Programme
09.00-09.30 Coffee and Registration
09.30-09.45 Welcome and Introduction
Michael Faure (Maastricht/Rotterdam) and Jan Smits (Maastricht/
Helsinki)
09.45-10.00 Is Law Necessary for Economic Growth?
Tom Ulen (University of Illinois)
10.00-10.15 Legal Origins and Empirical Credibility
Eric Helland (Claremont McKenna College)
10.15-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Coffee/Tea
11.00-11.15 Measuring the Immeasurable: How to turn Law into Numbers
Mathias Siems (Norwich/Cambridge)
11.15-11.30 Law as Networks
Anthony Ogus (Manchester/Rotterdam)
11.30-11.45 Discussion
11.45-12.00 Law, Economics and History: Endogenous Institutional Change and Legal Innovation
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci & Carmine Guerriero (Amsterdam)
12.00-12.15 The Importance for Legal Institutions for Developing Countries
Hans-Bernd Schäfer (University of Hamburg)
12.15-12.45 Discussion
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-13.45 Efficiency of the Common Law?
Nuno Garoupa (University of Illinois) and Carlos Gomez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
13.45-14.00 On the Law and Economics of the Origins of the French Civil Code
Bruno Deffains (NYU)
14.00-14.30 Discussion
14.30-14.45 Does China need Law for Economic Development?
Julan Du (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
14.45-15.15 Discussion
15.15-15.30 Coffee/Tea
15.30-15.45 Does Environmental Law matter?
Michael Faure (Maastricht/Rotterdam)
15.45-16.00 The Role of Property in Economic Growth
Xu Guangdong (Chinese University of Hong Kong/Rotterdam)
16.00-16.30 Discussion
16.30-16.45 Conclusions
16.45 Drinks
