THIRD LATIN AMERICAN WORKSHOP ON LAW AND ECONOMICS
LAWLE – 2016
November 17th and 18th, 2016
Bogotá, Colombia
TERCER WORKSHOP LATINOAMERICANO DE DERECHO Y ECONOMÍA TERCEIRO WORKSHOP LATINO-AMERICANO DE DIREITO E ECONOMÍA
Universidad de Los Andes – Carrera 1 Este # 19A – 40 – Ed. Mario Laserna
Auditorium ML-C
Bogotá, 111311, Colombia
PROGRAM
(Please click here for the program in pdf format)
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DAY 1: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER THE 17TH, 2016 DÍA 1: JUEVES, 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2016 DÍA 1: QUINTA-FEIRA, 17 DE NOVEMBRO, 2016 |
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Hour Hora / Hora |
Event
Evento / Event |
| 7:30 – 8:00 | REGISTRATION Registro / Inscrição
Edificio Mario Laserna 2nd Floor, Universidad de Los Ande |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | WELCOME Bienvenida / Boas-Vindas
– Eleonora Lozano Rodríguez: Associate professor, Law School, Universidad de Los Andes – Leopoldo Fergusson Talero: Associate professor, School of Economics, Universidad de Los Andes – Catalina Botero Marino: Dean – Law School, Universidad de los Andes – Juan Camilo Cárdenas Campo: Dean – School of Economics, Universidad de los Andes |
| 8:30 – 9:45 | FIRST SESSION: COURTS & LITIGATON
Primera sesión: Cortes y Litigio / Primeira Sessão: Cortes e Litígio Chair: Álvaro Bustos – Statistical information and settlement rates: A field experiment in a Mexican labor court. Joyce Sadka. Professor, ITAM. PhD in Economics, Rice University. – Financially-Constrained Lawyers: An Economic Theory of Legal Disputes Claudia Landeo. Professor, University of Alberta. PhD in Economics, Pittsburgh University. Co-authored by Maksim Nikitin. Professor, NSE. PhD in Economics, Pittsburgh University. |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | COFFEE BREAK Receso / Recesso
Edificio Mario Laserna 2nd Floor, Universidad de Los Andes |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | – Constitutional Review – Theory and Comparative Evidence.
Nuno Garoupa. Professor, Texas A&M University; PhD in Economics, University of York. – Judicial Choice Among Cases for Certiorari Alvaro Bustos. Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. PhD in Economics, Princeton University. Co-authored by Tonja Jacobi, William G. and Virginia K. Karnes Research Professor of Law, Northwestern University. PhD in Political Science, Stanford University.
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| 12:00 – 13:30
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LUNCH BREAK Almuerzo / Almoço
Law School, 2nd Floor (Suite RGC213 and RGC214) |
| 13:30 – 15:30 | SECOND SESSION: TAXATION
Segunda sesión: Tributación / Segunda sessão: Taxação Chair: Eleonora Lozano – The vicious cycle of clientelism and state weakness Leopoldo Fergusson. Associate professor, School of Economics, Universidad de Los Andes. PhD in Economics, MIT. Co-authors: Carlos Molina, and James A. Robinson (U. Chicago). – Corporate Tax Reforms in Colombia: An Analysis of the Experts Commission’s Proposals David Weisbach. Walter J. Blum Professor, University of Chicago, JD Harvard |
| 15:30 – 15:45
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COFFEE BREAK Receso / Recesso
Edificio Mario Laserna 2nd Floor, Universidad de Los Andes |
| 15:45 – 17:00 | – How Much Does It Cost Starbucks To Roast A Cup Of Colombian Coffee? Applying the tax law jurisprudence of transfer pricing, net margin method, and profit level indicators, to determine how much profit a roaster should be allocated within a multinational group
William H. Byrnes. Executive Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Special Projects. Texas A&M University, School of Law. JD Loyola University. – Tax Reforms And Economic Growth Hernando Zuleta. Associate Professor, Universidad de Los Andes. PhD in Economics, Universidad Pompeu Fabra. |
| 17:00 – 19:00 | LEISURE Libre / Livre |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | DINNER Cena / Ceia Restaurante Abasto: Calle 69A # 9-09.-Main speaker: Francesco Parisi. Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. PhD in Economics, George Mason University. |
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DAY 2: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER THE 18TH, 2016 DÍA 2: VIERNES, 18 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2016 DÍA 2: SEXTA-FEIRA, 18 DE NOVEMBRO, 2016 |
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Event
Evento / Evento |
| 8:00 – 10:15 | THIRD SESSION: CONFLICT, POST-CONFLICT & INSTITUTIONS
Tercera session: Conflicto, post-conflicto e instituciones / Terceira sessão: Conflito, post-conflito e instituçãos Chair: Leopoldo Fergusson – Different Resources, Different Conflicts? A Framework for Understanding the Political Economy of Armed Conflict and Criminality in Colombian Regions. Angelika Rettberg Beil. Professor Universidad de Los Andes; PhD in Political Science, Boston University. Co-authors: Carlo Nasi (Universidad de Los Andes), Juan Diego Prieto (University of California, Santa Clara) y Ralf Leiteritz (Universidad del Rosario) – Electronic voting and Social Spending: The impact of enfranchisement on municipal public spending in Brazil. Maurício Soares Bugarin. Professor Universidade de Brasília. PhD in Economics, University of Illinois-Urbana. |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK Receso / Recesso
Edificio Mario Laserna 2nd Floor, Universidad de Los Andes |
| 10:30 – 13:00 | – How the East was Lost: Violence versus Commerce in the Early Modern Era.
Bernardo Müller. Professor, Universidade de Brasília, PhD in Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana – Economic justice as constitutional justice in transitional scenarios: at the crossroad. María Carolina Olarte Olarte. Professor, Universidad de Los Andes. PhD in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London. |
| 13:00 – 14:30
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LUNCH Almuerzo / Almoço
Restaurante 722910, Edificio Julio Mario Santodomingo, Universidad de Los Andes |
| 15:00 – 17:30 | OPTIONAL GROUP TOUR Visita opcional / Visita opcional
Museo del Oro – Bogotá |
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