Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci is Professor of Law & Economics and Director of the PhD Program in Legal Studies at the University of Amsterdam, a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He works at the intersection of law, economics and history. In 2018-2020 he served as the president of the European Association of Law & Economics. He is the recipient of the Oliver E. Williamson Prize for best article published in the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization in 2017, the American Law & Economics Association prize for the most outstanding paper published in the American Law & Economics Review in 2014, and the VIDI research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) in 2007.

Smart Contracts Are Shifting Property Rights and Risk

In a forthcoming paper in the Yale Journal on Regulation, Stefan Bechtold, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Edoardo Martino, and Gideon Parchomovsky examine how smart contracts are transforming financial contracting by creating enforceable rights that bind third parties without the legal formalities property law has always required. This “property without law” phenomenon enhances financial efficiency while exposing the public to systemic risks beyond the reach of existing regulation.

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