Past Conferences


1st Conference on Law and Economics Programme
Friday, 28 May 2010

09:15	Welcome and Introduction
Session 1
09:30 - 10:15	Forgiving Overconfidence in Tort Law Barbara Luppi and FRANCESCO PARISI Discussant: Vivek Ghosal
10:15 - 11:00	Jury and Media Bias Gil S. Epstein and RENANA POMERANTZ Discussant: Donatella Porrini
11:00 - 11:15	Coffee Break
Session 2
11:15 - 12:00	Labour Disputes and the Game of Legal Representation HENRI FRAISSE Discussant: Katarina Svatikova
12:00 - 12:45	'Take it or go to court' - The impact of Sec. 1a of the German Protection against Dismissal Act on severance payments LASZLO GOERKE and Markus Pannenberg Discussant: Malte Mosel
12:45 - 14:00	Lunch
Session 3
14:00 - 14:45	Interjurisdictional Linkages and the Scope for Interventionist Legal Harmonization Andrzej Baniak and PETER GRAJZL Discussant: Francesco Parisi
14:45 - 15:30	Determinants of Constitutional Change: Why Do Countries Change Their Form of Government? Bernd Hayo and STEFAN VOIGT Discussant: Clemens Buchen
15:30 - 15:45	Coffee Break
Session 4
15:45 - 16:30	Shooting Rampages and Maintenance of Campus Safety: An Incomplete Contracts Perspective BERND SÜSSMUTH and Robert K. von Weizsäcker Discussant: Claudine Desrieux
16:30 - 17:15	Optimal Liability Sharing and Court Errors: An Exploratory Analysis Marcel Boyer and DONATELLA PORRINI Discussant: Renana Pomerantz

17:15 - 17:30	Coffee Break
Session 5
17:30 - 18:30	KEYNOTE ADDRESS Damages for Breach of Duty in Corporate Disclosure URS SCHWEIZER
20:00	Conference Dinner
Saturday, 29 May 2010
Session 6
09:30 - 10:15	The Law and Economics of Enhancing Cartel Enforcement VIVEK GHOSAL Discussant: Gerd Muehlheusser
10:15 - 11:00	The Law and Economics Analysis of Intellectual Property: Paradigmatic Shift From Incentives to Traditional Property ELI M. SALZBERGER Discussant: Stefan Voigt
11:00 - 11:15	Coffee Break
Session 7
11:15 - 12:00	Sector-Specific Patent Protection in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Step-by-Step Innovations MALTE MOSEL Discussant: Peter Grajzl
12:00 - 12:45	Less is Sometimes More: Lowering Environmental Fines Can Be Efficient KATARINA SVATIKOVA Discussant: Henri Fraisse
12:45 - 14:00	Lunch
Session 8
14:00 - 14:45	Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices: Evidence from German Soccer Eberhard Feess, Michael Gerfin and GERD MUEHLHEUSSER Discussant: Jens Uhlenbrock
14:45 - 15:30	Class Actions, Compliance and Moral Costs Bruno Deffains and DOMINIQUE DEMOUGIN Discussant: Barbara Luppi
15:30	End of Workshop

1st Conference on Law and Economics

Programme

Friday, 28 May 2010

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

Session 5

Saturday, 29 May 2010

Session 6

Session 7

Session 8

1st Conference on
Law and Economics