The 4th Annual Meeting of the Asian Law and Economics Association(27th-28th,September2008)
                                  -Program- Venue: 21st Century Program Plaza 1,Hakozaki Campus,
 Kyushu University, Japan
September 27th(Saturday)
8:00-8:45 Registration (at 21st Century Program Plaza 1)        
8:45-9:00 Welcome Address:  Moriki Hosoe(President of Asian Law and Economics Association, Kyushu University)
                            Seimei Hayashida (President of Japan Law and Economics Association,Hokkaido University)    
                                                                                                         
 Venue:Large Lecture Room
   
   
             
9:05-9:55 Keynote Speech          Venue:Large Lecture Room
          "Modeling Collegial Courts:  Judicial Preferences and the Distribution of Joins, Concurrences, and Dissents”  
    Lewis Kornhauser (NewYork University)                Chair : Kong-Pin Chen (Academia Sinica)
10:00-11:20 Session A-1(Room AB) Session B-1(Exchange Plaza) Session C-1(Large Lecture Room )
  Business and  Law 1 Tort Law 1 Intellectual Properties 1
  "Adaptiove effeciency and financial Devevelopment in China: The Role of Contracts and Contractual Enforcement" "Vicarious Liability" "Reasonable Royalty and the Division of Profit for Probabilistic Patents"
     Guanghua Yu (University of Hong Kong, China),
Hao Zhang (Leeds University, UK)
  Se Hak Chun and Byungtae Lee  (Korea Advanced
 Institute of Science and Technology)
  Teyu Chou(National Chengchi Univ., Taiwan )
Hans Haller(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State Univ., USA)

Chao Xi(The Chinese Univ. of Hongkong, China)
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  "Entrenchment, Term Incentive and Shareholder Pressure: Explanation of the Adoption or Abandonment of Takeover Defences" "Optimal Liability Rule for Defective Housing" "Economic Analysis of Patent Law Exemption for Research on a Patented Innovation"
    Hirotsugu Iijima(Hirosaki Univ., Japan)   Kazuhiko Sakai(Kurume Univ., Japan)   Sadao Nagaoka,Reiko Aoki(Hitotsubashi Univ., Japan)
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11:25-12:45 Session A-2(Room AB) Session B-2(Exchange Plaza) Session C-2(Large Lecture Room )
  Business and  Law 2 Tort Law 2 Intellectual Properties 2 (Chair: Reiko Aoki)
  "Financial Imperfection and Outsourcing Decision" "Compensating for Unforeseeable Damages in Torts" "Civil and Criminal Punishiments for Copyright Infringement"
    Noriyuki Yanagawa(Univ. of Tokyo)   Jeong-Yoo Kim(kyung Hee Univ., Korea)   Yasuhiro Arai(Institute of Intellectual Property, Japan),
Kohei Kawamura(Univ. of Edinburgh, UK)
  Discassant   Discussant   Discussant  
  "A Study of the Changing Legal Regime for Regulating Bank Loan in China" "The Patent Quality Control Prosess: Can We Afford An (Rationally) Ignorant Patent Office?" "Hold up problem in creating derivative works in the current copyright system "
    Richard Wu(Univ. of Hongkong, China)   Jing-Yuan Chiou/Jing-Yuan Chiou(IMT Lucca, Italy)   Takuya Nakaizumi(Kanto Gakuin Univ., Japan)
12:45-13:55     Lunch(Faculty club in Memorial Auditorium)
   
Photography(at the entrance of Memorial Auditrium at 13:45)
 
14:00-14:45 Invited Lecture                 Venue :Large Lecture Room    
         "The case for Banking Supervision by theEuropean Central Bank"  
    Gerard Hertig(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)   Chair : Shozo Ota(Univeristy of Tokyo)    
14:50-16:10 Session A-3 Session B-3(Exchange PlazaRoom AB) Symposium Session(Large Lecture Room )
  Industrial Organization 1(Room AB) Regulation and Institution 14:50-17:30
  "The Economics Behind Free tickets in Korean Movie Industry"  A Justification for the Legistration over the minimum standard of Living “Toward Harmonization of Patent Policies in Asia”
    Keunjae Lee,Byeongho Choe,Jong-Pil Jeong(Pusan National Univ., Korea)          Mingli Zheng(University of Macau) presenters and panelists:                                                 
             
  "Fixed-moble Interconnection under Competition" "Measurement of Relative Permitivity of Institution on Production"   Katsuya Tamai  (University of Tokyo)                                             
      Hairong Mu(Univ. of Southampton, UK)   Shalini Singh(Banaras Hindu University )         Lianyuan MA (Chinese Association of Patent Attorney)                                                           
  Discussant   Discussant      
16:15-17:35 Session A-4(Room AB) Session B-4(Exchange Plaza)     Xiaoqing Feng
  Regulation Law and Evolution   (China University of Political Science and Law)                                                          

  "Democratic Control of Market" "An Institutional Economics Approach for Comparative Law"   Hiroshi Akimoto
    Sheung-Hoon Lee(Seoul National Univ., Korea)       Christian Kirchner(Humboldt Univ., Germany)      (Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association)     
  Discussant   Discussant      
  "Presence of Foreign Investors in Privatized Firms and Privatization Policy" "Providing Credibility: Explaining the effective devices of the Cape town Convention"    
    Toshihiro Matsumura(Univ.of Tokyo)   Ikumi Sato(Kobe Univ.),Yoshinobu Zasu (Waseda  Univ.)    
         
18:30-20:30 Reception ( Sea Hark Hotel Fukuoka)** Picked up at the entrance of main building at 17.45    
September 28th(Sunday)
8:30-9:00 Registration (at 21st Century Program Plaza 1)        
9:00-11:00 Session A-5(Room AB) Session B-5(Exchange Plaza) Session C-5(Large Lecture Room)
  Development and Law  Competition law Liability Rule and Judicial Ssystem
   "Zoning and the Environment: Study of New Delhi" "Dealing with Corporate Self-Dealing in Korea: A New Institutional
Economics Approach"
 "Public Host Liability"
    Panta Murali Parasad(Indian Insiute of Technology, Kanpur)
   Haksoo Ko(Seoul National Univ., Korea)   Jeong-Yoo Kim(kyung Hee Univ., Korea),
Kyu Yub Lee(kyung Hee Univ., Korea)
   "Global Determinants of Stress and Risk in Public-Privete (PPP)in Infrastructure" "A Study of International Market Competition and the Fairness of Trade" "The Impact of Counterfait-purchase Penalties on Anti-counterfaiting"
    Renato E.. Reside, Jr(Univ. of the Philippines, Philippine)   Rojong Joo(Korean Institute of Procurement),
Woohyung Lee(Kyushu Institute of Technology)
  Jen-Te Yao(Fu-Jen Catholic Univ., Taiwan)
  "Scientific Infrastructure Development in Southeast Asian Knowledge-based Economies: A Case Study of Malaysia and Singapore "                 "Possibility of Inefficient Breaches under WTO Dispute    
                         Settlement Procedures"
 "Judicial Torture as a War-of-Attrition"
    Debnath Sajit Chandra, A. Mani(Ritsumeikan Asia and Pacific Univ.)     Takashi Shimizu (Univ. of Tokyo,Japan)
  Kong-Pin Chen(Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  Discussant   Discussant   Discussant  
11:10-12:00 Keynote Speech                              Venue: Large Lecture Room    
            “Consumer Regulation and the Rationality Assumption".  
    Alan Schwartz(Yale University) Chair: Seimei Hayashida (Hokkaido University)    
12:00-13:00 Lunch (Faculty club in Memorial Auditrium)        
13:00-13:15   General Assembly(Venue:Large lecture room)    
13:30-14:50 Session A-6(Room AB) Session B-6(Exchange Plaza) Session C-6(Large Lecture Room)
   Environment and Law Contract and Law1 Judicial  System1
  "The Design for the CO2 Emission Trading Scheme Considered from the Perspectives of the Law and EconomicsThe Proposal of "The Hybrid-type CO2 Allowances Trading Scheme " "Exclusive Dealing Contract and Inefficient Entry Threat" "The Economic Costs of Court Decisions Concering Dismissals in Japan: Identification by Judge Transfer"
     Akio SHIMADA, ( GRIPS., Japan)
  Noriyuki Yanagawa,Ryoko Oki (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)   Hiroko Okudaira(Osaka Univ., Japan)
  "An Economic Analysis of the Green Purchasing Promotion Law and False Eco-Labeling" "Partnership Dissolution and Proprietary Information" "A Heuristic Understanding of Frivolous Suits under Complete Information"
    Daisaku Goto(Hiroshima University,Japan)   Jianpei Li(Univ. of International Bussness and Economics, China)   Iljoong Kim(SungKyunKwan Univ., Korea),
Jaehong Kim(Handong Global Univ., Korea)
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15:00-16:20 Session A-7(Room AB) Session B-7(Exchange Plaza) Session C-7(Large Lecture Room)
          Law and Politics        Contract and Law2 Judicial  System
  "Incomplete Property Rights under Political Uncertainties: A Critique of the New Institutionalist View"  "Enforcing an Arbitration Agreement tainted by Bribery: Caution and Controversies" "Legal expenses insurance and legal fees: Some resent developments"
                
Y.Qiao (Shandon University) and N. RickmanUniversity of Surrey and CEPR)
 
"Yasushi Suzuki,Md. Dulal Miah(Ritsumeikan Asia and Pacific Univ., Japan)
             F.W.H. Chan(The University of Hong Kong)  
  "Ability of Bureaucrats and Political Decision Making"
"Breach remedies of relational contracts" "A Civil Litigation as a Contest with Delegation"
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         Shigeharu Sato(Kyushu Univ., Japan)
               Kotaro Uchino(Seikei Univ., Japan) Yasuyuki Ikeda(Kumamoto University,Jpan)
       
16:20-17:20) Closing Reception (Exchange Plaza)