Schedule

Schedule PCPE 2012 - Guido Calabresi's 80th Birthday Conference

Friday, October 26  
9:00—10:00 am Registration
10:00—10:30 am Welcome Toast
10:30—10:45 am Opening of the Conference: Josef Šíma
10:45—12:15 pm Panel I: Punishment and Deterence
Panel II: Global Crime and Global Security
12:15—1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30—4:00 pm Symposium "Law and Economics as an Applied Science. The Legacy of Guido Calabresi"—part I; Introduction and Chair: Alain Marciano & Giovanni Ramello
1:30—2:30 pm Guido Calabresi: The Place of Torts in Law and Economics:  The Significance of the Liability Rule
2:30—4:00 pm Calabresi in context
Laura Kalman: "Some Thoughts on Yale and Guido"
James Hackney: “Guido Calabresi and the Construction of Contemporary American Legal Theory”
4:00—4:30 pm Coffee Break
4:30—6:00 pm Panel III: Firm, Competition and Anti-trust Policy
Panel IV: Rule of Law and Social Design
Panel V: Philosophy, Law and Economics
7:30—10:00 pm Welcome Dinner
Saturday, October 27  
9:00—10:30 am Panel VI: Labor Law and the Family
Panel VII: Interdisciplinarity and  Development
Panel VIII: Privatization and Competitive Reforms
10:30—11:00 am Cofee Break
11:00—12:30 am "Law and Economics as an Applied Science. The Legacy of Guido Calabresi"— part II: Calabresi and Coase on accidents and tort
Introduction and Chair: Alain Marciano & Giovanni Ramello
Enrico Colombatto: "A free-market view on accidents and torts"
Steve Medema: "Juris Prudence: Calabresi's Uneasy Relationship with the Coase Theorem"
12:30—2:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
2:00—4:00 pm "Law and Economics as an Applied Science. The Legacy of Guido Calabresi"—part III: After Calabresi
Introduction and Chair: Alain Marciano & Giovanni Ramello
David M. Driesen: “The Economic Dynamics of Law”
Marc Geistfeld: "Risk Distribution in the Law of Torts: Carrying Calabresi Further."
W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch: “Assessing the Insurance Role of Tort Liability after Calabresi,”
4:00—4:30 pm Coffee Break
4:30—6:00 pm Panel IX: Politics, Control and Collective Rights
Panel X: Taxes and Interventionism
Panel XI Bounded Rationality and Regulatory Assessment
6:00 pm Closing Remarks
Sunday,
October 28
 
Optional: Tour of the historical center of Prague

You may read more about The Grand City Tour of Prague and River Cruises here.

 

 

Punishment and Deterence
Martin       Leroch University of Mainz Punishment as Defiance: Deterrence and Perverse Effects in the Case of Expressive Crime
Aia Karapanou  School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam Ex ante determined pain and suffering damages for non-fatal injuries: the case for Quality Adjusted Life Years
Libor Dušek CERGE-EI Responses to More Severe Punishment in the Courtroom: Evidence from Truth-in-Sentencing Laws
Global Crime and Global Security
Manel Mastouri ISG de Tunis   Economic Intelligence and Global Security
Andra Filote University of Konstanz, Germany Suicide Terror and Religious Cleavage
       
Firm, Competition and Anti-trust Policy
Frederic Marty Research Group on Law, Economics and Management, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis The Proper Scope of Economics: An Application to Antitrust Ruling
Andrius Puksas Mykolas Romeris University The assessment of output limiting provisions
Izabela Prager University of Warsaw European Private Company. The Law and Economics Approach.
Rule of Law and Social Design
Janica Magat    University of the Philippines School of Economics Blind Justice, A case for judicial impartiality in the Philippine Supreme Court
Ozge Kama Yildiz Teknik University Rule of Law and Growth in New European Member States
Dušan Tříska Prague University of Economics SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES; their design and nature
Labor Law and the Family
Pavol Minarik IEL, Turin; U of Economics, Prague Employment, wages and religious revivals in post-communist countries
Josef Montag Masaryk University          Is Pro-Labor Law Pro-Women? Evidence from India
Pavel Kuchař VSE, Collegio Carlo Alberto Surrogate Motherhood Law in the United States: Economic Analysis of Contractual Enforcement
Interdisciplinarity and  Development
Lenka Slavikova University of Economics in Prague Need for the interdisciplinarity in the environmental economics?
Eliška Vejchodská University of Economics, Prague Tradable development rights: different trading agents, different rent-seeking opportunities
Dana Bárková University of West Bohemia, Pilsen How to teach economics to lawyers?
Attila Bartha Hungarian Academy of Sciences Governance, Culture, Legal Institutions or the Quality of Democracy? The Role of Institutions in the Economic Development of the EU Member States
Bounded Rationality and Regulatory Assessment
Marek Hudík University of Economics, Prague Choice Theory with Boundedly Rational Observer
Jiří Schwarz Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague Does Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) Really Evaluate Regulatory Impact? The Case of the Czech Republic
Pavel Pelikan Prague University of Economics Financial regularions for an economy with uneuqally frational individuals
       
Philosophy, Law and Economics
Tevfik Murat YILDIRIM University of Milan Economic and Philosophical Analysis of Property Ownership: Social Injustice or a Fundamental Right?
Massimiliano Trovato Università di Padova European Property at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Law and Economics
Miroslav Svoboda University of Economics, Prague Case for Economic Phenomenology
Politics, Control and Collective Right
Maja Adena Social Science Research Center Berlin Radio effects in Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany
Matej Gregarek Prague School of Economics Are there any Paretian chickens without normative eggs? (Reflection on Pareto efficiency as criterion for evaluating private and political markets)
Carolina Gonzalez Rodriguez University o Buenos Aires - School of Law THE “REASONABLENESS PRINCIPLE”: SCARCITY AS  A TOOL AGAINST COLLECTIVE RIGHTS
Taxes and Interventionism
Pál Czeglédi University of Debrecen The theory of interventionism as an Austrian theory of slowdowns
Libor Kyncl Masaryk University Long Term Public Policy Financing and its Sustainability
Evgeniy Ozhegov Higher School of Economics, Department of Applied Mathematics Testing optimality of the corporate profit tax rate control in Perm region
       
Privatization and Competitive Reforms
Jane Andrew  University of Sydney ACCOUNTING, PUBLIC POLICY, AND THE HEGEMONY OF ‘COST’:  THE FRAMING OF PRISON PRIVATISATION IN NSW
Josef Mládek University of Economics Financial markets reform
Mateusz Machaj University of Wroclaw Market contestability and dynamic theory of competition