Robert, thanks for the update. I am looking forward to a good read at Starbucks in the morning.
Keith
Keith A. Maxwell, J.D.
Professor Emeritus
Legal Studies and Ethics in Business
University of Puget Sound
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From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk on behalf of Robert Bird
Sent: Mon 3/17/2008 01:21 PM
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Hi Keith,
Thanks for letting me know. Here is the latest draft, which offers different conclusions. I better update SSRN!
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:07:27 -0700
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Congratulations Robert! I located your 2005 paper on ssrn.com. Is there a more recent draft or working paper available online? Is the JLE article significantly different in its conclusions?
Thanks,
Keith
Keith A. Maxwell, J.D.
Professor Emeritus
Legal Studies and Ethics in Business
University of Puget Sound
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From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk on behalf of Robert Bird
Sent: Mon 3/17/2008 09:04 AM
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Wow, thanks!
The paper originated from the two authors carpooling from Connecticut to New Jersey. Spending hours and hours in car together we were either going to be good friends or drive each other nuts. Fortunately, the former happened, and we used the time to think up this article.
We submitted, "Do Wrongful Discharge Laws Impair Firm Performance?" in January of 2006. Economics journals are not like law reviews - no three week decisions. The reviewer asked us to run a series of complex empirical tests. If the tests negated our results (our results rejected the null and found a connection between wrongful discharge laws and firm performance) so that we found no statistically significant results, that probably would have killed the article. Two years, two months, and two rounds of reviews later, we (John Knopf, Finance and myself) received the offer.
I now have a new found respect for economists and what they have to go through to get their work published. Makes me thankful that I can publish in law reviews.
Oh, and in the author's footnote I am sure to thank attendees of the 2005 ALSB conference in San Francisco where I presented a draft. Thanks everyone!
Robert
Robert C. Bird
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University of Connecticut
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Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 12:04 AM
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Congratulations, Robert! Someday we'll say we knew you when...
Kathleen
Kathleen Lacey
Professor of Legal Studies in Business
Faculty Director of Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership
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College of Business Administration
Calif, State University, Long Beach
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Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 8:09 PM
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I just heard that Prof. Bird had an article accepted in the Journal of Law and Economics, a fancy-schmascy peer reviewed journal that any B-school will consider an A-level hit.
Congrats to Robert!
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University of Michigan
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