Detailed Program


Day 1 -- Thursday 14th September

10.45am - 12.15pm - Session 1

Session 1
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Administrative Law; Regulation; Taxation; Public Finance
A -- Sem Rm 12 -- 3rd floor
Alessio Pacces
BIANCAMARIA RAGANELLI
Banking Crisis, Financial Stability and European Justice
Miriam Buiten
Alessio Pacces, Hossein Nabilou (p)
BIANCAMARIA RAGANELLI
Constitutional Law; Public Choice; Public Law; National Security; Space Law
B -- Sem Rm 13 -- 3rd floor
Martin Brenncke
Yu-Hsin Lin (p), Yun-chien Chang
An Empirical Study of Corporate Default Rules and Menus in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Martin Brenncke
Martin Gelter, Geneviève Helleringer (p)
Opportunity Makes a Thief. Corporate Opportunities as Legal Transplant and Convergence in Corporate Law
Yu-Hsin Lin
C -- Seminar Room 9 -- 2nd floor
Gerd Muehlheusser
Gerd Muehlheusser
Gerd Muehlheusser (p), Andreas Roider, Lydia Mechtenberg
Matteo Migheli
Antitrust; Competition Law; Regulated Industries
D -- Seminar Room 3 -- 2nd floor
Michal Gal
Lapo Filistrucchi
Network Effects and the Efficiency Defence in Mergers among Two-Sided Platforms
Christian Thöni
Aaron Edlin, Catherine Roux, Armin Schmutzler, Christian Thoeni (p)
Michal Gal
Michal Gal (p), Niva Elkin-Koren
Lapo Filistrucchi
Civil and Criminal Procedure; Evidence; Litigation; Settlement; ADR
E -- Sem Rm 11 -- 3rd floor
Alexander Rasch
Yves Oytana (p), Marie Obidzinski
The prosecutor and the standard of proof
Noam Shamir
Alexander Rasch
Florian Baumann, Alexander Rasch (p)
Yves Oytana
Employment and Labor; Family Law; Discrimination
F -- Seminar Room 8 -- 2nd floor
Murat Mungan
Jose Carrasco
The influence of labour reforms on inflation. Evidence from Spain
Giuseppina Gianfreda
Giuseppina Gianfreda (p), Giovanna Vallanti
Tax evasion and productivity: do firms escape EPL through informality?
Murat Mungan

2pm - 3.30pm - Session 2

Session 2
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Antitrust; Competition Law; Regulated Industries
A -- Sem Rm 12 -- 3rd floor
Peter van Wijck
Miroslava Marinova
Miroslava Marinova
Should the Rejection of the “As Efficient Competitor” test in the Intel and Post Danmark II Judgments Lead to Dismissal of the Effect-Based Approach?
Peter van Wijck
Miriam Buiten, Peter van Wijck (p), Jan Kees Winters
Tim Reuter
Contracts; Commercial Law; Secured Transactions; Bankruptcy
B -- Sem Rm 13 -- 3rd floor
Samantha Bielen
Daniel CHEN
IMPLICIT EGOISM IN SENTENCING DECISIONS:FIRST LETTER NAME EFFECTS WITH RANDOMLY ASSIGNED DEFENDANTS
NACI MOCAN
C -- Seminar Room 9 -- 2nd floor
Urs Schweizer
Andreas Engert, Oliver Hofmann (p)
Urs Schweizer
D -- Seminar Room 3 -- 2nd floor
Florian Baumann
Frank Fagan (p), Saul Levmore
Semi-Confidential Settlements in Civil, Criminal, and Sexual Assault Cases
Florian Baumann
E -- Sem Rm 11 -- 3rd floor
Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
Juan Mora-Sanguinetti, Rok Spruk (p)
Does the Institutional Framework Matter for Industrial Specialization Patterns? Disaggregated Province-Level Evidence from Spain
Peter Lewisch
Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska (p), Anna Lewczuk
Rok Spruk
Administrative Law; Regulation; Taxation; Public Finance
F -- Seminar Room 8 -- 2nd floor
Roy Shapira
Stephan Michel (p), Alessandro Romano, Ugo Zannini
Omer Kimhi
Omer Kimhi
It Ain't Nothing but a Watchdog (Suit) - An Analysis of Taxpayer Suits in the Local Sphere
Roy Shapira
Roy Shapira (p), Luigi Zingales
Stephan Michel

4pm - 5.30pm - Session 3

Session 3
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
A -- Sem Rm 12 -- 3rd floor
Luigi Franzoni
Massimo D’Antoni (p), Avraham D. Tabbach
Noam Sher
Luigi Franzoni
Mitigating the risk of legal change
Massimo D'Antoni
Constitutional Law; Public Choice; Public Law; National Security; Space Law
B -- Sem Rm 13 -- 3rd floor
Moran Ofir
Mathias Siems (p), Hadar Jabotinsky
How to Regulate the Regulators: Applying Principles of Good Corporate Governance to Financial Regulatory Institutions
Moran Ofir
Contracts; Commercial Law; Secured Transactions; Bankruptcy
C -- Seminar Room 9 -- 2nd floor
Chizoba Obi
Daniel CHEN, Elliott Ash (p), Suresh Naidu
The Impact of Economics on Moral Decision-Making and Legal Thought
Chizoba Obi
D -- Seminar Room 3 -- 2nd floor
Henrik Lando
Alexander Stremitzer (p), Rebecca Stone
Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci
Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci, Florencia Marotta Wurgler (p)
LEARNING IN CONSUMER STANDARD FORM CONTRACTS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE
Henrik Lando
Henrik Lando (p), Urs Schweizer
Causality and incentives with multiple tortfeasors
Alexander Stremitzer
E -- Sem Rm 11 -- 3rd floor
Edwin Woerdman
Nada Maamoun
International Environmental Agreements: Empirical Evidence of a Hidden Success
David Driesen
Edwin Woerdman (p), Minne Dulleman
Nada Maamoun
Day 2 -- Friday 15th September

9am - 10.30am - Session 4

Session 4
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Civil and Criminal Procedure; Evidence; Litigation; Settlement; ADR
A -- Sem Rm 12 -- 3rd floor
Marie Obidzinski
Claudine Desrieux
Arbitration: Committee preferences and information acquisition
Marie Obidzinski
Constitutional Law; Public Choice; Public Law; National Security; Space Law
B -- Sem Rm 13 -- 3rd floor
Alan Miller
C -- Seminar Room 9 -- 2nd floor
Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci
Francois Cohen (p), Fidel Gonzalez
Emilio Picasso
Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci (p), Ian Ayres
Anticarrots, and the Power of Sunk Opportunity Costs: A Field-Experiment at an Amsterdam Gym
Francois Cohen
D -- Seminar Room 3 -- 2nd floor
Wolfgang Kerber
Antitrust; Competition Law; Regulated Industries
E -- Sem Rm 11 -- 3rd floor
David Gilo
Svetlana Golovanova (p), Svetlana Avdasheva, Yannis Katsoulacos
David Gilo
David Gilo (p), Yossi Spiegel
Philipp Kirst
F -- Seminar Room 8 -- 2nd floor
Brian Galle
Alice Guerra (p), Brooke Harrington
Tax Compliance and Tax Morale in Italy and Denmark: An Experimental Analysis
Brian Galle
Brian Galle
When Are Cross-Subsidies Efficient?
Joanna Siwinska-Gorzelak

11am - 12.30pm - Session 5

Session 5
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
A -- Sem Rm 12 -- 3rd floor
Romain Espinosa
Avishalom Tor
Just Nudging? Why Rationality Matters
Romain Espinosa
Romain Espinosa (p), Bruno Deffains, Christian Thöni
Untamed Self-Serving Bias
Dominique Demougin
Romain Espinosa, Bruno Deffains (p), Claude Fluet
Laws and Norms: Experimental Evidence with Liability Rules
Avishalom and Deborah Tor
Constitutional Law; Public Choice; Public Law; National Security; Space Law
B -- Sem Rm 13 -- 3rd floor
Antonio Vazquez
Carlo Reggiani (p), Andrea Mantovani, Claudio Piga
Hotels, online travel agencies, and price parity clauses: the Booking.com case
Alessio Pacces
Antonio Vazquez (p), Cristina Grande-Herrera, Beatriz García Osma
Carlo Reggiani
Contracts; Commercial Law; Secured Transactions; Bankruptcy
C -- Seminar Room 9 -- 2nd floor
Alessandro Melcarne
Roee Sarel, Melanie Demirtas (p)
Delegation at the U.S. federal appellate courts: the power to remand as a double-edged sword
Jens Frankenreiter
Alessandro Melcarne (p), Giovanni Battista Ramello, Eric Langlais
Judicial Independence and Constitutional Justice: Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights
Melanie Demirtas
Administrative Law; Regulation; Taxation; Public Finance
E -- Sem Rm 11 -- 3rd floor
Michael Faure
Kamilla Marchewka-Bartkowiak
Kamilla Marchewka-Bartkowiak
The Index for the Assessment of Regulations SignificanceThe Index for the Assessment of Regulations Significance in the parliamentary ex-post scrutiny
Bernold Nieuwesteeg
Bernold Nieuwesteeg (p), Michael Faure
Data Breach Notification Laws: carrots, sticks and thresholds
Gabriel Doménech-Pascual
F -- Seminar Room 8 -- 2nd floor
Joseph Sabia

2pm - 3.30pm - Session 6

Session 6
Room
Chair
Paper
Paper
Paper
A -- Sem Rm 12 -- 3rd floor
Emanuela Carbonara
Bernd Hayo, Jerg Gutmann (p), Stefan Voigt
Correlates and Determinants of Direct Democracy
Diego Pardow
Emanuela Carbonara (p), Enrico Santarelli, Martin Obschonka, Hien Thu Tran, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling
Jerg Gutmann
B -- Sem Rm 13 -- 3rd floor
Yotam Kaplan
Ronen Perry (p), Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko
Ramsi Woodcock
Civil and Criminal Procedure; Evidence; Litigation; Settlement; ADR
C -- Seminar Room 9 -- 2nd floor
Ken Yahagi
Benjamin Monnery
The cost of slow justice: how delayed incarceration fuels recidivism
Arnaud Philippe
Arnaud Philippe
Incarcerate one to calm the others: Spillover effects of prison among criminal groups.
Ken Yahagi
D -- Seminar Room 3 -- 2nd floor
Iacopo Grassi
Nicola Searle (p), Atin Basu Choudhary
Iacopo Grassi
Michael Karas
E -- Sem Rm 11 -- 3rd floor
Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir
Ram Singh
Settlement and Litigation over Eminent Domain Compensation: The Compounding Effect
Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir
Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir
Ownership and Possession: Insights from Behavioral Law and Economics
Ronit Levine-Schnur
F -- Seminar Room 8 -- 2nd floor
Julian Nyarko
Martina Ferracane
Do Data Policies Impact the Productivity Performance of Firms?
Julian Nyarko
Day 3 -- Saturday 16th September

9am - 10.30am - Session 7

Session 7
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
A -- Sem Rm 12 -- 3rd floor
Peter Cserne
Peter Cserne
Behavioural law and economics as litmus test
Roee Sarel
Roee Sarel
Are thieves pro-social?
Michael Faure
Antitrust; Competition Law; Regulated Industries
B -- Sem Rm 13 -- 3rd floor
Nataliya Dzagurova
Stefan Frübing
The Effects of a Merger with very High Combined Market Share – Evidence from the German Interurban Bus Industry
Nataliya Dzagurova
C -- Seminar Room 9 -- 2nd floor
Omer Pelled
Joshua Teitelbaum (p), David Kelsey, Surajeet Chakravarty
Maxime Charreire
Civil and Criminal Procedure; Evidence; Litigation; Settlement; ADR
D -- Seminar Room 3 -- 2nd floor
Tina Soreide
Margherita Saraceno (p), Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Donato Masciandaro
Vulnerability to Money Laundering and Deterrence: Evidence from Italy
Tina Soreide
Tina Soreide (p), Kalle Moene
Enforcement of Corporate Criminal Liability in Bribery Cases
Margherita Saraceno
E -- Sem Rm 11 -- 3rd floor
Roland Kirstein
Suren Gomtsian (p), Annemarie Balvert, Branislav Hock, Oguz Kirman
Alexander Wulf
Hans-Bernd Schäfer, Alexander Wulf (p)
The Price of Consumer Protection for the Protected, A Cross-Country and Time-Series Study on Mortgage Loans for Consumers in the EU-States
Roland Kirstein
Roland Kirstein
Who Should Pay the Real-Estate Agent? An Economic Evaluation of a Recent Law Reform Project in Germany.
Suren Gomtsian

11am - 12.30pm - Session 8

Session 8
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Contracts; Commercial Law; Secured Transactions; Bankruptcy
A -- Sem Rm 12 -- 3rd floor
Barbara Luppi
Naomi Gershoni
Singles vs. Panels: Do More Arbitrators Induce Less Bias?
Elena D'Agostino
Barbara Luppi
Alice Guerra, Barbara Luppi (p), Francesco Parisi
Designing Optimal Juries
Naomi Gershoni
Administrative Law; Regulation; Taxation; Public Finance
B -- Sem Rm 13 -- 3rd floor
Bruno Deffains
Niclas Berggren (p), Christian Bjørnskov
Dominique Demougin
Niclas Berggren
Constitutional Law; Public Choice; Public Law; National Security; Space Law
C -- Seminar Room 9 -- 2nd floor
María Gutiérrez
Thom Wetzer
The Governance of Ring-Fenced Banks in the United Kingdom
Guseva Yuliya
María Gutiérrez (p), Maribel Sáez
The Promise of Reward Crowfunding
Thom Wetzer
Guseva Yuliya
THE SEC AND INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS: A PATH TO OPTIMAL PUBLIC ENFORCEMENT AFTER MORRISON V. NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK
María Gutiérrez
D -- Seminar Room 3 -- 2nd floor
Jaroslaw Beldowski
Marek Endrich (p), Jerg Gutmann
The Pope Effect
Joé Rieff
Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw Beldowski (p), Lukasz Dabros
What Makes Politicians to Work Harder? Inter– vs. Intraparty Electoral Advantage
Marek Endrich
Employment and Labor; Family Law; Discrimination
E -- Sem Rm 11 -- 3rd floor
Stefan Voigt
Guilherme de Oliveira (p), Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci
Nora El Bialy
Stefan Voigt, Nora El Bialy (p), Andreas Nicklisch
Guilherme de Oliveira
F -- Seminar Room 8 -- 2nd floor
Régis BLAZY
Oscar Couwenberg (p), Stephen J. Lubben
Régis BLAZY
Oscar Couwenberg