Second Latin American Workshop
in Law and Economics (Mexico City, 2015)
Updated program (please click here to download a pdf version)
Thursday November 19th
Coffee and Registration (8:30 – 9:00AM)
Welcome: Jorge Cerdio (Law School Dean, ITAM) and Luis Pereda (Law School Dean, Universidad Anahuac del Sur), 9:00-9:15AM.
Session 1: Crime and Law Enforcement (9:15 AM – 12:45 PM)
Chair: Alvaro Bustos, PUC-Chile.
– João Pinho de Mello, INSPER, Brazil
“Pax Monopolista and Crime: the Case of the Emergence of the Primeiro Comando da Capital in São Paulo”.
– Emilio Gutiérrez, ITAM.
“Fighting Crime with a little Help from my Friends: Party Affiliation, Inter-jurisdictional Cooperation, and Crime in Mexico”.
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
– Daniel Ortega, CAF, Venezuela.
“No al gatillo fácil: Experimental evidence from a rational use of force training program in Argentina”.
– Daniel Mejía, Universidad de Los Andes.
“Hotspots policing in a high crime environment: An experimental evaluation in Medellin”.
Lunch (1:00 – 2:30 PM)
Session 2: Courts and Litigation (2:45 – 6:15 PM)
Chair: Jorge Luis Silva, Public Sector Governance Unit, World Bank.
– Mauricio Bugarin, University of Brasilia.
“Ex-ante Executive Regulation versus ex-post Judicial Activism: A game theoretic analysis of the main trade-offs”.
– Osmar Lannes, Brazilian Federal House of Representatives.
“Power, composition and decision-making in the Brazilian Supreme Court”.
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
– Juan González: ITAM.
“Estimating Judicial Ideal-Points in Latin America”.
– Andrei Gomberg, ITAM.
“Inattention or bias: Evidence from judicial decisions”.
Dinner (8:00 – 10:00 PM) Main Speaker: Lewis Kornhauser, New York University, USA. “A Theory of Judicial Deference”
Friday November 20th
Coffee and Registration (8:30 – 9:00AM)
Session 3: Regulation, Antitrust, and Regulated Industries (9:00 AM – 12:30 PM)
Chairs: Carlos Mena, COFECE and Guillermo Zúñiga, CRE.
– Fernando Beltran, University of Auckland.
“The transition to an all-IP, fiber-based open-access telecommunications infrastructure and the challenges it poses to regulatory reform in New Zealand”.
– Steven Puller, Texas A&M University.
“Challenges in Pricing Retail Electricity Efficiently”.
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
– Matthew Weinberg, Drexel University.
“Can Mergers Facilitate Collusion? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Brewing”.
– Juan Pablo Montero, PUC-Chile.
“Discounts and Exclusionary Practices”.
Cocktail lunch (1:00 – 2:30 PM)
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