Program: 2nd Toulouse-Montreal Conference

PROGRAMME / PROGRAM

Vendredi 30 septembre

Salle/Room L-Gagnon, 6e étage/6th floor

Friday, September 30

8:25 – 8:30

Mot de bienvenue / Welcoming Address

8:30 – 10:00

Président / Chair : Marcel Boyer (Economics, Université de Montréal)

Ali Asgary (Applied Disaster and Emergency Studies, Brandon University & York University)
Technological Disasters’ Cost/Loss Data: Current Issues and Future Challenges

Ruben Jongejan, S.N. Jonkman, J.K. Vrijling (Engineering, Delft University of Technology)
Methods for the Economic Valuation of Loss of Life

10:00 – 10:20

Pause / Break

10:20 – 11:50

Marie-Aude Laguna, Gunther Capelle-Blancard (Economics, Université de Paris 1)
How Do Investors React to Technological Accidents? The Case of Chemical and Oil Industries

Sandrine Spaeter, André Schmitt (Economics, Université Louis Pasteur)
Coverage of Large Risks: Theoretical Analysis and Application to Oil Spills

12:00 – 12:45

Marc Lassagne, Bertrand Munier (Management Science, École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers)
The Move Towards Risk-Based Regulation and Its Impact on Operational and Strategic Management

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Président / Chair : Nathalie de Marcellis (Economics, École Polytechnique Montréal)

Alessandro Riboni (Economics, Université de Montréal)
Courts’ Decision Making without Commitment : A Comparative Analysis

Yolande Hiriart, David Martimort (Economics, Université de Toulouse 1),
Jérôme Pouyet (École nationale des ponts et chaussées)
The Regulator and the Judge: Complements or Substitutes in the Control of Environmental Risk

15:30 – 15:50

Pause / Break

15:50 – 17:20

Klaas van’t Veld (Economics, University of Wyoming)
Hazardous-Industry Restructuring to Avoid Liability for Accidents

Frans P. de Vries (Law and Economics, University of Groningen), Laurent Franckx (Transport & Mobility Leuven)
Environmental Liability and Organizational Structure

17:30 – 18:15

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné (Economics, HEC Montréal), Pauline Barrieu (London School of Economics and Political Science)
What is Precaution?

Samedi 1er octobre

Salle/Room SPEL II, 2e étage/2nd floor

Saturday, October 1

8:30 – 10:00

Président / Chair : Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné (Economics, HEC Montréal)

Yasutora Watanabe (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
Learning and Bargaining in Dispute Resolution: Theory and Evidence from Medical Malpractice Litigation

Surajeet Chakravarty (Economics, University of Exeter & Queen’s University Belfast), Bentley Macleod (USC & Columbia University)
On the Efficiency of Standard Form Contracts: The Case of Construction

10:00 – 10:20

Pause / Break

10:20 – 11:50

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (George Mason University School of Law), Nuno Garoupa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Least Cost Avoidance

Jason Scott Johnston (University of Pennsylvania Law School)
Centralization versus Decentralization in the Regulation and Management of Large Scale Risks
 

12:00 – 12:45

Isabelle Péchoux, Marie-Françoise Calmette (Economics, LERNA, Université de Toulouse 1)
Regional Agglomeration of Major Risky Activities and Environmental Policies

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:10

Président / Chair : Marcel Boyer (Economics, Université de Montréal)

Eric Talley (USC Law School & Rand Corporation), Darius Lakdawalla (Rand Corporation)
Optimal Liability for Terrorism

15:10 – 15:30

Pause / Break

15:30 – 17:00

Dieter Balkenborg (Economics, University of Exeter), Alistair Ulph (University of Manchester)
Judgement Proofness and Extended Liability: Too Much or Too Little Monitoring?

Jérôme Pouyet (Economics, École nationale des ponts et chaussées), Yolande Hiriart, David Martimort (Université de Toulouse 1)
The Public Management of Environmental Risk: Separating Ex Ante and Ex Post Monitors