CIDEEFF has been established to foster research on economic-legal challenges raised by the lack of democratic global governance and increasing asymmetry, the need to ensure the provision of global public goods and market failures, and the extent to which the European governance model, minus the pitfalls surrounding its recent performance, should be seen as an example for worldwide governance. Due to Portugal’s strategic geographical location and the outstanding academic research record of the Institutes, its integrated and associated members, CIDEEFF is in a privileged position to focus on New Paradigms between Law and Economics.
Located within the FDUL premises, the Centre consists of integrated members and research associates including from foreign institutions. In recent years, the ongoing effort of the Institutes to strengthen international relations and competitiveness has resulted in a gathering, in Portugal, of experienced and dedicated researchers. Several additional international researchers establish a greater degree of mobility by collaborating and participating in seminars, international conferences, publishing papers in journals and books.
Furthermore, to facilitate applied research as one of the main aims steering the activities of the Centre - professionals, from academic and business worlds, with established skills in the research field also continuously assist and impart their knowledge to the Centre.
In line with the above, the Centre has been organized in a single line of investigation and further sub-divided into four research groups. CIDEEFF’s primary research focus remain on The New Paradigms of the Relation between Law and Economics whereby it explores the multidisciplinary dimension of the major economic-legal and policy topics that will determine economic-legal global governance in the next decade.
These groups by focusing the research on areas such as taxes, international trade, regulation, supervision and financial stability aim to bring to light the major economic-legal challenges and constraints to global governance and the tension between regional, national and international standards, developed and developing countries, BRICS, Lusophone countries, countries rich in natural resources and others.
CIDEEFF has an ambitious agenda of bringing together related fields of economic regional integration and the economies in an open and globalized world, the challenges that the lack of democratic world or regional governance have brought to a small economy (such as the Portugal) and the existing policy options for the period 2020-2024.