developments"
Kathryn Zeiler, Georgetown University (Contact Author)

"Social Trust, Political Trust, and the Demand for Regulation: Evidence from Transition"
Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl, Virginia Military Institute (Contact Author)
Peter Grajzl, Washington and Lee University
Joseph Guse, Washington and Lee University

"Liquid Bread to Wheat Bread: Positive Externalities and State Prohibition Laws"
Griffin S. Edwards, Emory University (Contact Author)

"Pretrial Bargaining with Asymmetric Information and Endogenous Expenditure at Trial"
Amy Farmer, University of Arkansas (Contact Author)
Paul Pecorino, The University of Alabama

Discussants:

F. Andrew Hanssen, Clemson University
Joseph Pelzman, The George Washington University
Paul Pecorino, The University of Alabama
Bryan McCannon, Saint Bonaventure University

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Organizers:

Amy Farmer, University of Arkansas
Paul Pecorino, The University of Alabama

Session Chairs:

Amy Farmer, University of Arkansas

Papers:

"On the Benefits and Costs of Legal Expertise: Adjudication in Ancient Athens"
F. Andrew Hanssen, Clemson University (Contact Author)
Robert Fleck, Montana State University

"’Womb for Rent’ Gestational Surrogacy Contracts - Is It Time to Regulate These New Kinds of Service Contracts?"
Joseph Pelzman, The George Washington University (Contact Author)

"The Effect of the Election of Prosecutors on Criminal Trials"
Bryan McCannon, Saint Bonaventure University (Contact Author)
Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, University of Birmingham

"An Empirical Analysis of the Signaling and Screening Models of Litigation"
Mark V. Van Boening, The University of Mississippi (Contact Author)
Paul Pecorino, The University of Alabama

Discussants:

Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl, Virginia Military Institute
Griffin S. Edwards, Emory University
Paul Pecorino, The University of Alabama
Kathryn Zeiler, Georgetown University

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