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Economics Of Contracts

2 credits

6/2008

 

Professor Francesco Parisi

University of Milan

ITALY

 

 

 

After a brief review of the methodology and instruments of economic analysis, this course utilizes the standard tools of economic analysis for the study of contract law. The first part of the seminar reviews some of the basic concepts of economic analysis, including the following: (i) Coase theorem; (ii) models of market failure; (iii) uncertainty and risk-aversion; and (iv) strategic behavior and basic game theory as they apply to contract law and contract formation. The second part of the seminar applies the above tools to the study of formal and informal contracts with special focus on: (i) contracts without contract law; (ii) functions of contract law; (iii) breach and optimal remedies in contracts; and (iv) contracts and property.

 

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