2015 Innovation, Finance and the Law Conference: Fostering Innovation

June 29–30, 2015

Toulouse, France

Program of the event

Monday, June 29, 2015

09:30 Jean Tirole (Toulouse): Keynote speech "The Economics of Innovation"

11:00 William Mann (UCLA): "Creditor Rights and Innovation: Evidence from Patent Collateral"
Discussant: Frédéric Cherbonnier (IAST - TSE)

14:00 Robert Merges (Berkeley): "Two Cheers for Absolute Liability: Questioning the Superiority of an Independent Invention Defense in Patent Law"

Discussant: Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich)

15.30 Andrea Attar (Toulouse): "Multiple Lenders, Strategic Default and Covenants"

Discussant: Augustin Landier (TSE)

16.30 Scott Hemphill (NYU): "The Actavis Inference: Theory and Practice"

Discussant: Andrea Günster (ETH Zurich)

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

9:30 Gustav Martinsson (Stockholm): "Payout Taxes, Costly External Finance, and Long-Run Investment"
Discussant: Martin Schonger (ETH Zurich)

11:00 Luca Enriques (Oxford): "Financing Disruptive Innovation"

Discussant: Simone Sepe (IAST & University of Arizona)

14:00 Bruno Biais (TSE): "Endogenous Agency Problems and the Dynamics of Rents"

Discussant: Jerome Mathis (Paris Dauphine)

15:30 Saura Masconale (Univ. of Arizona & Univ. Chicago): "What Does Really Matter in Corporate Governance? Commitment, Innovation, and Stakeholder Value"

Discussant: Gerard Hertig (ETH Zurich)

16.30 Innovation Roundtable, with Stefan Bechtold, Gérard Hertig, Sébastien Pouget, Paul Seabright (chair), Lucien Rapp and Simone Sepe

Programme (in PDF file)

This event has been funded by a French government subsidy managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the framework of the investissements d'avenir programme reference ANR-11-LABX-0052.