Contemporary law and economics has greatly expanded its scope of inquiry as well as its sphere of influence. By focussing specifically on a comparative approach, this Handbook offers new insights for developing current law and economics research. It also provides stimuli for further research, exploring the idea that the comparative method offers a valuable way to enrich law and economics scholarship.With contributions from leading scholars from around the world, the Handbook sets the context by examining the past, present and future of comparative law and economics before addressing this approach to specific issues within the fields of intellectual property, competition, contracts, torts, judicial behaviour, tax, property law, energy markets, regulation and environmental agreements.This topical Handbook will be of great interest and value to scholars and postgraduate students of law and economics, looking for new directions in their research. It will also be a useful reference to policy-makers and those working at an institutional level.
Contents:PART I THEORETICAL ISSUES1. The Past, Present and Future of Comparative Law and EconomicsGiovanni B. Ramello2. Markets, Contracts, and Firms: A Unified Model of Organizational ChoiceThomas J. Miceli3. Law, Social Norms, and Standards: Their Nexus with Government and their Impact on the Economic Performance of Nation States Nicholas Mercuro 4. The Market for Legal Innovation: Law and Economics in Europe and the United States, Nuno Garoupa and Thomas S. Ulen 5. Principles, Tolerance and Institutional TorporEnrico ColombattoPART II SELECTED CASES6. Structure and Style in Comparative Property LawYun-chien Chang and Henry E. Smith 7. A Comparative View of Local Tax and Expenditure Limitations and their ConsequencesFederico Revelli8. Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove? Judicial Behavior in Mixed CourtsValerie P. Hans and Anne Jolivet9. Global Competition Law Convergence: Potential Roles for EconomicsDavid J. Gerber10. The Comparative Law and Economics of Energy MarketsGiuseppe Bellantuono 11. A Comparative Law and Economics Analysis of Damages for Patent InfringementThomas F. Cotter 12. The Comparative Economics of International Intellectual Property AgreementsPeter K. Yu13. Copyright and Negligence as Mirror Models: On Not Mistaking for the Right Hand What the Left Hand is DoingWendy J. Gordon14. The Eurozone Crisis, the Defective Policy Response and the Need for Institutional InnovationEnrico Marelli and Marcello SignorelliPART III EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS15. The Effect of Stakes on Settlement: An Empirical Lesson from TaiwanKuo-Chang Huang16. Comparative Judicial Efficiency: Examining Case Disposition in Five Countries' Courts of Last ResortAnthony Kreis, John Szmer and Robert K. Christensen 17. Copyright Law and the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the MoviesIvan P.L. Png and Qiu-hong Wang 18. International Environmental Agreement Effectiveness: A Review of Empirical StudiesKendall A. Houghton and Helen T. Naughton19. The American and the European Market of Human Experimentation, A Comparative Study on Regulation and CompetitivenessAntonella Foddis and Roberto IppolitiIndex
