2007 Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting: Day One
Day One of the 2007 Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting at the University of Toronto Law School:
Friday, September 28:
1:30-2:30 Michael Trebilcock, Property Rights and Development: The Contingent Case for Formalization
2:45-4:15 Intellectual Property
Cameron Hutchison & Moin Yahya, Patent Trolls & Adverse Possession: A Law & Economics Approach
Mohammed Rafiquzzaman, Trends Patterns and the Determinants of Canada’s R&D Productivity
Antonia Swann, Post-Patent Pharmaceutical Firm Price Response to Generic Competition
2:45-4:15 Securities Law I
Douglas Cummings & Sofia Johan, Exchange Surveillance Index
Sudheer Chava, Henry Huang, Agnes Cheng & Gerald Lobo, Implications of Securities Class Actions for Cost of Equity Capital and Shareholder Wealth
Cecile Carpentier & Jean-Marc Suret, The Survival and Success of Penny Stock IPOs: Canadian Evidence
2:45-4:15 Contracts I
Baris Soyer, Reforming Utmost Good Faith Obligations in Insurance Contracts: An Economic Perspective
Varouj Aivazian & Robert Barber, Anthony Kronman, Mistake, Disclosure, Information and the Law of Contracts
Ran Jing & Ralph Winter, Exclusionary Contracts
2:45-4:15 Corporate Governance I
Alberto Salazar, The Cost of Moral Corporate Deficit: Can the Regulation of Entry Mitigate the Cost of Civil Liability in Secondary Market Disclosure?
Onnig Dombalagian, Hock the Vote: The Case for a Retail Share Lending Market
Guiseppe Dari-Mattiacci & Alessandra Arcuri, Multilevel Governance and Risk Diversification
2:45-4:15 Normative and Behavioral Economics
Tim Friehe, Sequential Torts and Bilateral Harm
Norman Siebrasse, Lead Us Not into Temptation: Sectarianism Outperforms Dove in the Spatial Prisoners’ Dilemma
4:30-6:00 Bankruptcy Law
Jocelyn Martel & Timothy Fisher, The Cost of Moving Towards a Debtor-Oriented Bankruptcy System
Stephen Lubben, Delaware’s Irrelevance
4:30-6:00 Competition Law and Policy
Elina Cruz & Sebastian Zarate, Single European Telecommunications Market from a Competition Policy and Regulatory Perspective: Analysis of the British and Spanish Cases
Michal S. Gal & Inbal Faibish, Six Principles for Limiting Government-Facilitated Restraints on Competition
4:30-6:00 Judicial Appointments and Decision-Making
Benjamin Alarie & Andrew Green, Policy Preference Change and Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada
Jonathan Remy Nash, The Majority That Wasn’t: Stare Decisis, Majority Rule, and the Mischief of Quorum Requirements
Maxwell Stearns, Standing at a Crossroads, The Roberts Court in Historical Perspective
4:30-6:00 Securities Law II
Douglas Cummings & Simona Zambelli, Illegal Buyouts
Mikko Packalen, Market Share Exclusion
Alicia Davis Evans, The Modest Case for the Creation of an Investor Compensation Fund
4:30-6:00 Corporate Governance II
Fernando Gomez & Maribel Saez, The Enforcement of Managers’ Passivity Duty in Takeover Law: Class Action or Government Action?
Jonathan Witmer & Lori Zorn, Estimating and Comparing the Implied Cost of Equity for Canadian and U.S. Firms
