Day Two of the 2007 Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting at the University of Toronto Law School:
Saturday, September 29:
9:15-10:45 Securities Law III
Cecile Carpentier, Jean-Francoi L’Her & Jean-Marc Suret, Competition and Survial of Stock Exchanges: Lessons from Canada
Anna Gelpern, Domestic Bonds, Credit Derivatives and the Next Transformation of Sovereign Debt
P.M. Vasudev, Stock Market, Corporations and the Regulation: A Few Glimpses into Reality
9:15-10:45 Criminal Law
Steeve Mongrain, Dan Bernhardt, Joanne Roberts, Rehabilitated or Not?
JJ Prescott & Jonah Rockoff, Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?
Derek Pyne, When Is It Efficient to Treat Juvenile Offenders More Leniently Than Adult Offenders?
9:15-10:45 Corporate Governance III
Art Durnev & Larry Fauver, Stealing from Thieves: Firm Governance and Performance When States Are Predatory
Katherine Litvak, Did the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Affect Corporate Risk-Taking?
Judd Sneirson, Doing Well by Doing Good: Leveraging Due Care for Better, More Socially Responsible Corporate Decisionmaking
9:15-10:45 Competition Law and Policy II
Daniel Sokol & Kyle Stiegert, Long Term Advisers and Capacity Building in Competition Policy
Volkan Cetinkaya, Minimum Advertised Price and Resale Price Maintenance
Michal S. Gal, Below-Cost Price Alignment: Meeting or Beating Competition
9:15-10:45 Teaching and Political Economy
Alena Kimakova, Teaching Law and Economics from a Positive Perspective: The Political Economy of Law and Policy Design
Jose Vargas-Hernandez, Institutional Economics of Co-operation and the Political Economy of Trust
Max Stearns, Introduction to the Economic Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
11:15-12:45 Federalism, Regulation, and Enforcement
Robert Mikos, State Law Enforcement, Federal Criminal Law, and the “Free Agent” Problem
Sagit Leviner, A New Era of Tax Enforcement: From “Big Stick” to Responsive Regulation
Brian Galle & Joseph Leahy, Innovation Spillovers and the Case for Federalism
11:15-12:45 Tax Law
Phil Curry, Claire Hill & Francesco Parisi, Creating Failures in the Market for Tax Planning
Anthony Infanti, Tax
EquityClaire Hill & Kristin Hickman, Is a Coherent Definition of a Tax Shelter Impossible?
11:15-12:45 Corporate Law and Social Responsibility I
Frederick Tung, Contract Primacy: A Theory of Corporate Fiduciary Duty
Rez Dibadji, The Rhetoric of Fairness
Peter Oh, Piercing v. Lifting
11:15-12:45 Environmental Law
Daniel Cole, The Stern Review and Its Critics
Vinoli Thampapillai, Water Governance in Sweden
Shi-Ling Hsu, Joshua Walters & Anthony Purgas, Pollution Tax Heuristics: An Empirical Study of Public Attitudes Towards Gasoline Taxes
11:15-12:45 Corporate Governance IV
Bernard Black & Woochan Kim, Identifying the Effect of Board Structure on Firm Value: Event Study, DiD, Firm Fixed Effects, and IV Evidence from Korea
Boris Mamlyuk, The Law and Economics of the Polluter Pays Principle
2:00-3:30 Law and Economics – Additional Topics
Mark Bauer, “Give the Lady What She Wants” – As Long As It’s Macy’s
Patricia Illingworth & R. Bhaskar, Law, Economics, and Social Capital Formation
2:00-3:30 Competition Law and Policy III
Doug West & Andrew Eckert, Exclusive Dealing in On-Premise Sales of Beer in Edmonton
Filomena Chirico, Ilse van der Haar & Pierre Larouche, Network Neutrality in the EU
Hamid Nazeman, Rules of Privatization and Globalization in Iran
2:00-3:30 Corporate Law and Social Responsibility II
Claire Hill & Brett McDonnell, Is There Only One Fiduciary Duty? Commentary on Stone v. Ritter
Cherie Metcalf, The Private Diffusion of Public Law Norms: Can Corporate Social Responsibility Really Work?
2:00-3:30 Contracts II and Torts I
Kevin Davis, Interpreting Boilerplate
Riita Ahtonen, Measuring Proper Consent in Voluntary Risk Allocation Under Bounded Rationality
Fernando Gomez & Juanjo Ganuza, Realistic Standards: Optimal Negligence with Limited Liability
2:00-3:30 Litigation
Margherita Saraceno, Can Group Litigation Improve Deterrence?
Bernard Black, David Hyman, Charles Silver & William Sage, The Effect of Caps on Non-Economic Damages: Evidence from Texas Medical Malpractice Cases
David Hoffman, Alan Izenman & Jeffrey Lidicker, Docketology, District Courts, and Doctrine