Business Law and Innovation Conference

Papers Presented:
(do not cite without permission)

Mariagiovanna Baccara, New York University, Stern School of Business:
Curb Your Innovation:  On the Relationship Between Innovation and Governance Structure
(with Ronny Razin)

Albert H. Choi, University of Virginia School of Law:
Shrink Wraps:  Who Should Bear the Cost of Communicating Mass-Market Contract Terms
(with Yeon-Koo Che)

Merritt B. Fox, Columbia Law School:
Promoting Innovation:  The Law of Publicly Traded Corporations

Ronald J. Gilson, Columbia Law School and Stanford Law School:
Financing Innovation:  Organizational Structure, Financial Contracting and Endogeneity

Andrei Hagiu, Harvard Business School:
Capitalizing on Innovation:  The Case of Japan
(with Robert Dujarric)

Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School:
Panacea or Mirage?  Venture Capital and Innovation

Joseph A. McCahery, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics Finance Group and University of Amsterdam Center of Law and Economics:
Behind the Scenes:  The Corporate Governance Preferences of Institutional Investors
(with Zacharias Sautner and Laura T. Starks)

Sadakazu Osaki, University of Tokyo Law School:
Innovation and the Regulation of the Capital Markets in Japan

Enrico C. Perotti, University of Amsterdam, Department of Financial Management:
The Contractual Needs of Novel Ideas

Robert E. Scott, Columbia Law School:
Contracting for Innovation:  Vertical Disintegration and Interfirm Collaboration
(with Ronald J. Gilson and Charles F. Sabel)

Zenichi Shishido, Seikei University Law School:
Why Japanese Entrepreneurs Don't Give Up Control to Venture Capitalists

Hajime Tanahashi, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto:
Venture Capital Financing in Japan