The conference will bring together economists and legal scholars in order to advance our understanding of the relationships between competition, standardization, and innovation, and their implications for public policy. It aims at fostering exchange between the two disciplines in this field...

The conference, “Economic Governance and Organizations” aims to assemble scholars studying the structure and commonalities of organizations that mitigate economic governance problems. We invite submissions of theoretical, empirical, and experimental work, as well as case studies.

Topics (non-exclusive): - Under which conditions can private ordering replace public courts? What are the main benefits and the main costs associated with this substitution? - Should private institutions step in if the public court system fails? Who should set them up and who should pay for...