Detailed Program


Day 1 - Thursday, September 15, 2016

10:00 – 11:30 - Parallel Sessions 1

Parallel Sessions 1
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Competition L&E
Caccia
Huyue Zhang
Progetto
John Golden
Jacek Lewkowicz
Enrico Böhme, Jonas Severin Frank, Wolfgang Kerber
Ramsi Woodcock
John Golden
Software Patents and the Litigation Funnel: The Worst of All Worlds?
Bryan Khan
Regulation and Contract L&E
Affrescata
Bernhard Ganglmair
Bernhard Ganglmair
Installment Contracts and Material Breach
Yun-chien Chang
International L&E
Fuoco
Laura Birg
Bertrand Crettez, Olivier Musy
Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
Jerg Gutmann, Matthias Neuenkirch, Florian Neumeier
Precision-Guided or Blunt? The Effects of US Economic Sanctions on Human Rights
akiva weiss
Liability Law
Cappella
Omer Pelled
Avraham Tabbach, Ariel Porat, Alon Cohen
Inducing Negligence
Urs Schweizer

14:30 – 16:00 - Parallel Sessions 2

Parallel Sessions 2
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Procedure; Litigation
Fuoco
Eve-Angeline Lambert
Ansgar Wohlschlegel, Tim Friehe
Filippo Roda
Eve-Angeline Lambert, Julien Jacob, Serge GARCIA
Liability sharing, insolvency and abatement efforts: an experiment
Alice Guerra
Francesco Parisi, Alice Guerra, Barbara Luppi
Evidence Standards and Litigation: a Rent-Seeking Game
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Employment L&E
Caccia
Josef Montag
Claudine Desrieux, Romain Espinosa, Marc Ferracci
Access to labor courts and unemployment: Evidence from French Labor Couts
Jean-Christian Tisserand
Mehmet Bac
Environmental L&E
Progetto
Edwin Woerdman
Abdelfeteh Bitat
Environmental regulation and eco-innovation: insights from diffusion of innovations theory
Edwin Woerdman
Affrescata
Sven Hoeppner
Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Francesco Parisi, Ariel Porat
Sergio Mittlaender
Sergio Mittlaender Leme de Souza
Morality, Compensation, and the Contractual Obligation
Peter Lewisch
Sven Hoeppner and B. Depoorter
The Moral Hazard Effect of Liquidated Damages: An Experiment on Contract Remedies
Stefania Ottone
Political Economy; Public Choice
Modulare
Rok Spruk

16:30 – 18:30 - Parallel Sessions 3

Parallel Sessions 3
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Enforcement, Crime
Fuoco
Roee Sarel
Laarni Escresa, Lucio Picci
The Determinants of Cross-Border Corruption
Giuseppe Di Vita
Margherita Saraceno, Lucia Dalla Pellegrina
Limited Access to Non-Criminal Justice for Inmates: Evidence from two Italian prisons
Jaroslaw Beldowski
Roee Sarel
Judicial errors, crime deterrence and appeals: evidence from U.S. federal courts
Yun-chien Chang
Amedeo Argentiero, Michele Bagella, Bruno Chiarini, Elisabetta Marzano
The birth of new enterprises, tax evasion and usury: evidence for Italy
Enrico Santarelli
Corporate Governance; Law and Finance
Caccia
Alessandro Pomelli
María Gutiérrez, Maria Isabel Saez
Federico Muciarelli
Dominic Chai, Simon Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar, Ajit Singh
Pablo Duarte
Mathias Siems
Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development?
Dominic Chai
Progetto
Avishalom and Deborah Tor
Marco Fabbri, Matteo Rizzolli
Being Bourgeois: The Emergence Of Private Property In The Lab
Avishalom and Deborah Tor
Stéphane Luchini, Nicolas Jacquemet, Jason Shogren, Julie Rosaz, Céline Launay, Jacques Py
Testimony under oath
Matteo Rizzolli
Avishalom Tor, Stephen M. Garcia
N-Equality: More People, Less (Concern for) Equality?
Laura Lyhs
History of L&E / Methodology
Affrescata
Thierry Kirat
Political Economy; Public Choice
Modulare
Stephan Michel
Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska, Anna Lewczuk
Manuela Krause
Christian Bjørnskov
Property Law and Economics
Cappella
boudewijn bouckaert
Guilherme Vala Elias Pimentel de Oliveira
Turnover or Cash? Sharecropping in the US South.
Giulia Barbanente
Giulia Barbanente, Emma Aisbett
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Rural Development: Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
boudewijn bouckaert
Marco Casari, Claudio Tagliapietra
Group size and collective action: learning from six centuries of management of the commons in the Italian Alps
Guilherme de Oliveira
Day 2 - Friday, September 16, 2016

9:00 - 10:30 - Parallel Sessions 4

Parallel Sessions 4
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Health L&E
Caccia
Paola Bertoli
Neil Rickman, Paul Fenn
Time and the selection hypothesis
Paola Bertoli
Neil Rickman
Paola Bertoli, Veronica Grembi
Looking Under the Cap: How Limitations to Damages Shape Hospitals Performance. An Empirical Investigation
Joseph Sabia
Law Enforcement
Consiglio
Murat Mungan
Murat C. Mungan
Reducing Crime through Expungements
Bernhard Ganglmair
Litigation and Torts
Modulare
Luigi Franzoni
Vatsalya Srivastava
Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci
Luigi Franzoni
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Taxation
Room 121
Rainer Bräutigam
Pascale Duran-Vigneron, Marie-Laure Breuillé
Tax competition with two mobile and interdependent tax bases: which fiscal architecture?
Rainer Bräutigam
Rainer Bräutigam, Christoph Spengel, Frank Streif
Decline of CFC Rules and Rise of IP Boxes: How the European Court of Justice affects Tax Competition and Economic Distortions in Europe
Pascale Duran-Vigneron
Political Economy; Public Choice
Cappella
Manuela Krause
Björn Kauder, Chiara Dalle Nogare
Term limits for mayors and intergovernmental grants: Term limits for mayors and intergovernmental grants: Evidence from Italian cities
Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
Manuela Krause, Björn Kauder, Niklas Potrafke
Electoral cycles in MPs’ salaries: Evidence from the German states
Stephan Michel
Incentives and the Progress of Arts & Sciences
Aula Magna
Enrico Santarelli
Scheufen Marc, Frank Mueller-Langer, Patrick Waelbroeck
On Access to Research in Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence from Article-Level Data
Paul Heald

11:00 - 12:30 - Parallel Sessions 5

Parallel Sessions 5
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Bureaucracy
Caccia
Wolfgang Weigel
Tina Soreide, Emmanuelle Auriol
Dominique Demougin
Gabriel Doménech-Pascual
Tapas Kundu, Tore Nilssen
Delegation of Regulation
Tina Soreide
Courts: Theory
Consiglio
Barbara Luppi
Daniel Pi, Francesco Parisi, Barbara Luppi
Roee Sarel
Enviromental L&E
Modulare
Tim Friehe
Philip Hanke
Climate Change, Environmental Damage, and Migration - A Law and Economics Perspective
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Liabiliy and Contracts
Room 121
Roland Kirstein
Henrik Lando
The Puzzle of the Knock-for-knock System
Urs Schweizer
John Dillbary
Tort-tracting
Henrik Lando
Strategic Models
Cappella
Vatsalya Srivastava
Davide Grossi, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
Mutual Persuasion
Crettez Bertrand
Georg von Wangenheim
Vatsalya Srivastava
Omer Pelled

15:00 -16:00 - Parallel Sessions 6 - Short Papers

Parallel Sessions 6 - Short Papers
Room
Chair
Paper
Paper
Paper
Paper
Competition L&E - Short Paper Session
Caccia
Francisco Marcos
Courts - Short Paper Session
Consiglio
Alexander Wulf
Intellectual Property - Short Paper Session
Modulare
Frantisek Kasl
Bryan Khan
Enforcement of Copyright and Related Rights in Broadcasting Markets
Michael Karas, Roland Kirstein
Renegotiable Copyrights: An Investigation Of The German Copyright Reform.
Political Economy; Public Choice - Short Paper Session
Room 121
Georg von Wangenheim
Taxation; Public Finance - Short Paper Session
Cappella
Pietro Battiston
Marco Fabbri, Tommaso Bondi
Is One Bird in the Hand Worth Two in the Bush? Tax Lotteries, Crowding-out and Long-run Welfare Effects
Pietro Battiston, Denvil Duncan, Simona Gamba, Alessandro Santoro
Giuseppe Di Vita
CORRUPTION AND LEGISLATIVE COMPLEXITY: A MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS
L&E: Topics - Short Paper Session
Aula Magna
GIACOMO VERGALLO

16:30 – 18:00 - Parallel Sessions 7

Parallel Sessions 7
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Antitrust and IPRs
Caccia
Thomas Eger
Liabiliy, Information, and Competition
Consiglio
Tobias Pfrommer
Florian Baumann, Tim Friehe, Alexander Rasch
Julien JACOB
John Dillbary
Law, Firms, Finance
Modulare
Hatsuru Morita
Hans-Bernd Schaefer, Hans-Bernd Schaefer, Jochen Bigus
Hatsuru Morita
Nitzan Shilon
Putting Directors’ Money Where Their Mouths Are: A New Approach to Improving Corporate Takeover Dynamics
Alessandro Pomelli
Courts: Evidence
Room 121
Jean-Christian Tisserand
IPRs
Cappella
Paul Heald
Ben Depoorter
An Empirical Study of Copyright Statutory Damages
Scheufen Marc
Keiichi Kishi
A patentability requirement and industry-targeted R&D
Vincenzo Denicolò
Criminal L&E
Aula Magna
Oren Gazal
Benjamin Monnery
Time to get out ? How sentence reductions fuel recidivism
NACI MOCAN
Oren Gazal-Ayal, Keir Irwin-Rogers, Yael Talmon
Lewisch Peter
Day 3 - Saturday, September 17, 2016

9:00 - 11:00 - Parallel Sessions 8

Parallel Sessions 8
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Methodology/History of L&E
Caccia
Alain Marciano
Magdalena Małecka
Posner versus Kelsen. The challenges of scientific analysis of law.
Peter Cserne
Peter Cserne
Modelling morality and rule-guided behaviour in (law and) economics: a case study on reductionism and instrumentalism
Magdalena Małecka
Alain Marciano, Alessandro Melcarne, Giovanni Battista Ramello
Justice without romance. The history of the economic analyses of judges behavior
Jean-Baptiste Fleury
Courts
Affrescata
Yolande HIRIART
Yun-chien Chang, Kong-Pin Chen, Chang-Ching Lin
BENJAMIN MONNERY
Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Nuno Garoupa, Sofia Amaral-Garcia
Yolande HIRIART
Naci Mocan, Ozkan Eren
Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles
Daniel Pi
Oren Gazal
Antitrust: Ex-Post Analysis
Modulare
Franco Mariuzzo
Elena Argentesi, Paolo Buccirossi, Roberto Cervone, Tomaso Duso, Alessia Marrazzo
The effect of retail mergers on variety: An ex-post evaluation
Franco Mariuzzo
Luca Aguzzoni, Benno Buehler, Luca Di Martile, Georg Ecker, Ron Kemp, Anton Schwarz, Robert Stil
Elena Argentesi
Franco Mariuzzo, Peter L. Ormosi
Ignoring post-intervention price variance in difference-in-differences studies
Etleva Gjonca
Experimental L&E: Punishment
Cappella
Winand Emons
Winand Emons
Stefania Ottone, Ferruccio Ponzano, Luca Zarri
Judges’ Attitude towards Errors: Evidence from the Lab
Sven Hoeppner
Winand Emons, Lisa R. Anderson, Gregory DeAngelo, Beth Freeborn, Hannes Lang
Penalty Structures and Deterrence in a Two-Stage Model: Penalty Structures and Deterrence in a Two-Stage Model: Experimental Evidence
Sergio Mittlaender
Judiciary
Room 121
Marek Endrich
Giovanni Battista Ramello, Alessandro Melcarne
Justice delayed, growth denied: Evidence from a comparative perspective
Cecile Bourreau-Dubois
Jacek Lewkowicz, Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska, Mariusz Golecki
Marek Endrich
Jerg Gutmann, Stefan Voigt
Why is Informal Law so Prevalent? Identifying the Reasons for Its Widespread Use
Alessandro Melcarne

11:30 - 13:00 - Parallel Sessions 9

Parallel Sessions 9
Room
Chair
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Paper
Discussant
Courts and Judges
Caccia
JUAN MORA-SANGUINETTI
Enforcement - Liability
Affrescata
Clemens Buchen
Takuro Miyamoto, Ryo Ishida
Does an Optimal Voluntary Approach Flexibly Control Emissions from Heterogeneous Firms?
Clemens Buchen
Clemens Buchen, Bruno Deffains, Alberto Palermo
Boycott, stigmatization and Law enforcement
Takuro Miyamoto
Timothy Swanson, Shaun Larcom, Luca Panzone
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mickael Lebdar
A new economic approach of deterrence applied to repeat offenders
Bernhard Ganglmair
Bankruptcy L&E
Modulare
Giovanni Battista Ramello
Giovanni Battista Ramello , Alessandro Melcarne
Ritchelle Alburo
Marianna Succurro, Giuseppe Arcuri, Giuseppina Damiana Costanzo
PREDICTING CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY: AN APPLICATION TO ITALIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS
Amedeo Argentiero
Jaka Cepec, Peter Grajzl, Katarina Zajc
Debt Recovery in Firm Liquidations: Do Liquidation Trustees Matter?
Baniak Andrzej
Firms and Finance
Cappella
Federico Mucciarelli
Danny Blaustein
Directors’ Duties in the Liquidation of Start-ups Companies
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Hadar Jabotinsky, Barak Yarkoni
THE NETWORK EFFECTS OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REGULATION
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Mathias Siems, Federico Mucciarelli, Edmund Schuster, Carsten Gerner-Beuerle
Why Do Businesses Incorporate in other EU Member States? An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Conflict of Laws Rules
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