TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rasmusen, Eric B., ed.
TI  - Game theory and the law
SN  - 9781845426408
U1  - 330.153 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cheltenham, UK
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Law
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - Game theory
N1  - PART I. GENERAL. Playing games with the law / Ian Ayres ; Review dialog : on game theory and the law / Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, Eric Rasmusen, Jeffrey Evans Stake, Robert H. Heidt and Michael Alexeev ; Agency models in law and economics / Eric A. Posner ; Games economists play : a noncooperative view / Franklin M. Fisher --

PART II. BARGAINING AND PROCEDURE. Economic analysis of legal disputes and their resolution / Robert D. Cooter and Daniel L. Rubinfeld ; Strategic behavior in suit, settlement, and trial / I.P.L. P'ng ; Settlement, litigation, and the allocation of litigation costs / Jennifer F. Reinganum and Louis L. Wilde ; A new theory concerning the credibility and success of threats to sue / Lucian Arye Bebchuk ; An economic theory of the duty to bargain / Keith N. Hylton ; Fair driving : gender and race discrimination in retail car negotiations / Ian Ayres --


PART III. CONTRACTS. Strategic contractual inefficiency and the optimal choice of legal rules / Ian Ayres and Robert Gertner ; Explaining incomplete contracts as the result of contract reading costs / Eric B. Rasmusen ; Legal rules in repeated deals : banking in the shadow of defection in Japan / J. Mark Ramseyer --


PART IV. TORTS, CRIME, AND TAXES. Toward an economic theory of liability / John Prather Brown ; Decoupling liability : optimal incentives for care and litigation / A. Mitchell Polinsky and Yeon-Koo Che ; The tax compliance game : toward an interactive theory of law enforcement / Michael J. Graetz, Jennifer F. Reinganum and Louis L. Wilde ; The economic theory of public enforcement of law / A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell --


PART V. COURTS. The selection of disputes for litigation / George L. Priest and Benjamin Klein ; A rational choice theory of Supreme Court statutory decisions with applications to the State Farm and Grove City cases / Rafael Gely and Pablo T. Spiller ; Stability and reliability in judicial decisions / Frank H. Easterbrook
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