Lecture Celebrating 10 Years of IEL 
MAY 27, 2013, 03:00 p.m.
Litigation as a Measure of Well-Being
Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law School & IEL Programme
with the participation of
Gianmari Ajani, Angelo Cappetti, Elisa Luciano and Giovanni Ramello
details here
paper here
The common perception is that high or growing litigation rates in a country are a sign of societal pathology. Studies of litigation rates, however, consistently report that lawsuit filings per capita increase with economic prosperity, thus suggesting that litigation rates are a natural consequence of prosperity and not necessarily evidence of an overly litigious populace. India’s substantial interstate variation in litigation rates and in economic and noneconomic measures of well-being provide an opportunity to evaluate the relation between well-being and litigation rates.
Using many years of data on civil filings in India’s lower courts and High Courts, we present evidence that more prosperous states have higher civil litigation rates. We also report the first evidence that accounting for noneconomic well-being, as measured by the education and life expectancy components of the Human Development Index, explains litigation rate patterns better than using a purely economic measure of well-being, GDP per capita. Despite India’s continuing economic growth, we present data that indicates India’s enormous and growing civil case backlog has discouraged civil case filings in recent years. These findings raise the question whether India’s future economic growth will be compromised if courts at all levels, particularly lower courts, do not resolve disputes more quickly
The Lecture is organized by the IEL International Programme in cooperation with the Master in Finance and the support of the Unione Ex-convittori Real Collegio Carlo Alberto.
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Thesis Defence Sessions 2013
May 15, 2013, 16:00, at Collegio Carlo Alberto
Jinshan Zhu
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May 24, 2013, 09:30 at Università di Torino (Facoltà di Economia)
Pavol Minarik
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IEL Thesis Award
We are pleased
to announce that Mr. Jinshan Zhu who is going to defend his thesis on May 15, 2013 at Collegio Carlo Alberto was awarded the Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Students Studying Abroad by the China Scholarship Council for his research work on clean development mechanism.
Details (in Chinese) are available here
IEL Thesis Award
We are pleased
to announce that Dr. Katharina Stepping who successfully defended her PhD thesis
at IEL in February 2012 was awarded the Maxwell Fry Development Finance Essay
Prize at the Maxwell Fry Development Finance Workshop for postgraduate research
students, held at the Birmingham Business School,
University of Birmingham, October 2012 for her
doctoral research.
Dr. Stepping is currently researcher at the Dept. Environmental Policy and Management
of Natural Resources / Abt. Umweltpolitik und Ressourcenmanagement German
Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn,
Germany.
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IEL Call for Applications 2013
The call for application has been finally published by the Università di Torino
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Thesis Defence Sessions 2012
February 23, 2012, 9:30, at Collegio Carlo Alberto
Aide Mazurkeviciute
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February 24, 2012, 12:00 at Phillips University, Marburg
Katharina Stepping
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February 24, 2012, 12:00 at Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria
Roberto Ippoliti
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SIEPI 2012 Prize for PhD
Aide Mazurkeviciute, a 4
rd year IEL PhD candidate, who was already selected by the Italian Society for Industrial Economics and Policy (
SIEPI)
in the top 4 shortlist of the best theses focusing on industrial
economics and policy topics, has then won the 2nd price with the
work on "Determinants of the European price-fixing cartels' duration: focus on internal cartel organization" during the
SIEPI annual conference held at the Università di Perugia, January 26-27. We are proud to this is the second year that a IEL candidate awards a SIEPI prize.
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IEL organizer of the SIDE - ISLE 2011 Conference
The ITALIAN SOCIETY OF LAW AND ECONOMICS welcomes submissions
on any topic regarding the economic analysis of law for its seventh annual conference
to be held in Turin (Italy) on
December 16-17, 2011.
The IEL programme is the organizer.
details can be found
here.
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IEL Seminars
May 16, 2011, 15:00 p.m. at Collegio Carlo Alberto
The Creation of Law by the European Court of Justice: A Comparative and Analytical Approach
Juergen G. Backhaus, Erfurt Universitat
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Thesis Defence Sessions Spring 2011
April 15, 2011 at Collegio Carlo Alberto
Josef Montag
April 27, 2011 at Collegio Carlo Alberto
Boris Mamlyuk
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IEL Seminars
March 16, 2011, 15:30 p.m. at Collegio Carlo Alberto
(1) Coase Theorem and the Corporate Governance
Bertrand Lemennicier, Université de Paris II
(2) Slavery and Freedom. Reasons and Consequencesof the Use of Rewards
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, University of Amsterdam
Chair: Enrico Colombatto, IEL
paper
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SIEPI Prize for PhD NEW
Roberto Ippoliti,
3rd year IEL PhD candidate, who was already selected by the Italian Society for Industrial Economics and Policy (
SIEPI) in the top 4 shortlist of the best theses focusing on industrial economics and policy topics, has then won ithe first price with the work entitled "Pharmaceutical clinical research. An empirical work on the European market of human experimentation" during the
SIEPI annual conference held at the Università La Sapienza, Rome, January 27-28,
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New Faculty Members 2011
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IEL Call for Applications 2011
The call for application has been finally published by the
Università di Torino.
The English
version and the
call are
available.
The
Italian version is found
here with the
call
IMPORTANT: please be advised that besides the PhD positions within the University of Torino, there are also positions issued by other
partner Universities that will give equally access to IEL programme. For details please write to the
coordinator
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IEL Lecture 2010
May 25, 2010, 9:30 a.m.
The Roots of the U.S. Financial Crisis
and the Ensuing "Too Big To Fail" Debate
Frederic M. Scherer
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
details here
paperhere
This lecture examines various facets of the “too big to fail” debate. It will note that in the current context, “too big to fail” may imply systemic risks from large financial institution size, compensating economies of scale, political power, and (within narrower markets) power to set prices above competitive levels. It will examine three stylized facts: the contours of the recent merger wave among financial institutions, the concomitant increase in the concentration of financial institution assets, and the impressive rise in financial institutions’ profits as a share of all U.S. corporate profits,. It will argue that rising aggregate concentration of financial institutions’ assets may imply rise in the power to set above-competitive prices in individual relevant banking markets – i.e., in segments of what economists call “product characteristics space.” There is not much solid economic evidence on this last conjecture for investment banking firms, but supporting evidence from the large number of studies focusing on commercial banks is marshaled. The evidence on economies of scale is also imperfect, but it implies that breakup of the largest banks need not cause great efficiency losses.
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IEL Open Day
May 25, 2010
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IEL Seminars 2010
April 27, 2010, 11:00 a.m. at Collegio Carlo Alberto
The evolution of cooperation
Sergio Beraldo, Università degli studi di Napoli "Federico II"
June 17, 2010, 11:00 a.m. at Collegio Carlo Alberto
A behavioral analysis on copyright infringement
Matteo Migheli, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, CIPESS
Thesis Defence Sessions 2010
April 26, 2010 at Collegio Carlo Alberto
Branko Radulovic
Elisa Salvador
Slavisa Tasic
May 7, 2010 at Collegio Carlo Alberto
Tatsiana Biletskaya
Xiaoqian Hu
Golnoosh Hakimdavar
Francesca Strumia