Part 1: Themes in Oxford Economics -- Chapter 1: Oxford’s Contributions to Econometrics -- Chapter 2: Development Economics at Oxford, 1950–2020 -- Chapter 3: Oxford’s Contributions to Industrial Economics from the 1920s to the 1980s -- Chapter 4: Economic History at Oxford, 1860–2020 --...

Introduction -- Chapter 1: What Is the “Right to Own Things”: Intellectual Property Law -- Chapter 2: What Are Appropriate Rules for Adjusting Interests in a Company: Corporate Law -- Chapter 3: What Are the Rules for Fair Competition: Antitrust Law -- Chapter 4: What Are the Desirable Rules...

Introduction (Bruno S. Frey and Christoph A. Schaltegger) -- Christine Benesch recommends “Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion” by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke (Christine Bensch) -- Matthias Benz recommends “The Political Economy of Government...

1.Italian Economics and Fascism: an Institutional View -- 2. Economists and the Fascist Regime: A Painful Continuity? -- 3 The Persistence of Tradition: The Economists in the Law Faculties and in the Higher Institutes of Business Studies (1922 – 1943) -- 4.The Faculties of Political Sciences...

1. Introduction -- 2. History of Concepts and Principles -- 3. Contemporary Institutional and Evolutionary Concepts and Principles -- 4. Global Coronavirus Pandemic Crisis -- 5. Climate Change -- 6. Corruption -- 7. Artificial General Intelligence and Autonomous Humanoid Robotics -- 8. Policy...

Beyond years of schooling, educational content can play an important role in the process of economic development. Individuals' choices of educational content are often shaped by the political economy of government policies that determine the incentives to acquire various skills. We first present...

We ask whether the birthplaces of Italian members of Parliament are favoured in the allocation of central government transfers. Using a panel of municipalities for the years between 1994 and 2006, we find that municipal governments of legislators’ birth towns receive larger transfers per...

Initially, voting rights were limited to wealthy elites providing political support for stock markets. The franchise expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower financial holdings and benefits less from the uncertainty...

We study how rich shareholders can use their economic power to deregulate firms that they own, thus skewing the income distribution towards themselves. Agents differ in productivity and choose how much labor to supply. High productivity agents also own shares in the productive sector and thus...

The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization leads to a decline in pollution taxes regardless of...