Next Friday TILEC-ers will retreat again to exchange views on their research projects and on the organisation of the Center. This year the topics covered will include legal and economic aspects of health care regulation, services of general economic interest, compensation for victims of crimes, renewable energy certificates and the GATS.
This year, the retreat will take place in Goirle, at the Cultureel Centrum Jan van Besouw and most TILEC members will be present. If conditions are favourable (i.e. wireless Internet is available), we will blog live from there, to capture immediately the highlights of the meeting.
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Thursday, 4 September 2008
Thursday, 20 December 2007
End of the year
At the end, the idea of blogging from the network conference venue in Bonn did not work. Anyway, the meeting was very interesting, well attended and with a lot of debate.
Lawyers and economists did discuss together competition and regulatory issues and, after the unavoidable skirmishes and an invitation to economists to "take responsibility for decisions", the dialogue was fruitful for all.
The topics discussed varied a lot, from mergers between not-for-profit firms (to be treated more leniently by regulators?) to private enforcement of competition law (impossible to find an agreement) to the long lost soul of article 82 (found in the Archives of the 1950s negotiations around the text of the Treaty of Rome, by a researcher from the University of East Anglia).
Of course, our work on Net Neutrality was presented too.
It is not possible to report here on all papers presented there. Maybe in future posts, the authors will like to give some details.
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In the meantime, another TILEC event has taken place, i.e. the second roundtable of the "Economic Impact Group" of the CoPECL network. The aim of the group is the economic analysis of the forthcoming "European Contract Law", currently in the making. The meeting was held in Barcelona and scholars from a number of Universities in Europe were present to discuss whether the rules chosen by comparative lawyers to constitute "European" contract law are sound according to economic analysis.
A website with more info will see the light very soon.
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To all: Happy Christmas and a great 2008!
Lawyers and economists did discuss together competition and regulatory issues and, after the unavoidable skirmishes and an invitation to economists to "take responsibility for decisions", the dialogue was fruitful for all.
The topics discussed varied a lot, from mergers between not-for-profit firms (to be treated more leniently by regulators?) to private enforcement of competition law (impossible to find an agreement) to the long lost soul of article 82 (found in the Archives of the 1950s negotiations around the text of the Treaty of Rome, by a researcher from the University of East Anglia).
Of course, our work on Net Neutrality was presented too.
It is not possible to report here on all papers presented there. Maybe in future posts, the authors will like to give some details.
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In the meantime, another TILEC event has taken place, i.e. the second roundtable of the "Economic Impact Group" of the CoPECL network. The aim of the group is the economic analysis of the forthcoming "European Contract Law", currently in the making. The meeting was held in Barcelona and scholars from a number of Universities in Europe were present to discuss whether the rules chosen by comparative lawyers to constitute "European" contract law are sound according to economic analysis.
A website with more info will see the light very soon.
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To all: Happy Christmas and a great 2008!
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