Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics

Seminars

ACLE Law & Economics Seminars

The biweekly ACLE Law & Economics Seminars are on Monday afternoons from 16:15 - 17:30 hours in the Faculteitskamer (Room A101) of the Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort 4.
The agenda is presently as follows.

Upcoming Seminars

ACLE Seminar: Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business School)

'A Rationale of the Limitation Period in Sales Law'

Monday, 13 September 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Maristella Botticini (Bocconi University)

'The Chosen Few: How Religion and Human Capital Shaped Jewish History, ca. 1-1492'

Monday, 27 September 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Paolo Pinotti (Bank of Italy)

'Migration restrictions and criminal behavior: evidence from a natural experiment' (joint with Giovanni Mastrobuoni)

Monday, 11 October 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Claudio Mezzetti (University of Warwick)

'A Theory of Rational Jurisprudence'

Monday, 25 October 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Randi Hjalmarsson (Queen Mary, University of London)

'Race and Gender in the Courthouse'

Monday, 8 November 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Radha Iyengar (London School of Economics)

Monday, 22 November 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Tommaso Nannicini (Bocconi University)

'Social Capital and Political Accountability'

Monday, 6 December 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Laurence Kotlikoff (Boston University)

Monday, 17 January 2011, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Ioannis Lianos (UCL)

Monday, 31 January 2011, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Kristoffel Grechenig (Max Plank Institute)

'Punishment despite Reasonable Doubt: A Public Goods Experiment with Uncertainty over Contributions'

Monday, 14 February 2011, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Frans van Winden (University of Amsterdam)

'On the Behavioral Economics of Crime' (with Elliott Ash, University of Amsterdam).

Monday, 28 February 2011, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Nicolas Petit (University of Liege Law School)

Monday, 14 March 2011, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Luigi Guiso (European University Institute)

Monday, 11 April 2011, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Lorand Bartels (University of Cambridge)

Monday, 2 May 2011, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Andy Hanssen (Colby College)

'Judicial Review as a Constraint on Tyranny of the Majority' (with Robert K. Fleck, Montana State University)

Monday, 16 May 2011, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

Past Seminars

CANCELLED: ACLE Seminar: Tess Wilkinson-Ryan (University of Pennsylvania)

Monday, 21 June 2010, 16:30 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Bruce Johnsen (George Mason University School of Law)

'Myths about Mutual Fund Fees: Economic Insights on Jones v. Harris'

Monday, 31 May 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

CANCELLED: ACLE Seminar: Maristella Botticini (Bocconi University)

'The Chosen Few: How Religion and Human Capital Shaped Jewish History, ca. 1-1492'

Monday, 17 May 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Jeroen van de Ven (University of Amsterdam)

'Friendships and Favoritism on the Schoolground - A Framed Field Experiment'

Monday, 3 May 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

CANCELLED: ACLE Seminar: Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business School)

'A Rationale of the Limitation Period in Sales Law'

Monday, 19 April 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Marcus Cole (Stanford University)

This seminar has been cancelled.

Monday, 12 April 2010, 16:30 - 17:45 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Kenneth Ayotte (Northwestern University School of Law)

'Legal and Economic Entities as Transferable Bundles of Contracts'

Monday, 29 March 2010, 16:30 - 17:45 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Sudipto Bhattacharya (London School of Economics)

'Control Rights and Corporate Venturing'

Monday, 22 March 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Roberto Galbiati (CNRS, EconomiX Paris)

'Prison Conditions and Recidivism'

Monday, 8 March 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Cedric Argenton (Tilburg University)

'Exclusion through Speculation'

Monday, 8 February 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Clare Leaver (Oxford University)

Using Group Transitions to Estimate the Effect of Social Interactions on Judicial Decisions (with Jordi Blanes i Vidal)

Monday, 25 January 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University Law School)

The Private Origins of the Private Company: Britain 1862-1907

Monday, 11 January 2010, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Kathryn Spier (Harvard University)

Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements

Monday, 14 December 2009, 16:30 - 17:45 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: David Scoones (University of Victoria)

Optimal Unconditional Parole

Monday, 7 December 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Robert Dur (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Monday, 23 November 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Giacomo Ponzetto (Harvard University)

Intellectual Property Rights and Efficient Firm Organization

Monday, 9 November 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Michael Faure (Maastricht University)

The government as reinsurer of catastrophe risks?

Monday, 12 October 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Alessandra Arcuri (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

The Costs of Community Enforcement of WTO Law (with Sara Poli)

Monday, 28 September 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Zhijun Chen (University of East Anglia)

Loss Leading as an Exploitative Practice
(with Patrick Rey)

Monday, 14 September 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Marcus Cole (Stanford University) - CANCELLED

Is Mobile Telephone Banking Really Banking?

Monday, 7 September 2009, 16:30 - 17:45 hrs.

ACLE seminar: Willem Jongman (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Escaping Malthus? The rise and fall of the Roman economy

Monday, 25 May 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE seminar: Eric van Damme (Tilburg University)

Cartels or Coordinated Care: Competition in the Dutch Homecare Market

Monday, 11 May 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Jennifer Reinganum (Vanderbilt University)

Privacy, Publicity, and Choice

Monday, 16 March 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Francesco Salerno (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP)

Some thoughts on the rise of margin squeeze as a theory of antitrust liability in the telecommunications sector

Monday, 2 March 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE seminar: Giovanni Comandé (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)

Doing Away with Inequality in Loss of Enjoyment of Life

Monday, 16 February 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Benedikt Hermann (University of Nottingham)

Fairness enforcement across societies

Monday, 2 February 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE seminar: Marco Casari (University of Bologna)

Gender-biased inheritance rules are evolutionary stable: a case study

Monday, 19 January 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Rein Wesseling (Stibbe)

The EC Commission's new approach to vertical mergers; first experiences

Monday, 12 January 2009, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE seminar: Marco Slotboom (Simmons & Simmons)

Restrictions by object, a further analysis

Friday, 19 December 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE seminar: Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University)

Contracting in the Shadow of the Law

Monday, 15 December 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Sigrid Suetens (TILEC, Tilburg University)

Naked exclusion: towards a behavioral approach to exclusive dealing

Monday, 1 December 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE seminar: Paul Grout (University of Bristol)

Does Within-tenure Experience Make You ‘Tougher’? Evidence from Competition Law

Monday, 17 November 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE seminar: G. Marcus Cole (Stanford Law School)

Protecting Consumers from Consumer Protection: Watters v. Wachovia Bank

Monday, 3 November 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE seminar: Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School)

Global Network Finance

Monday, 20 October 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE seminar: Adriaan Soetevent (University of Amsterdam)

Have the Auctions of Tenancy Rights to operate Gasoline Stations along State-run Highways increased Price Competition?

Monday, 6 October 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE seminar: Sofia Johan (Tilburg University)

Exchange Surveillance Index/Global Market Surveillance

Monday, 22 September 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE seminar: Martin Hellwig (Max Planck Institute)

Private Damage Claims and the Passing-On Defense

Monday, 19 May 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

ACLE Seminar: Nicola Gennaioli (University Pompue Fabra)

Judicial Fact Discretion

Monday, 28 April 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

Gerard Hertig ( ETH Zurich)

Securities Commissions as Corporate Governance Enforcers (Authors: Gerard Hertig and Hideki Kanda)

Monday, 14 April 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

Luca Enriques (University of Bologna, Consob)

Issuer Choice in Europe

Monday, 31 March 2008, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs.

Simon Anderson (University of Virginia)

Comparative Advertising

Monday, 10 March 2008

February 25, 2008: Emanuela Carbonara

Unjust Laws and Illegal Norms

February 11, 2008: Jeanine Thal ( Mannheim University)

Buyer Power and Intraband Coordination

January 28, 2008: Carlo Drago (University of Naples) Andrea Polo (University of Cambridge) and Paolo Santella (European Commission and Bank of Italy)

The Italian Chamber of Lords Sits on Listed Company Boards. An Empirical Analysis of Italian Listed Company Boards from 1998 to 2006.

January 14, 2008: John Hagedoorn (University of Maastricht)

Complexity and the Cognitive Load of R&D "Alliance" Contracts: an Experimental Study

December 10, 2007: Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam, Stanford University)

Wishful Thinking: Logic Meets Game Theory

November 26, 2007: Jordi Blanes i Vidal ( London School of Economics )

Behaviour in Networks of Collaborators

November 12, 2007: Chris Harding (University of Wales)

Anti-cartel regulation : the interests and objectives of enforcement

October 15, 2007: Francisco Cabrillo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Market institutions and economic development: an invisible hand or a prisoner's dilemma?

October 1, 2007: Oscar Couwenberg (University of Groningen)

Costs and Recovery Rates in the Dutch Liquidation-Based Bankruptcy System

September 17, 2007: Bauke Visser ( Erasmus Universiteit, het Tinbergen Instituut)

Is Transparency to no Avail? Committee Decision-Making, Pre-meetings, and Credible Deals

May 21, 2007: Omri Ben-Shahar (University of Michigan)

A Bargaining Power Theory of Gap Filling

May 7, 2007: Clifford Jones (University of Florida)

The White Paper on Private Antitrust Damages in Europe: Channeling Nostradamus?

April 23, 2007(ROOM A128): Massimo D'Antoni (University of Siena)

Copyright vs. copyleft licencing and software development

March 26, 2007: Gerrit De Geest (Utrecht School of Economics)

Carrots versus Sticks

March 12, 2007: Dominique Demougin (Humbolt University)

Rules of Proof, Courts, and Incentives

February 26, 2007: Stefano Rossi (Stockholm University)

Bankruptcy, Creditor Protection and Debt Contracts

February 12, 2007: Anne van Aaken (University of St. Gallen)

Perils of Success? The Case of International Investment Protection

January 29, 2007: Emanuela Carbonara (University of Bologna)

Choice of Law and Legal Evolution: Rethinking the Market for Legal Rules

January 15, 2007 (A009): Alon Harel (Hebrew University)

The Economics of Stigma: Why More Detection of Crime may Result in Less Stigmatization

December 11, 2006: Stefan Voigt (University of Marburg)

The Economic Effects of Competition Policy - Cross-Country Evidence Using Four New Indicators

November 27, 2006: Luigi Franzoni (University of Bologna)

Efficient Rewards for Innovation: Patents and Secrets

November 13, 2006: Benito Arrunada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

On the Efficient Allocation of Enforcement Rights

October 30, 2006: Vincent Buskens (Universiteit Utrecht )

Dynamics of Networks If Everyone Strives for Structural Holes

October 16, 2006: Jan Boone (Universiteit van Tilburg)

How (not) to measure competition

October 2, 2006: Jan Tuinstra (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

An experimental investigation of positive and negative expectations feedback and price stability

May 22, 2006: Keith Hylton (Boston University)

When Should a Case Be Dismissed? The Economics of Pleading and Summary Judgment Standards

May 8, 2006: Georg von Wangenheim (University of Kassel)

Evolutionary Law and Economics -- Where Do We Stand? Where Should We Go?

April 24, 2006: John Armour (University of Cambridge)

Who Writes the Rules for Hostile Takeovers, and Why?

April 10, 2006 (Room A009): Eric van Damme (Universiteit van Tilburg)

Abuse of Market Power

March 27, 2006: Merritt Fox (Columbia Law School)

After DURA: Causation in Fraud-on-the-Market Actions

March 13, 2006: Francesco Parisi (George Mason University)

Two Dimensions of Regulatory Competition

February 27, 2006: Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business School)

Optimal negligence standards when one party is ignorant of the standards

February 13, 2006: Rein Wesseling (Stibbe and Universiteit van Amsterdam)

The exchange of commercially sensitive information - some legal and economic issues

January 30, 2006: Hans-Bernd Schaefer (Universität Hamburg)

Law and Economic Development

January 16, 2006: Willem H. van Boom (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Effective Enforcement in Contract and Tort

December 12, 2005: Anthony Ogus (University of Manchester)

Limitation periods: the public interest in cost reduction? Or the
private interest in legal complexity?

November 28, 2005: Martijn Snoep (De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek)

Private enforcement: myths and realities - a practitioner's view

November 14, 2005: Jochen Bigus (Universität Osnabrück)

Auditors’ Liability and Prospect Theory

October 31, 2005: Damien Geradin (Université de Liège)

Price discrimination under EC competition law: The
need for a case-by-case approach

October 17, 2005: Wouter Wils (European Commission Legal Service)

Optimal Antitrust Fines: Theory and Practice

October 3, 2005: Pierre Larouche (Universiteit van Tilburg)

Conceptual divergence: an inter-disciplinary perspective using economics

June 27, 2005: Marnix van Ginneken (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

The US Poison Pill from a Dutch Perspective

June 13, 2005: Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Substituting Complements

May 30, 2005 (Room C323): Vivek Ghosal (Georgia Institute of Technology)

The Intertemporal Path of U.S. Criminal Antitrust Enforcement

May 2, 2005: Wim Driehuis (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Reconstruction of the "Crime" in competition cases

April 18, 2005: Matej Marinc (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Competition in Banking: Implications for Stability and Regulation

April 4, 2005: Nuno Garoupa (Universitat Nova)

The Economics op US-Style Contingent Fees and UK-Style Conditional Fees

March 21, 2005: Francesco Parisi (George Mason University School of Law)

Stability and Change in International Customary Law