Graduated Students

ALVES CHACHA Lucas

Thesis title

Non-trial Resolutions for Corruption Crimes and the Brazilian Case

Defence date

26 March 2026

CIACCHI Silvia

Thesis Title

Mandatory Sustainability Due Diligence: Normative foundations, operating principles and economic perspectives on legal design

Defence date

17 July 2026

2025

KATDARE Mrinmayi

Thesis title

Precautionary Principle: does it play a role in EU decision-making?

Defence date

6 February 2025

VAN HEUSDEN Adrianus

Thesis title

Taking Marketing Seriously: A Law and Economics Analysis of Personalized Marketing in the Digital Age

Defence date

13 March 2025

PAOLINI Gabriele

Thesis title

Plea Bargaining and Penal Orders: An Empirical Approach to Disappearing Criminal Trials

Defence date

28 March 2025

Link to personal website

SY Youssoufa

Thesis title

Political Legislation Cycles. A comparative approach

Defence date

2 October 2025

DINI Giorgio

Thesis title

Experiments and Insights on Climate-Relevant Behaviours

Defence date

20 November 2025

2024

AUBRECHT Paul

Thesis title

Ex ante Contracts to Arbitrate Tort Claims. A Law and Economics Perspective

Defence date

11 January 2024

WELLS Liam

Thesis title

Transatlantic Regulatory Divergence in Pharmaceuticals: Exploring economic and cultural explanations

Defence date

30 May 2024

LEUCCI Francesca

Thesis title

Law and Economics of Environmental Damage Assessment

Defence date

19 June 2024

KOVÁCS Anna

Thesis title

Against all odds. Mobilization for large-scale collective action in the case of climate change

Defence date

5 December 2024

2023

PENG Kuan-Jung

Thesis title

Regulating FinTech: The perspectives of law, economics, and technology

Defence date

2 February 2023

GOLDHAHN Laurenz

Thesis title

Incentives, Sustainability and Law: The relationship between executive pay regulation and corporate social responsibility

Defence date

10 February 2023

RIQUELME RUZ Carlos

Thesis title

Reconciling the Irreconcilable? Sovereign Debt Restructuring and the Principles of International Law: A Law and Economics Perspective

Defence date

9 March 2023

Link to thesis

Link to personal website

Link to personal website-2

2022

FOCACCI Chiara Natalie

Thesis title

Framing Active Labour Market Policy

Defence date

4 February 2022

ESSINK Jan

Thesis title

The Allocation of Asylum Responsibilities in the EU: A Law & Economics Analysis

Defence date

19 May 2022

MUHAMMAD RASHWAN Eman

Thesis title

Transitional Justice as a Post-Revolution Constitutional Arrangement: A Law and Economics Approach

Defence date

20 May 2022

FOUDA Ayman

Thesis title

Multi-Principal Agency and the Compliance with Professional Guidelines in Health Systems: Economic and Regulatory Perspectives

Defence date

20 October 2022

2021

LI Shu

Thesis title

The Quest for Product Safety in the Context of 3D Printing: A Law and Economics Analysis

Defence date

12 February 2021

DE CAMPOS Maria

Thesis title

At the Intersection of Behavioural Economics, Nudging and Regulation: Rethinking the process of nudge design for regulation

Defence date

26 February 2021

GHIBELLINI Elena

Thesis title

Bank Crisis Management and State Aid in the EU: A comparative Law and Economics analysis of bank resolution, precautionary recapitalisation and bank liquidation

Defence date

1 April 2021

WESSELHOEFFT Gustavo Federico

Thesis title

Project Finance Contracts - Strategic analyses for legal institutionalisation

Defence date

21 May 2021

RIEFF Joé

Thesis title

National Identities and Common Policies – A case study of the European Union

Defence date

3 June 2021

SACCO Maria Pia

Thesis title

The Role of Intermediaries in International Corporate Bribery

Defence date

5 November 2021

JIANG Jian

Thesis title

Vulnerabilities, Cybersecurity, and the Role of Law and Regulation herein

Defence date

11 November 2021

Link to thesis

Link to personal website

2020

CAPORALE MADI Maria Fernanda

Thesis title

Regulating Vertical Agreements: A comparative Law & Economics analysis of Brazil and Europe

Defence date

29 June 2020

HEINE Dirk

Thesis title

Challenges and Solutions to Environmental Tax Reforms

Defence date

9 July 2020

MARTINO Edoardo

Thesis title

Bank Governance and the Bail-in in the EU: A Law & Finance analysis on the role of bail-inable creditors

Defence date

10 September 2020

Link to personal websit

REYES Renny

Thesis title

Better Regulation in Latin American Countries: A tool for accountability?

Defence date

2 October 2020

VESHI Denard

Thesis title

Refugee Flow: A Law and Economics approach

Defence date

19 November 2020

An Economic Analysis of Judicial Performance - Erasmus University Rotterdam

2019

FAUVRELLE Thiago

Thesis title

An Economic Analysis of Judicial Performance

Defence date

10 January 2019

Link to thesis

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tafauvrelle/

RODA Filippo

Thesis title

The Economic Analysis of the One-way Fee-shifting Rule in Litigation

Defence date

25 January 2019

Link to thesis

Search everything - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/filippo-roda

BILLION Stephen

Thesis title

Regulating Retirement Savings: An Evolutionary Psychology Approach

Defence date

31 January 2019

Link to thesis

Regulating retirement savings: An evolutionary psychology approach - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-billion

JAMEEL Ifrah

Thesis title

The Impact of Capital Regulation on Bank Involvement in Securitized Banking

Defence date

31 January 2019

Link to thesis

Search everything - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ifrah-jameel/

EL FAR Mostafa

Thesis title

International Investment Law and Domestic Legislations in the MENA region: Egypt, Jordan and Morocco

Defence date

31 January 2019

Link to thesis

International Investment Law and Domestic : Legislations in MENA: Egypt, Jordan and Morocco - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mostafa-elfar

HIRANG Gemelee

Thesis title

The Persistence of Non-Tariff Measures in ASEAN

Defence date

28 February 2019

Link to Thesis

The Persistence of Non-Tariff Measures in ASEAN - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gghirang/

KHAN Bryan Kareem

Thesis title

An Economic Analysis of the Intellectual Property Rights of Broadcasting Organisations

Defence date

28 February 2019

Link to thesis

An Economic Analysis of the Intellectual Property Rights of Broadcasting Organisations - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryankhan/

LAN Chih-Ching

Thesis title

A Law and Economics Analysis of Policy Instruments to Prevent Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Tropics

Defence date

24 May 2019

Link to thesis

A Law and Economics Analysis of Policy Instruments to Prevent Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Tropics - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chih-ching-lan

WEISS Akiva

Thesis title

Allocation & Integration: Institutional solutions to the European Union's Refugee Crisis

Defence date

12 September 2019

Link to thesis

Allocation & Integration: Institutional solutions to the European Union's refugee crisis - Erasmus University Rotterdam

2018

NASEER Shaheen

Thesis title

The Policy Choices of Bureaucrats: An institutional analysis

Defence date

26 January 2018

Link to thesis

The Policy Choices of Bureaucrats: an institutional analysis - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaheen-naseer

DOMINIONI Goran

Thesis title

Accuracy, Gender and Race in Tort Trials: A (Behavioral) Law and Economics perspective

Defence date

9 March 2018

Link to thesis

Accuracy, gender and race in tort trials: a (behavioral) law and economics perspective - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/goran-dominioni

NIEUWESTEEG Bernold

Thesis title

The Law and Economics of Cyber Security

Defence date

25 June 2018

Link to thesis

The Law and Economics of Cyber Security - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernold-nieuwesteeg

JIA Xufeng

Thesis title

Do Home Country Institutions Matter in Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions? The case of China

Defence date

25 June 2018

Link to thesis

Do Home Country Institutions Matter in Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions? : The case of China - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiaxufeng/

YALNAZOV Orlin

Thesis title

Essays on Precedent and Statute

Defence date

25 June 2018

Link to thesis

Essays on Precedent and Statute - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Orlin_Yalnazov

MARZETTI Maximiliano

Thesis title

The Law and Economics of the 'Domaine Public Payant' - A case study of the Argentinian system

Defence date

22 November 2018

Link to thesis

The law and economics of the 'Domaine Public Payant': a case study of the Argentinian system - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxmarzetti/

http://icon.ieseg.fr/dr-maximiliano-marzetti/

ALBURO Ritchelle

Thesis title

Ownership Choice, Contracts and Regulation: Forestalling ownership irrelevance - A Law and Economics perspective

Defence date

22 November 2018

Link to thesis

Ownership choice, contracts and regulation: forestalling ownership irrelevance : a law and economics perspective - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritchelle-j-alburo

2017

MICHEL Stephan

Thesis title

The Process of Constitution-making: A Law and Economics analysis

Defence date

19 January 2017

Link to thesis

The Process of Constitution-Making: a Law and Economics Analysis - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-stephan-michel

CEDENO BREA Enmanuel

Thesis title

The Legal Structure of Commercial Banks and Financial Regulation – Does organizational form matter for the design of bank regulation?

Defence date

02 March 2017

Link to thesis

The Legal Structure of Commercial Banks and Financial Regulation : Does organizational form matter for the design of bank regulation? - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/enmanuel-cede

LIN Min

Thesis title

Law and Economics of Security Interests in Intellectual Property

Defence date

30 March 2017

Link to thesis

Law and Economics of Security Interests in Intellectual Property - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindalinmin

KERK Maximilian

Thesis title

Cooperation and Conflict: A Law and Economics Analysis of Meta-Organizations

Defence date

31 March 2017

Link to thesis

Cooperation and conflict: a Law and Economics Analysis of Meta-Organizations - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkerk

BUITEN Miriam

Thesis title

Harmonisation and the EU Internal Market: A Law and Economics approach

Defence date

8 June 2017

Repub link

https://repub.eur.nl/pub/101133/

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/miriambuiten

GJONCA Etleva

Thesis title

European Competition Policy in Financial Services: Rules & empirical insights

Defence date

30 September 2017

Link to thesis

European Competition Policy in Financial Services: Rules and empirical insights - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/etleva-gjon

ARIF Ahmed

Thesis title

Deciphering Securitisation and Covered Bonds: Economic analysis and regulations

Defence date

11 December 2017

Link to thesis

Deciphering Securitisation and Covered Bonds : Economic analysis and regulations - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-arif

BARBANENTE Giulia

Thesis title

The Relation between Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Rural Households: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania

Defence date

11 December 2017

Link to thesis

The relation between large-scale land acquisitions and rural households: evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/giulia-barbanente

2016

BHATTACHARYA Shilpi

Thesis title

The Bounded Rationality of Firms

Defence date

16 June 2016

Link to thesis

Competition Law and the Bounded Rationality of Firms - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shilpi-bhattacharya

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1603461

GOYAL Yugank

Thesis title

Institutions in Informal Markets

Defence date

16 June 2016

Link to thesis

Institutions in Informal Markets - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yugank-Goyal

https://ccs.in/people/yugank-goyal?width=600&height=500

SAPKAL Rahul Suresh

Thesis title

How Law and Law Enforcement Affect Labour Markets in Developing Countries; An empirical study on India

Defence date

13 October 2016

Link to thesis

How Law and Law Enforcement Affect Labour Markets in Developing Countries; An empirical study on India - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-sapkal

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2246211

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=n6h7dQEAAAAJ&hl=en

2015

FAGOTTO Elena

Thesis title

Industry Food Safety Standards: Public and Private Interest in Food Safety

Defence date

19 March 2015

Link to thesis

Industry Food Safety Standards: Public and Private Interest in Food Safety - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elena-fagotto

http://ash.harvard.edu/people/elena-fagotto

JAKOVLJEVIC Ana

Thesis title

Fighting Corruption with Pyramids: A Law and Economics approach to combating corruption in post-socialist countries

Defence date

19 March 2015

Link to thesis

Fighting Corruption with Pyramids: A Law and Economics approach to corruption combat in post-socialist countries - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-jakovljevic

KAUSHIK Arun Kumar

Thesis title

A Law and Economics Analysis of Trade Secrets: Optimal Scope of Law, Misappropriation and Alternative Damages Regimes

Defence date

19 March 2015

Link to thesis

A Law and Economics Analysis of Trade Secrets: Optimal Scope of Law, Misappropriation and Alternative Damages Regimes - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-arun-kumar-kaushik

http://www.jgu.edu.in/JSLH/faculty/dr-arun-kumar-kaushik

KANTOROWICZ Jaroslaw

Thesis title

Fiscal Constitutions: An empirical approach

Defence date

4 June 2015

Repub link

http://repub.eur.nl/pub/78226

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaros%C5%82aw-kantorowicz

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1599102

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jarostaw_Kantorowicz

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/jaroslaw-kantorowicz

REZNICHENKO Elena

Thesis title

Cost-Effective Criminal Enforcement: A law and economics approach

Defence date

4 June 2015

Repub link

http://repub.eur.nl/pub/78227/

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elena-kantorowicz-reznichenko

http://kantorowicz-reznichenko.weebly.com

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1760564

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elena_Kantorowicz-Reznichenko

WEI Hong

Thesis title

The Determinants of China's Compliance with WTO Rules

Defence date

7 December 2015

Link to thesis

The Determinants of China's Compliance with WTO Rules - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hong-wei

GC DE BRITTO Diogo

Thesis title

Essays on Unemployment Insurance

Defence date

8 December 2015

Link to thesis

Essays on Unemployment Insurance - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/diogo-gerhard-c-britto

https://sites.google.com/site/diogobrittoecon/

MITTLAENDER LEME DE SOUZA Sergio

Thesis title

Equity, Efficiency, and Ethics in Remedies for Breach of Contract: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Defence date

14 December 2015

Repub link

http://repub.eur.nl/pub/79266

Link to personal website

https://direitosp.fgv.br/en/professor/sergio-rubens-mittlaender-leme-de-souza

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=493745

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergio_Mittlaender

REHMAN Faiz Ur

Thesis title

Essays on the Law & Economics of Terrorism in Pakistan

Defence date

14 December 2015

Link to thesis

Essays on the Law and Economics of Terrorism in Pakistan - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/faiz-ur-rehman

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wpZKXggAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.qau.edu.pk/profile.php?id=809023

SUN Huojun (Timothy)

Thesis title

Law, Informal Institutions and Trust - An experimental perspective

Defence date

14 December 2015

Link to thesis

Law, Informal Institutions and Trust - An experimental perspective - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Huojun Sun passed away on 11 January 2018 after losing the fight against cancer.

COFONE Ignacio Nicolás

Thesis title

Privacy Tradeoffs in Information Technology Law

Defence date

18 December 2015

Link to thesis

Privacy Tradeoffs in Information Technology Law - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ignaciocofone

https://www.mcgill.ca/law/about/profs/cofone-ignacio

GUERRA Alice

Thesis title

Essays on The Economic Analysis of Tort Law

Defence date

18 December 2015

Link to thesis

Essays on the Economic Analysis of Tort Law - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Link to personal website

Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/aliceguerrahome

Institutional webpage: http://www.cbs.dk/staff/agudbp

Full-text papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2051106

2014

HANKE Philip

Thesis title

Regulating State Aid: Inter-jurisdictional competition, public choice, and corporate governance

Defence date

24 June 2014

Link to personal website

Link to personal website-2

NABILOU Hossein

Thesis title

The Law and Economics of Hedge Fund Regulation: A Comparison between the U.S. and the EU

Defence date

24 June 2014

Link to personal website

Link to personal website-2

Link to personal website-3

BERTOLI Paola

Thesis Title

Medical Malpractice in Public Healthcare Systems: An empirical investigation of scheduled damages

Defence Date

30 June 2014

LEGER Claire

Thesis title

Sanctions and public enforcement of insider trading laws in Europe

Defence date

30 June 2014

GRABOVETS Kateryna

Thesis title

Organizational Design and Tort Law - A Synthesis of Organizational Studies and the Economic Analysis of Tort Law

Defence date

1 July 2014

KRSMANOVIC Dusko

Thesis title

A Law and Economics Analysis of Lobbying Regulation - Towards an optimal structure through the Cost Indicator Index

Defence date

1 July 2014

MA Jingyuan (Mary)

Thesis title

Comparative Analysis of Merger Control Policy – Lessons for China

Defence date

1 July 2014

Link to personal website

Link to personal website-2

CHAHAR Vijit Singh

Thesis Title

The Influence of Direct Democracy on Agency Costs: Lessons from Corporate Governance

Defence Date

10 October 2014

Link to personal website

Link to personal website-2

BIARD Alexandre

Thesis Title

Judges and Mass Litigation - A (Behavioural) Law & Economics Perspective

Defence Date

15 December 2014

Link to personal website

Link to personal website-2

GOSPODINOV Penio Penev

Thesis title

The Application of European Competition Law in Arbitration Proceedings

Defence date

15 December 2014

FABBRI Marco

Thesis title

Social Welfare and Behavioral Public Policies

Defence date

16 December 2014

HUNT Katherine Helen Mary

Thesis title

Determining the Effect of Regulation on Microfinance Institutions Financial Self-Sustainability - A Cross-Country Comparison

Defence date

16 December 2014

JABOTINSKY Hadar Yoana

Thesis title

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

Defence date

16 December 2014