LAWLE 2022

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)