1:00 - 2:30

Bennett Lecture Hall

Flavelle House

PUBLIC LECTURE

Professor Robert Frank, Cornell University

“Willingness-to-Pay Without Apology”

2:45 - 4:15

Session 1: Economics of the Brain Drain

Room 1

Chair: Klaus Stegemann

Falconer Hall

Marvin McInnis, Dept. of Economics, Queen’s University

“A Historical Perspective on Canada’s Brain Drain”

Stephen Easton, Dept. of Economics, Simon Fraser University

“The Canadian Brain Drain: Evidence from Economics and Sciences”

Don Wagner, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia

“Do Tax Differences Contribute Toward the Brain Drain from Canada to the U.S?”

Room 3

Session 2: Non-Profits and Charitable Institutions

Falconer Hall

Chair: Claire Hill

Simon Deakin, ESRC Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University,  and Jaqueline Cook, Cambridge University

“Mutuality and Corporate Governance: The Evolution of the UK Building Societies Sector Following Deregulation”

Evelyn Brody, Chicago-Kent College of Law

“Accountability and Public Trust in the Nonprofit Sector”

Abigail Payne, Inst. of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois

“Active Partners: The Interaction of Charitable Fundraisers, Private Givers, and Government Grants”

Session 3: Corporate Law

Flavelle Room

Chair: Margaret Brinig

Flavelle House

Poonam Puri, Cornell Law School

“Taking Stock of Lawyers Taking Stock as Legal Fees”

John Turner, School of Management and Economics, Queen’s University, Belfast

“The Trading of Unlimited Liability Bank Shares: The Bagehot Problem”

Sharon Hannes, Harvard Law School

“The Missing Link in the Corporate Takeover Literature”

4:30 - 5:30

Session 4: Government Policy Implications

Room 2-Solarium

Chair:  Michael Trebilcock

Falconer Hall

Anindya Sen, Dept. of Economics, University of Waterloo

“The Impact of Government Initiatives, Demographics, and Business Cycles on Crime in Canada: An Empirical Assessment”

Daniel Gifford, University of Minnesota and Bob Kurdle

“Alternative National Merger Standards and the Prospects for International Cooperation”

Flavelle Room

Session 5: Law and Environment

Flavelle House

Chair: Dan Usher

Don Dewees, Dept. of Economics, University of Toronto

 "Price and Environment in Electricity Restructuring"

Katrina Wyman, University of Toronto, Research Fellow

  "A Tale of Two Resources:  Why Canada has been Slower to Use Tradeable Rights to Regulate Air Pollution than Fisheries"

Douglas Kysar, Cornell Law School

“Law and Ecological Economics”

Room 3

Session 6: Rules, Standards and Laws

Falconer Hall

Chair: Andrew Eckert

Greg La Blanc, Dept. of Economics, University of Virginia

“The Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act and Self-Regulation: Private Cooperation or Public Delegation?”

Kevin Davis, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

“Lawmaking in Small Jurisdictions”

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2001

9:00 - 10:30

Session 8: Government, Law and Economics

Room 3

Chair: Jeffrey MacIntosh

Falconer Hall

Francesco Parisi, J.M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University

“Political Coase Theorem”

Andrew T. Guzman, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley, “The Cost of Credibility: Explaining Resistance to Inter-State Dispute Resolution Mechanisms”

Terrence Chorvat, School of Law, George Mason University

“Ambiguity and Income Taxation”

Session 9: Law, Innovation and Intellectual property

Flavelle Room

Chair: Mohammed Rafiquzzaman

Flavelle House

Nancy Gallini, Dept. of Economics, University of Toronto

“Reorganizing Intellectual Property Rights: Patent Pools, Cross-Licensing and Other Technology Alliances”

Mohammed Rafiquzzaman, Industry Canada

“Does the Innovation Gap Explain Regional Productivity Differences?”

Wulong Gu, Statistics Canada and Jianmin Tang, Industry Canada

“A New Perspective on the Canadian Manufacturing Innovation - Productivity Linkage”

Session 10: Behavioural Law and Economics

Room 2-Solarium

Chair: Claire Hill

Falconer Hall

Richard Warner, Chicago-Kent College of Law

“Whose Rationality? Rational Choice Theory and Incommensurability”

Claire Hill, Chicago-Kent College of Law

“The Role of Categorization in Individual Decision Making”

Richard McAdams, University of Illinois College of Law

“Gap Studies and Game Theory”

10:45 - 12:15

Session 11: Competition Act Amendments

Room 3

Chair: Douglas West

Falconer Hall

Marc Duhamel, Competition Bureau

“Revealed Antitrust Preferences for Mergers”

Edward Iacobucci, University of Toronto and Michael Trebilcock, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

“Designing Competition Law Institutions”

Andrew Eckert, Dept. of Economics, University of Alberta

“Predation in the Airline Industry: The Canadian Antitrust Approach”

Session 12: Empirical Studies in Corporate Governance and Securities Regulation

Room 2-Solarium

Chair: Poonam Puri

Falconer Hall

Jeff Rachlinski, Cornell Law School and Mitu Gulati, UCLA

“Judicial Rhetoric in Securities Fraud Cases”

Ted Eisenberg, Cornell Law School

“The Fate of Firms: Explaining Mergers and Bankruptcies”

Tim Fisher, Wilfred Laurier University, and Jocelyn Martel, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, THEMA

“Empirical Estimates of Filtering Failure in Court-Supervised Reorganizations”

Session 13: Bankruptcy

Flavelle Room

Chair: Kevin Davis

Flavelle House

John Armour, School of Law, University of Nottingham and Simon Deakin, Cambridge University

“Insolvency, Employment Protection and Corporate Restructuring: the Effects of TUPE”

Nicholas Georgakopoulos, University of Connecticut School of Law

“The Essential Function of Bankruptcy Law”

Ed Nosal, University of Waterloo, and Ron Giammarino, University of British Columbia

“Debt, Renegotiation and Judicial Discretion”

1:45 - 3:15

Session 14: Game Theory and the Law

Flavelle Room

Chair:  Shubha Ghosh

Flavelle House

Michael Krauss, George Mason University School of Law

“Federalism and Products Liability Reform”

Dan Usher, Dept. of Economics, Queen’s University

“Mysterious Bargaining”

Bruce Chapman, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

“Social Choice, Public Reason, and Cooperation”

Session 15: Property and Liability Rules

Room 3

Chair: Nicholas Georgakopoulos

Falconer Hall

Jay Weiser, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business

“Measure of Damages for Violation of Property Rules: Breach of Confidentiality”

Francesco Parisi, J.M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy

“The Asymmetric Coase Theorem: Dual Remedies for Unified Property”

Marcel Boyer, Dept. of Economics, University of Montreal and Donatella Porrini, Universita degli Studi di Milano

“Modeling the Choice Between Regulation and Liability in Terms of Social Welfare”

Session 16: Legal Changes and Economic Development

Room 2-Solarium

Chair: Benoit-Mario Papillon

Falconer Hall

Paul H. Brietzke, Valparaiso University Law School

“The Politics of Legal Reforms”

Manon Beaumier, University of Quebec in Trois-Rivieres

“Outsourcing: Marriage or Car Deal”

Eric Gouvin, Western New England College School of Law

“The Political Economy of Canada’s “Widely Held” Rule for Large Banks”

Bill Dymond, Centre for Trade Policy and Law, Carleton University and University of Ottawa

“Core Labour Standards and the WTO”

3:30 - 4:30

Session 17: Securities Regulation

Room 3

Chair: Douglas Cumming

Falconer Hall

Jeffrey MacIntosh, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

“Law, Finance and the Canadian Venture Capital Cycle”

Jonathan Macey, Cornell Law School

“The Economics of Listing Fees”

Session 18: Transition Economies

Flavelle Room

Chair: Bruce Chapman

Flavelle House

Hank Perritt, Chicago-Kent College of Law

“Raising Capital for Kosovo”

William Kovacic, George Washington School of Law

“Barriers to Competition and Market Opening Strategies for Transition”

Room 2-Solarium

Session 19: Globalization

Falconer Hall

Chair: Michael Krauss

Janis Sarra, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia

“Global Capital Markets, Governance and Efficiency Norms: Expanding Anglo-American Horizons

Jim Chen, University of Minnesota Law School

“Legal and Economic Implications of Globalization”