ECONTribute LawEcon Workshop

Overview of past presentations given at the ECONTribute LawEcon workshop.

Summer semester 2025

Jonas Ludwig
(TU Berlin)

Inequality Threat Increases Laypeople’s, but Not Judges’,

Acceptance of Algorithmic Decision Making in Court

Henrik Sigstad

(BI Norwegian Business School)

Machine Learning and Deterrence

Daniele Nosenzo

(Aarhus University)

Law and Norms in Polarized Societies

Haggai Porat

(Harvard Law School)

Bargaining with Algorithms: An Experiment on Algorithmic Price

Discrimination and Consumer and Data Protection Laws

Alexander Ahammer

(Johannes Kepler University Linz)

Firms and Worker Healthcare Utilization


Winter semester 2024/2025

Matthias Lehmann

(Universität Wien)

Regulierung von Kryptowährungen

*Joint Event with the Zentrum für Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht*

Arna Wömmel 

(University of Hamburg)

Algorithmic Fairness:

The Role of Beliefs

Annika Stöhr

(TU Ilmenau)

Addressing the Impact of Foreign State-Owned Companies:

How can Fair Global Competition be Strengthened?

*Joint Event with the Colloquium in Law and Economics*


Summer semester 2024

Larissa Zierow

(HS Reutlingen)

Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?

Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

Margherita Saraceno

(Universitá di Pavia)

How hard it is scoring a bullseye:

Public policies and compliance hesistancy in heterogeneous populations

J. Shahar Dillbary

(George Mason University,

Scalia Law School)

Reformulating Detection in the Economic Model of Crime:

Probability Scaling and Group Punishment

*Joint event with the Colloquium in Law and Economics*

Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt 

(Westfälische-Wilhelms-
Universität Münster)

German Energy Policies in the Energy Crisis:

Theory and Evidence on Firm and Household Responses


Winter semester 2023/2024

Daniel Klerman

(University of Southern California)

Diversity Jurisdiction and Out-of-State Bias: An Experiment

Marco Botta

(European University Institute)

User Consent at the Interface of the DMA and the GDPR

Florencia Marotta-Wurgler

(New York University)

Machines that Think Like Lawyers: Issues, Methods, and Illustrations from Privacy Policies

Li Chen

(University of Gothenburg)

Strategic Responses to Personalized Pricing and Demand for Privacy: An Experiment

Paul Bose 

(Bocconi, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Trust in politicians and the provision of public goods: Evidence from Germany

Deni Mantzari

(University College London)

FRAND in the DMA: A pragmatic approach?


Summer semester 2023

Roee Sarel

(University of Hamburg)

Restraining ChatGPT

Leonie Gerhards

(King's College London)

Voters’ preference for politicians’ consistency:

Experimental evidence

Oliver Budzinski

(TU Ilmenau)

European Superleague vs. UEFA:

Monopoly or Competition in premier-level European Football?

Benjamin G. Engst

(Uni Konstanz)

Citizens' commitment to Judicial Independence:
A Discrete Choice Experiment in Nine European Countries


Winter semester 2022/2023

Cristina Bellés-Obrero

(Uni Mannheim & Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)

The Effect of Removing Early Retirement on Mortality

Alexander Stremitzer

(ETH Zürich)

Having Your Day in Robot Court

*The talk is part of the CASTLE anniversary celebration of the Law & Economics study program*

Gedeon Lim

(University of Hong Kong)

Local Elites, Land Rents, Selection, and Incentives for Development: Evidence from Village Chiefs in Indonesia

Alice Guerra

(University of Bologna)

Does national identity of benefit recipients matter in tax compliance? An online experiment in Denmark and Italy

Sander Onderstal

(University of Amsterdam)

Predatory Pricing in the Presence of Network Effects: Evidence from the Lab


Summer semester 2022

Lisa Bruttel

(Uni Potsdam)

A comparison of the per-se approach and a judgment by effect in competition law

Friedrich Heinemann

(ZEW & Uni Heidelberg)

Europe's fiscal constitution and its pandemic transformation

Libor Dušek

(Karls-University Prague)

Law or Policy? The Role of Authority in Criminal Sentencing

Yotam Kaplan

(Bar-Ilan University)

The macroeconomic theory of contractual excuse doctrine (with Yehonatan Givati and Yair Listokin)

Kevin Cope

(University of Virginia)

An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology (with Charles Crabtree)


Winter semester 2021/2022

Nicolas Petit

(European University Institute Florence)

Innovating Big Tech Firms and Competition Policy: Favoring Dynamic over Static Competition

Yassine Lefouili

(Toulouse School of Economics)

Mergers and Demand enhancing Innovation

Andreas Beerli

(ETH Zürich)

The right to be heard: a randomized controlled trial on economizing procedural justice


Summer semester 2021

Julian Nyarko

(Stanford Law School)

A Statistical Test for Legal Interpretation: Theory and Applications (joint with Sarath Sanga)

David Murphy

(Bank of England & LSE Law)

Some Perspectives on and Problematics of Regulatory Impact Analysis

Talia Gillis

(Columbia Law School)

The Input Fallacy (False Dreams of Algorithmic Fairness: The Case of Credit Pricing)

Kate Waldock

(Columbia Millstein Center)

Unearthing Zombies (with Nirupama Kulkarni, S. K. Ritadhi, and Siddharth Vij)

Zachary Liscow

(Yale Law School)

The Psychology of Taxing Capital Income: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on the Realization Rule

Tom Zimmermann

(Univ. of Cologne)

Limits of Disclosure Regulation in the Municipal Bond Market (with Ivan T. Ivanov & Nathan W. Heinrich)


Winter semester 2020/2021

Gerd Mühlheusser

(University of Hamburg)

Smart Products: Liability, Investments in Product Safety, and the Timing of Market Introduction

Achim Wambach

(ZEW Mannheim & Monopolkommisson)

Das XXIII. Hauptgutachten der Monopolkommission – Wettbewerb 2020

Katerina Linos

(UC Berkeley Law)

Fundraising for Stigmatized Groups

Sebastian Grund

(International Monetary Fund)

The Quest for a European Safe Asset

Andrew McLean

(University College London)

Competition Law in an Era of Financial Capitalism: The Case of Killer Acquisitions

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