Aims and topics
As in every summer, the Economic Department of the University at Trento and other partners organize a summer school on Ethics, Law & Economics, with focus on the economic theory of social norms, ethics and institutions.
This year, special attention will be given to recent developments and perspectives in behavioral Law & Economics, as well as to the impact of behavioral economics insights on our understanding of economic organizations, contracts and incentives - including the legal regulation of these matters through corporate law, employment contracts, managerial incentives , corporate governance and ownership, control structures of firms.
Main Topics:
- Behavioral Law & economics: the state of the art and recent developments;
- Experimental economics and incomplete contracts;
- Bounded rationality, modularity and organization design,
- Behavioral and experimental game theory: trust, social norms and institutions;
- Law & economics, modularity and property rights;
- Preference heterogeneity, organizational design and ownership.