LAWLE 2022
8th Latin American Workshop in Law and Economics
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
November 17-18, 2022
(Last updated on November 15, 2022)
CALL FOR PAPERS (in PDF) (Submissions closed)
Program in PDF with links to the papers.
PROGRAM
Each paper has 40 minutes (25-30 presenter + 15-10 Q&A)
Thursday, November 17
8:00-8:30. Coffee
8:30- 8:45. Welcome: Eleonora Lozano: Dean, School of Law, Universidad de Los Andes
8:45-13:00. Session 1. Courts:
Chair: Jorge Gonzalez Jacome, Professor Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
“Judicial Vetoes: Decision making in Mixed Selection Constitutional Courts”. Lydia Tiede: Professor University of Houston.
“Regulating Constitution-Making”. Adam Chilton: Professor University of Chicago.
“Judicial Transformation: Selection or Defection? An Empirical Analysis of Constitutional Review Voting in the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, 2003-2021“ Lucia Dalla Pellegrina: Professor University of Milan-Bicocca.
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
“Punishing Terrorists in the Spanish Supreme Court: Has Ideology Played a Role?” Nuno Garoupa. Professor George Mason University.
“Candidates or Courts? Who Wins the Reliability Battle?”. Carlos Pereira:Professor Getúlio Vargas Foundation; André Klevenhusen: Ph.D. candidate Getúlio Vargas Foundation.
“When Do Judges Anchor to Litigants’ Numbers?” Anthony Niblett: Professor University of Toronto.
13:00 – 15:00. Lunch Break
15:00-18:35. Session 2. Regulation:
Chair: Andrés Palacios, Professor Universidad del Rosario.
“Optimal Consumer Regulation when Consumers Make Inferences from Regulatory Policy”. Abraham Wickelgren: Professor University of Texas at Austin.
“Coping with Uncertainty. Some Useful Tools for Water Regulation”. Julian Lopez: Professor Universidad de la Sabana, Colombia.
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
“The ‘CorE’ Dynamics of Corporate Soft-Regulation Compliance: Theory and Evidence”. Álvaro Bustos: Professor Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
“The problem of negotiation in public procurements: An auction-theoretic analysis for the private values case”. Mauricio Bugarin: Professor University of Brasilia.
“The Social Divide of Urban Land-Use Regulatory Changes: Evidence from Chile”. Diego Gil: Professor Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
19:30 – 21:30. Dinner
Friday, November 18
9:15-12:50. Session 3. Private Law and Institutions:
Chair: Alvaro Bustos, Professor Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
“The Interaction of Policing and Penalties”. Jonathan Klick. Professor University of Pennsylvania.
“Information and Lawyer Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Mexican Labor Court”. Joyce Sadka. Professor ITAM.
“Controlling Externalities: Ownership Structure and Cross-Firm Externalities”. Dhammika Dharmapala: Professor University of Chicago (online).
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
“Political Career Incentives and Corruption: A Lab Experiment”. Cesar Martinelli Professor George Mason University.
“Dormant Voters, Social Media, and Strategic Radicalism”. Adriana C. Portugal: Auditor External Control for Brazilian Federal District Courts.
13:15-15:15. Lunch. Main Speaker:
“The Reasonable Person Standard”. Scott Baker: Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Development and William F. & Jessica L. Kirsch Professor of Law at Washington University at Saint Louis.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Jorge Gonzalez Jacome (Universidad de los Andes), Chair
Eleonora Lozano (Universidad de Los Andes, Uniandes)
Alvaro Bustos (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, PUC-Chile)
Joyce Sadka (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM)
Mauricio Bugarin (Universidade de Brasília, UnB)
Nuno Garoupa (Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, GMU)
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