Dr. N.J. Philipsen (Senior Researcher)
Bouillonstraat 3
Room C 2.306B
Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 43 3883256
Fax: + 31 43 3883203
E-mail: niels.philipsen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum vitae
After graduating in economics (specialisations: microeconomics, antitrust policy) Niels Philipsen started a Ph.D. research in the field of law and economics at the Maastricht Institute for Transnational Legal Research (METRO). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in December 2003. Title of the thesis: "Regulation of and by pharmacists in the Netherlands and Belgium: An economic approach". In 2003 Niels Philipsen worked at the European Commission (DG Competition) in Brussels. In Summer 2005 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (USA), and in Spring 2007 he was a “European Visiting Professor” at Peking University in Beijing (China).
From 2004 to 2006 he worked as a researcher in the NWO-programme "Shifts in Governance" and afterwards in various research projects (including contract research for, inter alia, various ministries, European Commission, OECD, insurers, and professional organizations). Niels Philipsen is a member of the Society of Empirical Legal Studies, the European and American Associations of Law and Economics, the European Public Choice Society and the Ius Commune research school. As a university lecturer he teaches and (co-)organizes the courses "Law and Economics", "Business Economics" and “States, Markets and European Integration”.
Selected publications
Philipsen, N.J., “Regulation and Competition in the Legal Profession: Developments in the EU and China”, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, accepted (2009). Advance access published on April 21, 2009, doi:10.1093/joclec/nhp009.
Philipsen, N.J., “Compensation for Industrial Accidents and Incentives for Prevention: A Theoretical and Empirical Perspective”, European Journal of Law and Economics, accepted (2009). Online First published on May 7, 2009, doi: 10.1007/s10657-009-9103-0.
Faure, M.G., Ogus, A.I. and N.J. Philipsen, “Curbing Consumer Financial Losses”, Law & Policy, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2009, 161-191.
N.J. Philipsen, “The Law and Economics of Professional Regulation: What Does the Theory Teach China?”, in: Thomas Eger, Michael Faure & Zhang Naigen (eds.), Economic Analysis of Law in China, Edward Elgar, 2007.
N.J. Philipsen, Regulation of and by Pharmacists in the Netherlands and Belgium: An Economic Approach, Intersentia, Antwerpen-Groningen, 2003.
Expertise
- Regulation of professions
- Law and economics
- Competition law and policy
- Economic analysis of accident law
- Microeconomics
