Workshop Midterm-Meeting ERASMUS Programme in Law and Economics
Program of the Workshop on Law and Economics, February 14, 2003
| 8.00-9.00 | Registration | |||
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| A 1: Tort Law Room: 122 Chair: Thomas Eger, Hamburg | A 2: Law Enforcement Room: 121 Chair: Thomas Ulen, Urbana-Champaign | A 3: Agency Problems Room: 222 Chair: Urs Aschenbrenner, Hamburg | A 4: Contract Law Room: 223 Chair: Fritz Fröhlich, Arnhem |
| 9.00-9.45 | Heico Kerkmeester and Louis Visscher | Anne van Aaken, Eli Salzberger and Stefan Voigt | Nuno Garoupa and Fernando Gomez-Pomar | Andrew Griffiths |
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| Erasmus University Rotterdam | Humboldt-University Berlin, University of Haifa, University of Kassel | Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona | University of Manchester |
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| Learned Hand in Europe: a Study in the Comparative Law and Economics of Negligence | Criminal Prosecution of Public Figures: Confusion within the Executive Branch | Cashing by the Hour: Why Large Law Firms Prefer Hourly Fees over Contingent Fees | Corporate Agents and Efficient Ostensible Authority |
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| Discussant: Claus Ott | Discussant: Georg von Wangenheim | Discussant: Roland Kirstein | Discussant: Jochen Bigus |
| 9.50-10.35 | Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci | Winand Emons | Henning Curti | Aristides Hatzis |
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| Ghent University and Utrecht University | University of Bern | University of Hamburg | University of Athens |
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| Toward an Economic Theory of Gain Liability | Subgame Perfect Punishment for Repeat Offenders | Brokers as Intermediaries: Their Regulation in Germany | "Wombs for Rent": The Economics of Surrogate Motherhood |
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| Discussant: Dominique Demougin | Discussant: Manfred Holler | Discussant: Christian Kirchner | Discussant: Pierre Garello |
| 10.35-11.00 | Coffee Break | |||
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| B 1: Room: 122 Chair. Jochen Bigus, Hamburg | B 2: Room: 222 Chair: Göran Skogh, Linköping | Room: 121 |
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| 11.00-11.45 | Rocio Albert López-Ibor and Joaquin Artés | T. S. Somasheker |
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| University of Madrid | University of Bangalore |
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| Must Bankruptcy Regulation Confer Privileges to the State? | Moral Hazard and Mutual Fund Regulation: A Case Study of Unit Trust of India | Presentation of "The Society of Students of the Erasmus Programme in Law and Economics" |
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| Discussant: Eva Maria Steiger | Discussant: Elisabeth Krecké |
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| 12.00-13.00 | Guest Lecture (East Wing, Room 221) | |||
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| Andreas Luckow | |||
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| German Association of Mortgage Banks (Verband der deutschen Hypothekenbanken) | |||
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| The Efficiency of Property Transaction Systems: The Project of Electronic Conveyancing | |||
| 13.00-14.15 | Lunch | |||
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| C 1: Public Law and Tax Law Room: 223 Chair: Wolfgang Weigel, Vienna | C 2: European Law and Economics Room: 222 Chair: Roger Van den Bergh, Rotterdam | C 3: Property Rights Room: 121 Chair: Luigi Franzoni. Bologna | C 4: Information Asymmetries Room: 133 Chair: Christian Kirchner, Berlin |
| 14.15-15.00 | Ohad Soudry | Walter Müller | Sebastian Baum | Matthew Braham and Friedel Bolle |
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| University of Haifa | University of Kassel | (Prize Winning Master-Thesis) | University of Hamburg and University of Frankfurt (Oder) |
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| A Social Welfare Policy in Competitive Bidding for Public Works and Services Contracts | International Tax Competition: Overcoming the N-Person Prisoners’ Dilemma? | Allocation of Internet Domain Names: An Economic Analysis | Why not Always Require an Oath |
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| Discussant: Luit Bakker | Discussant: Heico Keerkmester | Discussant: Oren Gazal | Discussant: Winand Emons |
| 15.05-15.50 | Georg von Wangenheim | Sophie Delabruyere | Emanuela Carbonara | Roland Kirstein |
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| Max-Planck-Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena | Université de Reims | University of Bologna | University of Saarbrücken |
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| Procedural Rules and Administrative Decisions with an Application to the Amended Sections 45 and 46 of the German Administrative Procedures Act | National Judges’ Behaviour and Movement of Judgements: An Economic Analysis of Judicial Competition and Co-operation in Europe | Piracy and Quality Choice in Monopolistic Markets | Less Rationality, More Efficiency: a Laboratory Experiment on "Lemon" Markets |
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| Discussant: Wolfgang Weigel | Discussant: Thomas Eger | Discussant: Henning Curti | Discussant: Göran Skogh |
| 15.55-16.40 |
| Stefanie Schmid-Lübbert | Dennis Khong | Christian Eilinghoff |
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| University of Hamburg | University of Strathclyde | University of Hamburg |
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| Migration Policies and the Constitution of the European Union: An Economic Analysis of Articles 62, 63 and 67 of the EC Treaty | The First English Copyright Act in 1710 and its Struggle Against Monopolies | Religious Information and Credibility |
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| Discussant: Stefan Voigt | Discussant: Eli Salzberger | Discussant: Thomas Ulen |
| 16.40-17.00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 17.00-18.30 | Prize Awarding Ceremony | |||
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| Invited Lecture (East Wing, Room 221) | |||
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| Mark Grady | |||
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| George Mason University School of Law, Arlington | |||
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| The Economics of Proximate Cause | |||
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| 19.00 | Transfer to Dinner | |||
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner | |||
