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Description
Law can be viewed as a body of rules and legal sanctions that channel behavior in socially desirable directions — for example, by encouraging individuals to take proper precautions to prevent accidents or by discouraging competitors from colluding to raise prices. The incentives created by the legal system are thus a natural subject of study by economists. Moreover, given the importance of law to the welfare of societies, the economic analysis of law merits prominent treatment as a subdiscipline of economics. This two volume Handbook is intended to foster the study of the legal system by economists.
Key Features
*The two volumes form a comprehensive and accessible survey of the current state of the field.
*Chapters prepared by leading specialists of the area.
*Summarizes received results as well as new developments.
Readership
Advanced graduate students, researchers and professionals interested in Economics, Law and their interaction.
Table of Contents
12. Corporate Law and Governance
Marco Becht (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Patrick Bolton (Department of Economics, Columbia University)
Ailsa Röell (Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University)
13. Empirical Study of Corporate Law
Sanjai Bhagat (School of Business, University of Colorado)
Roberto Romano (Yale Law School)
14. Bankruptcy Law
Michelle White (Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego)
15. Antitrust
Louis Kaplow (Harvard Law School)
Carl Shapiro (Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley)
16. Regulation of Natural Monopoly
Paul Joskow (Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
17. Employment Law
Christine Jolls (Yale Law School)
18. Antidiscrimination Law
John J. Donohue III (Yale Law School)
19. Intellectual Property Law
Peter Menell (School of Law, University of California, Berkeley)
Suzanne Scotchmer (School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley)
20. Norms and the Law
Richard McAdams (School of Law, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)
Eric Rasmusen (School of Business, Indiana University)
21. Experimental Study of Law
Colin Camerer (School of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology)
Eric Talley (School of Law, University of California, Berkeley)
22. The Political Economy of Law
McGol
Details
- No. of pages:
- 980
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © 2007
- Published:
- 7th November 2007
- Imprint:
- North Holland
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780080554235
- Print ISBN:
- 9780444531209
About the editors
A. Mitchell Polinsky
Affiliations and Expertise
Stanford University, CA, U.S.A.
Steven Shavell
Affiliations and Expertise
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.