2017 HKUST Workshop on Law and Economics
December 18-19, 2017
Department of Economics, School of Business and Management
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Conference Venue: Room 1005, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
Program Schedule [ PDF version ]
Day 1: December 18, 2017 (Monday)
8:55 - 9:00am Opening Remark
Chair of the Morning Session: Xinyu Hua, HKUST
9:00 - 9:50am Evidence Suppression by Prosecutors: Violations of the Brady Rule (with Jennifer F. Reinganum), Andrew F. Daughety, Vanderbilt University
9:50 - 10:40am Information Acquisition under Persuasive Precedent versus Binding Precedent (with Ying Chen), Hülya Eraslan, Rice University
10:40 - 11:10am Coffee / Tea Break
11:10am - 12:00pm An Economic Model of Patent Exhaustion (with Olena Ivus and Ted Sichelman), Edwin Lai, HKUST
12:00 - 12:10pm Group Photo Taking
12:10 - 1:30pm Lunch at Unique (by invitation only)
Chair of the Afternoon Session: Yuk-fai Fong, HKUST
1:30 - 2:20pm Product Safety, Contracts, and Liability (with Xinyu Hua), Kathryn E. Spier, Harvard Law School
2:20 - 3:10pm Can Blockchain Solve the Hold-Up Problem in Contracts?, Richard Holden, University of New South Wales
3:10 - 3:40pm Coffee / Tea Break
3:40 - 4:30pm Computing Illegal Gains, Guofu Tan, University of South California
4:30 - 5:20pm Supervisory Efficiency, Collusion, and Contract Design (with Xiaogang Che and Le Zhang), Yangguang Huang, HKUST
5:40pm Departure for Dinner at Sing Kee in Sai Kung (by invitation only)
Day 2: December 19, 2017 (Tuesday)
Chair of the Morning Session: Kohei Kawaguchi, HKUST
8:50 - 9:40am Third Party Litigation Funding with Informative Signals: Equilibrium Characterization and the Effects of Admissibility (with Ronen Avraham), Abraham L. Wickelgren, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
9:40 - 10:30am Attorney Fee Structure, Incentives, and Litigation Outcomes (with Szu Hsien Ho), Kong-Pin Chen, Academia Sinica
10:30 - 11:00am Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 - 11:50am Judicial Mechanism Design (with Bruno Strulovici), Ron Siegel, Pennsylvania State University
11:50am - 12:40pm Efficient Liability in Expert Markets (with Jianpei Li and Jin Zhang), Yongmin Chen, University of Colorado, Boulder
12:40 - 12:45pm Concluding Remark
12:45pm Lunch at Unique (by invitation only)
6:30pm Dinner (by invitation only)