TILEC at the 23rd Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics

Last 14-16 September in Madrid, the 23rd Annual conference of the European Association of Law and Economics took place. The event offered several members and Ph.D. students of TILEC an opportunity to present their recent work. In addition, the meeting offered the opportunity to make contact again with several colleague researchers that had been visiting TILEC in the past. Four current or former TILEC members presented their papers and served as discussants: Filomena Chirico, Restrictions of competition in Internet Governance. Jun Zhou, In Litigation: How Far Do The “Haves” Come Out Ahead? A Game Theoretical Study. Andrei Medvedev (with Bruce Lyons), Bargaining Over Remedies in Merger Regulation. Evgenia Motchenkova (with Rob van der Laan), Strictness of Leniency Programs and Cartels of Asymmetric Firms. One more TILEC member, Sofia Johan, co-authored the paper presented by D. Cumming: Regulatory Harmonization and the Development of Private Equity Markets. The conference programme, organized in various Panels, covered many research fields, among which: Competition Policy and Regulation, Tort and Crime, Contracts and Property, Corporate Law, Bankruptcy and financial Regulation, Legal rule making. Two plenary sessions were dedicated to discussing: “Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in Europe” (invited speaker: Jurgen Basedow, Max-Planck Institute, Hamburg) and "Past Behaviour and the Desirable Modification of the Law” (invited speaker: Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School).