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Transparancy internetproviders good for consumers
Transparency of broadband works. Increasing transparency about the actual quality of broadband internet is good for consumers and increases quality and efficiency on broadband markets, concluded TILEC researchers Bastian Henze, Florian Schuett and Jasper Sluijs. Their research project was supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs.
The TILEC members conducted an experimental study in a laboratory, comparing various policy scenarios in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are obliged to disclose the actual quality of their service. Nowadays, consumers often only have information about the price and maximum bandwidth of broadband internet, which says little about the actual quality they experience. Results of this research indicate that increased transparency about actual quality leads to stronger competition between ISPs, and increases the quality of broadband.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs supported this TILEC research project as part of its effort to implement the new European directives on electronic communications into Dutch telecommunications law. This research is part of TILEC’s larger research agenda on innovation, competition policy and regulation, and the TILEC researchers involved will use the data and results of this study for a number of academic publications.Register now for The Future of Long-Term Care
You can now register for the first Health Policy workshop on 'The Future of Long-Term Care'. The workshop will be held at the Ministry of VWS (Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport) on Tuesday, 5 October 2010 from 13.00-17.15.
The Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa), the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) and the Tilburg Law and Economic Center of Tilburg University (TILEC) jointly organize a series of 'Health Policy Workshops'. These workshops cover major relevant issues of health care policies in the fields of economics and law, and provide a platform for knowledge exchange and discussion between Dutch policy makers and researchers working in this field.
Wolf Wagner appointed to full professor of economics
Tilburg University has appointed dr. Wolf Wagner to full professor of economics as from 1 July 2010. Wagner is specialized in restructuring of the banking sector. He is affiliated to the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) and to the European Banking Center of Tilburg University.
TILEC Annual Report 2009 now available!
The TILEC Annual Report 2009 is now digitally available on the TILEC website.
Chinese researcher comes to Tilburg with Rubicon grant
The Chinese Audrey Hu will join the Tilburg School of Economics and Management in June for a year-long research project. She can conduct this project with the help of the Rubicon Grant, which was awarded to her by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). NWO has awarded this grant from the Rubicon programme to 33 young, talented researchers in total. Rubicon offers researchers who have completed their doctorates in the past year the chance to gain experience at a top research institution outside the Netherlands, and it offers talented researchers from abroad the opportunity to obtain grants to spend one year conducting research in the Netherlands.
Hu chose the department of Economics of the Tilburg School of Economics and Management for her research project, because for her "Tilburg University is the best I could have hoped for in terms of prestige, research environment and suitability." Hu will spend a year at Tilburg University, conducting research into Anglo-Dutch premium auctions. In premium auctions, the seller pays the highest bidders a premium to encourage competitive bidding. Her project will provide a theoretical and empirical investigation of the most popular Anglo-Dutch premium auction, aiming to understand when and why it is superior. Her host is Professor of Economics Jan Boone. Hu recently finished her PhD thesis Essays on auctions at the Tinbergen Institute of the University of Amsterdam, 13 April 2010
Eric Van Damme in jury KNAW education prize
Professor of Economics Eric van Damme is one of the members of the jury for the 'best education prize' of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW Onderwijsprijs). This prize is awarded to the best VWO subject cluster assignment ( profielwerkstukken) for the subject clusters Culture and Society, Society and Economy, Nature and Health, and Nature and Technology. Van Damme is one of the four members of the jury that judges the contributions for the profile Society and Economy. In total, no less than 186 Dutch secondary schools sent in 481 contributions. It is the second year that the KNAW awards this prize. The prize will be awarded on 15 June 2010, to the winning pupils, teachers, and schools. Press release (in Dutch), 13 April 2010
TILEC research cited by European Court of Justice
Advocate General Mengozzi in the Stoß case (Case C-316/07) cited two pieces of work completed within TILEC's research on the regulation of gambling in his opinion delivered on 4 March 2010.
Firstly, reference was made to the book chapter of Nele Hoekx of K.U. Leuven and her comments on the earlier Gambelli judgment of the ECJ in the book Crime, Addiction and the Regulation of Gambling, which follows a 2008 conference on this topic. The book was edited by Toine Spapens, Alan Littler and Cyrille Fijnaut.
Secondly, Alan Littler's views were referred to as well in the article 'Regulatory Perspectives on the Future of Interactive Gambling in the Internal Market', European Law Review regarding the likelihood of a 'race to the bottom' arising in the gambling sector. It arose in the context of a discussion on mutual recognition and the lack of any harmonisation in the gambling sector.