Front cover

Handbook of Law and Economics

Copyright page

Introduction to the Series

Contents of the Handbook

Preface

Contents of Volume 2

Part II: Additional Areas of the Legal System-continued

Chapter 12. Corporate Law and Governance

1. Introduction

2. Historical origins: A brief sketch

3. Why corporate governance is currently such a prominent issue

4. Conceptual framework

5. Models

6. Comparative perspectives and debates

7. Empirical evidence and practice

8. Recent developments

9. Conclusion

References

Chapter 13. Empirical Studies of Corporate Law

1. Introduction

2. A guide to event studies

3. Econometric issues: endogeneity in corporate governance and performance studies

4. Empirical research in corporate law

5. Conclusion

References

Chapter 14. Bankruptcy Law

1. Introduction

Part A: Corporate bankruptcy

2. Legal background-corporate bankruptcy law

3. Research on corporate bankruptcy-theory

4. Research on corporate bankruptcy-empirical work

Part B: Personal bankruptcy

5. Legal background-personal bankruptcy law

6. Trends in personal bankruptcy filings

7. Research on personal bankruptcy-theory

8. Research on personal and small business bankruptcy-empirical work

References

Chapter 15. Antitrust

1. Introduction

2. Market power

3. Collusion

4. Horizontal mergers

5. Monopolization

6. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Cases

Chapter 16. Regulation of Natural Monopoly

1. Introduction

2. Definitions of natural monopoly

3. Why regulate natural monopolies?

4. Historical and legal foundations for price regulation

5. Alternative regulatory institutions

6. Price regulation by a fully informed regulator

7. Cost of service regulation: response to limited information

8. Incentive regulation: theory

9. Measuring the effects of price and entry regulation

10. Competitive entry and access pricing

11. Conclusions

References

Chapter 17. Employment Law

1. Framework

2. Workplace safety mandates

3. Compensation systems for workplace injuries

4. Workplace privacy mandates

5. Fringe benefits mandates

6. Targeted mandates

7. Wrongful discharge laws

8. Unemployment insurance systems

9. Minimum wage rules

10. Overtime pay requirements

11. Conclusion

References

Chapter 18. Antidiscrimination Law

1. Introduction

2. The contours of antidiscrimination law

3. Theories of discrimination

4. Should private discrimination be prohibited?

5. Discrimination versus disparities

6. Measuring the extent of discrimination

7. Antidiscrimination law in practice

8. The impact of antidiscrimination law on black economic welfare

9. Discrimination on the basis of sex

10. Discrimination in credit and consumer markets

11. Criminal justice and racial profiling

12. Conclusion

References

Chapter 19. Intellectual Property Law

1. Promoting innovation

2. Protecting integrity of the market

Acknowledgements

References

Part III: Other Topics

Chapter 20. Norms and the Law

1. Introduction

2. Defining ``norms''

3. How norms work

4. The importance of norms to legal analysis

5. Specific applications

6. Conclusion: the state of research on norms

References

Chapter 21. Experimental Study of Law

1. Introduction

2. Motivation and methodology for experimental law and economics

3. Applications

4. Looking ahead

References

Further Reading

Chapter 22. The Political Economy of Law

1. Introduction

2. Schools of legal thought

3. Elections, representation and democratic legitimacy

4. The Positive theory of legislative politics

5. The President

6. The bureaucracy

7. The courts

8. PPT of law: concluding observations

References

Author Index of Volume 2

Subject Index of Volume 2