Theme:
¡°The Evolution of Legal Institutions in the Network Society¡±
Program
of the 5th annual conference of the Asian law and economics
association
(The last speaker of
each session will be the Chair of the session.)
June 20 (Saturday)
8:30
– 9:00 Registration
9:00
– 9:20 Welcoming addresses
9:20
– 10:10 Isaac Ehrlich (SUNY, Buffalo)
The Application of
Economics to the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement - What Remains to be Done
10:30
– 12:00
Session
20-1A: Consumer protection law
-
Jong In Lee (KCP)
The Impact of Liability Law on Consumer Safety: An Empirical Approach
-
Albert Choi (University of Virginia)
Shrink-Wraps: Who Should Bear the Cost of
Communicating Mass-Market Contract Terms?
Session 20-1B: Legal
compensation
-
Yan Li (University of Southampton)
Damages for
Breach of Contract in the International Sale of Goods - China, CISG and English Law
-
Se Hak Chun (Seoul National University of
Technology)
Vicarious liability rule and apportioning damages for multiple
tortfeasors
-
Felix Chan (The University of Hong Kong)
Present
Value Assessment of Lost Future Earnings: An Empirical Experience from Hong
Kong
Session
20-1C: Institution
-
Jae Hyuck Lee (Sogang University)
How do social
norms matter?
-
Sung Sup Rhee (Soongsil University)
Fundamental Coase
Theorem and Institutional World of Non-Zero Transaction Cost
-
Jian Wei (Shandong
University)
The law and economics analysis paradigms: the development history and
the prediction of its future
12:00
– 13:30 Lunch
13:30
– 15:20
Session
20-2A: Legal procedure I
-
Sung Hoon Park (Geonggi Research Institute)
Contingent fee vs. hourly fee
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In Gyu Kim (Hallym University)
The effects of
litigants¡¯ wealth and stake size on litigation outcomes
-
Yasuhiro Ikeda (Kumamoto University)
On the
Arrangement of Fixed and Contingent Attorney¡¯s Fees
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Yue Qiao (Shandong Univiersity)
Legal Expenses Insurance and Settlement
Session
20-2B: Family law
-
In-Jae Lee (Incheon National University) The
Impact of Illegalizing Identification of Fetal Sex on Female Education
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Brishti Guha (Singapore Management University)
Divorce laws, sex ratios and the marriage market
Session
20-2C: Property right I
-
Lilou Jiang (Kyushu University)
Commercializing Government-funded Research: China's
Reception of the U.S. Bayh-Dole Act
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Dulal Miah (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
(with Suzuki Yasushi)
The Constitutional
Protection of Property Rights in South Korea
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Dennis Khong (University of Manchester)
The
Economics of Mutual Wills
15:30
– 16:50
Session
20-3A: Property right II
-
Tze-Shiou Chien (Academia Sinica and National
Taiwan University)
The Economics of Extinctive Prescription
-
Jung Kyoo Choi (Kyungpook National University)
The First Property Rights Revolution
-
Jianpei Li (University of International Business
and Economics)
Partnership dissolution, complementarities and investment
incentives
Session
20-3B: Teaching law and economics (Special session) organized by Jeong-Yoo Kim
-
Haksoo Ko (Seoul National University)
Teaching
law and economics in Korea
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Shozo Ota (University of Tokyo) Teaching law and
economics in Japan
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Ding Ding (University of International Business
and Economics) Teaching law and economics in China
-
Albert Choi (University of Virginia) Comparing
the class of law and economics in Econ Dept and Law School
Session
20-3C Transportation Law
-
Sang-Kyu Hwang (Korea Transport Institute)
Effects of Bus Regulation Reform on Bus Service
-
Changhwan Mo (Korea Transport Institute) Review
on the Regulatory Impact Analysis of the Act of Mobility
Improvement for the Transportation Disadvantaged
17:00
– 18:00 General Assembly
18:30
– 20:00 Dinner
June 21 (Sunday)
9:00 – 9:50 Thomas Ulen
(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) The Trajectory of Law and Economics
10:00 – 11:30
Session 21-1A: Criminal law
-
Zhenjie Zhou (Waseda Institute for Advanced
Study, Waseda Univeristy)
Prevention Policy of
Corporate Crime in China: Main Problem and Possible Way out
-
Duol Kim and Jee Eun Kim (KDI)
Growth of
Felonies in Korea after the Financial Crisis
-
Jeong-Yoo Kim (Kyung Hee University)
A note on
nonmaximality of the optimal fine when the apprehension probability depends on
the offense rate
Session 21-1B: Patent
law
-
Jun-Byung Oh (Inha University)
Incumbents¡¯
response to patent reform: In case of the Korean patent reform of 1994
-
Jing-Yuan Chiou (IMT Lucca) Technology Adoption and Fuzzy Patent Rights
-
Sunha Myong (Seoul National
University)
The sequential coalition formation in the patent pool game with
externality
-
Jinyoung Kim (Korea University)
International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from an Inventor-Firm Matched Data
Set
Session 21-1C:
Anti-trust law (Special session) organized by Jae Nahm
-
Sang-Seung Yi (Seoul National University) A Economic Analysis of
POSCO's Refusal to Deal
-
Dong-Pyo Hong (Kim & Chang) Horizontal
Merger Test and Efficiency Effects
-
Jae Nahm (Korea University)
Merger Simulation in
a Two-sided Market
11:30
– 13:00 Lunch
13:00
– 14:20
Session
21-2A: Legal procedure II
-
Jihong Lee and Quingmin Liu (Yonsei University
and University of Pennsylvania)
The Dynamics of Bargaining Postures: The Role
of a Third Party
-
Kong-Pin Chen (Academia Sinica) (with Kuo-Chang
Huang, Chang-Ching Lin)
Does The Type of Criminal Defense Counsel Affect Case
Outcomes? - A Natural Experiment in Taiwan
-
Francis Xavier Rathinam (ICRIER) (with A.V. Raja)
Credit Disbursal, Growth and Procedural Law: Evidence from India
Session 21-2B:
Finance/banking law
-
Meong Ae Kim (Seoul National University) (with
Sung Wook Joh) Internal Equity Investment in Business Groups: Determinants and
Effects
-
Ikumi Sato (Kobe University) (with Yoshinobu
Zasu)
Draft the Convention as ¡®Rules¡¯: Effective Devices in
Drafting the Cape Town Convention
-
P.J. Engelen (Utrecht University)
The Reputational Penalty for Illegal Insider Trading by Managers
Session 21-2C:
Intellectual Property (special session) organized by Reiko Aoki
-
Yasuhiro Arai (Hitotsubashi Univesrity)
Intellectual Property Right Protection in the Software Market
-
Youngkwan Kwon (Korea Institute of Science and
Technology) The Effects of Patent Pools on Innovation
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Noriyuki Yanagawa (University of Tokyo) (with
Akifumi Ishihara) A Dark Side of Patent Pools with Compulsory Independent
Licensing
14:30
– 16:20
Session 21-3A: Economic
development and law
-
Gholizadeh, A. (University of Isfahan) Legal
aspects of economic relations between South Korea and Iran
-
Jinyul Ju (Pusan National University)
A Law and
Economics Approach to Resolving the Conflict between Politics and Science in
Public Health Risk Regulation under the World Trade Organization
-
Kankesu Jayanthakumaran (University of
Wollongong)
Trade reforms and income convergence/divergence in the regional
India
Session 21-3B: Corporate
law
-
Takashi Shimizu (University of Tokyo)
Why do we need business corporations? A functional analysis
of the legal form
-
Emiliano Sironi (Università Commerciale Luigi
Bocconi) (with Carlo Bellavite Pellegrini and Laura Pellegrini)
Alternative vs
Traditional corporate governance systems: an empirical analysis in Italy
-
Shalini Singh (Banaras Hinduh University)
Institution
and production function: A case study of small and tiny industries
Session
21-3C: Regulation
-
Tamer Cetin (Zonguldak Karaelmas University)
Institutional reform and regulation in Turkey
-
Tikiri Nimal Herath (University of Sri
Jayawardenepura) Illegal Arrack Production and Death-Aid Societies in Sri Lanka
-
Hairong Mu (University of York)
Politics,
regulation and investment in the telecommunications industry
-
Sang Ho Lee (Chonnam National University)
Optimal privatization policy with unknown cost of privatized firm