Members Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC)

Prof. Gani Aldashev has been appointed Ronald Coase Visiting Professor at the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) for the academic year 2019-20. Prof. Aldashev is a renowned authority in the field of organizational economics and economic governance, with a particular focus on developing countries.

Prof. Aldashev's work focuses on the economics of the non-profit sector, the analysis of traditional institutions in developing countries (e.g. customary justice, tribes/clans, marriage contracts/arrangements), and the political economy of development. His work has been published in leading journals in economics (e.g. Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics), political science (Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Political Science: Research and Methods), and in interdisciplinary journals (Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, World Development).

During his stay on campus as Ronald Coase Visiting Professor, Prof. Aldashev will participate in TILEC activities and actively interact with the TiU community. In addition, he will teach a masterclass on economic governance in the development context and organize a workshop so that the academic community and the students of Tilburg University also benefit from his extensive knowledge and experience.

Prof. Aldashev is a Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a Research Fellow at the ECARES (European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics). Previously he taught at the University of Namur (Belgium) and University of Cergy-Pontoise (France). He received his PhD in Economics at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) in 2005. He is a member of the European Development Network (EUDN), founding member of the N.G.O. (Nonprofits, Governments, and Organizations) Network, and an associate member of Theoretical Research in Development Economics (ThReD) research network.

The Ronald Coase Professorship is a visiting chair, offered annually by TILEC, that aims to bring to Tilburg University experienced scholars of academic distinction in the broader field of law and economics to conduct research and interact with the Tilburg faculty. The late Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences Ronald Coase (1910-2013) gave his personal consent to the establishment of the chair.

The holder of the 2018-2019 Ronald Coase Visiting Professorship was Giorgi Monti, in that period at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Professor Monti now holds the Chair in Competition Law at Tilburg Law School. Before joining the EUI in 2010, Giorgio Monti taught law at the University of Leicester (1993-2001) and at the London School of Economics (2001-2010). He received his legal training in the United Kingdom. While Monti’s main research focus is in the field of competition law, he has also engaged in research projects in fields ranging from feminist legal studies, to commercial law, to compara-tive tort law. During his stay in Tilburg as Ronald Coase Professor, Professor Monti collaborated with TILEC researchers working in the area of competition policy and innovation. In addition, he shared his knowledge and expertise with TILEC PhD researchers and prospective PhD students by providing extensive feedback on their doctoral projects. Professor Monti also delivered guest lectures in the advanced competition law classes offered by TILEC at the Tilburg Law School, and gave a presentation titled ‘Excessive pricing: Competition Law in Shared Regulatory Space’ at TILEC Seminars. The Ronald Coase Chair in Law and Economics was established in 2008. The late Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences Ronald Coase (1910-2013), globally renowned for his pioneering and inspiring work on institutional economics, and transaction costs in particular, gave his personal consent to the establishment of the Chair

The holder of the 2017 Ronald Coase Visiting Professorship was Mark Schankerman, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. During his time with TILEC, Professor Schankerman gave a series of lectures on the topic “Patent rights and innovation: From evidence to policy”, where he discussed recent research on five inter-related subject matters: 1) technology and product market spillovers and their implications; 2) the impact of patents on innovation and knowledge diffusion; 3) the impact of patents on capital market access and the market for technology; 4) the impact of patents on cumulative innovation; and 5) the effectiveness of the patent screening process and its policy implications.

The first holder of the Chair for 2016 was Professor Lisa Bernstein from the University of Chicago Law School, who visited Tilburg in June 2016. In addition to giving a seminar on the topic “Beyond relational contracts: social capital and network governance in procurement contracts”, Professor Bernstein hosted a PhD workshop on “Presenting American style”, in which TILEC junior members had the opportunity to present their research projects and receive feedback.