Past Roundtables

Research Roundtable Webinar on FTC/DOJ Public Inquiry on Modernizing Merger Guidelines

March 1, 2022

Agenda and Participant List (pdf)


Research Roundtable Webinar on Biden Antitrust Policy

November 16, 2021

Agenda and Participant List (pdf)


Fourth Annual Research Roundtable on Energy Regulation, Technology, and Transaction Costs: Cross-Cutting Perspectives

November 21-22, 2019

Papers

  • 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

  1. Wes Burnett, Department of Economics, College of Charleston
  2. James Coleman, SMU Dedman School of Law
  3. Steve Dahlke, U.S. Department of Energy and First Solar
  4. Timothy Fitzgerald, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University
  5. Max Harleman, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
  6. Sarah Johnston , Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  7. Lynne Kiesling, Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
  8. Andrea La Nauze, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
  9. Anastasia Shcherbakova, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
  10. Matthew L. Spitzer, Center on Law, Business, and Economics, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  11. Anna C. Terkelsen, Michigan State University, Department of Economics
  12. Jamie Van Nostrand, College of Law, West Virginia University
  13. 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

  1. Fiona Burlig, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
  2. Wesley Burnett, Department of Economics, College of Charleston
  3. Dylan Brewer, Michigan State University
  4. Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
  5. Steve Cicala, The University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
  6. Karen B. Clay, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
  7. Joel B. Eisen, University of Richmond School of Law
  8. Eric Hittinger, Rochester Institute of Technology
  9. Lynne Kiesling, Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
  10. Felix Mormann, Texas A&M University School of Law
  11. Ilia Murtazashvili, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
  12. Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  13. 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

 


Fifth Annual Research Roundtable on Patents and Technology Standards

Thursday, May 4-Friday, May 5, 2017

Agenda and Participant List (pdf)

Papers

Patent Value and Uncertain Property Rights: Implications from Patent Litigation
Alan C. Marco, Chief Economist, United States Patent and Trade Mark Office
Richard D. Miller, Senior Economist, United States Patent and Trade Mark Office

Patent Trolls: Benign Middleman or Stick-Up Artist?
David S. Abrams, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago, Department of Economics
Gokhan Oz, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics

Roadblock to Innovation: The Role of Patent Litigation in Corporate R&D
Filippo Mezzanotti, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Patent Disclosure
Deepak Hegde, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota
Chenqi Zhu, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business

An Economic Model of Patent Exhaustion
Olena Ivus, Smith School of Business, Queen's University,
Edwin L.-C. Lai, Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Ted Sichelman, University of San Diego School of Law

The Impact of International Patent Systems: Evidence from Accession to the European Patent Convention
Bronwyn Hall, University of California at Berkeley 
Christian Helmers, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University

Patent Laws and Innovation Selection in the Global Firm
L. Kamran Bilir, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Economics Department
Yoko Sakamoto, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Economics Department

Back to Basics: Why do Firms Invest in Research?
Ashish Arora, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Sharon Belenzon, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Lia Sheer, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

An Empirical Study of University Patent Activity
Christopher J. Ryan, Jr., Vanderbilt University
Brian L. Frye, University of Kentucky, College of Law

Reversed Citations and the Localization Of Knowledge Spillovers
Ashish Arora, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Sharon Belenzon, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Honggi Lee, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Firm Matching in the Market for Technology
Pere Arqué-Castells, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Do Valid Patents Promote Progress?
Jonathan H. Ashtor, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Litigation of Standards-Essential Patents in Europe: A Comparative Analysis
Jorge L. Contreras, The University of Utah, College of Law*
Fabian Gaessler, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Christian Helmers, Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Brian J. Love, Santa Clara University School of Law

The Effect of Technological Change on Firm Survival and Growth - Evidence from Technology Standards
Justus Baron, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

A Welfare Economic Interpretation of FRAND
Jen Leth Hougaard, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
Chiu Yu Ko, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore
Xuyao Zhang, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

BACKGROUND PAPERS

“Licensing Terms of Standard Essential Patents – A Comprehensive Analysis of Cases”, Chryssoula Pentheroudakis and Justus Baron.  Nikolaus Thumm (editor), JRC Science for Policy Report, Publications Office of the European Union, January 2017


First Annual Research Roundtable on Global Climate Change Governance: Geoengineering

Thursday, May 18-Friday, May 19, 2017

Agenda and Participant List (pdf)

Co-sponsored by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern.

Session One—The Precautionary Principle and Geoengineering

Geoengineering: A Case for Precautionary Globalism
Sarah Light, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Governing Climate Geoengineering in an Unequal World
Prakash Kashwan, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut

Biodiversity, Geoengineering, and the Evolution of Dueling Precautionary Principles
Kalyani Robbins, Associate Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law

The Future (im)perfect: International Civil Society Responses to Geoengineering (Presentation Slide Deck)
Klaus Weber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Grace Augustine, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Daniel Milner, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Session Two—International Institutions and Geoengineering

The Paris Agreement and Climate Geoengineering Options (Presentation Slide Deck)
Wil Burns, Co-Executive Director, Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment School of International Service, American University
Neil Craik, Associate Professor, Director of School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo

International Governance Pathways for Climate Engineering
Simon Nicholson, Assistant Professor and Director of the Global Environmental Politics Program, School of International Service, American University

Regulating Geoengineering: International Competition and Coordination
Soheil Shayegh, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milan, Italy
Garth Heutel, Department of Economics, Georgia State University
Juan Moreno-Cruz, School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Session Three—Geoengineering Science and Its Implications for Governance

Characteristics of a Solar Geoengineering Deployment: Considerations for Governance
Douglas MacMartin, Senior Research Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, and Visiting Associate, Computing + Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Peter J. Irvine, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University
Ben Kravitz, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Joshua B. Horton, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

The Intentional & Unintentional Consequences of Climate Intervention:  A Science & Engineering Perspective
Kimberly A. Gray, Professor & Chair, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University

Session Four—Geoengineering through Various U.S. (and Other Nation-State) Legal Prisms

Harms from Solar Geoengineering: Liability, Risk Transfer, and the Possibility of Parametric Insurance
Joshua Horton, Research Director, Geoengineering, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Regulating Climate Engineering Through Environmental Intervention Law (Presentation Slide Deck)
Tracy Hester, Instructional Professor, University of Houston Law Center

Solar Climate Engineering and Intellectual Property: Toward a Research Commons
Joshua Sarnoff, Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
Jesse Reynolds, Post-doctoral Researcher, Utrecht University, Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law
Jorge Contreras, Associate Professor, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

Session Five—Discourse Analysis of Geoengineering

Talking Technology: Legitimization and De-Legitimization Patterns in the Discourse on Geoengineering Technologies and Their Potential Effects on Political Decision-Making
Judith Kreuter, Political Science Institute, Technical University of Darmstadt

Jus ad Climate: Using Just War Theory to Restrain Geo-Engineering       
Elizabeth L. Chalecki, Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Nebraska - Omaha, Department of Political Science
Lisa L. Ferrari, University of Puget Sound

Session Six—The Interplay of Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization

Is Geoengineering a Moral Hazard? It Depends How It’s Framed
David Dana, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Alexander Maki, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy & Environment
Kaitlin Raimi, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Michael Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt Law School

Do Partisanship and Politicization Undermine the Impact of Scientific Consensus on Climate Change Beliefs? (Paper) 
(Presentation Slide Deck)
Toby Bolsen, Georgia State University
James N. Druckman, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University


Third Annual Research Roundtable on Animal Law and Regulation: Local Food Law, Animal Welfare, and Sustainability

Thursday, July 13-Friday, July 14, 2017

This invitation-only roundtable in organized by David Dana (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

The Searle Center and the faculty organizers are grateful for the generous support of Bob Barker through the Bob Barker Endowment for the Study of Animal Rights Law. Mr. Barker established the fund in 2005 to support the study of animal rights law through courses, lectures, roundtables and conferences at Northwestern Law.

Papers

ISO 34700: The Movement (and Transformation) of Public Animal Welfare Standards into Private Standards
Steph Tai, University of Wisconsin Law School

Global Food Security Governance: Animals and Sustainability at the UN Committee on World Food Security
Nadia C. S. Lambek, University of Toronto College of Law

Local Lives, Distant Deaths: Long Distance Transport and Export in the Animal Agriculture Industry
Kristen Stilt, Harvard Law School

The Other Link: A look at the Empirical Evidence of a link between Factory Farms and Violent Crime
Justin Marceau, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law

Mislabeling, Localism, and Animal Welfare
Samuel R. Wiseman, Florida State University College of Law

The Politics of Beverage Taxes
David A. Dana, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Janice Nadler, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Can Local Food Feed the Metropolis? Doubts and Disruptive Opportunities
Stephen R. Miller, University of Idaho College of Law

Rethinking the Dormant Commerce Clause?: Climate Change and Food Security
Michael Barsa, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Presumption of Preemption? National Meat Association v. Harris’ Long Shadow over Meat and Poultry Labeling
Kelsey Eberly, Animal Legal Defense Fund

Confirmed Participants

  1. Michael Barsa, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  2. Garrett Broad, Fordham University, Department of Communication and Media Studies
  3. Emily M. Broad Leib, Harvard Law School, Food Law & Policy Clinic
  4. David Dana, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  5. Paul A. Diller, Willamette University Law
  6. Kelsey Eberly, Animal Legal Defense Fund
  7. Eric T. Freyfogle, University of Illinois College of Law
  8. Chris Green, Animal Law & Policy Program, Harvard Law School
  9. Nadia C. S. Lambek, University of Toronto College of Law
  10. Justin Marceau, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
  11. Stephen R. Miller, University of Idaho College of Law
  12. Aurora Moses, Food and Agriculture Clinic, Vermont Law School
  13. Janice Nadler, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  14. Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  15. Kristen Stilt, Harvard Law School
  16. Steph Tai, University of Wisconsin Law School
  17. Samuel R. Wiseman, Florida State University College of Law

 


Research Roundtable on Economics of Mass Digitization: How to Advance More Public Access to In-Copyright Works?

Thursday, October 12-Friday, October 13, 2017

This invitation-only roundtable is organized by Peter DiCola (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law), Shane Greenstein (Harvard Business School), and Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley School of Law),

Agenda (pdf)

Confirmed Participants

  1. Jon Bangs, Amazon.com Inc.
  2. Paul N. Courant, The University of Michigan, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
  3. Greg Cram, The New York Public Library
  4. Peter DiCola, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  5. Michael Furlough, Hathi Trust Digital Library, The University of Michigan
  6. Shane Greenstein, Harvard Business School
  7. Paul J. Heald, University of Illinois College of Law
  8. Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
  9. Jeff K. MacKie-Mason, School of Information and Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  10. Abhishek Nagaraj, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
  11. Randy Picker, The University of Chicago Law School
  12. Daniel Rubinfeld, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  13. Abby Smith Rumsey, Historian and Writer
  14. Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley School of Law
  15. Matthew Sag, Loyola University Chicago, School of Law
  16. Lea Shaver, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
  17. Jule Sigall, Microsoft Corporation
  18. Matthew L. Spitzer, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  19. Jeff Ubois, MacArthur Foundation

Fourth Annual Searle Center Leadership Roundtable on Talent Analytics and Workforce Science

Thursday, October 19-Friday, October 20, 2017

Agenda and Participant List (pdf)

Presentations

Remove Barriers to Access: Rethinking Talent Sourcing
Ryan Dullaghan, People Assessment & Analytics, JetBlue Airways

Subjective Versus Objective Evaluation: Machine Learning for Performance
Diego Klabjan, Professor, Northwestern University; Director, Master of Science in Analytics

Strategic Talent Acquisition and Firm Performance
Bledi Taska, PhD, Chief Economist, Burning Glass Technologies


Second Annual Research Roundtable on Energy Regulation, Technology, and Transaction Costs: Cross-Cutting Perspectives

Thursday, November 16-Friday, November 17, 2017

Papers

Heterogeneous Misperceptions of Energy Costs: Implications for Measurement and Policy Design (joint with Sebastien Houde)
Erica Myers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Clean Energy Equity
Felix Mormann, Texas A&M University School of Law

Innovation, Interconnection, and Institutions: Evolving Electric Power Systems in the Early 20th Century
Lynne Kiesling, Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University & NBER

Energy Exactions
Jim Rossi, Vanderbilt University Law School
Chris Serkin, Vanderbilt University​

Internal and External Costs of Intermittent Renewable Power
Mar Reguant, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Maria Dolores Segura Varo, Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Confirmed Participants

  1. William Boyd, University of Colorado Law School
  2. Lincoln Davies, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
  3. L. Lynne Kiesling, Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
  4. Carl Kitchens, Florida State University
  5. Ian Lange, Division of Economics & Business, Colorado School of Mines
  6. Felix Mormann, University of Miami School of Law
  7. James Myatt, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
  8. Erica Myers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
  9. Mar Reguant, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
  10. Jim Rossi, Vanderbilt University Law School
  11. Lola Segura, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
  12. David B. Spence, University of Texas at Austin School of Law and McCombs School of Business
  13. Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  14. Arvid Viaene, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
  15. Nicky Vreugdenhil, Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Global Competition Economists Roundtable

Monday, February 22, 2016 (Washington, D.C.)

Agenda (pdf)

Participants:

  • John Asker, University of California, Los Angeles
  • William J. Baer, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
  • Cory S. Capps, Bates White Economic Consulting
  • Kate Collyer, Competition and Markets Authority, United Kingdom
  • Lilla Csorgo, New Zealand Commerce Commission
  • Simone Cuiabano, Brazil Council for Economic Defence (CADE)
  • Leemore S. Dafny, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Assaf Eilat, Israel Antitrust Authority
  • Arvid Fredenberg, Swedish Competition Authority
  • Patrick Hughes, Competition Bureau of Canada
  • Ginger Jin, Federal Trade Commission
  • Bob Majure, U.S. Department of Justice
  • Liberty Mncube, Competition Commission of South Africa
  • Massimo Motta, European Commission-DG Competition
  • Aviv Nevo, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
  • Alison Oldale, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
  • Gastón Palmucci, National Economic Prosecutor, Chile
  • Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
  • William Rogerson, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
  • Nancy Rose, U.S. Department of Justice
  • Lars Sørgard, Norwegian Competition Authority
  • Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management
  • Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

 


Book Preview Roundtable on “Expensive by Design: Why American Health Care Costs Too Much and Delivers Too Little" by Charlie Silver and David Hyman

Thursday, March 31-Friday, April 1, 2016

Agenda (pdf)

Participants:

  • Bernard S. Black, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  • Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute
  • Michael Frakes, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  • John R. Graham, National Center for Policy Analysis
  • David A. Hyman, University of Illinois, College of Law
  • David W. Johnson, 4sight Health
  • Stephanie W. Kanwit, Kanwit Healthcare Consulting
  • V. Ram Krishnamoorthi, The University of Chicago, Comprehensive Care Program, Department of Medicine
  • David O. Meltzer, The University of Chicago
  • Michael L. Millenson, Health Quality Advisors LLC
  • Jean M. Mitchell, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
  • Harold Pollack, The University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
  • Rita Redberg, University of California at San Francisco Medical School, Division of Cardiology
  • Charles M. Silver, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
  • Matthew M. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  • Robin Fretwell Wilson, University of Illinois College of Law
  • Kathryn Zeiler, Boston University School of Law

Fourth Annual Research Roundtable on Technology Standards

Thursday, May 5-Friday, May 6, 2016

Agenda and Participant List (pdf)

Working Papers

When a Stranger Calls: Standards Outsiders and Unencumbered Patents
Jorge L. Contreras, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah

Standard Setting Organizations and Standard Essential Patents: Voting Power versus Market Power
Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Technology Standards and Standard Setting Organizations: Introduction to the Searle Center Database
Justus Baron, Research Associate, Innovation Economics Project, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Daniel F. Spulber, Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, Kellogg School of Management and Research Director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth


Second Annual Research Roundtable on Animal Law and Regulation

Thursday, July 14-Friday, July 15, 2016

Agenda and Participant List (pdf)


Research Roundtable on Energy Regulation, Technology, and Transaction Costs: Cross-Cutting Perspectives

Thursday, November 3-Friday, November 4, 2016

Agenda (pdf)

Papers

The Evolution and Organization of Environmental Agencies: From Game Laws to Hierarchical Bureaucracy (joint with Dominic Parker)
Dean Lueck, Department of Economics, Indiana University and Ostrom Workshop

Energy Efficiency and Emissions Intensity Standards
Daniel Kaffine, Department of Economics, University of Colorado

The Value of Local Regulation over Resource Extraction: Evidence from the Fracking Boom
Dominic Parker, Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Air Pollution Costs of Moving Crude Oil to Refineries: Evidence from 2009-2014
Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University, H. John Heinz III College

Governing the Distribution Commons: Technology Platforms and Retail Electricity Market Design for Transactive Energy (joint with Toby Considine & James Workman)
Lynne Kiesling, Department of Economics, Northwestern University

 

Participant List

  • Daniel H. Cole, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
  • David Dana, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  • Natalia Fabra, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • Timothy Fitzgerald, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University
  • Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University, H. John Heinz III College
  • Daniel Kaffine, Department of Economics, University of Colorado
  • Alexey Kalinin, Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Lynne Kiesling, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
  • Dean Lueck, Department of Economics, Indiana University and Ostrom Workshop
  • Erica Myers, Agricultural & Consumer Economics, University of Illinois
  • Nick Parker, Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Michael Price, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
  • J. David Rankin, Great Lakes Protection Fund
  • Lola Segura, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
  • Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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.


Third Annual Leadership Roundtable on Talent Analytics and Workforce Science

Thursday, November 17-Friday, November 18, 2016

Agenda (pdf)

Presentations

Session One

Privacy Concerns in Talent Analytics: What Do Employees Think? (PDF)
Matthew Kugler, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Deborah Weiss, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Workforce Science Project

Creating Internal Transparency to Forecast Workforce Needs (PDF)
Robert D. Motion, Director, Workforce Planning and Strategy, Intelligence, Information and Services, Raytheon Company

Driving Sales Success: Measuring and Quantifying the Talent Predictors (PDF)
Wendy L. Hirsch, Executive Director, Workforce Analytics, Johnson Controls, Inc.

Sesssion Two

Analyzing the Value of Family Business Initiatives (PDF)
Chris Mason, Head of Talent Management/L&D, Compensation, & Workforce Analytics, Patagonia

The Role of Employment Contracts in Performance and Attrition (PDF)
Deborah Weiss, Director, Workforce Science Project, Northwestern University

Session Four

Analytics to Drive Compensation and Performance Management Strategy (PDF)
Brian Levine, Partner and Innovation Leader, Workforce Strategy and Analytics, Mercer

Workplace Design: The Good, the Bad, and the Productive (PDF)
Dylan Minor, Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Personality and Lost Work Time: Connections and Interventions (PDF)
Dan Mroczek, Professor of Psychology & Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University


Research Roundtable on Women in the Workplace-Perspectives from the Academic and Corporate World

Thursday, March 12-Friday, March 13, 2015

Agenda (pdf)

Confirmed Participants:

  • Katharine T. Bartlett, Duke University School of Law
  • Laurie Bassi, McBassi & Company
  • Lori A. Beaman, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
  • Mary Anne Case, The University of Chicago Law School
  • Warren J. Cinnick, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare
  • Pamela Coukos, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)
  • The Honorable Cari M. Dominguez, Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center and Former Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2001-2006)
  • William E. Doyle, Jr., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
  • Zev Eigen, Northwestern University School of Law
  • China Gorman, Great Place to Work
  • Catherine Grimstead, Northwestern University
  • Effenus Henderson, HenderWorks (former Chief Diversity Officer, Weyerhaeuser)
  • Joni Hersch, Vanderbilt Law School 
  • Valerie J. Hoffman, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • Katherine M. Kimpel, Sanford Heisler, LLP
  • Brian Levine, Mercer
  • Maria C. Lin, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare
  • Ann C. McGinley, William S. Boyd Law School, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Gregory Mitchell, University of Virginia School of Law
  • Tiffany Morris, Sears Holding Company
  • Robert L. Nelson, Northwestern University and American Bar Foundation
  • Muriel Niederle, Department of Economics, Stanford University
  • David Ong, Peking University  HSBC Business School
  • Destiny Peery, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Nicola Persico, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Susan E. Provenzano, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Gowri Ramachandran, Southwestern Law School
  • Renée A. Redd, Women’s Center, Northwestern University
  • Lauren Rivera, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Paola Sapienza, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Matthew L.  Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
  • Michael Waterstone, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Liz Watson, National Women's Law Center
  • Lee Webster, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
  • Deborah M. Weiss, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
  • Kimberly A. Yuracko, Northwestern University School of Law

Third Annual Research Roundtable on Innovation Economics: Patent and Technology Standard Data Sets

Thursday, April 9-Friday, April 10, 2015

Agenda (pdf)

Papers

Session One— Patent Examination and Applications

Public PAIR Data Release: How Representative Are the Public PAIR Data?
Stuart J. Graham, Senior Advisor, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Georgia Institute of Technology
Alan C. Marco, Chief Economist, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Richard Miller, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Business Dynamics of Innovating Firms: Linking U.S. Patent Data with Administrative Data on Workers and Businesses
Javier Miranda, Principal Economist, Business Dynamics Statistics Program, U.S. Census Bureau
Stuart J. Graham, Senior Advisor, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Georgia Institute of Technology
Alan C. Marco, Chief Economist, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Cheryl Grim, Economist, U.S. Census Bureau
Tariqul Islam, Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau

Automated Disambiguations of US Patent Grants and Applications
Benjamin Balsmeier, Freiberg University of Technology, Germany
Gabe Fierro, UC Berkeley, Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
Lee Fleming, UC Berkeley, Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
Kevin Johnson, UC Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Aditya Kaulagi, UC Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Guan-Cheng Li, UC Berkeley, Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
William Yeh, UC Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Session Two—Technology Standards and Standards Organizations

Unpacking 3GPP Standards
Justus Baron, Research Associate, Innovation Economics Project, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law
Kirti Gupta, Director, Economic Strategy, Qualcomm Incorporated

The Searle Center Database of Technology Standards and Standard Setting Organizations
Justus Baron, Research Associate, Innovation Economics Project, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law
Daniel F. Spulber, Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, Kellogg School of Management and Research Director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth

Mapping Standards to Patents using Databases of Declared Standard-Essential Patents and Systems of Technological Classification
Justus Baron, Research Associate, Innovation Economics Project, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law
Tim Pohlmann, Research Fellow, Mines ParisTech and Technische Universität Berlin

Session Three— Patents and the Location of Innovation

How Courts Decide Patent Definiteness and Disclosure
John R. Allison, Mary John and Ralph Spence Centennial Professor of Business Administration, University of Texas at Austin
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Mobility of Knowledge and Local Innovation Activity
Kyriakos Drivas, Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Development, Agricultural University Of Athens
Claire Economidou, Department of Economics, University of Piraeus

Chinese Patent Data Project: Linking SIPO Patents to Firms
Tony W. Tong, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado
Yuchen Zhang, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado

Session Four— Patents, Trademarks and the Market for Inventions

Patent Transactions in the Marketplace:  Lessons from the USPTO Patent Assignment Dataset
Stuart J. Graham, Senior Advisor, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Georgia Institute of Technology
Alan C. Marco, Chief Economist, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Amanda F. Myers, Economist, Office of Chief Economist, Office of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Monetizing Marks: Insights from the USPTO Trademark Assignment Dataset
Stuart J. Graham, Senior Advisor, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Georgia Institute of Technology
Alan C. Marco, Chief Economist, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Amanda F. Myers, Economist, Office of Chief Economist, Office of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Cross-country analysis of ICT impact using firm-level data: Micro Moments Database and Research Infrastructure
Eric J. Bartelsman, Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit
Eva Hagsten, Statistics Sweden
Michael Polder, Statistics Netherlands

Confirmed Participants:

  • John Allison, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
  • Ashish Arora, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
  • Pere Arqué-Castells, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Benjamin Balsmeier, Freiberg University of Technology, Germany
  • Talia Bar, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut
  • Justus Baron, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Pilar Beneito, University of Valencia
  • Fred Bereskin, University of Delaware
  • Bernard Black, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Wendy A. Bradley, HEC Paris
  • Jorge L. Contreras, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
  • Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  • Kyriakos Drivas, Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Development, Agricultural University Of Athens
  • Beatrice Dumont, University of Paris 13
  • Claire Economidou, Department of Economics, University of Piraeus
  • Edward J. Egan, Imperial College Business School
  • Andreea Enache, Paris School of Economics and University of Chicago (visiting)
  • Daniel Ershov, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
  • Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley
  • Hila Fogel-Yaari, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
  • Roberto Fontana, Pavia University and CRIOS - Bocconi University
  • Michael Frakes, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Fabian Gaessler, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
  • Bernhard Ganglmair, Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas
  • Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Joel Gehman, University of Alberta
  • Alexander Gelatovic, Universidad de los Andes, Chile
  • Stuart J. Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Kirti Gupta, Qualcomm Incorporated
  • Brian Higginbotham, School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, George Mason University
  • Erik Hovenkamp, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Jingjing (Jing) Huang, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech
  • Mayank Jaiswal, Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology
  • T’Mir Julius, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
  • Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
  • Jay P. Kesan, University of Illinois College of Law
  • Adrián Kovacs, KU Leuven
  • Margaret Kyle, Paris MINESTech
  • Anne Layne-Farrar, Charles River Associates
  • Zhen Lei, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Pennsylvania State University
  • Aija Leiponen, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
  • Celia Lerman, Stanford Law School
  • Gerard Llobet, CEMFI
  • Michelle Lowry, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University
  • Alan C. Marco, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Juan Mañez, Department of Applied Economics II and ERICES, University of Valencia
  • Yann Ménière, Cerna - MINES ParisTech
  • Richard Miller, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Javier Miranda, U.S. Census Bureau
  • Suzanne Drennon Munck, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission
  • Amanda F. Myers, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Kristen Osenga, University of Richmond School of Law
  • Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Stanford Law School
  • Yasin Ozcan, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Laura Pedraza-Fariña, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Tim Pohlmann, Mines ParisTech and Technische Universität Berlin
  • Jeff Prince, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
  • Jon Putnam, Competition Dynamics
  • E.J. Reedy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
  • María Rochina-Barrachina, University of Valencia
  • Arsalan Safari, Sociotechnical Systems Research Center, MIT
  • Amparo Sanchis-Llopis, Department of Applied Economics II and ERICES, University of Valencia
  • Juan A. Sanchis-Llopis, Department of Applied Economics II and ERICES, University of Valencia
  • Max Schanzenbach, Northwestern University School of Law
  • David L. Schwartz, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
  • Carlos J. Serrano, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • Ralph Siebert, Purdue University, Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management
  • Mark Snyder, Qualcomm Inc.
  • Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
  • Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Darren Stevenson, Center for Internet & Society, Stanford Law School
  • Neel Sukhatme, Princeton University
  • Zhen Sun, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Wing Wah Tham, Erasmus University of Rotterdam
  • Tony W. Tong, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado
  • Joanna Tsai, Federal Trade Commission
  • Nicolas van Zeebroeck, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Ryan Whalen, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Chenguo "Coco" Zhang, Universität Bremen
  • Quin Kun Zhang, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado
  • Yuchen Zhang, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado
  • Arvids Ziedonis, Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Stanford University
  • Rosemarie Ziedonis, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon
  • Samantha Zyontz, MIT Sloan School of Management

Research Roundtable on Animal Law and Regulation

Thursday, July 9-Friday, July 10, 2015

Agenda (pdf)

Confirmed Participants:

  • Michael R. Barsa, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Roxi Beck, The Center for Food Integrity
  • David Dana, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Danielle Rose Deemer, The Ohio State University, School of the Environment and Natural Resources, Rural Sociology
  • Brannon P. Denning, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
  • Carter Dillard, Animal Legal Defense Fund
  • Jessica Eisen, Harvard Law School
  • Eric T. Freyfogle, University of Illinois College of Law
  • Sara Rollet Gosman, University of Arkansas School of Law—Fayetteville
  • Amanda Hitt, Food Integrity Campaign, Government Accountability Project
  • Leslie Irvine, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • David Kirby, Independent Journalist
  • Heidi Kitrosser, Northwestern University School of Law and University of Minnesota Law School
  • Justin F. Marceau, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
  • Janice Nadler, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern Law
  • Kristen Stilt, Harvard Law School
  • Stephanie Tai, University of Wisconsin Law School
  • Paige Tomaselli, Center for Food Safety
  • T.J. Tumasse, Animal Legal Defense Fund

Second Annual Leadership Roundtable on Talent Analytics and Workforce Science

October 1-2, 2015

AGENDA

Confirmed Participants

  • Melissa E. Arronte, Head of HR Analytics, Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
  • Matthew Bain, Senior Consultant, Advanced Analytics and Predictive Modeling Deloitte Consulting LLP
  • Laurie Bassi, CEO, McBassi & Company
  • Buddy Benge, HR Analytics Lead, Global Talent & Organizational Capability Team, Monsanto Corporate
  • Susan Biancani, Data Scientist, Airbnb Inc.
  • Chris Broderick, HR Director, Workforce Analytics & Consulting
  • Dean Carter, Vice President of Human Resources and Shared Services Patagonia
  • Paul Cassleman, Group Manager Business Intelligence and Analytics, Target Corporation
  • Margarita Constantinides, Sr. Director Talent Analytics, eBay
  • Decio Coviello, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics, HEC Montréal
  • Erika Deserrano, Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Erin Dougherty Foley, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • John Gibbons, CEO and Founder, Talent Decision Sciences Institute
  • Ryan Hammond, Head of People Analytics, hiQ Labs
  • Mitchell Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
  • Michael Housman, Workforce Scientist in Residence, hiQ Labs
  • Brad A. Hubbard, Sr Mgr, Global Talent Systems and Insights, W.W. Grainger Inc.
  • Joseph Kutter, Sr. Analyst, Talent Analytics, Sears Holdings Corporation
  • Brian Levine, Partner and Co-Leader, Strategy & Analytics, Mercer
  • Han Li, Senior Manager, Insights, Global People Analytics, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  • Dylan Minor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Amit Mohindra, Talent Analytics, Apple Inc.
  • Michael Moon, Director of Research, Human Capital Management, Aberdeen Group
  • Tiffany Morris, Vice President of Talent Management & HR Business Partner, Sears Holdings Corporation
  • Neal Narayani, Head of People Analytics & Operations, Uber Technologies
  • Robert D. Motion, Director, Workforce Intelligence, Corporate Human Resources, Raytheon Company
  • Nicola Persico, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences; Academic Director, Searle Center Project on Workforce Science,  Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Josh Sacco, Quantitative Analytics Manager – People Insights, Facebook
  • Jörg Spenkuch, Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Matthew L. Spitzer, Director and Howard and Elizabeth Chapman Professor of Law , Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Deborah M. Weiss, Director, Workforce Science Project, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law

Fourth Annual Research Roundtable on the Law and Economics of Digital Markets

Thursday, October 9-Friday, October 10, 2014

This roundtable is organized by Peter DiCola, Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law and Shane Greenstein, The Kellogg Chair in Information Technology, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Agenda (pdf)

Participants

  • Jonathan B. Baker, Washington College of Law, American University
  • Kate Darling, MIT Media Lab
  • Ben Depoorter, University of California, Hastings College of Law
  • Peter DiCola, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Stephanie Holmes Didwania, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Kristelia García, University of Colorado Law School
  • Shubha Ghosh, University of Wisconsin Law School
  • Shane Greenstein, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Erik Hovenkamp, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Benjamin F. Jones, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Ariel Katz, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
  • Petra Moser, Stanford University, Economics Department
  • Guy Rub, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law
  • Matthew Sag, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
  • Aaron Shaw, Northwestern University School of Communications
  • Benjamin R. Schiller, Brandeis University International Business School
  • Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
  • Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas School of Business
  • Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
  • Ryan Whalen, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Laurina Zhang, Ivey Business School, Western University

Papers

“Panning for Gold: The Random Long Tail in Music Production”
Joel Waldfogel, Frederick R Kappel Chair in Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

“Occupy Copyright: A Law & Economic Analysis of U.S. Author TerminationRights”
Kate Darling, Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab

“Copyright and Creativity? Evidence from Italian Operas”
Petra Moser, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Economics Department

“On the Partial (In)Alienability of Users’ Rights”
Ariel Katz, Associate Professor, Innovation Chair in Electronic Commerce, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

"Copyright and Contracts Meet and Conflict: Copyright Preemption of Contracts"
Guy Rub, Assistant Professor of Law, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law

“Intellectual Property Strategy and the Long Tail: Evidence from the Recorded Music Industry”
Laurina Zhang, Assistant Professor, Ivey Business School, Western University


Leadership Roundtable on Talent Analytics and Workforce Science

Thursday, October 23-Friday, October 24, 2014

Agenda (pdf)

The Workforce Science Project of Northwestern University School of Law’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth will hold a roundtable to discuss advanced issues in the analysis of talent and the workforce. This will be a small invitation-only event that will include analysts in leadership positions in firms with an established Talent Analytics practice, as well as academics with expertise in this area.

The roundtable will focus on topics at the more advanced end of the analytics spectrum. Because these are emerging issues, the roundtable will emphasize discussion and interactive knowledge exchange over formal presentations.

Participants:

  • Matthew Bain, Deloitte Consulting
  • Buddy Benge, HR Analytics, Global Talent & Organizational Capability Team, Monsanto
  • Lorenzo Canlas, Head of Talent Analytics, LinkedIn
  • Dave Fineman, VP of HR Analytics & Reporting, State Street
  • Werner Geyer, Research Manager, The Data Science User Experience Lab (DUX), IBM
  • John Gibbons, CEO and Founder, Talent Decision Sciences Institute
  • David Hoffman, Manager, People Analytics, Google Inc.
  • Michael Housman, Chief Analytics Officer, Evolv, Inc.
  • Jennifer Kurkoski, Director, People & Innovation Lab (PiLab), Google Inc.
  • Stela Lupushor, Director of Workforce Analytics, TIAA-CREF
  • Dylan Minor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University  
  • Amit Mohindra, VP, Workforce Intelligence, McKesson Corporation
  • Michael Moon, Director of Research, Human Capital Management, Aberdeen Group
  • Tiffany Morris, Vice President of Talent Management, Sears Holdings Company
  • Neal Narayani, Talent Analytics Lead, Uber Technologies
  • Debra H. Nelson, Talent Analytics Supervisor - Attract Team, Caterpillar Inc.
  • Ernest Ng, Senior Director, Employee Success, Salesforce.com
  • Ian O’Keefe, Senior Director, Head of Talent Analytics & Reporting, Sears Holdings Corporation
  • Karen O'Leonard, Vice President, Analytics & Benchmarking Research, Bersin by Deloitte
  • Nicola Persico, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences; Academic Director, Searle Center Project on Workforce Science, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Josh Sacco, Head of People Analytics, Facebook
  • N. Sadat Shami, Team Leader, Workforce Social Analytics, IBM
  • Jay Smith, Sr. Director, HR Operations Target Corporation
  • Matthew L. Spitzer, Howard and Elizabeth Chapman Professor of Law, and Director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Tim Wadholm, Director, Workforce & Predictive Analytics
  • Deborah M. Weiss, Director, Workforce Science Project, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law

Book Preview Roundtable on Bernard Black, David Hyman, Charles Silver, Myungho Paik, and William Sage, To Sue is Human: A Profile of Medical Malpractice Litigation

Thursday, November 20-Friday, November 21, 2014

Participants:

  • Bernie Black, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Patricia Born, College of Business, Florida State University
  • Stephen Daniels, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University
  • Michael Frakes, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Eric Helland, Claremont McKenna College, Department of Economics
  • David Hyman, University of Illinois College of Law
  • Stephan Landsman, DePaul University College of Law
  • Jing Liu, University of Illinois
  • Maxwell J. Mehlman, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • Myungho Paik, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Christopher Rhodes, The University of Chicago Press
  • William Sage, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
  • Max Schanzenbach, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Joanna Schwartz, University of California Los Angeles School of Law
  • Seth Seabury, University of Southern California Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics
  • Catherine M. Sharkey, New York University School of Law
  • Charles Silver, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
  • Frank A. Sloan, Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business
  • Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern Law
  • David Studdert, Stanford Medical School and Stanford Law School

Second Annual Research Roundtable on Climate Change and Natural Preservation: Adaptation Litigation, Oceans, and Other Topics

Thursday, July 17-Friday, July 18, 2014

Agenda (pdf)

Confirmed Participants:

  1. Michael R. Barsa, Northwestern University School of Law
  2. Eric Biber, UC Berkeley School of Law
  3. Alejandro Camacho, University of California, Irvine School of Law
  4. Cinnamon P. Carlarne, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law
  5. David A. Dana, Northwestern University School of Law
  6. Holly Doremus, UC Berkeley School of Law
  7. Joshua Eagle, University of South Carolina School of Law
  8. Robert L. Fischman, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
  9. Victor B. Flatt, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Law
  10. Kimberly A. Gray, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University
  11. Susan Hedman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  12. John Janssen, School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  13. Nancy C. Loeb, Northwestern University School of Law
  14. Luisa Marcelino, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University
  15. John Copeland Nagle, University of Notre Dame Law School
  16. Hari M. Osofsky, University of Minnesota Law School
  17. Mutlu Ozdogan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  18. Jacqueline Peel, University of Melbourne
  19. Nathan Richardson, Resources for the Future
  20. J.B. Ruhl, Vanderbilt University Law School
  21. James Salzman, Duke University School of Law
  22. A. Dan Tarlock, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Background Papers

Sue to Adapt?
Hari M. Osofsky, University of Minnesota Law School
Jacqueline Peel, University of Melbourne

Arctic Melting and Unconventional Energy Multi-Level Governance Challenges at the Mitigation-Adaptation Interface (abstract)
Hari M. Osofsky, University of Minnesota Law School


Research Roundtable on Software and Business Method Patents

Thursday, April 24-Friday, April 25, 2014

Agenda (pdf)

Participant List

  1. John R. Allison, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
  2. Pere Arqué-Castells, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  3. Justus Baron, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
  4. Steve Borsand, Trading Technologies International, Inc.
  5. Julie A. Carlson, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
  6. Marco Ceccagnoli, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
  7. Charles J. Cooper, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
  8. Peter DiCola, Northwestern University School of Law
  9. Amy Garber, Patent Agent on behalf of GE Global Patent Operation
  10. Stuart Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology
  11. Bronwyn H. Hall, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  12. Joseph F. Hetz, Brinks Gilson & Lione
  13. Jay P. Kesan, University of Illinois College of Law
  14. Jay Q. Knobloch, Trading Technologies International, Inc.
  15. Jeffrey R. Kuester, Taylor English Duma LLP
  16. Anne Layne-Farrar, Charles River Associates
  17. Alan Marco, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  18. Frances Marshall, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Legal Policy Section
  19. Keith McNally, Ameranth, Inc.
  20. Peter S. Menell, UC Berkeley School of Law
  21. Yann Meniere, Cerna - MINES Paris Tech
  22. Shawn Miller, Stanford Law School
  23. Suzanne Drennon Munck, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
  24. Abhishek Nagaraj, MIT Sloan School of Management
  25. John Nethery, Brinks Gilson & Lione
  26. Laura Pedraza-Fariña, Northwestern University School of Law
  27. Arti K. Rai, Duke University School of Law
  28. Margaret Jane Radin, University of Michigan School of Law
  29. Florian Schuett, Tilburg University
  30. David L. Schwartz, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law
  31. Laurie C. Self, Qualcomm Inc.
  32. Priyanka Sharma, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology
  33. Ralph B. Siebert, Purdue University, Krannert School of Management
  34. Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
  35. Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  36. Emerson H. Tiller, Northwestern University School of Law
  37. Phyllis Turner-Brim, Intellectual Ventures
  38. Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
  39. Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Duke Law School
  40. Deborah Weiss, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
  41. Arvids Ziedonis, Stanford University
  42. Rosemarie Ziedonis, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon
  43. Samantha Zyontz, MIT-Sloan School of Management

Background Papers

How Patents Provide the Foundation of the Market for Inventions
Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Essential Patents and Standard Dynamics
Justus Baron, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law
Tim Pohlmann, MINES ParisTech, Cerna, Centre d'économie industrielle
Knut Blind, Berlin University of Technology

Notice Failure and Notice Externalities
Peter S. Menell, University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Michael J. Meurer, Boston University School of Law

Tailoring Legal Protection for Computer Software
Peter S. Menell, University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)

Forty Years of Wondering in the Wilderness and No Closer to The Promised Land: Bilski’s Superficial Textualism and the Missed Opportunity to Return Patent Law to Its Technology Mooring
Peter S. Menell, University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)

Rethinking Patent Eligibility for the Modern Scientific Age
Peter S. Menell, University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Jeffrey A. Lefstin, University of California, Hastings College of Law

Do ‘Fuzzy’ Software Patent Boundaries Explain High Claim Construction Reversal Rates?
Shawn P. Miller, Stanford Law School

Of Smart Phone Wars and Software Patents (with Saurabh Vishnubhakat)
Stuart Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology

Patent Quality and Incentives at the Patent Office
Florian Schuett, Tilburg University

Technology Entry in the Presence of Patent Thickets
Bronwyn Hall, UC Berkeley and University of Maastricht, NBER
Christian Helmers, Universidad Carlos III and SERC LSE
Georg von Graevenitz, University of East Anglia and NIESR
Chiara Rosazza‐Bondibene, NIESR

Patent Value and Citations: Creative Destruction or Strategic Disruption? (with Ufuk Akcigit and Jillian Popadak)
David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Cocreation of Value in a Platform Ecosystem: The Case of Enterprise Software
Marco Ceccagnoli, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chris Forman, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology
Peng Huang, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Appropriability Mechanisms and the Platform Partnership Decision: Evidence from Enterprise Software
Marco Ceccagnoli, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chris Forman, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology
D.J. Wu, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology
Peng Huang, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Risks Associated With Restricting Business Method and E-Commerce Patents (with Lawrence E. Thompson)
Jeffrey R. Kuester, Taylor English Duma LLP

Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw, v. John J. Doll, Acting Under Secretary Of Commerce For Intellectual Property And Acting Director Of The United States Patent And Trademark Office

Brief of Amici Curiae, Trading Technologies International, Inc., Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., Cummins Inc., Scientific Games Corporation, Align Technology, Inc., Et Al., In Support Of Petitioner (Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd v. CLS Bank International and CLS Services Ltd.)

Defensive and Offensive Acquisition Services in the Market for Patents
Yann Ménière, Cerna - MINES ParisTech
Charlene Cosandier, Cerna - MINES ParisTech
Henry Delcamp, Cerna - MINES ParisTech
Aija Leiponen, Cornell University and Imperial College London

Unpacking Patent Assertion Entities (PAE's)
Christopher A. Cotropia, University of Richmond School of Law
Kay Kesan, University of Illinois College of Law
David L. Schwartz, Chicago-Kent College of Law

John R. Allison & Emerson H. Tiller, The Business Method Patent Myth, Berkeley Tech. L.J. (2003)

John R. Allison & Starling D. Hunter, On the Feasibility of Improving Patent Quality One Technology at a Time: The Case of Business Methods, Berkeley Tech. L.J. (2006)

John R. Allison, Abe Dunn, Ronald J. Mann, Software Patents, Incumbents, and Entry, Texas L. Rev. (2007)

John R. Allison & Ronald J. Mann, The Disputed Quality of Software Patents, Washington U. L.Q. (2008)

Arti K. Rai, John R. Allison, & Bhaven N. Sampat, University Software Ownership and Litigation: A First Examination, N.C. L. Rev. (2009)

John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley, & Joshua H. Walker, Extreme Value or Trolls on Top? The Characteristics of the Most Litigated Patents, U. Penn. L. Rev. (2010)

John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley, & Joshua H. Walker, Patent Quality and Settlement Among Repeat Patent Litigants, Georgetown L.J. (2011)

John R. Allison, Emerson H. Tiller, Samantha Zyontz, Tristan Bligh, Patent Litigation and the Internet, Stanford Tech. L. Rev. (2012)


Research Roundtable on Technology Standards, Innovation and Market Coordination

Thursday, February 7-Friday, February 8, 2013

This conference was organized by Professor Daniel F. Spulber, Research Director of the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growthand Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law (Courtesy).

The theme of the conference was on market-based approaches to standard setting. The conference will explore the economic benefits and costs of intellectual property (IP) protections in the context of standards. The conference focused on the positive economics of incentives for invention and incentives for innovation and commercialization rather than the more standard normative economics calling for regulation of technology transfer contracts.

Papers

Exploring the Nature and Extent of Patent Hold-Up Surrounding Standards under Various Approaches to Patent Remedies
F. Scott Kieff, George Washington University
Anne Layne-Farrar, Charles River Associates

Property as Platform: Coordinating Standards for Technological Innovation
Henry E. Smith, Harvard University

Ex-Ante Agreements in Standard Setting and Patent Pool Formation
Joaquin Poblete, London School of Economics and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Gaston Llanes, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Complementary Patents and Market Structure
Klaus M. Schmidt, University of Munich

Standards and the Incentives for Innovation
Troy J. Scott, RTI International
John T. Scott, Dartmouth College

Do NPEs Matter?: Non-Practicing Entities and Patent, Litigation Outcomes
Michael J. Mazzeo, Northwestern University
Jonathan Hillel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Samantha Zyontz, Harvard University

Participation in Standard Setting Organizations
Margaret Kyle, University of Toulouse
David Salant, University of Toulouse

Who Cooperates in Standards Consortia-Rivals or Complementors?
Justus A. Baron, Mines ParisTech
Tim Pohlmann, Technische Universitat Berlin

SSO Rules, Standardization, and SEP Licensing: Economic Questions from the Trenches
Roger G. Brooks, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Ten Years of DG Competition Effort to Provide Guidance on the Application of Competition Rules to the Licensing of Standard-Essential Patents: Where Do We Stand?
Damien Geradin, Covington & Burling, LLP

Timing of Discovery and the Division of Profit with Complementary Innovations
Annalisa Biagi, University of Catania
Vincenzo Denicolo, University of Bologna and CEPR

Payments and Participation: The Incentives to Join Cooperative Standard Setting Efforts
Anne Layne-Farrar, Charles River Associates
Gerard Llobet, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI)
Jorge Padilla, Compass Lexecon

The Patent Policy Debate in the High-Tech World: A Literature Review
Kirti Gupta, Qualcomm Inc.


Third Annual Research Roundtable on the Law and Economics of Digital Markets

Monday, July 29-Tuesday,  July 30, 2013

This roundtable is organized by Peter Dicola, Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law and Shane Greenstein, Elinor and H. Wendell Hobbs Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Confirmed Participants:

  1. Luis Aguiar, European Union - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
  2. Jennifer Brown, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  3. Christopher J. Buccafusco, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
  4. Zachary Burns, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  5. Brett Danaher, Department of Economics, Wellesley College
  6. Peter C. DiCola, Northwestern University School of Law
  7. William K. Ford, The John Marshall Law School
  8. Kristelia A. Garcia, The George Washington University School of Law
  9. Shane Greenstein, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  10. Jennifer Jenkins, Duke University Law School
  11. Jessica Litman, University of Michigan Law School
  12. Gregory N. Mandel, Temple University, Beasley School of Law
  13. Bertin Martens, European Union - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
  14. Abhishek Nagaraj, MIT Sloan School of Management
  15. Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Yale Law School Information Society Project
  16. Jeffrey T. Prince, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
  17. Matthew Sag, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
  18. Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law
  19. Christopher Sprigman, University of Virginia School of Law
  20. Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas School of Business
  21. David Touve, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia

Papers

Does Copyright Affect Creative Reuse? Evidence from the Digitization of Baseball Digest
Abhishek Nagaraj, MIT Sloan School of Management

Penalty Default Licenses
Kristelia A. Garcia, The George Washington University School of Law

What's a Name Worth?: Experimental Tests of the Value of Attribution in Intellectual Property
Christopher J. Buccafusco, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Zachary Burns, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Christopher Sprigman, University of Virginia School of Law

Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data
Luis Aguiar, European Union - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
Bertin Martens, European Union - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)

The Google Shortcut to Trademark Law
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Yale Law School Information Society Project

Gone in 60 Seconds: The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales
Brett Danaher, Department of Economics, Wellesley College


Research Roundtable on Innovation and Technology Standards

Friday, October 25-Saturday, October 26, 30, 2013

This roundtable is part of the Searle Center's new Research Project on Innovation Econmics and is organized by Daniel F. Spulber, Research Director of the Searle Center and Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Attendance at this roundtable is by invitation only.

Agenda (pdf)

Confirmed Participants:

  1. John R. Allison, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
  2. Justus Baron, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern Law
  3. R. Andrew Butters, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  4. Luis Cabral, New York University
  5. Henry Delcamp, Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie
  6. Alberto Galasso, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
  7. Stuart Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology
  8. Kirti Gupta, Qualcomm, Inc.
  9. Andrei Hagiu, Harvard Business School
  10. Anne Layne-Farrar, Charles River Associates
  11. Aija Leiponen, Cornell University, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  12. Vilen Lipatov, Goethe University Frankfurt
  13. Gastón Llanes, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  14. Gerard Llobet, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI)
  15. Arijit Mukherjee, Loughborough University, School of Business and Economics
  16. Sarah Parlane, University College Dublin, School of Economics
  17. Tim Pohlmann, CERNA MINES ParisTech & IPlytcis
  18. Jonathan Putnam, Competition Dynamics
  19. Mark Schankerman, Department of Economics, London School of Economics
  20. Carlos J. Serrano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  21. Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
  22. Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  23. Emerson H. Tiller, Northwestern University School of Law

Papers

Technological Standardization, Endogenous Productivity and Transitory Dynamics
Justus Baron, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
Julia Schmidt, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Geneva

Essential Patents and Standard Dynamics
Justus Baron, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
Tim Pohlmann, MINES ParisTech, Cerna
Knut Blind, Berlin University of Technology


Research Roundtable on Workforce Science

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Agenda (pdf)

Confirmed Participants:

  1. Lori A. Beaman, Department of Economics,  Northwestern University
  2. Jennifer Brown, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  3. Zev Eigen, Northwestern University School of Law
  4. Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
  5. Michael Housman, Evolv
  6. Diego Klabjan, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
  7. David A. Matsa, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  8. Michael Mazzeo, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  9. Dylan B. Minor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  10. J. Keith Murnighan, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  11. Robert L. Nelson, American Bar Foundation
  12. Laura Beth Nielsen, American Bar Foundation
  13. Nicola Persico, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  14. Lauren Rivera, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  15. Sara L. Rynes-Weller, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa
  16. Paola Sapienza, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  17. Max Simkoff, Evolv
  18. Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth
  19. Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  20. Ithai Stern, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  21. Deborah Weiss, Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth
  22. Kimberly A. Yuracko, Northwestern University School of Law

Papers

The Research-Practice Gap in I/O Psychology and Related Fields: Challenges and Potential Solutions
Sara L. Rynes-Weller, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa

Workforce Reductions at Women-Owned Businesses in The United States
David A. Matsa, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia

Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas
David A. Matsa, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia

Is There a Female Leadership Style? (overview summary article)
David A. Matsa, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia

Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi
Lori Beaman, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Niall Keleher, Innovations for Poverty Action.
Jeremy Magruder, University of California, Berkeley

Pay for Performance: Environmental Risk Taking and Disasters
Dylan Minor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Social Preferences and the Response to Relative Incentive Pay
Dylan Minor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Pablo Hernandez, New York University Abu Dhabi
Dana Sisak
, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute

Misconduct in Credence Good Markets
Dylan Minor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Jennifer Brown, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Choosing to be Good: How Managers Determine their Impact on Financial and Social Performance
Dylan Minor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Bryan Hong, Ivey Business School, Western University

Optimal Agency Contracts for Delegated R&D
Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Joaquin Poblete, London School of Economics and PUC

The Form of Incentive Contracts: Agency with Moral Hazard, Risk Neutrality, and Limited Liability
Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Joaquin Poblete, London School of Economics and PUC

Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments
Jennifer Brown, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Dylan Minor
, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

The Value of Corporate Culture
Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University, NBER, & CEPR
Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance & CEPR
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago, NBER, & CEPR

The Other Pathway to the Boardroom: Interpersonal Influence Behavior as a Substitute for Elite Credentials and Majority Status in Obtaining Board Appointments
Ithai Stern, Northwestern University
James D. Westphal, University of Texas at Austin

Stealthy Footsteps to the Boardroom: Executives’ Backgrounds, Sophisticated Interpersonal Influence Behavior, and Board Appointments
Ithai Stern, Northwestern University
James D. Westphal, University of Texas at Austin

Set up for a Fall: The Insidious Effects of Flattery and Opinion Conformity toward Corporate Leaders
Ithai Stern, Northwestern University
James D. Westphal, University of Texas at Austin
Sun Hyun Park, University of Michigan

Justice or Just Between Us? Empirical Evidence of the Trade-Off between Procedural and Interactional Justice in Workplace Dispute Resolution
Zev Eigen, Northwestern University School of Law
Adam Seth Litwin, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University


Book Roundtable on Originalism and the Good Constitution by John O. McGinnis and Michael Rappaport (forthcoming Harvard University Press)

Thursday, December 5-Friday, December 6, 2013

Agenda (pdf)

Confirmed Participants:

  1. Robert W. Bennett, Northwestern University School of Law
  2. William Baude, Stanford Law School
  3. Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  4. Joshua Fischman, Northwestern University School of Law
  5. Brian T. Fitzpatrick, Vanderbilt Law School
  6. Philip Hamburger, Columbia Law School
  7. John C. Harrison, University of Virginia School of Law
  8. Andrew M. Koppelman, Northwestern University School of Law
  9. James Lindgren, Northwestern University School of Law
  10. John O. McGinnis, Northwestern University School of Law
  11. Victoria Nourse, Georgetown Law
  12. Sai Prakash, University of Virginia Law School
  13. Stephen B. Presser, Northwestern University School of Law
  14. Michael Rappaport, University of San Diego Law School
  15. Martin H. Redish, Northwestern University School of Law
  16. Stephen E. Sachs, Duke University School of Law
  17. Nadav Shoked, Northwestern University School of Law
  18. Lawrence Solum, Georgetown Law
  19. Matthew L. Spitzer, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
  20. Keith E. Whittington, Department of Politics, Princeton University

Book Preview Roundtable: The Innovative Entrepreneur by Daniel F. Spulber

April 26-27, 2012

Agenda (pdf)


Book Preview Roundtable: Tough Luck Libertarianism, Health Care, and the Constitution by Andrew Koppelman (published as The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Health Care Reform)

August 15-16, 2012

Agenda (pdf)


Research Roundtable on Natural Preservation in a Rapidly Changing Climate

October 4-5, 2012

Agenda (pdf)


Second Annual Research Roundtable on Law and Economics of Digital Markets

October 11-12, 2012

Agenda (pdf)


Book Preview Roundtable: Innovation from the Edges: Creating the Commercial Internet by Shane Greenstein

December 6-7, 2012

Agenda (pdf)


2011 Roundtables

First Annual Research Roundtable on Law and Economics of Digital Markets

June 23-24, 2011

Agenda (pdf)


Research Roundtable on Climate Change, Adaptation, and Environmental Law

April 7-8, 2011

Agenda (pdf)


Research Roundtable on Innovation Policy, Intellectual Property, and Entrepreneurship

April 29, 2011

Agenda (pdf)


Book Preview Roundtable: Accelerating Democracy by John O. McGinnis

September 15-16, 2011

Agenda (pdf)


Research Roundtable on Institutional Review Boards

October 29, 2011

Agenda (pdf)


Book Preview Roundtable of Judicial Power of the Purse by Nancy Staudt

January 13-15, 2010

Agenda (pdf)


Book Preview Roundtable of Theory of the Firm by Daniel F. Spulber

March 6-7, 2008

Agenda (pdf)


Book Preview Roundtable of Networks in Telecommunications by Daniel F. Spulber and Christopher S. Yoo

September 18-19, 2008

Agenda (pdf)