TILEC 2007 report available

TILEC's annual report for 2007 is now available on the TILEC website. Last year turned out to be a good year for TILEC. With a new budget plan and a second TILEC Agreement signed by the two parent faculties, each of these covering the five-year period 2007-2011, a stable framework for the future was established. Substantial additional funding was provided by the Executive Board of Tilburg University, which allowed TILEC to support the hiring of new researchers in its core research areas. With a membership of over 50, about equally divided between the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (with roughly two-thirds of the researchers working in the research line 'Institutions, Competition and Regulation' and one-third in 'Law and Finance'), TILEC has now reached the critical size that allows for fruitful interactions. Its coming challenge is to further deepen the interdisciplinary cooperation between legal scholars and economists in the fields covered by its research programme. The annual report describes the institutional efforts exerted to that purpose and also contains a summary of recent research findings.