2011 EALE CONFERENCE HAMBURG THURSDAY 22 September 9.00 10.00 10.00 10.30 10.30 11.

11.30 Registration Welcome Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, LL.M. (Berkeley), Director, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich "The concept of trade-relatedness of intellectual property rights in times of post-TRIPS bilateralism" Parallel Sessions 1 Law Enforcement
Chair: Georg von Wangenheim

Panel A

Panel B

Panel C

Panel D

Panel E

Panel F

11.30 13.00

International Law 1
Chair: Hans Bernd Schfer

Tort Law 1
Chair: Francesco Parisi

Corporate Law 1
Chair: Andrew Griffiths

Methodology 1
Chair: Eli Salzberger

Public Law 1
Chair: Per-Olof Bjuggren

Basili, Benedettini and Nicita, Buck, "The political contest for "Do penalty points deter traffic Basel III" offenses? Theory and evidence"

Chakravarty and Kelsey, "Ambiguity Lacave and Riao, "Voting and Cooter and Kraus, "The and accident law" litigating: Corporate governance measure of law and and the shareholder meeting" economics"

Hillman and Potrafke, "Voting in the absence of ethical restraint"

Friehe, Leshem and Tabbach, "Preventive versus nonpreventive optimal law enforcement"

Voigt, "The economics of informal international law making An empirical assessment"

Schweizer, "Vicarious liability and the intensity principle"

Hansmann and Pargendler, "Voting restrictions in 19th century corporations: Investor protection or consumer protection? "

Siems, "Measuring the immeasurable: How to turn law into numbers"

Berggren and Bjrnskov, "Does religion promote property rights and the rule of law?"

Peyer and Hschelrath, "Public and private enforcement of competition law: An integrated approach "

Kirstein and Kon, "Corporate raiders, incumbent blockholders, and voting caps: A power-index analysis of the old VW law "

13.00 14.30 14.30 16.00

Lunch Parallel Sessions 2 Property Law

Chair: Antonio Nicita

International Law 2
Chair: Dieter Schmidtchen

Tort Law 2
Chair: Fernando Gomez Pomar

Corporate Law 2
Chair: Patrick Leyens

Litigation 1
Chair: Gerd Mlheuer

Public Law 2
Chair: Fabio Padovano

Chang, "Tenancy in `anticommons? A theoretical and empirical analysis of coownership"

Deffains, Crettez and Musy, "Legal harmonization with endogenous preferences "

Artigot-Golobardes, "Avoiding waste in European product regulation: The nexus of ex ante safety and ex post liability "

Braun, Eidenmller, Engert and Hornuf, "Does charter competition foster entrepreneurship? A differencein-difference approach to European company law reforms "

Stewart, Fenn and Rickman, "Third party funding of commercial disputes: A framework for comparative analysis"

Nussim, "Revisiting the double dividend hypothesis"

Gller and Hewer, "Economic analysis of taking rules: The bilateral case"

Voigt, "The interplay between De Mot, Klick and Faure, "Appellate national and international law - caseload and the switch to Its economic effects drawing on comparative negligence" four new indicators"

Gorga, "Is `good faith a Fon, "Bayesian influence on subjective or objective standard? the choices of forum and law" A critique of Delawares recent case law"

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Grajzl and Guse, "Trust, corruption and demand for regulation: Evidence from post-socialist countries"

Grechenig and Kolmar, "The state's enforcement monopoly and the private protection of property"

Escresa and Picci, "Institutional heterogeneity and domestic sanctions to cross-border acts: The case of foreign bribery"

Muro, "Cognitive errors and control Myers, "The fundamental based strict liability" tension between director elections and shareholder power"

Koenig, "German Constitutional History: A Constitutional-Economics Perspective"

16.00 16.30 16.30 18.00

Coffee Break Parallel Sessions 3 Intellectual Property 1

Chair: George Barker

International Law 3
Chair: Stefan Voigt

Tort Law 3
Chair: Robert Cooter

Bankruptcy Law 1
Chair: Stephen Lubben

Litigation 2
Chair: Matteo Rizzolli

Public Law 3
Chair: Christian Bjornskov

Feess and Scheufen, "Academic Caiado, "Can L&E help us copyright in the publishing understand international game: A contest perspective" controversies over products classification?"

Shmueli, " Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be`: Instrumental theories, corrective justice and exposure to risk without bodily harm" Stremitzer, "Restoring causation through proportional liability - How more lenient sanctions lead to higher compliance"

Blazy, Chopard, Langlais and Ziane, "Personal bankruptcy law, fresh starts, and judicial practice"

Barker, "An Economic model Berggren Daunfeldt and of collective redress, relevant Hellstrm, "Social trust and to joinder proceedings, group Central Bank independence" litigation and class actions"

Griffiths, "The contribution of branding to improving standards of corporate social responsibility"

Sasse and Wittig, "The impact of BITs: An event study approach"

Fraisse and Muller, "Household debt restructuring: Evidence from French bankrupt households"

Chen and Abrams, "A market for justice: The effect of third party litigation funding on legal outcomes"

Lagona, Maruotti and Padovano, "The opposite cycles of laws and decrees"

Mezzanotte, "The interrelation between intellectual property licenses and the doctrine of numerus clausus"

Cho, Dreher and Neumayer, "The spread of anti-trafficking policies - Evidence from a new index"

Gazal-Ayal and Perry, "Small claims settlement conferences"

Blume and Voigt, "The economic effects of Constitutional budget institutions"

18.30 20.30

Roundtable on the sovereign debt crisis in the European Union Participants: Prof. Dr. Jrn Axel Kmmerer, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg Christophe Kamps, European Central Bank, Frankfurt/Main Prof. Dr. Donato Masciandaro, Bocconi University, Milan Prof. Dr. Christoph G. Paulus, LL.M. (Berkeley), Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin Prof. Dr. Hans Bernd Schfer, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg; Professor Emeritus, University of Hamburg Chair: Prof. Dr. Thomas Eger, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law

FRIDAY 23 September 9.00 10.30 Parallel Sessions 4

Panel A Intellectual Property 2

Chair: Henry Smith

Panel B Law and Development

Chair: Anne van Aaken

Panel C Tort Law 4

Chair: Laszlo Goerke

Panel D Bankruptcy Law 2

Chair: Bruno Deffains

Panel E Criminal Law 1

Chair: Erling Eide

Panel F Public Law 4

Chair: Neil Rickman

Chiou, "In the shadow of giants"

Cooter and Edlin, "Law and growth economics: A framework for research"

Friehe, Baumann and Hillesheim, "Status and liability: A first pass"

Ben-Ishai and Lubben, "Involuntary creditors and corporate bankruptcy"

Chen and Horton, "Deterrent effect of the death penalty? Evidence from British Commutations"

Di Vita, "The factors determining the duration of illegal disputes: An empirical analysis with micro data"

DAntoni and Rossi, "Appropriability and incentives with complementary innovations"

Cooter and Schfer, "How the many can overcome the few? Conditions of reforms in developing countries"

Shmueli, "Instrumental theories vs corrective justice: A new approach to balancing the goals of contemporary law"

Blazy and Nigam, "Building legal Dauner and Gutmann, "The Espasa and Esteller-Mor, "Is indexes to explain recovery determinants of death penalty inefficiency under control in rates: An analysis of the French abolition" the justice administration?" and UK bankruptcy codes"

Pasotti and Fritzpatrick, "Controlling corruption in judiciaries: A contractual solution"

Hewer, "Information and priority Tsuchimoto and Dusek, rules" "Responses to more severe punishment in the courtroom: Evidences from Truth-InSentencing Laws"

Ovaere, "The choice of environmental regulatory enforcement by lobby groups"

10.30 11.00 11.00 12.30

Coffee Break Parallel Sessions 5 Antitrust 1

Chair: Eberhard Feess

EU Law 1
Chair: Klaus Heine

Tort Law 5
Chair: Urs Schweizer

Banking and Finance 1

Chair: Alessio Paccess

Criminal Law 2
Chair: Florian Jeberger

Public Law 5
Chair: Katarzyna MetelskaSzaniawska

Ecer, "Optimal merger policy with policy-variant non-price strategies and deterred mergers"

Decarolis, Giorgiantonio and Giovanniello, "The awarding of public works in Italy: An analysis of the mechanisms for the selection of contractors"

Artigot-Golobardes, Gomez, Ganuza Bjuggren, and Eklund, "The cost Dusek, "Timing of punishment Bjrnskov and Potrafke , "The and Penalva, "Product liability of insecure property rights: R2 and crime: Evidence from a size and scope of between contract and tort: Taking revisited" criminal procedure reform" government" the contractual view seriously"

Petersen, "Antitrust law and the Kimmerle, "The political promotion of democracy and economy of the treaty of economic growth" Lisbon"

Faure and Liu, "Models of compensation for ecological damage"

Blazy, Martel and Nigam, "The Gazal-Ayal and Tor, "The choice between informal and innocence effect in plea formal restructuring: The case of bargaining" French banks facing distressed SMEs"

Chang and Smith, "An economic analysis of civil versus common law property"

Reinshagen, "Regulation and liability as complements and substitutes"

Chen, "Markets and morality" Stutzer and Braendle, "Incompatibility rules and the selection of public servants into national parliaments"

12.30 14.00 14.00 15.30

Lunch Parallel Sessions 6 Antitrust 2

Chair: Justus Haucap

EU Law 2
Chair: Florian Faust

Tort Law 6
Chair: Alexander Stremitzer

Banking and Finance 2

Chair: Sergio Muro

Criminal Law 3
Chair: Oren Gazal - Ayal

Behavioral Law and Economics

Chair: Avishalom Tor

Kretschmer, "How to deal with resale price maintenance: What can we learn from empirical results?"

Golecki, "The European law from grundnorm towards the Cathedral: Economic theory of remedies and the state liability for judicial wrongs in the EU Law"

Amaral-Garcia, "Civil and administrative litigation: Does it make a difference? The case of medical malpractice in Spain, 20062009".

Engelen and van Essen, "Vulnerability to the financial crisis: The roles of firm- and country-level governance mechanisms in Europe"

Carbonara and Escresa, "To Baumann and Friehe, fine or to jail? Considering the "Emotions in litigation role of the individual time contests" constraint"

Nevo and Ilan, "How relevant is Hornuf and Voigt, "Preliminary the relevant market?" references Analyzing the determinants that made the ECJ the powerful court that it is"

Amaral-Garcia and Grembi, Heine and Faure, "Insurance for "Managing insurance for medical financial crisis?" malpractice: Evidences from Italian regions"

Mc Carthy and van Santen, "Modeling the money launderer: A microtheoretical foundation"

Rizzolli and Nicita, "In dubio pro reo: A behavioural theory"

Leiter, Thni and Winner, "Duo cum faciunt idem, non est idem: Evidence from Austrian pain and suffering verdicts"

Pacces, "Liquidity crisis in the perspective of uncertainty: Law and economics implications"

Oded, "Corporate Monitors: Facilitating an efficient targeted monitoring policy"

Trzaskowski, "Behavioural economics, neuroscience, and the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive"

15.30 16.00 16.00 17.30

Coffee Break Parallel Sessions 7 Antitrust 3

Chair: Roberto Pardolesi

Contract Law
Chair: Tim Friehe

Environmental Law 1
Chair: Alfred Endres

Methodology 2
Chair: Wolfgang Weigel

Experimental Law and Economics

Chair: Emanuela Carbonara

Ramello and Mazurkeviciute, "Setting of fines for cartels in ICN jurisdictions"

Gller, "Expectation damages and bilateral cooperative investments"

Billiet and Blondiau, "Enforcing environmental regulations using the criminal or the administrative track: theory and empirics"

Cserne, "Consequence-based Eide, "A test of the base rate arguments in legal reasoning: neglect among law students" A jurisprudential preface to law and economics"

Tseliou, "Competition and regulation in the banking sector: Strive for an optimal equilibrium"

Lando, "A law and economics perspective on court intervention in contracts when circumstances have changed"

Endres and Rundshagen, Heinemann, "Economics - A "Incentives to diffuse advanced science without conscience?" abatement technology under the formation of international environmental agreements"

Mller-Langer and Versbach, "The absence of `order effects in dynamic tournaments: Evidence from a real-life randomized experiment"

Nicita and Sepe, "Contract design Porrini and Schwarze, "Defining under asset specificity uncertainty" insurance models efficiency within climate change economic policies"

Schmidtchen, "On the internalization of external costs: Replacing the Polluter Pays Principle with the Cheapest Cost Avoider Principle"

Rizzolli, "Thou shall not steal Experimental evidence on the social norm of property"

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Keynote Lecture by Prof. Andrew T. Guzman, Ph.D., University of California Berkeley School of Law "What do international organizations do?" Conference Dinner Panel A Antitrust 4
Chair: Giovanni Ramello

20.00

Saturday 24 September 9.00 10.30 Parallel Sessions 8

Panel B EU Law 3
Chair: Stefan Oeter

Panel C Labor Law

Chair: Henrik Lando

Panel D Environmental Law 2

Chair: Michael Faure

Panel E

Panel F Court Behavior

Chair: Roland Kirstein

Bonsiepen and Haucap, "Horizontal divestitures and R&D incentives in asymmetric duopoly"

Biletskaya, "The role of the European Union's Partnership and Cooperation Agreements (PCAs) in the reform process of the Commonwealth of Independent States"

Neugart and Goerke, "Distribution and welfare effects of dismissal dispute resolution systems"

Almer and Winkler, "Emissions targets and domestic actions: Dead end or last resort?"

Dothan, "Judicial Tactics in National Courts: A case study of the Israeli Supreme Court"

Clemens, "Platform cooperation vs. platform competition Production and investment strategies with mass Customization"

Ganuza and Gomez, "Optimal standards for European consumer law: Maximum harmonization, minimum harmonization, and co-existence of standards"

Pedrini, "Law and economics of training: A taxonomy of the main legal and institutional tools addressing suboptimal investments in human capital development"

Weishaar, "Does auctioning emission rights avoid state aid? Empirical evidence from Germany"

El-Bialy, "Measuring judicial performance in Egypt"

Scopelliti, "A defensive leveraging theory for interoperability decisions: An application to the Microsoft Europe case"

Weber, "European integration assessed in the light of the rules vs. standards debate"

Woerdman and Nentjes, "The EU emissions trading hybrid: Inefficiencies in the revised rules after 2013"

Escresa and Garoupa, "Judicial politics in unstable democracies: The case of the Philippine Supreme Court, An Empirical Analysis 19862010"

10.30 11.0 11.00 12.00 12.00 13.00

Coffee Break EALE General Assembly Lunch

Note: The time allocated for each presentation is 20 minutes followed by a 5-minute discussion by an assigned discussant and a 5-minute open discussion.