Contract Law And Economics

Author : Gerrit de Geest
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849806640

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Contract Law and Economics by Gerrit de Geest Pdf

This unique and timely book offers an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive review of the economic literature on contract law. The topical chapters written by leading international scholars include: precontractual liability, misrepresentation, duress, gratuitous promises, gifts, standard form contracts, interpretation, contract remedies, penalty clauses, impracticability and foreseeability. Option contracts, warranties, long-term contracts, marriage contracts, franchise contracts, quasi-contracts, behavioral approaches, and civil contract law are also discussed. This excellent resource on contract law and economics will be particularly suited to contract law scholars, law teachers, policy makers, and judges. For experts in and practitioners of contract law this will be a key book to buy.

Author : Gerrit de Geest
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849806640

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Contract Law and Economics by Gerrit de Geest Pdf

This unique and timely book offers an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive review of the economic literature on contract law. The topical chapters written by leading international scholars include: precontractual liability, misrepresentation, duress, gratuitous promises, gifts, standard form contracts, interpretation, contract remedies, penalty clauses, impracticability and foreseeability. Option contracts, warranties, long-term contracts, marriage contracts, franchise contracts, quasi-contracts, behavioral approaches, and civil contract law are also discussed. This excellent resource on contract law and economics will be particularly suited to contract law scholars, law teachers, policy makers, and judges. For experts in and practitioners of contract law this will be a key book to buy.

Author : Victor P. Goldberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521349206

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Readings in the Economics of Contract Law by Victor P. Goldberg Pdf

This collection brings together some of the main contributions to an important area of this work, the economics of contract law.

Author : Eric Brousseau,Jean-Michel Glachant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521893135

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The Economics of Contracts by Eric Brousseau,Jean-Michel Glachant Pdf

A 2002 survey of economics of contracts appealing to scholars in economics, management and law.

Author : Douglas G. Baird
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064173763

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Economics of Contract Law by Douglas G. Baird Pdf

This important volume presents a rich collection of ideas on and insights into the law and economics of contracts. It includes material relevant to a large number of legal fields. Many of the articles are classics that have, over the years, become focal points for continuing debate; others provide an easily accessible account of particular areas. The editor's comprehensive introduction provides an overview of law and economics scholarship in contracts over the past few decades and a portal into an evolving field. Topics include: the economics of contracting; efficient breach and renegotiation; expectation damages and its alternatives; default rules and mass markets.

Author : Oren Bar-Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199663361

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Seduction by Contract by Oren Bar-Gill Pdf

Seduction by Contract explains how consumer contracts emerge from market forces and consumer psychology. Consumers' predictable mistakes - they are short-sighted, optimistic, and imperfectly rational - compel sellers to compete by hiding the true costs of products in complex, misleading contracts. Only better law can overcome the market's failure.

Author : Mitja Kovač
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Contracts
ISBN : 1849809739

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Comparative Contract Law and Economics by Mitja Kovač Pdf

Comparative Contract Law and Economics provides a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between the legal systems of France, England, the US and Germany in terms of contract law. The application of the economically inspired optimal model rule as a uniform term of comparison provides valuable insights into the pre-contractual duties of disclosure, the phenomena of unforeseen contingencies and the unilateral termination of contracts. The objective evaluation method enriches traditional comparative contract law by enabling further qualitative assessment. The book offers ample opportunities for further research and for 'better' law making, legislation and jurisprudence. Moreover, it enables comparative contract law to offer clear-cut, objective recommendations on the possible improvements of legal rules or decisions. This well-documented book will appeal to postgraduate students and scholars of law and economics, and comparative law. Judges and law practitioners will also find much to interest them in this pioneering volume. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Pre-contractual Duty to Disclose Information 3. Unforeseen Contingencies 4. Unilateral Termination 5. Summary and Conclusions References Index

Author : Sugata Bag
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319652689

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Economic Analysis of Contract Law by Sugata Bag Pdf

This book examines the main issues arising in economic analysis of contract law with special attention given to the incomplete contracts. It discusses both the main features of contract law as they relate to the problem of economic exchange, and how the relevant legal rules and the institutions can be analysed from an economic perspective. Evaluate the welfare impacts, analyses the effects and the desirability of different breach remedies and examines the optimal incentive structure of party-designed liquidated damages under the different dimensions of informational asymmetry. Overall the book aims to contribute to the legal debate over the adoption of the specific breach remedies when the breach victim’s expectation interest is difficult to assess, and to the debate over courts' reluctance to implement large penalties in the event of breach of contracts.

Author : Eyal Zamir,Doron Teichman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199945481

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The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law by Eyal Zamir,Doron Teichman Pdf

The past twenty years have witnessed a surge in behavioral studies of law and law-related issues. These studies have challenged the application of the rational-choice model to legal analysis and introduced a more accurate and empirically grounded model of human behavior. This integration of economics, psychology, and law is breaking exciting new ground in legal theory and the social sciences, shedding a new light on age-old legal questions as well as cutting edge policy issues. The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Law brings together leading scholars of law, psychology, and economics to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of this field of research, including its strengths and limitations as well as a forecast of its future development. Its 29 chapters organized in four parts. The first part provides a general overview of behavioral economics. The second part comprises four chapters introducing and criticizing the contribution of behavioral economics to legal theory. The third part discusses specific behavioral phenomena, their ramifications for legal policymaking, and their reflection in extant law. Finally, the fourth part analyzes the contribution of behavioral economics to fifteen legal spheres ranging from core doctrinal areas such as contracts, torts and property to areas such as taxation and antitrust policy.

Author : Victor P. Goldberg,University of Toronto. Faculty of Law. Law and Economics Programme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Contracts
ISBN : OCLC:54935422

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Framing Contract Law by Victor P. Goldberg,University of Toronto. Faculty of Law. Law and Economics Programme Pdf

Author : Wenqing Liao
Publisher : Ius Commune: European and Comparative Law Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Breach of contract
ISBN : 1780683561

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The Application of the Theory of Efficient Breach in Contract Law by Wenqing Liao Pdf

This book analyses the theory of efficient breach in English sales law, European Union contract law and Chinese contract law. It analyses the framework of the efficient breach theory and reconsiders the implications of this theory. According to the traditional efficient breach theory, the remedy of expectation damages is able to motivate efficient breach, which brings the breaching party economic surplus without making the non-breaching party worse off. The essential problems are how to motivate contract parties to make rational decisions and how to solve cases where performance of a contract turns out to be less efficient after its conclusion. The second part of the book further extends the efficient breach theory to the study of contract law systems by analysing how exactly those laws react to breach and what solutions are adopted by them. The comparison of these three systems is more than a mere description of the differences and similarities in the content. More importantly, this comparative research also analyses whether or not the differences between these systems will influence the level of efficiency produced by each legal system by taking account of the different traditions and the concepts of contracts involved in each legal system. Researchers in contract law will also be interested in this approach, particularly for re-thinking the question of whether one legal system is definitely better or worse than the other two. (Series: Ius Commune Europaeum - Vol. 142) Subject: Contract Law, Sales Law, European Law, Chinese Law, International Law]

Author : Victor P. Goldberg
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781783471546

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Rethinking Contract Law and Contract Design by Victor P. Goldberg Pdf

Contract law allows parties to set their own rules within constraints. It provides a set of default rules and if the parties do not like them, they can change them. Rethinking Contract Law and Contract Design explores various long-standing contract doc

Author : Margaret F. Brinig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674002164

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From Contract to Covenant by Margaret F. Brinig Pdf

This is a systematic account of the law and economics of the American family. It explores the implications of economics for family law--divorce, adoption, breach of promise, surrogacy, prenuptial agreements, custody arrangements--and its limitations, and introduces the idea of covenant to consider the role of love, trust, and fidelity.

Author : Boudewijn Bouckaert,Gerrit de Geest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Contracts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061902727

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Essays in Law and Economics II by Boudewijn Bouckaert,Gerrit de Geest Pdf

Selection of (anonymously refereed) papers presented at the Fifth Belgian Workshop on Law & Economics ... held at Ghent March 4, 1994.

Author : A. Mitchell Polinsky,Steven Shavell
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Droit
ISBN : 9780444531209

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Handbook of law and economics by A. Mitchell Polinsky,Steven Shavell Pdf

"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. 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."--[Source inconnue].