Legal rules governing the employer-employee relationship are many and varied. Economic analysis has illuminated both the efficiency and the effects on employee welfare of such rules, as described in this chapter. Topics addressed below include workplace safety mandates, compensation systems for...

1. Industrialization and the frequency and nature of risk -- 2. The rise of a reforming interest and the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842 -- 3. Organized labour and the home office -- 4. Intervention in coal mining, 1850-1887 -- 5. The Kinnaird Commission and the regulation of metalliferous...

1. Introduction -- 2. Risk-based governance and analytical framework -- 3. Diffusion of the risk management model in the U.S. coal mining industry -- 4. Barriers to modeling the risk management approach in the American coal mining industry -- 5. Modeling risk-based system regulation in Australia...

This chapter examines the relationship between corporate governance and competition, particularly with regard to cartel formation, and discusses how corporate governance and firm agency problems affect optimal law enforcement against cartels, both in terms of sanctions and leniency policies....