Workshop on Relational Contracts

Agenda
Friday, September 14, 2018
I. Networks and Relational Contracts: Promise and Limits
1. 9:30-10:20: David Miller (University of Michigan, Dept. of Economics)
Seeking Relationship Support: Strategic Network Formation and Robust Cooperation (with Xu Tan)
Commentator: Douglas Baird (University of Chicago, Law School)
2. 10:20-11:10: Matt Jennejohn (Brigham Young University, Law School)
Disrupting Relational Contracts
Commentator: Daniel Hemel (University of Chicago, Law School)
Coffee Break (11:10-11:30)
3. 11:30-12:20: Emily Kadens (Northwestern University, Law School)
Cheating Pays
Commentator: John Padgett (University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science)
Lunch
II. Roundtable on Institutions and Relational Contracts
III. Debt and Relational Contracts
Saturday, September 15, 2018
I. Relational Contracts in the Value Chain of Production
1. 9:30-10:20: Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)
The Role of Relational Contracts in Inter-Firm Relationships: Theory and Evidence on Multiunit Franchising (with Nicholas Argyres and Janet Bercovitz)
Commentator: Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School)
2. 10:20-11:10: Sue Helper (Case Western, Dept. of Economics)
Value Migration and Industry 4.0: Theory, Field Evidence, and Propositions (with Raphael Martens and Robert Seamans)
Commentator: Charles Sabel (Columbia Law School)
Coffee break (11:10-11:30)
3. 11:30-12:20: Desmond Lo (Santa Clara University, Leavy School of Business)
Effort and Compensation in Relational Contracts (with Heikki Rantakari)
Commentator: Sue Helper (Case Western, Dept. of Economics)
Lunch
II. Foundations of Relational Contracts: Towards Micro Modeling of Macro Phenomanae
1. 1:20-2:10: James Malcomson (Oxford University)
Uncertainty, Investment and Productivity with Relational Contracts
Commentator: Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University, Dept. of Economics)
III. Relational Contracts in Action: Leases and Investment Bankers
1. 2:10-3:00: Meirav Furth (Harvard Law School)
The Adverse Effects of Unenforceable Contract Terms: Experimental Evidence
Commentator: Ameet Morjaria (Kellogg School of Management)
2. 3:00-3:50: Bill Wilhelm (University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce)
Investment Bankers and Relational Contracts (with Alan Morrison)
Commentator: Avery Katz (Columbia Law School)
Coffee break (3:50-4:10)
Keynote Lecture
Bob Gibbons (MIT)
The Governance of Unsolved Political Problems
The conference will conclude with an informal dinner.