ALACDE has funded research grants to be awarded to the authors of the best research papers presented at the ALACDE annual conference since 2007. The winners are encouraged to use a fraction of the money to attend the following annual meeting of ALACDE, and to support further academic research and writing.
Applicants for the award must meet these restrictions:

• The applicant must be a scholar in a Latin American, a Caribbean country, Portugal or Spain, who is actively engaged in scholarly research.
• The research topic must concern law and economics. Only original research conducted by the applicant will be considered. (A co-author may submit collaborative research, provided that he or she is as much or more integral to the research than the other co-authors.)
• Applicants must submit their research to the ALACDE meeting, and applicants must be selected to present their research at the meeting. According to ALACDE practice, submissions may be in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.
• The selection will be made by a small committee of scholars on the basis of the written submission and oral presentation at the ALACDE meeting.

Prizes:

2011

“The calculation of punitive damages: a proposal applied to the Argentine case”
Matias Irigoyen Testa, Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Coca Cola Prize – US$ 1000)

“The deterrence effects of Gun Laws in games with asymmetric skills and information”
Cristiano Aguiar de Oliveira and Giácomo Balbinotto Neto, UFRGS, Brasil (Poder Cívico Prize - US$750)

“El carácter interdisciplinario y la utilidad de la economía en su estudio”
Guillermo Cabieses (ALACDE Prize)

“War on Drugs: A Perfect Information Game Theoretic Approach and Empirical Evidence for North America”
JOSÉ BALMORI DE LA MIYAR (ALACDE Prize)

“Game theory and the Law: The legal-rules-acceptability theorem. A rationale for Noncompliance with legal rules”
Guillermo Flóres Borda (ALACDE Prize)

“Money Laundering in the Brazilian Football Sector: international transfers of football players and their vulnerabilities”
Mauro Salvo (ALACDE Prize)

“Legal Transplants, Evolution of Commercial Law and Government Failure in Colombia. The Evolution of Business Entities and Ultra Vires Theory Is it Possible to Stop the Actual Path Dependence?”
Carlos Del Vasto (ALACDE Prize)

2010

Una mirada económica al diseño constitucional chileno: impacto sobre el proceso legislativo y la acción de los grupos de interés
José Francisco García y Sebastián Soto.
Young Offenders: Social Context and Juvenile Justice System
Mónica Concha Amin

Reivindicando el Sentido Común: Alegato a favor de la Derogación de la Regulación de la Invitación a Ofrecer en el Código Civil de 1984
Freddy Escobar Rozas y Guillermo Cabieses Crovetto

Exploitative Excessive Pricing Policy in Emerging Economies: The case of South American Economies
Carlos Pablo Márquez

Examen del Objeto y Fines de la Ley de Competencia de El Salvador desde la perspectiva del Análisis Económico del Derecho
Lilliam Virginia Arrieta de Carsana

La Relación de Conflicto entre el Derecho de Competencia y la Propiedad Intelectual en El Salvador
Rafael Arnoldo Gómez

A História do pensamento em Direito e Economia revisitada: conexões com o estudo da responsabilidade civil no Brasil
Eugênio Battesini y Giácomo Balbinotto

Privaticemos la Insolvencia
Huáscar Ezcurra

¿Por qué se jodió el Sur? Crecimiento económico, derechos de propiedad y regulación del crédito en las colonias británicas y españolas en América”
Enrique Pasquel

Pena Capital: Análisis Económico del alto costo de asociarse como responsabilidad limitada en la República Dominicana
Víctor livio Enmanuel Cedeño

2009

A Computational Method Applied to the Economic Analysis of Criminal Law
Luiz Marcelo Berger, Faculdade de Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Brasil
Denis Borenstein, Faculdade de Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Brasil
Giácomo Balbinotto Neto, Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Default Rules and the Inevitability of Paternalism
Leandro Martins Zanitelli, Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis (UniRitter), Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.

La función intersticial de la eficiencia: deberes precontractuales de información y casos realmente difíciles
Iñigo de la Maza Gazmuri, Facultad de Derecho Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.

The Magnitude of Pain and Suffering Damages from a Law and Economics and Health Economics Point of View
Vaia Karapanou, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics of the Erasmus School of Law
Louis Visscher is Associate Professor in Law and Economics at the Rotterdam Institute of Self-Regulation as Two-Stage Rent-Seeking
Georg von Wangemheim, University of Kassel, Germany

Towards an Intellectual Property Bargaining Theory: The Post-WTO Era
Daniel Benoliel, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel
Bruno Salama, Escola de Direito da Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brasil.

Moderación judicial de la cláusula penal en Derecho español
Ignacio Marín García

Beyond Debiasing: Overconfidence in Tort Law
Barbara Luppi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Francesco Parisi, University of Minnesota Law School and University of Bologna, Department of Economics. University of Minnesota

Economic considerations for regulating marital dissolutions in response to new family structures
Mireia Artigot-Golobardes
Law School and Department of Economics
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

2008

Is It Desirable to Encourage Enforcement?
Francisco Ramos Romeu, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

The Social Function of Contract Law in Brazilian Civil Code: Distributive justice versus efficiency – lessons from the United States.
Luciano Benetti Timm, Pontifícia Universidade Católica Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS, Brasil.

Enforceability of Labor Law: Evidence from a Labor Court in Mexico.” (Co-authored with David Kaplan, Enterprise Analysis Unit, The World Bank)
Joyce Sadka, Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, Department of Economics, Mexico.

“The Use of Econometric Methods to Prevent and Punish Domestic Violence Objectively in the Courts of the Dominican Republic.”
Jaime Aristy Escuder, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Dominican Republic.

Economic Analysis of Property Rights in the Dominican Republic: The status of rentals.
Mónika Infante Henriquez, Universidad Iberoamericana, Dominican Republic.

Patent Bargains in NIC (newly industrialized countries): The Case of Brazil.
Bruno Meyerhof Salama, Escola de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brasil.
(co-autor Daniel Benoliel, University of Haifa, Center of Law & Technology)

Economic Analysis of the Tax Law and the Impact of Legal Principles: A case study.
Cristiano Carvalho, IBET (Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos Tributários), Brasília, Brasil.
(co-autor Ely José de Mattos, Professor de Economia da UFRGS)

On Causal Apportioning and Efficiency in Tort Law.” (Co-authored with Andrea Castellano, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahıa Blanca and Fernando Tohme, CONICET (National Council of Research of Argentina).
Hugo A. Acciarri, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahıa Blanca, Argentina

2007

The Bit Generation´s Emergence as a Collective Action Problem: Prisoner´s Dilemma or Network Efects?
Santiago Montt, Yale University Law School

Unifed theory of collusion: a suggestion on legal regulation of cartels
Ivo Teixeira Gico Júnior, Faculdade de Direito da Católica, Brasília, Brasil