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The Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics

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Director
Prof. Dr. Roger J. Van den Bergh

Assistant Director
Drs. Wicher Schreuders

Programme Management Officer
Marianne Breijer

Secretary
Petra van den Brink

Full professors
Prof. Dr. Roger J. Van den Bergh
Prof. Dr. Michael G. Faure
Prof. Dr. Klaus Heine
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Klick
Prof. Dr. Alessio M. Pacces
Prof.Dr. Neil Rickman

Associate Professors
Dr. Alessandra Arcuri
Dr. Louis T. Visscher

Assistant Professors
Dr. Peter D.N. Camesasca
Dr. Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe

Postdocs
Dr. Pieter Desmet

 

Visiting Scholars

Xiaoqi Zhao (Erasmus China Law Center - China University of Political Science and Law) (November 2011 - May 2012)
Ass.Prof. Dr. Magdalena Flatscher-Thöni (The Health and Life Sciences University) (October 2011-February 2012)
Dr. Andri Wibisana (Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia) (October 2011-January 2012)
Dr. Stefan Stöckl (Senior Researcher at the University of Augsburg, Germany) (August 2011)
Dr. Maria Pastore (Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Bari, Italy) (June - December 2011)
Ass.Prof. Assaf Hamdani  (Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) (April - May 2011)
Dr. Florian Baumann (Research Assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tübingen) (March - May 2011)
Ass.Prof. Mitja Kovač (Faculty of Economics, Chair of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) (March 2011)
Prof. Guangdong Xu (Research Center for Law and Economics of China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China) (January - March 2011)
Dr. Jef De Mot (Ghent University, Dept "Grondslagen en Geschiedenis van het Recht") (December 2010 - February 2011)
Dr. Hila Nevo (Israel) (October - November 2010)
Ass.Prof. Bogdan Kryvolapov (Institute of International relations, Dept of International Law, Kiev National Shevchenko University, Ukraine) (April - June 2010)
Prof. Palanichamy Babu (Dean of Graduate Studies at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India) (October - November 2009)
Prof. Iraj Babaei (University Allameh Tabatabaii Tehran, Iran) (April - July 2009)

 

Erasmus China Law Center (ECLC)- RILE PhD candidates

Xun (Sarah) Xiao
Director's fiduciary duty and economics - A comparative perspective

 

Rotterdam EDLE PhD Candidates and their research topics

Alexandre Biard
Optimization of Mass Litigation in Europe and the Role of the Judge

Vijit Singh Chahar (Erasmus Mundus)
The Impact of Direct Governance on the Agency Costs Involved in Corporate and Political Decision Making

Elena Demidova (Erasmus Mundus)
Takeover Regulation in Developing Economies: The Case of Russia

Elena Fagotto
Innovations in Food Safety Regulatory Regimes

Penio Penev Gospodinov (Erasmus Mundus)
The Application of EU Competition Law to Alternative Dispute Resolution Proceedings

Kateryna Grabovets
Organisational Design and Tort Law

Philip Hanke (Erasmus Mundus)
Law and Economics of State Aid

Weiqiang Hu
Regulatory Compliance (Permit) Defense

Vania Karapanou
A Law and Economics Analysis of Damages for Nonpecuniary Losses in Cases of Personal Injuries and Fatal Accidents

Claire Leger (Erasmus Mundus)
Securities Regulation – Comparative European Policies

Sergio Mittlaender Leme de Souza
Social Preferences and the Contract Law

Hossein Nabilou (Erasmus Mundus)
Hedge Funds and Financial Instability: A Case for Regulation? 

Shivans Rajput
Maximum Retail Price – Analyzing its Anti-Competitive Effects

Elena Reznichenko
Empirical Analysis of Optimal Enforcement: Monetary vs. Non-Monetary Punishment  

Franziska Weber
Towards an Optimal Mix of Public and Private Enforcement in Consumer Law - A comparative law and economics analysis of European consumer law enforcement (package travel vs. misleading advertising)

Hong Wei
The Impact of China-related WTO Cases on Chinese Trade Law and Practice


Other EDLE PhD Candidates and their research topics

Deniz Akun
Changing Structure of Banking Industry and Regulatory Issues

Bashir Assi
European Investment Funds Regulation - Focusing on Compensation Practices

Meltem Bayramli
A Cross-Industry Analysis of Firm's R&D and Patenting Strategies from a Law and Economics Perspective

Paola Bertoli
An Empirical Analysis of Public Procurement and the Demand for Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance in Italy

Martin Chudej
Law and Economics of Investment Treaty Shopping

Marco Fabbri
Social Norms in Law and Economics

Cicek Gurkan
The Role of Banks for Corporate Governance

Katherine Hunt
Mortgage Market Comparison

Hadar Jabotinsky
The Structure of Financial Supervision: Consolidation or Fragmentation for Financial Regulators?

Ana Jakovljevic
Building Market Institutions in Serbia

Xufeng Jia
Economic Analysis of Antimonopoly Law (AML) in China: Legislation and Implementation

Jaroslaw Kantorowicz
Essays on Fiscal Constitution

Arun Kaushik
Trade Secrecy - The Ignored Facet of Intellectual Properties

Dusko Krsmanovic
Are There Economic Reasons to Regulate Lobbying in the EU?

Jingyuan Ma
A Comparative Perspective on Merger Policies of Antitrust Law

Alejandra Martinez Gandara
The Impact of Firms' Corporate Social Responsibility Measures on its Environmental Performance

Maximiliano Marzetti
The Elusive Rationale of Trade Mark Dilution

Valerijus Ostrovskis
Multilateral Trading Facilities and Their Impact on European Financial Markets

Peng Peng
Platform Competition in Search Engine Market

Damian Proniewski
Reaching Optimal Taxation of Green Taxes in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Green Taxes in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany

Talita Ramos Erickson
Legal/Political Institutions & Urban Poverty

Malgorzata Sadowska
Negotiated Antitrust - The Use and Abuse of Competition Rules in the Energy Sector

Rahul Sapkal
Essays on Labour Market Segmentations - A Law and Economics Approach

Huojun Sun
Inequalities, Truth and Social Trust: Experimental Evidences on Institutional Design

Claudio Tagliapietra
Legal Institutions and the Economic Governance of the Commons: A case study in Italy 1200-1800

Alexander Vasa
The Effectiveness of the Clean Development Mechanism - A Law and Economics Analysis

Shuo Wang
International Trade Policies

Federico Wesselhoefft 
Multiparty Contracts & Non Recourse Finance (Project Finance) Law and Economics

 

Defended PhD theses:

Sonja E. Keske
Group Litigation in European Competition Law: A Law and Economics perspective
PhD defense: 15 December 2009

Claudia Desogus
Competition and Innovation in the EU Regulation of Pharmaceuticals: The Case of Parallel Trade
PhD defense: 7 May 2010

Hanneke A. Luth
Behavioural Economics in Consumer Policy: The Economic Analysis of Standards Terms in Consumer Contracts Revisited
PhD defense: 27 May 2010

Rosa Castro Bernieri
Ex-Post Liability Rules in Modern Patent Law
PhD defense: 17 September 2010

Stefano Clò
Economic Analysis of the European Climate Policy: the European Emissions Trading Scheme
PhD defense: 17 September 2010

Andrea Renda
Law and Economics in the RIA World
PhD defense: 7 April 2011

Firat Bilgel
The Law and Economics of Organ Procurement
PhD defense: 14 April 2011

Katarina Svatikova
Economic Criteria for Criminalization; Why Do We Use Criminal Law?
PhD defense: 15 April 2011

Frank Fagan
Temporary versus Permanent Legislation
PhD defense:9 June 2011

Laarni Escresa Guillermo
Reexamining the Role of Incarceration and Stigma in Criminal Law
PhD defense: 29 November 2011

Sofia Amaral Garcia
Quantifying the Economics of Medical Malpractice: A view from a civil law perspective
PhD defense: 29 November 2011

Sharon Oded
Inducing Corporate Proactive Compliance: Liability Controls & Corporate Monitors
PhD defense: 30 March 2012

Olga Skripova
Civil Liability as an Enforcement Tool of Securities Underwriter Gatekeeping Duty
PhD defense: 30 March 2012