Sunday, July 17

Opening Remarks

1:30 - 1:45

Andrew Daughety (Vanderbilt University) and Jennifer Reinganum (Vanderbilt University)

Evidence

1:45 - 2:30

Claude Fluet  (University of Quebec at Montreal)
Incentives: The Role of the Standard and Burden of Proof in Litigation  

2:30 - 3:15

WITHDRAWN  

3:15 - 3:30

Coffee Break

Antitrust

3:30 - 4:15

Evgenia Motchenkova  (Tilburg University)
Effects of Leniency Programs on Cartel Stability  

4:15 - 5:00

Sue Hwang Mialon  (Emory University)
A Strategic Theory of Antitrust Enforcement  

5:00 - 5:15

Break

Pre-Dinner Address

5:15 - 6:15

Morton Kamien  (Northwestern University)
Trials and Tribulations  

6:30 - 10:00

Reception Dinner at University Cafe

Monday, July 18

Liability

9:30 - 10:15

James Anton (Duke University) and Tracy Lewis  (Duke University)
Protecting Inellectual Property: Intellectual Property Rights or Compensatory Liability Rules

10:15 - 11:00

Marcel Boyer  (Universit?de Montréal)
Sharing Liability between Banks and Firms: The Case of Industrial Safety Risk  

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee Break

Liability (continued)

11:15 - 12:00

Eric Talley  (University of Southern California)
Optimal Liability for Terrorism  

12:00 - 2:00

Lunch

Markets and Torts

2:00 - 2:45

Andrew Daughety  (Vanderbilt University)
Competition and Confidentiality  

2:45 - 3:30

Urs Schweizer  (University of Bonn)
Tortious Acts Affecting Markets  

3:30 - 3:45

Coffee Break

Rules vs. Discretion

3:45 - 4:30

Niko Matouschek  (Northwestern University)
Optimal Delegation  

4:30 - 5:15

Hugo Marc Mialon  (Emory University)
The Effects of the Fourth Amendment: A Strategic Model of Crime and Search  

Tuesday, July 19

Contracts

9:30 - 10:15

Nuno Garoupa  (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
The Economics of Reverse Contingent Fees  

10:15 - 11:00

W. Bentley MacLeod  (Columbia University)
Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts  

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee Break

Contracts (continued)

11:15 - 12:00

Joel Watson  (University of California, San Diego)
Contract and Mechanism Design in Settings with Durable Trading Opportunities  

12:00 - 2:00

Lunch

Settlements and Litigation

2:00 - 2:45

Kathryn Spier  (Northwestern University)
Survey of Litigation  

2:45 - 3:30

Jennifer Reinganum  (Vanderbilt University)
Survey of the Economics of Settlement Bargaining when there are Multiple Litigants  

3:30 - 3:45

Coffee Break

Settlements and Litigation (continued)

3:45 - 4:30

4:30 - 5:15

Ram Orzach  (Tulane Universitry)
Private Information and Nonbinding Arbitration