2024 Conference Program - Rome

Practicalities

  • For each paper in a parallel session there is a 30-minute slot (or 23 minutes in the case of sessions with 4 papers). This implies a presentation of about 20 minutes (18 minutes in the case of sessions with 4 papers) in order to leave 10 minutes (or 5 minutes in the case of sessions with 4 papers) for questions and comments from the audience.
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  • The presentation might be made by all authors, but within the rule of maximum 20 (or 18) minutes per presentation.

Venue: P.le Aldo Moro 5, Faculty of Law, Sapienza University of Rome

Dec 18th, Wednesday

17:00-19:45 Registration

17:00-19:00

Welcome address
Aula Calasso

  • Oliviero Diliberto (Dean of the Faculty of Law, Sapienza University of Rome)
  • Angelo Castaldo (Sapienza University of Rome)
  • Giovanni Battista Ramello (University of Turin and President of the SIDE-ISLE)
  • Filippo Reganati (Head of the Department of Legal and Economic Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, acting as the chair of the session)

Plenary session 1

A1 Constitutional L&E, Public Choice and Tax Law (I)

Room: Aula Calasso

Session chair: Filippo Reganati

1
Taxes and Tournaments
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia University)
2
Can new constitutions tighten the reins? The effect of constitutional change on constitutional compliance
Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska (University of Warsaw); Jerg Gutmann (University of Hamburg); Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg)
3
Tax Evasion and the Size of Decentralization: Evidence from Italy
Antonio Acconcia (Federico II); Marcello D'Amato (Suor Orsola Benincasa); Riccardo Martina (Federico II); Carla Ronza (Federico II)
4
Fiscal decentralization, Ideology and Political Legislation Cycles: A Test on the Italian Regions
Fabio Padovano (Università Roma Tre); Youssoufa Sy (University of Nantes)
19:15-19:45 Welcome aperitif

Dec 19, Thursday

Parallel session B09:00-10:30

B1 Administrative Law and Economics and Regulated Industries (I)

Room: Aula Calasso

Session chair: Roberto Basile

1
Administrative capacity and speed of public spending
Sara Moccia (Federico II); Alfredo Del Monte (Federico II); Alessandro De Iudicibus (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli); Luca Pennacchio (Parthenope University)
2
Government Subsidies and the Landscape of Industrial Sectors
Filippo Belloc (University of Siena); Antonino Lofaro (University of Siena)
3
A Pan-European Dialogue among Supreme National Courts for a more integrated Europe
Biancamaria Raganelli (Tor Vergata); Öznur Uguz (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)

B2 Issues of Labour L&E

Room: Aula VI

Session chair: Roberto Ippoliti

1
A law and economic analyses of prostitution: new insights from the Italian market
Roberto Ippoliti (Università del Piemonte Orientale); Fabrizia Santini (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
2
Challenges and Alternative Approaches to Enforcing the Right to Strike in Global Labor Standards.
Setsen (yifei) Kiyoutes (xiao) (University of Trento); Danqing Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.)
3
From Open to Closed Societies: Inequality, Migration, and Women Rights
Maurizio Lisciandra (Università di Roma LUMSA); Marco Casari (University of Bologna); Ali Seyhun Saral (IAST Toulouse)

B3 Measuring Formal and Informal Institutions

Room: Aula VII

Session chair: Massimo D'Antoni

1
2
Electing for stability: Democracy and output volatility, 1960-2019
Fabio Monteforte (University of Messina); Jonathan Temple (independent, UK); Emanuele Millemaci (University of Messina)
3
THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF POWER: MAKING SENSE OF INALIENABILITY RULES
Massimo D'Antoni (Università di Siena); Edward Iacobucci (University of Toronto)

B4 Behavioral L&E and Social Norms

Room: Aula VIII

Session chair: Silvia Sacchetti

1
The Role of Social Norms in Anti-Coordination with Asymmetric Income Distribution
Lorenzo Spadoni (Università di Cassino); Pietro Guarnieri (University of Pisa)
2
How to (s)elect the best policymaker. \\An experiment on democracy, meritocracy and lottocracy.
Adriano Giuliani (LUMSA University); Matteo Rizzolli (LUMSA University); Davide Marchegiani (The Australian National University); Luca Corazzini (University of Milan - Bicocca)

B5 Experimental L&E

Room: Aula IX

Session chair: Marco Faillo

1
Financing mechanisms may displace ethical motivations. An experiment on the effects for the production of social welfare goods.
Marco Faillo (University of Trento); Virginia Cecchini Manara (University of Milan); Lorenzo Sacconi (University of Milan); Klaudijo Klaser (University of Trento)
2
INTRINSIC DISUTILITY OF PUNISHMENT: A SURVEY EXPERIMENT
Stefania Ottone (Unoversity of Turin); Peter Lewisch (University of Vienna); Ferruccio Ponzano (University of Eastern Piedmont)

B6 Business L&E in the Digital Era (I)

Room: Library Istituto Economia e Finanze

Session chair: Mitja Kovac

3
Concepts of virtue, honourable conduct and good faith: comparisons and economic reflections
Mitja Kovac (University of Ljubljana School of Economics and Business); Amelie Van Belleghem (Court of First Instance West Flanders, Bruges,)

B7 Climate Change and Environmental L&E (I)

Room: Aula Seminari Istituto di Diritto Pubblico

Session chair: Alessandro Marinaccio

1
How much is Biodiversity assessed in Climate Change Litigation?
Francesca Leucci (Wageningen University and Research); Chad Patrick Osorio (Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands ); Donatella Porrini ( University of Salento, Italy); Nancy Wu (EDLE (Rotterdam, Hamburg, Bologna))
10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Parallel session C11:00-12:30

C1 Criminal L&E (I)

Room: Aula Calasso

Session chair: Anna Rita Germani

1
Is the mafia responsible for technological backwardness in Sicily? An analysis from the unification of the kingdom of Italy (1861) to 1913
Giuseppe Di Vita (University of Catania); Fabio Di Vita (University of Catania); Livio Ferrante (University of Catania)
2
Effects of the Judicial Removal of Mafia Enterprises on Legal Firms
Carlo Migliardo (Università degli Studi di Messina); Domenico Nicolò (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria); Marcella Scrimitore (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
3
Crime and Credit: Analyzing the Impact of Organized Crime Perceptions on Loan Restrictions
Antonio Fabio Forgione (University of Messina); Carlo Migliardo (cmigliardo@unime.it); Marco Spadaro (marco.spadaro1@studenti.unime.it)
4
The Determinants of Illegal Gambling in Italy: an Empirical Investigation at Provincial Level
Anna Rita Germani (Sapienza University of Rome); Amedeo Argentiero (University of International Studies of Rome); Alessio D'Amato (Tor Vergata University)

C2 Innovation and Impact Evaluation of Public Policies

Room: Aula VI

Session chair: Elena Ragazzi

1
Evaluation of the effect of OSH ISI-Inail’s policy on firms’ survival
Alessia Marrocco (Sapienza University of Rome); Angelo Castaldo (Sapienza University of Rome); Marco Forti (University of Foggia)
2
Risk management systems for occupational safety and health and the “Support incentives for enterprises” programme – Background, rules and some comments on an evaluation
Lisa Sella (CNR-IRCrES - National Research Council of Italy); Elena Ragazzi (CNR-IRCrES); Eva Dettmann (IWH & CNR-IRCrES)
3
The impact of the European Emission Trading Scheme on labor productivity
Claudia Nardone (Sapienza University of Rome); Roberto Basile (Sapienza University of Rome); Rosanna Pittiglio (”, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli); Filippo Reganati (Sapienza University of Rome)

C3 Law and Finance (I)

Room: Aula VII

Session chair: Olivier Butzbach

1
Financial constraints and institutional quality: Which is the effect to be on the “wrong side” of the institutional border
Greta Falavigna (Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of the National Council of Research (CNR-IRCrES)); Roberto Ippoliti (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
2
From legitimation to contradiction: Searching for legal bases to economic views of banking
Olivier Butzbach (University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli")
4
No Private Ordering Please, We’re Italian
Casimiro A. Nigro (Goethe Universität); Luca Enriques (University of Oxford)

C4 Business L&E in the Digital Era (II)

Room: Aula VIII

Session chair: Francesco Parisi

1
Efficient copyright filters for online hosting platforms
Alessandro De Chiara (University of Barcelona); Ester Manna (University of Barcelona); Antoni Rubí-Puig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Adrian Segura (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
2
Rewarding Failure
Alice Guerra (University of Bologna); Francesco Parisi (University of Minnesota); Andres Sawicki (University of Miami)
3
INCENTIVES AND SUSTAINABILITY: MYTHS AND REALITIES ABOUT ESG METRICS IN CEOS’ COMPENSATION IN THE MAIN EU ECONOMIES
federico fornasari (Bank of Italy); nicolò galasso (university of Venice Ca' Foscari)

C5 Antitrust, Competition Law and Digital Markets (I)

Room: Aula IX

Session chair: Edward Iacobucci

1
Ethnic conflicts, civil war and economic growth: region-level evidence from former Yugoslavia
Stefan Nikolić ( Loughborough University); Rok Spruk (University of Ljubljana); Aleksandar Kešeljević (University of Ljubljana)
2
Market for the truth, digital platforms, and AI-based products. Some L&E preliminary considerations
Massimiliano Vatiero (Università degli Studi di Trento, and Università della Svizzera italiana)
3
Algorithmic Pricing, Anticompetitive Counterfactuals, and Antitrust Law
Edward Iacobucci (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)

C6 International L&E

Room: Library Istituto Economia e Finanze

Session chair: Martina Ferracane

1
Economic Analysis of OECD Anti-bribery Convention
Hazal Basarik Kasap (University of Hamburg)
2
The Brussels effect in Africa: Is it beneficial for intra-regional trade in digital services?
Martina Ferracane (European University Institute); Erik van der Marel (ULB); Simón González Ugarte (European University Institute)
12:30-14:00 Lunch

Parallel session14:00-15:30

D1 Law and Finance (II)

Room: Aula Calasso

Session chair: Enrico Del Prato

1
CoCos in Europe: What Is Wrong – and How to Fix It?
Edoardo Martino (University of Amsterdam); Casimiro Nigro (Goethe University Frankfurt); Tom Vos (Maastrict University)
2
Signaling and Fraud when Crowdfunding Campaigns Compete for Pledges
Robin Christmann (Leibniz FH, University of Applied Sciences); Mark Broere (Leibniz FH)

D2 Administrative Law and Regulated Industries (II)

Room: Aula VI

Session chair: Fernando Gomez

1
The “impossible precision” of regulation: How policies dynamically interact with people heterogeneity and learning
Margherita Saraceno (Università degli Studi di Pavia); Giorgio Rampa (University of Pavia)
2
Regulating data infrastructures for new mobility markets
Giuseppe Bellantuono (Università degli studi di Trento)
3
Regulation, Trust, and Corporate Social Responsibility: Are They Complements?
Fernando Gomez (Pompeu Fabra Barcelona); Aleix Calveras (University Illes Balears); Juan Jose Ganuza (Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)

D3 Philosophy of L&E (I)

Room: Aula VII

Session chair: Giovanni Tuzet

2
Institutional Change Through the Institutions of Change: The Case of Civil Disobedience
Paolo Silvestri (University of Catania); Maurizio Caserta (University of Catania); Maria Olivella Rizza (University of Catania)

D4 Public L&E and Judicial Behavior (I)

Room: Aula VIII

Session chair: Alessandro Melcarne

1
How to Attract Women to the Top: Female Board Quotas and Leadership Roles
María Gutiérrez Urtiaga (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid); Maribel Saéz Lacave (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
2
Incentive misalignment in the judicial system: the case of the public prosecutor
maurizio caserta (university of catania); Massimiliano Marletta (university of catania)
3
Equal Justice Under Law? Local Justice Efficiency and Crime Deterrence
daria denti (Gran Sasso Science Institute); marco di cataldo (Università Ca' Foscari)

D5 Quality of Institutions, Growth and Public Policies

Room: Aula IX

Session chair: Walter Paternesi Meloni

2
Internationalization of Italian SMEs and the role of judicial barriers
Roberto Ippoliti (Università del Piemonte Orientale); Greta Falavigna (CNR-IRCrES); Giovanni Ramello (Università di Torino)
3
A Preliminary Analysis on Special Economic Zones in Southern Italy
Emanuele Millemaci (University of Messina); Fabio Monteforte (University of Messina); Paolo Mustica (University of Messina)

D6 Cyber security

Room: Library Istituto Economia e Finanze

Session chair: Ugo Finardi

1
Unpacking GDPR Enforcement: A Semantics Analysis and Topic Modeling Approach to Understanding Fines and Compliance Patterns
Albina Orlando (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (C.N.R.)); Mario Santoro (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
3
The value of cybersecurity: a Cost-benefit analysis methodology to evaluate household’s appreciation of the security of electric supply and personal data.
Ugo Finardi (CNR-IRCrES, National Research Council of Italy, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth); Graziano Abrate (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”); Clementina Bruno (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”); Fabrizio Erbetta (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”); Jeanne Vallette (CNR-IRCrES, National Research Council of Italy, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth); Elena Ragazzi (CNR-IRCrES, National Research Council of Italy, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth)

Parallel session15:45-17:15

E1 Bankruptcy Law, Business Law, Theory of the Firm, Corporate Governance (I)

Room: Aula Calasso

Session chair: Robert Rhee

E2 Constitutional L&E and Public Finance

Room: Aula VI

Session chair: Andrea Salustri

1
2
Does aid for gender equality reduce female migration?
Betül Simsek (University of Hamburg)
3
Social expenditure functions, inclusiveness and well-being in Europe: an explorative analysis
Andrea Salustri (Sapienza University of Rome); Maria Alessandra Antonelli (Sapienza University of Rome)

E3 Innovative investments, Safety and social welfare

Room: Aula VII

Session chair: Laurent Carnis

1
Speeding Behaviour and Speed Regulation and Enforcement
laurent carnis (Université Gustave Eiffel)
2
Accidents at work in Italy: an empirical analysis at the provincial level
Alessia Marrocco (Sapienza University of Rome); Angelo Castaldo (Sapienza University of Rome); Maria Alessandra Antonelli (Sapienza University of Rome)
3
Spillover effects of innovation policies on workplace accidents in Europe
Alessia Marrocco (Sapienza University of Rome); Angelo Castaldo (Sapienza Univesrity of Rome); Guido Jacopo Micheli (Politecnico of Milan); Gaia Vitrano (Politecnico of Milan); Alessandro Marinaccio (Inail)

E4 Antitrust and Competition Law (II)

Room: Aula VIII

Session chair: Massimiliano Granieri

1
Competition and Political Power
Francesco Ducci (Western University); Alan Miller (Western University )

E5 Artificial Intelligence and cyber law

Room: Aula IX

Session chair: Ewa Kruszewska

2
Neurotechnologies shaping our brains and legal frameworks
Giulia Maria Servida (Università degli Studi di Milano)

E6 Philosophy of L&E (II)

Room: Library Istituto Economia e Finanze

Session chair: Paolo Silvestri

1
Better call your lawyer: Dark Patterns are best understood as unfair commercial practices
cecilia isola (University of Genoa); Fabrizio Esposito (Nova Law school (Lisbon))
2
Rethinking Private Authority in Modern Governance – A Philosophical Account
Filippo Itolli (Università degli Studi di Milano); Virginia Cecchini Manara (Università degli Studi di Milano)
3
Customary rules versus designed rules
Karol Zdybel (University of Hamburg)
17:15-17:30 Coffee break

Plenary session 2 17:30-18:30

Aula Calasso

  • Keynote 1
  • Prof. Peter T. Leeson (George Mason University) : "Anākī: The Law and Economics of Samurai Organization"
  • Chair : Prof. Giovanni Battista Ramello
18:30-19:00 - Room: Aula Calasso General Assembly

All SIDE members (“Soci”) are invited to the meeting. All participants of the 2024 SIDE annual conference who have paid conference fees are SIDE members (“Soci”).

Agenda

  1. Welcome by the President.
  2. Communications of the President.
  3. Report of the Treasurer.
  4. Communications of the secretary.
  5. Communications of the local organizers.
  6. Forthcoming SIDE conference candidates.
  7. Forthcoming SIDE initiatives.
  8. Any other business.
20:30 Social Dinner, Circolo Caio Duilio, Lungotevere Flaminio, 45, 00196, Roma.

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Dec 20, Friday

Parallel session F09:00-10:30

F1 Public L&E and Judicial Behavior (II)

Room: Aula Calasso

Session chair: Giovanni Battista Ramello

1
Gli effetti dell’ufficio per il processo sul funzionamento della giustizia civile
Mario Cannella (Banca d'Italia); Sauro Mocetti (Banca d'Italia); Giuliana Palumbo (Ministero della Giustizia); Marialuisa Cugno (Ministero della Giustizia); Gianluca Volpe (Ministero della Giustizia)
2
The Impact of Attorneys’ Abundance on Litigation Quality. Evidence from France.
Umberto Nizza (University of Torino & Stanford University)
3
Timely Justice as a Determinant of Economic Growth
Giovanni Ramello (Università del Piemonte Orientale); Simeon Djankov (London School of Economics); Alessandro Melcarne (Université Paris Nanterre); Rok Spruk (University of Ljubljana)

F2 Inequality, Social Justice and Human Rights Law

Room: Aula VI

Session chair: Nicola Giocoli

F3 Behavioural L&E

Room: Aula VII

Session chair: Pietro Guarnieri

1
Real-effort in the Multilevel Public Goods Game
Pietro Guarnieri (University of Pisa); Marco Catola (Maastricht University); Laura Marcon (University of Pisa); Lorenzo Spadoni (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio)
2
The influence of present-biased plaintiffs' sophistication on endogenous timing and effort in litigation
Cat Lam Pham (University of Marburg); Tim Friehe (University of Marburg)
3
Ensuring Fairness in the Digital Marketplace: a Communicative and Cognitive Analysis of Deceitful Influencer Marketing and Gaps in Regulatory Benchmarks
Giulia Anselmo (Università di Siena); Alessio Sardo (Università di Genova); Giorgia Mannaioli (Università di Genova)

F4 Antitrust and Competition Law (III)

Room: Aula VIII

Session chair: Lorenzo Clementi

F6 Economics of Social Norms (I)

Room: Library Istituto Economia e Finanze

Session chair: Nadia Von Jacobi

1
A view on interdependence: indivisibility and the limits of the nature of goods
Sara Lorenzini (University of MilaN); Nadia von Jacobi (University of Trento)
2
All Square? Questioning the Efficiency of Image Reproduction Policies in Italian State Museums
Giulia Dore (University of Trento); Rana Muhammad Umar (University of Trento)
3
Incompatibilities: When Internal and External Institutions are not in Sync
Nadia von Jacobi (University of Trento); Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg)
4
Mapping Informal Institutions – a Global Dataset
Stefan Voigt (Hamburg); Nadia von Jacobi (Trento)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Parallel session G11:00-12:30

G1 Tort L&E

Room: Aula Calasso

Session chair: Luigi Alberto Franzoni

1
Efficient liability law with costly insurance
Luigi Alberto Franzoni (University of Bologna)
3
Platform Liability and Reputational Sanctions
Ester Manna (Universitat de Barcelona); Alessandro De Chiara (Universitat de Barcelona); Juan José Ganuza (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Fernando Gomez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Adrian Segura (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

G2 Climate Change and Environmental L&E (II)

Room: Aula VI

Session chair: Alfredo Moliterni

G3 Business L&E in the Digital Era (III)

Room: Aula VII

Session chair: Alessio Azzuti

1
Tentative of a coding algorithm for the leximetric analysis of the charters of renewable Energy Communities
Grazia Greco (University of Milan); Massimiliano Vatiero (University of Trento - Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)); Barbara Antonioli Mantegazzini (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
3
Database and trust. The economic importance of the information chain according to L&E analysis
Davide Silvio D'Aloia (Università degli studi Suor Orsola Benincasa Napoli)

G4 Bankruptcy Law, Business Law, Theory of the Firm, Corporate Governance (II)

Room: Aula VIII

Session chair: Robert Rhee

1
Do A.I.s Dream of Electric Boards?
Robert Rhee (University of Florida Levin College of Law)
2
Corporate Purpose as a False Friend: A Bibliometric Analysis
Mathias Siems (European University Institute)

G5 Antitrust, Competition Law and Digital Markets (II)

Room: Aula IX

Session chair: Donatella Porrini

1
Competition in Digital Advertising Markets: How Much Does Digital Advertising Cost?
Svetlana Bovt (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Svetlana Avdasheva (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
2
Hybridism and experimentation: shaping digital markets through an integrated regulatory system.
Anna Licastro (Gabriele d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara)
3
RISKS AND BENEFITS OF DATA PORTABILITY: THE CASE OF BLACK BOXES IN THE ITALIAN MOTOR INSURANCE MARKET
donatella porrini (università del salento); marta infantino (università di trieste); paola monaco (università di trieste)

G6 Antitrust and Competition Law (I)

Room: Library Istituto Economia e Finanze

Session chair: Valerio Torti

1
A Dynamic Perspective on Biosimilar Competition
Velizar Kirilov (European University Institute)
2
ANTITRUST, SETTORE FARMACEUTICO
MARA DI FABIO (Università degli Studi del Molise-Campobasso-Dottoranda Diritto ed Economia-39 ciclo)
3
Reform proposal of the Swiss Cartel Act: a step backwards for the Swiss competition law framework?
VALERIO TORTI (Edinburgh Napier University); Damiano Canapa (University of Lausanne)
12:30-13:30 Lunch

Plenary session 3 14:00-15:00

Aula Calasso

  • Keynote 2
  • Prof. Emma Galli (Sapienza University of Rome) : "Building the glass house: the political economy of transparency"
  • Chair : Prof. Angelo Castaldo
15:00-15:15 XII "Brenno Galli" Award

Parallel session H15:20-17:50

H1 Economics of Social Norms (II)

Room: Aula Calasso

Session chair: Matteo Rizzolli

1
A New View of Formal Equality
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia University)
2
Property rights and honest behavior
Matteo Rizzolli (LUMSA University in Rome); Plinio Limata (LUMSA); Marco Fabbri (University of Bologna)

H2 Bankruptcy Law, Business Law, Theory of the Firm, Corporate Governance (III)

Room: Aula VI

Session chair: Antonio Capizzi

2
Sustainable Corporate Governance and a New Law and Economics
Virginia Cecchini Manara (Università di Milano); Lorenzo Sacconi (Università di Milano)
3
Refraiming Corporate Purpose: A Historical Perspective
Fatjon Kaja (University of Amsterdam)

H3 Transaction costs

Room: Aula VII

Session chair: Rafael González-Val

H4 Philosophy of L&E (III)

Room: Aula VIII

Session chair: Alessio Sardo

2
Analyzing ECtHR Case Law on the Right to Housing
Alessio Sardo (Genova); Gianluca Cerruti (Genova)
3

H5 Public L&E and Judicial Behavior (III)

Room: Aula IX

Session chair: Akram Alasgarov

H6 Experimental Law and Economics and Judicial Efficiency

Room: Library Istituto Economia e Finanze

Session chair: Bruno Mathis