Dates : June 05-06, 2025
Location : Hôtel de Lauzun
17 Quai d’Anjou (Ile Saint-Louis), Paris 4éme, France
EconomiX (CNRS and University Paris Nanterre), the Laboratoire d’Economie Dionysien (Paris 8 University Vincennes-St Denis), ERUDITE (University Paris Est-Créteil), and the Center for Economics of Paris Nord (CNRS and University Sorbonne Paris Nord) will jointly organize the: 12th International Meeting in Law & Economics, on June 05-06, 2025. The 2025 workshop will be hosted by Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris, at Hôtel de Lauzun, 17 Quai d’Anjou, Paris 4ème located on Ile Saint-Louis.
The workshop consists in 8 thematic sessions of 2 papers; this allows each speaker to have 45 minutes in all and enables longer discussions with the audience than what is nowadays possible during the international conferences in the field. Submissions must be sent before March 03, 2025, in a pdf format, and by email to eric.langlais@parisnanterre.fr. Papers (completed, or at least in preliminary draft) using various methodologies (theoretical, empirical, or experimental) and related to any topics of Law & Economics are welcome, including: Economics of Procedures, Litigations, Law and Finance, Economics of Competition Law, Tort Law and Liability Rules, Law Enforcement and Economics of Crime, Constitutional Law and Political Economics, Intellectual Property and Innovation, Contracts and Law.
Registration 8:30 am – 8:50 am
Welcoming address 8:50 am – 9:00 am
MORNING SESSIONS
Session 1 – Chair : Jacques Pelletan (LED, University Paris 8, France)
9:00 am – 9:45 am : Frances Xu Lee (Loyola University Chicago, USA) and Abraham Wickelgren (University of Texas at Austin) – Contingent Plea Agreement for Witness Testimony.
9:45 am – 10:30 am : Yann Lecorps (University Paris 2, France) and Bertrand Crettez (University Paris 2, France) – Optimal timing of intervention by the International Criminal Court.
10:30 am – 11:00 am : Coffee break (courtyard of Hôtel de Lauzun)
Session 2 – Chair : Béatrice Dumont (CEPN, University Paris Nord, France)
11:00 am – 11:45 am : Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven Centre for Empirical Jurisprudence, Belgium), and Andreu Rodilla Lazaro (University of Barcelona) – Ideological Polarization on Constitutional Courts: Evidence from Spain.
11:45 am – 12:30 am : Louis-Daniel Pape (CREST Telecom, France), Christian Helmers (Santa Clara University, USA) and Brian Love (Santa Clara University, USA) – Judge (Ideology) Shopping.
12:30 am – 2:00 pm : Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Session 3 – Chair : Andreea Cosnita (EconomiX, University Paris Nanterre, France)
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm : Fernando Gomez (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain), and Juan-José Ganuza (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain) – Building Optimal Cross-border Standards: Maximum Harmonization, Minimum Harmonization, and Co-existence of Standards.
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm : Margherita Saraceno (University of Pavia, Italy) and Giorgio Rampa (University of Pavia, Italy) – A Conjectural Model for Public Goods: Equilibria, Dynamic Features, and Policies.
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm : Coffee break (courtyard of Hôtel de Lauzun)
Session 4 – Chair : Benjamin Monnery (EconomiX, University Paris Nanterre, France)
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm : Beatrice Boulu-Reshef (University of Orléans, France) and Constance Monnier-Schlumberger (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) – Let’s Do a Cartel! The Role of Communication in Forming Cartel Agreements.
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm : Tiffanie Perrault (Grand Valley State University, USA) – Flying high? Legalization and the Black Market for Cannabis.
19.30 Diner
MORNING SESSIONS
Session 5 – Chair : Jean-Marc Zogheib (EconomiX, University Paris Nanterre, France)
9:00 am – 9:45 am : Urs Schweizer (University of Bonn, Germany) – Damages Rules Inducing Sequence-Proof Nash Equilibria.
9:45 am – 10:30 am : Claude Fluet (University of Laval, Canada) – Efficient Liability in the Market for Expert Financial Advice.
10:30 am – 11:00 am : Coffee break (courtyard of Hôtel de Lauzun)
Session 6 – Chair : Eric Darmon (EconomiX, University Paris Nanterre, France)
11:00 am – 11:45 am : Alexander Morell (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany) and Aileen Oeberst – Do German Judges Treat People with Foreign Names Differently? A Vignette Experiment.
11:45 am – 12:30 am : Sébastien Massoni (University of Lorraine, France) – The Impact of Predictive Justice on Judicial Decision-Making: Evidence from Two Experimental Studies on Information Value and Court Resolution.
12:30 am – 2:00 pm : Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Session 7 – Chair : Juliette Rey (ERUDITE, University Paris Est Créteil, France)
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm : Stephan Tontrup (New York University School of Law, USA), Jennifer Arlen (New York University School of Law, USA), and Christopher Jon Sprigman (New York University School of Law, USA) – Behavioral Self-Management and the Strategic Shifting of Fairness Norms.
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm : Michal Soltes (Charles University, Czech Republic), Jakub Drapal (Charles University, Czech Republic), Jan de Keijser (Leiden University, Belgium), and Sigrid van Wingerden (Leiden University, Belgium) – The Ripple Effect of Judicial Harshness.
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm : Coffee break (courtyard of Hôtel de Lauzun)
Session 8 – Chair : Eric Langlais (EconomiX, University Paris Nanterre, France)
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm : Moran Ofir (Reichman University, Israel) and Joshua Mitts Columbia University, USA) – Market Efficiency and Processing Costs.
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm : Juan Mora-Sanguinetti (Bank of France/Bank of Spain, Eurosystem), Cristina Penasco (University of Cambridge, UK), and Rok Spruk (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) – The Impact of "Green Regulation" on Firm Innovation.
Participation fees (including 2 lunches, 1 diner and all coffee-breaks): Students (Master, PhD): 80 euros. Academics: 150 euros. Institutions and Non Academics: 200 euros.
Deadline for submitting papers: March 03, 2025.
Selection of papers: April 02, 2025.
Registration: before May 05, 2025.
Béatrice Dumont (CEPN, CNRS & Sorbonne Paris Nord), Eric Langlais (EconomiX, CNRS & Paris Nanterre), Jacques Pelletan (LED Paris 8), Juliette Rey (ERUDITE, Paris Est-Créteil).
eric.langlais@parisnanterre.fr.