Empirical Research in the TPF Market

This chapter presents the results of an empirical study conducted by the author of this book as principal investigator in his own capacity as part of this book. The author has not received any funding for this empirical study apart from the financial support of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Graduate School Postgraduate Studentship Fund. The author thanks Professor Bryan Druzin and Professor Fernando Dias Simões, as well as Professor Julian Chaisse, for their constructive feedback. The author also thanks Professor Helena Ruiz Fabri and the community at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law for their feedback and opportunity to present his initial findings from this empirical study at a departmental meeting in December 2021. The author also thanks Professor Deborah Hensler from Stanford Law School, for her invaluable insights and support in his empirical research. Finally, the author thanks all the funders who agreed to be interviewed for the study.