Field 01
36 readings
Foundations of Law and Economics
Foundational theories of legal rules as institutional devices for allocating entitlements, shaping incentives, reducing social costs, and structuring private ordering.
A curated map of the archive's main fields, each organized around guiding questions, core readings, and verifiable sources.
Field 01
36 readings
Foundational theories of legal rules as institutional devices for allocating entitlements, shaping incentives, reducing social costs, and structuring private ordering.
Field 02
48 readings
Research on ownership structure, agency costs, control rights, fiduciary duties, board oversight, and comparative corporate-law institutions.
Field 03
42 readings
Research on disclosure, investor protection, enforcement probability, sanctions, gatekeeper liability, and capital-market information quality.
Field 04
33 readings
Research on bank runs, systemic risk, stress testing, prudential supervision, capital requirements, resolution, and financial stability.
Field 05
21 readings
Research design resources for causal inference, empirical legal studies, institutional analysis, and law-and-economics writing in corporate, securities, and financial-law research.