Sofia Amaral-Garcia is a Research Fellow at i3health (Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation in Healthcare)/ECARES at the Universitè libre de Bruxelles. Her broad research interests are in empirical law and economics, health economics, and comparative law. Sofia’s research focuses on incentives and innovation in healthcare, and how these impact the behavior of physicians or patients. Some of her projects aim at assessing how the interactions between pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and physicians, affect medical treatments, drugs’ prescriptions and firms’ strategy. Other projects concentrate on how to foster innovation in healthcare, namely in rare diseases. Her projects in law & economics focus on judicial behavior, medical malpractice, quantification of damages, and administrative courts.

Sofia has a B.A. in Economics and a Master’s in Public Policy and Administration from Nova School of Business and Economics, and a Ph.D. in Law & Economics from Erasmus University of Rotterdam/University of Bologna. She is also an external affiliate at HEDG (Health Econometrics and Data Group) University of York, and a research fellow at KU Leuven. Before joining ULB she was at DIW Berlin, New York University, ETH Zurich and Hasselt University. Sofia also advised the OECD on topics such as the efficiency of judicial systems and fighting corruption.

Lucia Dalla Pellegrina is Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Business Strategies (DEMS) of the University of Milano-Bicocca. She is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology and Social Sciences (CISEPS) and member of the Center for European Studies (CefES), University of Milano-Bicocca, Research Fellow of the Baffi-Carefin Center, Bocconi University, and Associate researcher at the Center for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi), Brussels. In 2005 he received a Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University in 2005. Her research interests focus on credit, microfinance and empirical legal studies.

Nuno Garoupa is Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development & Faculty Director of Graduate Studies. Previously, he taught at Texas A&M University School of Law (2015-2018), University of Illinois College of Law (2007-2015), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (2001-2007) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (1998-2001). He also served as President of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Lisbon, Portugal (2014-2016). Professor Garoupa received his PhD in Economics from the University of York (UK), also holds an LLM from the University of London (UK).

He has a long established research interest in the economics of law and legal institutions, empirical legal studies and comparative judicial politics. He has served as President of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (2017-2021), Vice-President of the European Association of Law and Economics (2004-2007), Member of the Boards of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (2006-2009) and of the Latin America and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (2009-2011), and co-editor of the Review of Law and Economics (2004-2010) and of the International Review of Law and Economics (2012-2020). He has been awarded the Spanish Julián Marías Research Prize (2010) and the NSF Award in Law and Social Science (2017) for a conference project on “Facilitating Empirical Studies of Judicial Behavior on Constitutional Courts from a Comparative Perspective.”

Veronica Grembi is an Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of Milan, Department of Economics, where she landed after working as Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen Business School and Associate Professor at the University of Reggio Calabria. Her main fields of interest are health economics, political economy, and public economics. By applying quasi-experimental identification strategies, she has addressed different research questions about legal rules in the healthcare sector (e.g., medical malpractice), cost allocation in the litigation process, public policies on the decisions of subnational governments (e.g., fiscal rules), and political bias in the judicial decision making process (e.g., Constitutional Courts). More recently, she has been working on the role of patients in affecting medical treatment selection and the migration of physicians within Europe. She has been granted a Fulbright Scholarship (cohort 2019/20) to visit the CHW.

Rok Spruk is Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana. Prior to assistant professorship, he completed the post-doctoral research fellowship at the School of Economics and Business (University of Ljubljana). In 2016, he completed the PhD in quantitative economic history under the supervision of prof. dr. Jan Luiten van Zanden, and was a research assistant at the Department of Economic and Social History at Utrecht University. In 2020, he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Western Australia. His research on institutional transformation and the origins of world income distribution was named as one of the most influential articles on institutions and economic development by Edward Elgar. His research interests include new institutional economics, economic growth and development, applied econometrics, and economic history. He is a member of Econometric Society, American Economic Association, Austrian Society for New Institutional Economics and Society for Empirical Legal Studies.