Past Talks
Winter Term 2021/2022
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
25.11.2021 | Nicolas Petit (European University Institute Florence) | Innovating Big Tech Firms and Competition Policy: Favoring Dynamic over Static Competition |
01.02.2022 | Yassine Lefouili (Toulouse School of Economics) | Mergers and Demand enhancing Innovation |
08.02.2022 | Andreas Beerli (ETH Zürich) | The right to be heard: a randomized controlled trial on economizing procedural justice |
Summer Term 2021
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 20.04.2021 | Julian Nyarko (Stanford Law School) | A Statistical Test for Legal Interpretation: Theory and Applications (joint with Sarath Sanga) |
| 18.05.2021 | David Murphy (Bank of England & LSE Law) | Some Perspectives on and Problematics of Regulatory Impact Analysis |
| 01.06.2021 | Talia Gillis (Columbia Law School) | The Input Fallacy (False Dreams of Algorithmic Fairness: The Case of Credit Pricing) |
| 15.06.2021 | Kate Waldock (Columbia Millstein Center) | Unearthing Zombies (with Nirupama Kulkarni, S. K. Ritadhi, and Siddharth Vij) |
| 22.06.2021 | Zachary Liscow (Yale Law School) | The Psychology of Taxing Capital Income: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on the Realization Rule |
| 13.07.2021 | Tom Zimmermann (Univ. of Cologne) | Limits of Disclosure Regulation in the Municipal Bond Market (with Ivan T. Ivanov & Nathan W. Heinrich) |
Winter Term 2020/2021
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
17.11.2020 | Gerd Mühlheusser (Univ. of Hamburg) | Smart Products: Liability, Investments in Product Safety, and the Timing of Market Introduction |
| 01.12.2020 | Achim Wambach (ZEW Mannheim & Monopolkommisson) | Das XXIII. Hauptgutachten der Monopolkommission – Wettbewerb 2020 |
| 15.12.2020 | Katerina Linos (UC Berkeley Law) | Fundraising for Stigmatized Groups |
| 19.01.2021 | Sebastian Grund (International Monetary Fund) | The Quest for a European Safe Asset |
| 02.02.2021 | Andrew McLean (University College London) | Competition Law in an Era of Financial Capitalism: The Case of Killer Acquisitions |
Summer Term 2020
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 12.05.2020 | Steven Schwarcz (Duke University School of Law) | Pandemics and Systemtic Financial Risk |
| 26.05.2020 | Jo Braithwaite (London School of Economics) | A successful decade for post-crisis regulatory reform of the OTC derivatives markets? The complex case of client clearing |
| 09.06.2020 | Luke Froeb (Vanderbilt Unversity) | Bargaining Competition and Vertical Mergers |
| 23.06.2020 | Alex Rees-Jones (Cornell University) | Reversing Reserves |
| 07.07.2020 | Tim Friehe (University of Marburg) | Punishment for Intentions or Outcomes: The Role of Gender and Social Norms |
Winter Term 2019/2020
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 08.10.2019 | Adam Badawi | How Informative Is the Text of Securities Complaints? |
| 22.10.2019 | Elisabeth Noble | Stablecoins: Moving beyond the hype |
| 12.11.2019 | Shitong Qiao (University of Hong Kong) | Procedural Justice or Procedural Excuse? Strategic Adjudication of Eminent Domain Cases in High People’s Courts |
| 13.11.2019 | Glen Weyl (Microsoft Research) | Mechanism Design in the Spirit of George and Vickrey Micro Workshop BGSE/ ECONtribute Law and Econ Workshop |
| 13.11.2019 | Glen Weyl (Microsoft Research) | RadicalxChange: Next Generation Political Economy ECONtribute Special Talk/ Law and Econ Workshop |
| 03.12.2019 | Juan-José Ganuza (Pompeu Fabra University) | Statistical Discrimination and the Efficiency of Quotas |
| 14.01.2020 | Menusch Khadjavi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel) | Do Scientists Tell the Truth? Evidence from a Field Experiment |
Summer Term 2019
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 02.04.2019 | Wendy E. Wagner (University of Texas at Austin) | Incomprehensible!: A Book Project on How Neglected Information Processing Costs can Create Problematic Comprehension Asymmetries in Legal Processes |
| 16.04.2019 | Bryan McCannon (West Virginia University) | Bargaining in the Shadow of the Trial? |
| 21.05.2019 | Anthony Niblett (University of Toronto) | Using Machine Learning to Predict Reasonable Notice Awards |
| 28.05.2019 | Mike Livermore (University of Virginia) | Opinion Publication and the Study of Judicial Politics in the U.S. Appellate Courts |
| 04.06.2019 | Adi Leibovitch (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Aspirational Rules |
Winter Term 2018/19
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 15.11.2018 | Michael Klausner (Stanford) | Board Declassification and Form Value: Have Shareholders and Boards Really Destroyed Billions in Value? |
| 11.12.2018 | Emeric Henry (Sciences Po) | When in Rome... on judicial delegation |
18.12.2018 | Miriam Buiten (Mannheim) | Liability of Online Hosting Platforms: Should exceptionalism end? |
| 15.01.2019 | Marco Ottaviani (Bocconi) | Ex Ante Approval, Ex Post Withdrawal, and Liability |
| 22.01.2019 | Yuval Feldman (Bar- Ilan University) | Big Data and the Situational Regulation of Ordinary Unethicality |
Summer Term 2018
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 10.04.2018 | Andreas Engert (University of Mannheim) | "Ask, don`t just take: Property rules are more efficient than liability rules under asymmetric information" |
| 29.05.2018 | Murat Mungan (George Mason University) | The signal- tuning function of liability regimes |
05.06.2018 | JJ Prescott (University of Michigan) | Noncompetes and Employee Mobility |
| 10.07.2018 | Mathias Siems (Durham University) | Twenty Years of "Law and Finance": Time to Take Law Seriously |
Winter Term 2017/2018
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 02.11.2017 | Joshua Teitelbaum (Georgetown Law) | “Tort Law and Unawareness” |
| 07.11.2017 | Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt (University of Cologn) | “Salience and Antitrust: The Role of Brand Image Concerns” |
12.12.2017 (cancelled) | Miriam Müthel (WHU- Otto Beisheim School of Management) | "Intended and Unintended Consequences of Individual Liability in the Banking Industry" |
| 11.01.2018 | Sebastian Peyer (UEA Norwic) | "Compensation culture arguments and their use in the courts" |
| 16.01.2018 | Mikael Priks (Stockholm University) | "Imprisonment and Crime - Empirical Evidence using Exogenous Variation" |
| 23.01.2018 | Stefano Colonello (IWH and Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg) | "Do Courts Matter for Firm Value? Evidence from the U.S. Court System" |
| 30.01.2018 | Elliott Ash (University of Warwick) | "Optimal Contract Design in the Field: Rigidity and Control in Collective Bargaining" |
Summer Term 2017
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 18.04.2017 | Francois Brochet (Boston University) | Market Value of Anticipated Governance Changes |
| 26.04.2017 | Jennifer Reinganum and Andrew Daughety (Vanderbilt University) | Information Suppression by Teams and Violations of the Brady Rule (joint event with the Micro Theory Seminar) |
| 13.06.2017 | Mathew McCubbins (Duke University) | The Constitutional Foundations of the Interruption of Executive and Legislative Function |
| 27.06.2017 | Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business School) | The Effect of Type-1 Error on Deterrence |
| 04.07.2017 | Thomas Lambert (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University) | Winning Connections? Lobbying and the Resolution of Failed Bank |
| 18.07.2017 | Keren Weinshall (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Equal in the Eyes of the Law? Pro-Plaintiff Cost Shifting in Civil Procedures |
Winter Term 2016/2017
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 25.10 | Matteo Rizzolli (LUMSA University Rome) | Being Bourgeois: The Emergence of Private Property in the Law |
| 29.11 | Adrian Künzler (Society in Science Branco Weiss / Yale Law School) | Dilution Law, Vertical Agreements, and the Constructions of Consumption |
| 06.12 | Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) | The Retention Effects of Unvested Equity: Evidence from Accelerated Option Vesting |
| 13.12 | Ansgar Wohlschlegel (University of Portsmouth) | Bunching on the Autobahn: Speeding responses to a `notched' penalty scheme |
| 21.02 | Alexander Stremitzer (UC Los Angeles) | Promises, Expectations, and Social Cooperation |
Summer Term 2016
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 20.04.2016 | Jesse Fried (Harvard) | Cheap-Stock Tunneling Around Pre-emptive Rights |
| 03.05.2016 | Justus Haucap (HHU Düsseldorf) | Buyer Power and Competition in German Grocery Retailing |
| 17.05.2016 | Philipp Hacker (HU Berlin) | Overcoming the Knowledge Problem in Behavioral Law and Economics: Uncertainty, Decision Theory, and Maximin Analysis |
| 07.06.2016 | Daniel Klerman (USC Gould School of Law) | Settlement and Selection with Correlated Two-Sided Asymmetric Information |
| 14.06.2016 | Roberta Romano (Yale) | The Private Ordering Solution to Multiforum Shareholder |
| 28.06.2016 | Franziska Weber (Uni Hamburg) | The damages regime in European competition law some (comparative) legal and economic considerations |
| 12.07.2016 | Sven Höppner (Uni Gent) | "The Moral Hazard Effect of Liquidated Damages: An Experiment on Contract Remedies" |
| 19.07.2016 | Karl Riesenhuber (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) | Ökonomische Argumente in der Rechtsfindung und in der Vertragsauslegung |
Winter Term 2015/2016
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 03.11.2015 | Lars Klöhn (LMU München) | An Experimental Investigation of Judicial Decision-Making |
| 17.11.2015 | Daniel Chen (ETH Zürich) | Do Policies Affect Preferences? Evidence from Random Variation in Abortion Jurisprudenc |
| 01.12.2015 | Christian Leuz (University of Chicago) | Public Audit Oversight and Reporting Credibility: Evidence from the PCAOB Inspection Regime |
| 15.12.2015 | Peter Cziraki (University of Toronto) | Bank Payout Policy, Performance, and Insider Trading in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 |
| 12.01.2016 | Stefan Bechthold (ETH Zürich) | The Price of Moral Rights: A Field Experiment |
| 19.01.2016 | Georg von Wangenheim (Uni Kassel) | Failing to Protect the Tenant - How Restricting the Landlord's Right to Pass on Modernization Costs to Tenants Increases Rents |
| 09.02.2016 | Eric Langlais (University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre) | Public Law Enforcers and Political Competition |
Summer Term 2015
Date | Presenter | |
28.04.2015 | James Konow (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles) | Can Economic Ethics Be Taught? |
05.05.2015 | Stefan Voigt | The Economics of Emergency Constitutions |
02.06.2015 | Gillian Hadfield (University of Southern California) | Building Legal Order in Ancient Athens |
23.06.15 | Carsten Gerner-Beuerle (LSE) | Law and Finance in Emerging Economies: The Case of Germany 1800-1913 |
30.06.15 | Philipp Paech (LSE) | The Value of Insolvency Safe Harbours |
07.07.2015 | Gerd Mühlheußer (Uni Hamburg) | Black Sheep or Scapegoats?Implementable Monitoring Policies under Unobservable Levels of Misbehavior |
Winter Term 2014/2015
Date | Presenter | |
28.10.14 | Ben Vollaard (Tilburg University) | Turning a bad example into a warning: A natural field experiment into salience of law enforcement |
7.11.14 | Daniel Markovits (Yale Law School) | The Distributional Preferences of an Elite |
9.12.14 at 17.00 | Georg Ringe | Corporate Mobility in the EU - a Flash in the Pan? An Empirical Study on the Success of Lawmaking and Regulatory Competition |
16.12.14 | Francesco Parisi (University of Minnesota & University of Bologna) | Unbundling Efficient Breach |
27.1.15 CANCELLED! | Dirk Schoenmaker (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | A Fiscal Backstop to the Banking System |
3.2.15 | Winand Emons (University of Bern) | Why Plaintiffs' Attorneys Use Contingent and Defense Attorneys Fixed Fee Contracts |
17.3.15 | Abraham Wickelgren | A Novel Justification for Legal Restrictions on Non-Compete Clauses |
Spring Term 2014
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 29.04.2014 | Cédric Argenton (Tilburg University) | Optimal deterrence of illegal behavior under imperfect corporate governance |
| 13.05.2014 | Gyöngyi Lóránth (Vienna University) | Regulating Bank CEO Compensation with Active Boards |
| 05.06.2014 | Peter Grajzl (Washington and Lee University) | Inside post-socialist courts: The determinants of adjudicatory outcomes in Slovenian commercial disputes |
| 13.06.2014 | Steeve Mongrain (Simon Fraser University) | Crime, wealth, and protection: theory and Canadian evidence |
| 24.06.2014 | Jennifer Arlen (NYU) | Does the Endowment Effect Justify Legal Intervention? The Debiasing Effect of Institutions |
| 08.07.2014 | Dan Awrey (Oxford University) | Hardwired Conflicts: The Big Bang Protocol, Libor and the Paradox of Private Ordering |
| 15.07.2014 | Christian Traxler (Hertie School) | Compliance Behavior in Networks: |
Winter Term 2013/2014
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 01.10.2013 | Yun-Chien Chang (Academia Sinica) | Anchoring effect in real litigation: An empirical study |
| 22.10.2013 | Oren Bar-Gill (NYU) | Price Caps in Multi-Price Markets |
| 12.11.2013 | Tobias Tröger (Goethe University) | The Single Supervisory Mechanism - Panacea or Quack Banking Regulation? |
| 26.11.2013 | Lars Hornuf (LMU Munich) | Can Network Effects Impede Optimal Contracting in Debt Securities? |
| 10.12.2013 | Rosa Ferrer (UPF Barcelona) | Gender Gaps in Performance: |
| 15.01.2014 | Botond Köszegi (CEU Budapest) | Seller Information about Consumer Naiveté Lowers Welfare |
| 21.03.2014 | Kathryn Spier (Harvard University) | Trial and Settlement: |
Spring Term 2013
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 19.03.2013 | Jeffrey J. Rachlinski (Cornell University) | Arbitrary Adjudication: How Anchoring and Scaling Distort Awards and Sentences |
| 09.04.2013 | Raúl López Pérez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) | On Envious Damaging |
| 23.04.2013 | Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell University) | When Courts Determine Fees in a System With a Loser Pays Norm: Fee Award Denials to Winning Plaintiffs and Defendants |
| 14.05.2013 | Avraham Tabbach (Tel Aviv University) | More Manipulation Less Risk Taking? |
| 28.05.2013 | Horst Eidenmüller (LMU Munich) | Regulating Group Insolvencies |
| 04.06.2013 | Yolande Hiriart (Université de Franche-Comté) | Relative Performance of Liability Rules: Experimental Evidence |
| 18.06.2013 | Holger Spamann (Harvard University) | Normal Crime, Unusual Punishment: US Numbers in Global Perspective |
| 02.07.2013 | Florian Baumann (University of Düsseldorf) | Competitive Pressure and Corporate Crime |
| 16.07.2013 | Lisa Bruttel | Is There an Exclusionary Effect of Retroactive Price Reduction Schemes? |
Winter Term 2012/13
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 09.10.2012 | Katharina Pistor (Columbia University) | On the Theoretical Foundations for Regulating Financial Markets |
| 16.10.2012 | Loukas Balafoutas (University of Innsbruck) | Security of Property as a Public Good: Experimental Choices and Survey Data in Five Countries |
| 30.10.2012 | Christian Zehnder (HEC Lausanne) | A Theory of Informal Justice |
| 13.11.2012 | Eric van Damme (Tilburg University) | Procuring Coinsurance Contracts for Large Risks |
| 27.11.2012 | Daniel Chen (ETH Zürich) | The Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty? Evidence from British Commutations During World War I |
| 04.12.2012 | Claude Fluet (Université du Québec à Montréal) | The Role of Social Interactions in the Design of Legal Regimes |
| 18.12.2012 | Uwe Sunde (LMU Munich) | Violence During Democratization and the Quality of Democracy |
| 15.01.2013 | Luigi Franzoni (University of Bologna) | Optimal Liability Design under Risk and Ambiguity |
| 22.01.2013 | Susanne Goldlücke (University of Mannheim) | Do Agents Need Discretion? - The Business Judgment Rule as Optimal Standard of Care |
Spring Term 2012
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 27.03.2012 | Henry Hansmann (Yale) | Virtual Ownership and Managerial Distance: The Governance of Industrial Foundations |
| 10.04.2012 | Sebastian Kranz (University of Cologne) | Incentive Regulation for Transmission Network Operators |
| 22.05.2012 | Ioannis Lianos (University College London) | Market Dominance and Quality of Search Results in the Search Engine Market: Analysis of Exploitative and Exclusionary Abuses |
| 12.06.2012 | Patrick Leyens (University of Hamburg) | Corporate Governance: International Research, Market-Based Approaches and Regulatory Challenges |
| 19.06.2012 | Eric Talley (Berkeley) | Law, Economics, and the Burden(s) of Proof in Litigation |
| 26.06.2012 | Alan Schwartz (Yale) | Contracting About Private Benefits of Control |
Winter Term 2011/12
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 25.10.2011 | Tomaso Duso (University of Düsseldorf) | Competition Policy and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Assessment |
| 08.11.2011 | Giulio Federico (IESE Business School and Barcelona GSE) | Abusive Incentive Contracts: British Airways Revisited |
| 22.11.2011 | Uwe Walz (University of Frankfurt) | Going Public - Going Private - The Corporate Governance of VC-Backed Firms |
| 13.12.2011 | Michael Waibel (University of Cambridge) | Are Arbitrators Political? |
| 17.01.2012 | Iwan Bos (Maastricht University) | Explicit versus Tacit Collusion: A Theory of Cartel Formation |
| 24.01.2012 | Jens-Uwe Franck (University of Munich) and Patrick Andreoli-Versbach (IMPRS-CI and University of Munich) | Forensic Application of Economic Evidence: Detecting Tacit Coordinations in Oligopolistic Markets |
| 31.01.2012 | Doron Teichman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Reference Points and Contractual Choices: An Empirical Examination |
Spring Term 2011
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 12.04.2011 | Ram Singh (Delhi School of Economics) | Procurement Contracts: Comparison of Incentive Structures and Outcomes |
| 26.04.2011 | Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University) | On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions II: Business Associations and Credit Bureaus |
| 17.05.2011 | Olivier Marie (Maastricht University) | Education and Crime: Individual Measures of the Causal Relationship |
| 07.06.2011 | Lewis Kornhauser (NYU) | An Experimental Study of Simple Voting |
| 12.07.2011 | Mathias Siems (University of East Anglia) | Cross-Citations between Supreme Courts in Europe |
| 19.07.2011 | Christian Thöni (University of St. Gallen) | Media Violence and Retaliatory Aggression |
Winter Term 2010/11
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 12.10.2010 | Evgenia Motchenkova (University of Amsterdam) | The Effects of Leniency Programs on Maximal Cartel Pricing |
| 02.11.2010 | Matthias Lang (University of Bonn) | Legal Uncertainty - an Effective Deterrence in Competition Law? |
| 09.11.2010 | Paolo Buonanno (University of Bergamo) | Advocatus, et non Latro? Testing the Supplier-Induced Demand Hypothesis for Italian Courts of Justice |
| 23.11.2010 | Klaus Mathis (University of Lucerne) | Consequentialism in Law |
| 07.12.2010 | Nicola Gennaioli (CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) | Standardized Enforcement: Access to Justice vs Contractual Innovation |
14.12.2010 | Juan-Jose Ganuza (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) | Minimizing Errors, Maximizing Incentives: Optimal Court Decisions and the Quality of Evidence |
| 11.01.2011 | Liliane Karlinger (University of Vienna) | Retail Competition and Upstream Market Power under Sequential Entry |
| 18.01.2011 | Özgür Gürerk (University of Erfurt) | Voting with Feet - Community Choice in Social Dilemmas |
Spring Term 2010
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 13.04.2010 | Baptiste Massenot (Toulouse School of Economics) | Contract Enforcement, Litigation and Economic Development |
| 20.04.2010 | Carmine Guerriero (University of Amsterdam) | Democracy, Judical Attitudes and Heterogeneity: The Civil vs. Common Law Tradition |
| 27.04.2010 | Thomas Ulen (University of Illinois) | Law´s Role in Economic Growth and Development |
| 18.05.2010 | Ruby Henry (Toulouse School of Economics) | Does racism affect a migrant´s choice of city? |
| 15.06.2010 | Vigen Nikogosian (ZEW, Mannheim) | On Vertical Integration, Regulation and Non-Price Discrimination in German Electricity Markets |
| 29.06.2010 | John Armour (University of Oxford) | Is Delaware Losing Its Cases? |
| 06.07.2010 | Randi Hjalmarsson (Queen Mary, University of London | The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Crime: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data |
| 13.07.2010 | Francesco Drago (University of Naples) | Crime in Europe and in the US: Dissecting the "Reversal of Misfortunes" |
| 10.07.2010 | Andreas Engert (University of Köln) | Where Do Firms Issue Debt? An Empirical Analysis of Issuer Location and Regulatory Competition in the European Corporate Debt Market |
Winter Term 2009/10
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 27.10.2009 | Emanuela Carbonara (University of Bologna) | Unjust Laws and Illegal Norms |
| 10.11.2009 | Bernhard Ganglmair (University of Zurich) | Innovation, Patent Hold-Up and Equilibrium Effects of RAND Commitments |
| 24.11.2009 | Timo Goeschl (University of Heidelberg) | Environmental Crime and Punishment: Empirical Evidence from the German Penal Code |
| 15.12.2009 | Joel van der Weele (European University Institute) | Procedures as Signals |
| 22.12.2009 | Thomas Kittsteiner (RWTH Aachen University) | Heterogeneity and Partnership Dissolution Mechanisms: Theory and Lab Evidence |
| 12.01.2010 | Dennis Gärtner (University of Zurich) | Making Sense of Non-Binding Retail-Price Recommendations |
| 19.01.2010 | Daniel Cerquera (ZEW) | Recommended Retail Prices and Collusion in Pharma Markets: The Case of ED Drugs |
| 02.02.2010 | Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (University of Amsterdam) | Luxury in Ancient Rome: Scope, Timing and Enforcement of Sumptuary Laws |
Spring Term 2009
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 17.03.2009 | Scott Hemphill (Columbia Law School) | An AggregateApproach to Antitrust: Using New Data and Rulemaking to Preserve Drug Competition |
| 07.04.2009 | Philipp Weinschenk (MPI-Bonn) | A Problem of Liability - How Strict Liabilitiy can Lead to Distortions and Redistributions |
| 21.04.2009 | Avraham Tabbach (Tel Aviv University) | Reactive Versus Proactive Optimal Law Enforcement (Sequential versus Simultaneous Law Enforcement |
| 26.05.2009 | Alexander Morell (MPI - Bonn) | Sticky Rebates: Rollback Rebates Induce Non-Rational Loyalty in COnsumers - Experimantal Evidence |
| 02.06.2009 | Geoffrey Miller (NYU) | Attorney´s Fees and Expenses in Class Action Settlements: 1993 - 2008 |
| 16.06.2009 | Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business School | A Rationale for the Limitation Period in Sales Law |
| 30.06.2009 | Ben Vollaard (Tilburg University) | The effect of Built-in security on burglary. Evidence from a natural experiment |
| 07.07.2009 | Patrick Leyens (Universität Hamburg) | Risikosensitivität als finanzmarktrechtliches Regelungsprinzip: Überlegungen zur Bankenkrise am Beispiel der Einlagensicherung |
| 21.07.2009 | Rick Brooks (Yale Law School) | Uncertain Breach of Contract and Efficient Preleminary Remedies |
Winter Term 2008/09
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 07.10.2008 | Lars Feld (University of Heidelberg) | Power over Prosecutors Corrupts Politicians: Cross Country Evidence Using a New Indicator |
| 04.11.2008 | Florian Baumann (University of Tübingen) | On the Superiority of Damage Averaging in the Case of Strict Liability |
| 18.11.2008 | Roberto Galbiati (University of Paris X and University Bocconi) | Can sanctions create skeptics? An experimental investigation |
| 25.11.2008 | Uri Weiss (Center for Rationality, Hebrew University Jerusalem) | The Robber Asks to Be Punished |
| 02.12.2008 | Martin Halla (University of Linz) | |
| 16.12.2008 | Dirk Zetzsche (University of Duesseldorf) | Gedanken zur effizienten Durchsetzung kapitalmarktrechtlicher Vorschriften zur Anteilstransparenz |
| 13.01.2009 | Nuno Garoupa (University of Illinois and IMDEA, Madrid) | The economics of activity levels and negligence standards |
| 27.01.2009 | Giesela Rühl (Humboldt University) | Die Probleme internationaler Transaktionen: Das Internationale Privatrecht auf dem Prüfstand der ökonomischen Theorie |
| 10.02.2009 | Baptiste Massenot (Toulouse School of Economics) | Comparative Legal Systems in the Credit Market |
Spring Term 2008
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 08.04.2008 | Giovanni Immordino (University of Salerno) | Private Initiative and Judicial Error |
| 22.04.2008 | Patrick Leyens (University of Hamburg) | CANCELLED |
| 13.05.2008 | Carsten Jungmann (Bucerius Law School - Hamburg) | Die Rechtfertigung der Business Judgment Rule und ihre Geltung außerhalb des Aktienrechts |
| 20.05.2008 | Stephan Tontrup (MPI for Research on Collective Goods - Bonn) | Beyond the Outcome - An Economic Experiment on Procedural Fairness |
| 03.06.2008 | Ed Morrison (Columbia Law School) | Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11 Reorganizations |
| 17.06.2008 | Jennifer Reinganum/ Andrew Daughety (Vanderbilt University) | Mass Torts and the Incentives for Suit, Settlement, and Trial |
| 08.07.2008 | Surajeet Chakravarty (University of Exeter) | Contracting in the Shadow of the Law |
| 15.07.2008 | Rosa Ferrer (Vanderbilt University) | The Effect of Lawyers' Career Concerns in Litigation |
| 22.07.2008 | Tim Friehe (University of Tübingen) | On the Sequencing of Remedies in Sales Law |
Winter Term 2007/08
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 16.10.2007 | Martin Gelter (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) | The Subordination of Shareholder Loans in Bankruptcy |
| 30.10.2007 | Ansgar Wohlschlegel (Universität Aachen) | All-unit Discounts and Competing Entrants |
| 20.11.2007 | Alexander Stremitzer (Universität Bonn) | Standard Breach Remedies, Quality Thresholds and Cooperative Investments |
| 04.12.2007 | Lars Klöhn (Universität Göttingen) | Interessenkonflikte zwischen Aktionären und Gläubigern der Aktiengesellschaft im Spiegel der Vorstandspflichten |
| 11.12.2007 | Georg von Graevenitz (LMU München) | Consumer Welfare and Competition Policy |
| 15.01.2008 | Markus Rehberg (LMU - München) | Consumer Welfare and Competition Policy |
| 22.01.2008 | Christoph Engel (MPI for Research on Collective Goods) | Institutions for Intuitive Man |
Spring Term 2007
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 03.04.2007 | Klaus Ulrich Schmolke | Institutional Investors' Mandatory Voting Disclosure - European Plans and U.S. Experience |
| 17.04.2007 | Alexander Morell | Psychology of Decision Making in Antitrust Law? First Steps in the Doctrine of Art. 82 EG |
| 15.05.2007 | Susanne Ohlendorf | Expectation Damages: Efficient Breach and Efficient Two-sided Reliance |
| 05.06.2007 | Stephan Tontrup | The Comparative Advantage of Self-Governance |
| 12.06.2007 | Felix Höffler | Investment incentives and (legal) unbundling in network industries |
| 26.06.2007 | Christoph Thole | Insolvenzrechtliche Fragestellungen und ökonomische Analyse |
| 17.07.2007 | Tobias Tröger (Universität Tübingen) | An Agency Theory Approach to Partnership Law |
| 24.07.2007 | Kristoffel Grechening (Universität St. Gallen) | No derivative shareholder suits in europe |
Winter Term 2006/07
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 06.02.2007 | Alexander Stremitzer | Opportunistic Termination |
| 20.02.2007 | Stefan Bechtold | Controlling Secondary Markets |
| 20.03.2007 | Bernhard Ganglmair | Cancellation of Multi-Period Installment Contracts and Yet Another Hold-Up Problem: A "Legal" Solution |