Detailed Program

***The schedule is in Central European Summer Time (Barcelona time, UTC+2) ***
DAY 1 -- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

09:00-10:30 - Parallel Sessions 1

Parallel Sessions 1
Room
Chair
Paper
Paper
Paper
TORT LAW AND ECONOMICS
Tim Friehe
Francisco Poggi, Bruno Strulovici
Liability design with information acquisition
Tim Friehe, Cat Lam Pham, Thomas Miceli
Product Liability and Strategic Delegation: Endogenous Manager Incentives Promote Strict Liability
ANTITRUST, COMPETITION LAW, REGULATED INDUSTRIES – “NEW POLICIES”
Zoom Link B
Isac Antonio Olave
Noga Blickstein Shchory, Michal S. Gal
Market Power Parasites - Exclusive Submissions Track
Anna Tzanaki
Varieties and Mechanisms of Common Ownership: A Calibration Exercise for Competition Policy
carine staropoli, Isac Olave
Boosting the uptake of Green Public Procurement through simplified auction rule: Evidence from Colombia
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ECONOMICS
Zoom Link C
Johannes Ungerer
Evangelia Nissioti
It Takes Three to Tango: A Behavioral Analysis of the Use of a Mediator in International Disputes
Michael Waibel
A Theory of Boilerplate in International Agreements
Johannes Ungerer
Nudging Across Borders: Private International Law in the Light of Behavioural Economics
CONTRACTS; COMMERCIAL LAW; SECURED TRANSACTIONS; BANKRUPTCY
Zoom Link D
Yotam Kaplan
Eyal Zamir, Ori Katz
DO PEOPLE LIKE MANDATORY RULES? THE IMPACT OF FRAMING AND PHRASING
Omer Pelled, Ohad Somech
The Value of Accuracy in the Interpretation of Contracts
Yotam Kaplan, Yehonatan Givati
A New Theory of Impossibility, Impracticability, and Frustration
CORPORATE LAW AND EOCNOMICS – SECURITIES REGULATION
Zoom Link E
Georg Ringe
Carsten Gerner-Beuerle
Regulating unintended consequences: Algorithmic trading and the limits of securities regulation
Georg Ringe, Alessio Azzutti, Siegfried Stiehl
Machine Learning, Market Manipulation and Collusion on Capital Markets: Why the 'Black Box' matters

10:30-10:40 - BREAK

10:40-12:10 - Parallel Sessions 2

Parallel Sessions 2
Room
Chair
Paper
Paper
Paper
LAW AND ECONOMICS OF CORPORATE AND BANKRUPTCY LAW
Zoom Link A
Dov Solomon
Barak Yarkoni
Skewed Voting: How Shareholders’ Heterogeneity Distorts Corporate Voting
Noam Sher
Reorganization without Bankruptcy: Untying the Gordian Knot That Destroys Firm Value
Dov Solomon, Ido Baum
The Least Uncomfortable Choice: Why Delaware and England Win the Global Corporate Law Race
ANTITRUST IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
Zoom Link B
Oscar Borgogno
Laurens Vandercruysse, Caroline Buts, Michaël Dooms
Public Procurement of Smart City Services: The Anticompetitive Effect of the GDPR
Oscar Borgogno
SEPs licensing across the supply chain: an antitrust perspective
CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Zoom Link C
Peter Neis
Marco Fabbri, Benito Arruñada, Michael Faure
Land Titling and Litigation
Jaroslaw Beldowski, Wiktor Wojciechowski, Lukasz Dabros
Performance of Polish bankruptcy courts in 2013-2017: efficiency analysis
Peter Neis
Determinants of Court Productivity in Highly Congested Settings: Evidence from India
CRIMINAL LAW AND ECONOMICS/ SENTENCING
Zoom Link D
M Soltés
Libor Dušek, Jakub Drápal
Law or Policy? The Role of Authority in Criminal Sentencing
Benjamin MONNERY
Do prosecutors’ decisions explain sentencing disparities between courts? Evidence from traffic offenses in France
Michal Šoltés, Jakub Drápal
Sentencing Decisions Around Quantity Thresholds: Theory and Experiment
LAW AND ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Zoom Link E
Adrián Segura
Branislav Hazucha
Copyright Users and Non-Transformative Use: A Cross-Cultural Empirical Study
Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Yifat Nahmias
The Price of Creativity: A Conjoint Experiment in Copyrights
Adrian Segura-Moreiras, Alessandro De Chiara, Ester Manna, Antoni Rubí-Puig
Efficient copyright filters for online hosting platforms

12:10-12:50 - LUNCH BREAK

12:50 ‐14:15 - [Zoom Link] KEYNOTE: CANI FERNÁNDEZ, President of the Spanish National Commission for Markets and Competition, “Antitrust and the Digital Markets Act”. Chair: Rosa Ferrer (UPF and BSE). Introduction by: Antonio Robles (U. Carlos III de Madrid) and Juanjo Ganuza (U Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE).

14:15‐14:20 - SHORT BREAK

14:20 ‐15:50 - Parallel Sessions 3

Parallel Sessions 3
Room
Chair
Paper
Paper
Paper
LAW AND ECONOMICS OF CONSUMER ISSUES
Zoom Link A
Omar Vasquez
Georg von Wangenheim, Gerrit Gräper
Choosing within and between tariffs—How electricity tariffs optimally induce consumption behavior and the selection of incentive contracts
Florian Baumann, Tim Friehe, Tobias Wenzel
(Mis)perception of Consumer Rights: Implications for Efficiency and Distribution
Omar Vasquez Duque
Forced Choice vs. Inertia? An Exploratory Analysis of Choice Screens Applied in the European Microsoft Antitrust Case
JUDICIAL BEHAVIOR (I)
Zoom Link B
Umberto Nizza
Frank Fagan, Florian Baumann
Publication Rules and Judicial Candor
Chang-Ching Lin, Yun-chien Chang
Learning or Networking? The Causal Effect of Judges Sitting by Designation
Umberto Nizza
Are international crimes qualified by legal origins? Evidence from International Courts
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Zoom Link C
Ido Baum
Luigi Franzoni, Arun Kaushik
Lost Profits and Unjust Enrichment damages for the misappropriation of trade secrets
Pengfei Zhang
The Human Side of Cyber Property Rights: Theory and Evidence from Github
Ido Baum
Can the Next Amazon or Facebook Be Controlled Before It Becomes Too Powerful
EFFECTIVE ANTITRUST
Zoom Link D
Winand Emons
Severin Lenhard
Cartel Stability in Times of Low Interest Rates
Catarina Marvao, Chloe Le Coq, Tove Forsbacka-Karlsson
Cartels’ birth and death dynamics:empirical evidence
Winand Emons
Rebating Antitrust Fines to Encourage Private Damages Negotiations
EXPERIMENTAL AND EMPIRICAL
Zoom Link E
Margherita Saraceno
DESRIEUX Claudine, Romain Espinosa, Malin Arve
Who drops out of entrepreneurship? An experiment during the Covid-19 lockdown
Pietro Battiston, Simona Gamba, Matteo Rizzolli, Valentina Rotondi
What exactly is public in a public good game? A field experiment
Margherita Saraceno, Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Giovanni Bono
Non-medical Covid-19 mitigation measures and domestic violence in Italy.

15:50 ‐16:00 - BREAK

16:00 ‐17:30 - Parallel Sessions 4

Parallel Sessions 4
Room
Chair
Paper
Paper
Paper
TECHNOLOGY AND DATA PROTECTION
Zoom Link A
Filippo Lancieri
Aileen Nielsen
The je ne sais quoi of human observation: An experimental matchup of algorithmic and human surveillance programs
Filippo Lancieri
Narrowing Data Protection's Enforcement Gap
Guseva Yuliya
THE LEVIATHAN OF SECURITIES LAW IN CRYPTO: A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF ENFORCEMENT
COURTS AND LEGAL NORMS
Zoom Link B
Anthony Sebok
Naci Mocan, Ozkan Eren
Judge Peer Effects in the Courthouse
Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir, Eyal Zamir, Ori Katz
Giving Reasons as a Means to Enhance Compliance with Legal Norms
Ronen Avraham
THE MYSTERIOUS MARKET FOR POST-SETTLEMENT LITIGANT FINANCE
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW; REGULATION; TAXATION; PUBLIC FINANCE
Zoom Link C
Liam Wells
Juan-José Ganuza, Fernando Gomez, Makoto Hanazono
Pay for Performance in Procurement
Spruk Rok, Lela Mélon, Thomas J. Emery
Does E-Procurement Improve Institutional Quality? Subnational Evidence from Spain
Liam Wells
Pharmaceutical Product Sale Classification and Generic Substitution: Exploring economic and cultural explanations.
CORPORATE LAW: THEORY ‐ CONTROLLING SHAREHOLDERS
Zoom Link D
Valentin Jentsch
Barak Yarkoni, Avraham Tabbach
Shareholders’ Loans and Agency Costs
Tom Vos
Cheap-stock tunneling in US Rights Offerings: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
Valentin Jentsch
Blockholder Governance in Europe: A Story about Power and Responsibility
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND ECONOMICS
Zoom Link E
Abishek Choutaugnta
Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska, Jerg Gutmann, Stefan Voigt
The comparative constitutional compliance dataset
Jerg Gutmann, Anna Lewczuk, Jacek Lewkowicz, Stefan Voigt
Culture and constitutional compliance
Abishek Choutaugnta, Jerg Gutmann, Stefan Voigt
Shocking Noncompliance? Effects of Extreme Events on Constitutional Compliance

17:30 ‐17:45 - BREAK

17:45 ‐19:15 - Parallel Sessions 5

Parallel Sessions 5
Room
Chair
Paper
Paper
Paper
NEW MARKETS AND ANTITRUST
Zoom Link A
Ramsi Woodcock
Aurelien Portuese
(Ir)Relevance of Relevant Markets
Javier Elizalde
Pricing the premium version of a streaming service
Ramsi Woodcock
The Fourth's Estate: Using Advertising Rights to Save Newspapers
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONS
Zoom Link B
Marco Fabbri
Yann Lecorps, Benjamin MONNERY
Does the International Criminal Court Reduce Violence Against Civilians?
James Spindler, Jeff Meli
The effect of salary history bans on wages, learning, and the gender pay gap
Marco Fabbri, Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci, Matteo Rizzolli
The Double Dividend of Property Institutions
CONSTITUTIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ECONOMICS
Zoom Link C
Mitja Kovac
Giuseppe De Feo, Pasquale Accardo, Giacomo De Luca
With a Little Help from My Friends. Political competition with interest groups
Vincy Fon
SPACE DEBRIS REMOVAL: AN INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION PROBLEM
Mitja Kovac, Shai Dothan, Spruk Rok
Long-Run Effects of Radical Institutional Overhauls: Evidence from Mexican-American War
TORT LAW AND ECONOMICS
Zoom Link D
Ronen Perry
Yonathan Arbel
A Status Theory of Defamation Law
Urs Schweizer
Negligence Rules Coping with Hidden Precaution
Ronen Perry
The Unidentified Wrongdoer
LAW AND ETHICS
Zoom Link E
Monika Leszcynska
Pascal Langenbach, Yoan Hermstrüwer
Fair Governance with Humans and Machines
Alexander Stremitzer
Having your Day in Robot Court
Monika Leszczynska, Stefanie Jung, Peter Krebs
Does it matter what people lie about?
DAY 2 -- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

09:00 ‐10:30 - Parallel Sessions 6

Parallel Sessions 6
Room
Chair
Paper
Paper
Paper
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE LAW
Zoom Link A
Miriam Buiten
Antonella Zarra
Ask the Data. A Machine Learning Analysis of the Legal Scholarship on Artificial Intelligence
Arnold Vialfont
Information Extraction from the French Competition Authority's Decisions:Proposing an End-to-End Methodology for Machine Learning Support
Miriam Buiten, Alexandre de Streel, Martin Peitz
EU Liability Rules for the Age of Artificial Intelligence
CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Zoom Link B
Henrik Lando
Alessandro Ispano, Peter Vida
Designing Interrogations
Danisz Okulicz, Andres Espita de la Hoz
Dynamics of collective litigation
Henrik Lando
Understanding mediation from the theory of belief-dependent welfare
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW; REGULATION; TAXATION; PUBLIC FINANCE
Zoom Link C
Josef Montag
Omer Kimhi
Requests to Override - The Political Economy of Overriding Central Fiscal Limitations
Yan Xu
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND INCOME TAXATION: IS HONG KONG SPECIAL?
Josef Montag
Roma and Bureaucrats: A Field Experiment in the Czech Republic
LAW AND ECONOMICS OF GENDER AND LABOR
Zoom Link D
Emre Ekinci
Rafael González-Val, Miriam Marcén
Did Unilateral Divorce raise house prices in Europe?
Emre Ekinci, David Wehrheim
The Effect of Firing Costs on Worker Productivity and Turnover: Theory and Evidence
CORPORATE LAW AND ECONOMICS – CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Zoom Link E
Maribel Sáez
Kobi Kastiel
The Corporate Governance Gap
María Gutiérrez, Maribel Sáez
Corporate Groups Ownership and Contracts

10:30 ‐10:40 - BREAK

10:40 ‐12:10 - Parallel Sessions 7

Parallel Sessions 7
Room
Chair
Paper
Paper
Paper
LEGAL PROCEDURE AND RELATED ISSUES
Zoom Link A
Thomas Guzik
Ronen Avraham
Civil Procedure as the Regulation of Externalities: Toward a New Theory of Civil Litigation
Sophie Bienenstock, Pierre Kopp
The extensive reach of the FCPA beyond American borders: Is a bad deal always better than a good trial?
Tomasz Guzik
Applications of the homo oeconomicus concept. Some perspectives on the tax law, consumer law and anti-smog policy
ECONOMICS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
Zoom Link B
Adi Leibovitch
Mirco Tonin, Stefano Castriota
Stay or Flee? The Effect of Probability of Punishment in Hit-and-Run Accidents
Ram Singh, Hans-Bernd Schaefer
Equal Security and its Paradoxes
Adi Leibovitch, Ehud Guttel
Sanctions and Restitution
CONTRACTS AND CONSUMER LAW
Zoom Link C
Massimiliano Vattiero
Marta Troya Martinez, Elena Paltseva, Gerhard Toews
Relational Dynamics to improve Government's Commitment in Resource Extraction
Haggai Porat
Consumer Protection in the Time of Algorithmic Behavior-Based Pricing
Massimiliano Vatiero
Smart contracts, transaction costs and adaptation
LAW AND ECONOMICS OF PROPERTY
Zoom Link D
Marco Giraudo
Valentin Lignau, Beatrice Dumont, Marc Baudry
Strategic Interactions Between Firms in the European Wind Power Industry: Evidence from Patent Oppositions
Yun-chien Chang
Law and Economics of Specificatio
Marco Giraudo
The Legal Bubble of The Data Driven Economy
CORPORATE LAW AND ECONOMICS – LAW AND FINANCE
Zoom Link E
Nitzan Shilon
Barak Yarkoni, Beni Lauterbach, Evgeny Lyandres, Yevgeny Mugerman
The Choice Between Various Freeze-out Procedures and its Consequences
Nitzan Shilon
Pay for Destruction: The Executive Compensation Arrangements That Encourage Value-Decreasing Stock Buybacks

12:10 ‐12:50 - LUNCH BREAK

12:50 ‐14:00 - [Zoom Link] KEYNOTE: Prof. EDWARD MORRISON, Columbia Law School, “Bugs and Features in Corporate Reorganization”. Chair: Fernando Gómez (EALE President and UPF Law School).

14:00 ‐14:45 - [Zoom Link] GENERAL ASSEMBLY

14:45 ‐15:00 - SMALL BREAK

15:00 ‐16:30 - Parallel Sessions 8

Parallel Sessions 8
Room
Chair
Paper
Paper
Paper
JUDICIAL BEHAVIOR (II)
Zoom Link A
Kamil Jonski
Adrian Segura-Moreiras, Fernando Gómez-Pomar, Nuno Garoupa
IDEOLOGY AND CAREER JUDGES: REVIEWING LABOR LAW IN THE SPANISH SUPREME COURT
Jacek Lewkowicz, Jan Fałkowski
In practice or just on the paper? Some insights on the internal judicial independence
Kamil Jonski
Judicial Independence and its Legal Safeguards - beyond de iure/de facto indicators
LAW AND ECONOMICS OF CREDIT AND FINANCIAL MARKETS
Zoom Link B
Rok Spruk
Moran Ofir
(Un)intended Consequences of Macroprudential Regulation
Jeffrey Traczynski
Judicial Efficiency and Mortgage Credit Supply
Adrián Segura-Moreiras, Fernando Gómez Pomar, Rok Spruk
Litigation and the Mortgage Market: Evidence from Spain
SOCIAL NORMS AND CULTURE
Zoom Link C
Gerd Muehlheusser
Marion Payen, Patrick Rondé
Culture, Institutions and Economic Growth
Sergio Mittlaender, Lisa Lenz
The Effect of Inclusive Policies on Economic Types of Discrimination
gerd.muehlheusser@uni-hamburg.de gerd.muehlheusser@uni-hamburg.de, Eberhard Feess, Florian Kerzenmacher
Moral transgressions by groups: What drives individual behavior?
BEHAVIORAL THEORY AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS
Zoom Link D
Peter Grajzl
Eyal Zamir, doron teichman
Mathematics, Psychology, and Law: The Legal Ramifications of the Exponential Growth Bias
John Dillbary, Thomas J. Miceli
Group Punishment
Peter Grajzl, Peter Murrell
A Macrohistory of Legal Evolution and Coevolution: Property, Procedure, and Contract in Pre-Industrial English Caselaw

16:30-17:15 - [Zoom Link] FAREWELL AND NETWORKING VIRTUAL GATHERING