This special edition of Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis offers twenty-three chapters by invited participants in the International Applied Social Science Congress. In these chapters chronical a wide variety of important issues such as: Volatility spillover between...

This special edition of Contemporary Studies in Economics and Financial Analysis offers a selection of carefully curated chapters from invited participants in the International Applied Social Science Congress 4-6 April 2019. In these chapters, expert authors tackle issues across a variety of...

Written by leading experts in the field, each chapter in this book examines in depth a topic in law and economics. John Connor begins by describing and evaluating the results of his extensive survey of reports of cartel overcharges. Dennis Weisman models the price effects of mergers that not...

Introduction to benefit-cost volume / Richard O. Zerbe -- Best practice standards for regulatory benefit-cost analysis / Daniel H. Cole -- Welcome to the data-poor real world : incorporating benefit-cost principles into environmental policymaking / Mark L. Plummer -- Agricultural subsidies under...

Statistical approaches to assessing charges of environmental racism and classism against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Adam Karp -- Bars to the payment of prejudgment interest : the supreme court and the federal employers' liability act / David E. Ault, Gilbert L. Rutman -- Of...

Book I : Its relationship to Adam Smith's full moral philosophical vision : an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Jerry Evensky -- In whose image? Sergius Bulgakov's account of the history of economics / Yuri G. Tulupenko -- Interwar monetary and business cycle theory...

Since 1979 Research in Law and Economics has been presenting original research that explores the extent to which the constraints of law explain economic behavior and the role of economics in forming the law. The first chapter in this volume proposes three different definitions for market power...