Research Roundtables
Attendance at all Research Roundtables is by invitation only. If you are interested in receiving an invitation, please send your request to: searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu.
Fourth Annual Research Roundtable on Energy Regulation, Technology, and Transaction Costs: Cross-Cutting Perspectives
November 21-22, 2019
Papers
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Regulatory Capture in a Resource Boom
Timothy Fitzgerald, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University - Integrating Energy Markets: Implications of Increasing Electricity Trade on Prices and Emissions in the Western United States
Steve Dahlke, U.S. Department of Energy and First Solar - Mining for Favors: The Impact of Lobbying on Regulatory Enforcement
Anastasia Shcherbakova, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University - Quantifying the Resilience Value of Distributed Energy Resources
Jamie Van Nostrand, College of Law, West Virginia University
Confirmed Participants
- Wes Burnett, Department of Economics, College of Charleston
- James Coleman, SMU Dedman School of Law
- Steve Dahlke, U.S. Department of Energy and First Solar
- Timothy Fitzgerald, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University
- Max Harleman, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
- Sarah Johnston , Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Lynne Kiesling, Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
- Andrea La Nauze, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
- Anastasia Shcherbakova, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
- Matthew L. Spitzer, Center on Law, Business, and Economics, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Anna C. Terkelsen, Michigan State University, Department of Economics
- Jamie Van Nostrand, College of Law, West Virginia University
- Justin Winikoff, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Third Annual Research Roundtable on Energy Regulation, Technology, and Transaction Costs: Cross-Cutting Perspectives
November 1-2, 2018
Papers
- Are the Productivity Costs of Environmental Regulation Persistent? Evidence from the U.S. Electricity Industry since 1938 (with Akshaya Jha, Joshua Lewis, and Edson Severnini)
Karen B. Clay, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University - Clean Energy Justice (joint with Shelley Welton)
Joel B. Eisen, University of Richmond School of Law - Examining the Role of NIMBYism in Public Acceptance of Energy Infrastructure (with David Konisky and Stephen Ansolabehere)
Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University - The Cost of Adapting to Climate Change Through the Grid
Steve Cicala, The University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Polic
Confirmed Participants
- Fiona Burlig, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
- Wesley Burnett, Department of Economics, College of Charleston
- Dylan Brewer, Michigan State University
- Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
- Steve Cicala, The University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
- Karen B. Clay, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
- Joel B. Eisen, University of Richmond School of Law
- Eric Hittinger, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Lynne Kiesling, Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
- Felix Mormann, Texas A&M University School of Law
- Ilia Murtazashvili, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
- Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Mark Templeton, University of Chicago Law School
Manuscript Preview Roundtable on “The Corruption of Libertarianism” by Andrew Koppelman
Thursday, March 15-Friday, March 16, 2018
Agenda and Participant List (pdf)
Second Annual Research Roundtable on Private Environmental Governance and Climate Change
Monday, April 30-Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Co-sponsored by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern.
Agenda and Participant List (pdf)
Papers
Dynamics of Corporate Campaigns
Daniel Diermeier, Provost, The University of Chicago
Facility-Level Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Local Socio-Political Factors in the United States
Thomas P. Lyon, Ross School of Business, School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), University of Michigan
Transnational Climate Governance
Michele Betsill, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University
The Law of the Corporation as Environmental Law
Sarah E. Light, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change
Michael Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt Law School
The Reformation of Global Environmental Governance
Eric W. Orts, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
Following Exxon: Climate Change, Corporate Messaging, and Political Attitudes
David Dana, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Janice Nadler, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Resilience to Natural Disasters: A Private Sector Response
Brent McKnight, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
Sixth Annual Roundtable on Standard Setting Organizations and Patents
Thursday, May 17, 2018 — Friday, May 18, 2018
Agenda and Participant List (pdf)
Papers
Patents and the 4th Industrial Revolution
Yann Ménière, European Patent Office
Digital “Mash-ups,” Patents, and Copyright
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University
Lars Bo Jeppesen, Copenhagen Business School
Milan Miric, USC Marshall School of Business
IEEE Patent Policy Revisions: An Empirical Examination of Impact
Georgios Effraimidis, Qualcomm Inc.
Kirti Gupta, Qualcomm Inc.
The IEEE Controversial Policy on Standard Essential Patents – The Empirical Record Since Adoption
Ron D. Katznelson, Bi-Level Technologies
Dear Enemy: Litigation and Cooperation in a Mobile Phone Standard Development Organization
Stephen Jones, College of Business, University of Wyoming
Aija Leiponen, Cornell University
Gurneeta Vasudeva Singh, University of Minnesota
No Double Standards: Quantifying the Impact of Standard Harmonization on Trade
Julia Schmidt, Banque de France
Walter Steingress, Bank of Canada
Technology Standards and Cross-Border M&A: The Role of Standards Setting Organizations
Avik Chakrabarti, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Anjishnu Banerjee, Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin
Patent Exhaustion Regime and International Production Sharing: Winners and Losers?
Olena Ivus, Smith School of Business, Queen's University
Edwin L.-C. Lai, Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Co-Opetition and Firm’s Information Environment
Jessica Kim-Gina, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Brian Bushee, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Kesuch, INSEAD
Discrimination in the Patent System: Evidence from Standard-Essential Patents
R.N.A. Bekkers, School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Chair of Innovation and IP Policy, College of Management of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Emilio Raiteri, Chair of Innovation and IP Policy, College of Management of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Embracing Technological Similarity for the Measurement of Complexity and Patent Thickets
Charles DeGrazia, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Jesse Frumkin, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Nicholas A. Pairolero, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Intellectual Property Regimes and Firm Structure
Pavel Chakraborty, Lancaster University
Chirantan Chatterjee, Indian School of Business
Sourav Bhattacharya, University of London
Innovation and Knowledge Protection: How Firms Respond to a Loophole in Non-compete Enforcement
Hyo Kang, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Wyatt Lee, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Capital Gains Tax and Innovation
Sapnoti Eswar, Linder College of Business, University of Cincinnati
Lora Dimitrova, University of Exeter
Product Market Competition and Long-Term Firm Value: Evidence from Reverse Engineering Protections
Scott B. Guernsey, The University of Oklahoma
An Empirical Analysis of Bargaining Power in Licensing Contract Terms
Gaurav Kankanhalli, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Alan Kwan, University of Hong Kong
Green Technology Diffusion: A Post-Mortem Analysis of the Eco-Patent Commons
Christian Helmers, Santa Clara University
Jorge L. Contreras, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Bronwyn H. Hall, University of California Berkeley