Detailed Program
DAY 1 -- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
09:00-10:30 - Parallel Sessions 1
Parallel Sessions 1
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CIVIL PROCEDURE AND JUDICIAL DESIGN
Margherita Saraceno
Standard of proof, accuracy and vote
CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Ido Baum
The Global Diffusion of Stewardship Codes
Share Repurchases by Controlling Shareholders
PRIVACY AND DIGITAL MARKET
Vincent Lefrere
European Privacy Law and Global Markets for Data
Privacy and Children: What drives digital data protection for very young children?
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND ECONOMICS
Stefan Voigt
Leader Characteristics and Constitutional Compliance
Political Conflict, Political Polarization, and Constitutional Compliance
ENVIRONEMENT, LAW AND ECONOMICS
Anna Rita Germani
Emission Taxes, Multiple Pollutants, and Technology Choice
10:30-10:40 - BREAK
10:40-12:10 - Parallel Sessions 2
Parallel Sessions 2
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JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE
Sofia Amaral-Garcia
EXPERIMENTAL LAW AND ECONOMICS: SANCTIONS & LIABILITY
Aileen Nielsen
Sanction Severity Influences Learning About Enforcement Policy
Liability for Physicians using Medical AI: Experimental Evidence
DETERRENCE AND LITIGATION
Tina Soreide
Signaling in Negative Expected-Value Suits
COMPETITION POLICY: DIGITAL ECONOMY
Christan Peukert
The Law and Economics of Online Republication
SECURITIES REGULATION
Alessandro Pomelli
Regulation of Information about Unfolding Events in Securities Markets: A Behavioral Economics Perspective
How Crisis Affects Crypto: Coronavirus as a Test Case
12:10-12:50 - LUNCH BREAK
13:50-15:20 - Parallel Sessions 3
Parallel Sessions 3
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PROPERTY, LITIGATION AND REMEDIES
Joshua Teitelbaum
Your Bitcoin is Mine: What does Law and Economics Have to Say About Property Rights in Cryptocurrencies?
JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING
Rosa Ferrer
Judicial Independence and Consistency: Evidence from Switzerland
TAXATION AND PROFIT SHIFTING
Etienne Lehmann
Value creation and allocation in international tax law
Comprehensive or Separate Income Tax? A Sufficient Statistics Approach with Incidence Effects
15:20-15:30 - BREAK
15:30-17:00 - Parallel Sessions 4
Parallel Sessions 4
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COMPETITION POLICY: ANTITRUST
Ramsi Woodcock
REGULATION: HEALTH AND PHILANTHROPY
Mitja Kovac
Medical Device Companies and Doctors: Do their interactions affect medical treatments?
Cooperation in Health Care and Medical Malpractice Liability: An Experimental Investigation
Tax Percentage Institutions, or The Strange Case of Dr. Taxpayer and Mr. Philanthropy
COURT PERFORMANCE
Alvaro Bustos
Judges and performance of the justice system: the case of civil courts in Poland
An Economic Theory of Court Performance:Evidence from the Court of Justice of the European Union
MEDIATION AND SETTLEMENT
Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci
TAXATION AND FIRMS’ STRATEGY
Florian Baumann
Advertising Campaigns and Emission Taxes in a Green Market
Profit shifting and destination-based taxes
Dieselgate effect and its source of heterogeneity across countries.
17:00-17:10 - BREAK
17:10-18:40 - Parallel Sessions 5
Parallel Sessions 5
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BEHAVIORAL CONTRACT LAW
Luigi Franzoni
How to Improve Consumers’ Reading Rates, Understanding, and Retention of Legal Information Online. Insights from a Behavioral Experiment
Incomplete Promises
REGULATION OF LABOUR AND PROFESSIONS
Faure Michael
The Impact of International Migration on Workers Protection
CONTRACTS AND POLICIES: FORMAL AND INFORMAL SANCTIONS
DESRIEUX Claudine
COMPETITION POLICY: TECHNOLOGY AND MARKET REGULATION
Michael Simkovic
A Case Study Evaluation of China’s Fair Competition Review System
Regulation Intensity and Innovative Entry
COURTS AND CLAIMS: THEORY
Johannes Schneider
Inconsistency on Multimember Courts
A Theory of Claim Resolution
DAY 2 -- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
09:00-10:30 - Parallel Sessions 6
Parallel Sessions 6
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INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ECONOMICS (CANCELLED)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Sophie Bienenstock
Defensive Patenting and Portfolio Spillovers: the Impact of Patent Invalidation on the Renewal of Citing Patents
Copyright and Social Norms in the Scholarly Publishing Market: Disentangling the Puzzle ofInstitutional Overlapping
Patent Aggregation in Europe: The Spotlight on Patent Licensing by Patent Aggregators
EXPERIMENTAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ECONOMICS
Marco Fabbri
Property Rights and Large-Scale Cooperation
Rewarding as a Compliance Mechanism in International Law
CORPORATE GOVERANCE: EMPIRICS
Roee Sarel
Corporate Law and Superstar CEOs
Board Composition and Performance of State-Owned Enterprises: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Letting Companies Choose Between One-Tier and Two-Tier Board Models:An Empirical Analysis of European Jurisdictions
10:30-10:40 - BREAK
10:40-12:10 - Parallel Sessions 7
Parallel Sessions 7
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CORPORATE LAW & GOVERNANCE
Shay Lavie
TORTS
Tim Friehe
Consumers' Costly Responses to Product-Harm Crises
LEGAL DESIGN & BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS
Yotam Kaplan
Local Government and Innovation: the case of Italian provinces
CORONAVIRUS, LAW AND ECONOMICS
Avraham Tabbach
INFECTED BY BIAS: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE AND THE LEGAL RESPONSE TO COVID-19
12:10-12:50 - LUNCH BREAK
12:50-13:50 - GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND AWARDS -
13:50-15:20 - Parallel Sessions 8
Parallel Sessions 8
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COMPETITION POLICY
Johannes Paha
The Antitrust Damages Directive Biggest GAP: Small Business and Consumers
REGULATION: NEW CHALLENCES
Fernando Gomez
The Theory of Granularity: A Path for Antitrust in Blockchain Ecosystems
CRIME
BENJAMIN MONNERY
Does Money Laundering Affect Environmental Crime? A Case Study on Italian Regions
Political Conservatism and Gun Ownership: Insight from a Regression Discontinuity Design
PREVENTION AND LIABILITY
Joshua Teitelbaum
Prevention policy that mitigates ex-ante uncertainty
15:20-15:30 - BREAK
15.30-17.00 - Parallel Sessions 9
Parallel Sessions 9
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CRIME, SANCTIONS AND VICTIMS
Alan Miller
An Axiomatic Critique of Retributivism
Information, coordination and the legal order
JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING
Frank Fagan
Disagreeing or Dissenting: An Empirical Exploration of Possible Motivations
Competing Algorithms for Law: Sentencing, Admissions, and Employment
TORTS & LIABILITY
Marie Obidzinski
Investing in Private Evidence
Using Guardrails to Combat 401(k) Menu Misuse: Improving Outcomes Through Constrained Choice
CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Alexsandros Cavgias Martins Fraga
Resolving the Subordination Dilemma: A Novel Regulatory Approach to Shareholder Loans as a Source of Financing for Firms
HISTORY & METHODOLOGY
Henrik Lando
A Machine-Learning History of English Caselaw and Legal Ideas Prior to the Industrial Revolution
Law & Economics at Sixty: Mapping the Field with Bibliometric and Machine Learning Tools