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Summer school

Advances in the behavioral and experimental approach to the economics of organizations, firms, contracts and the economic analysis of the law

Organized by:
LASER, Laboratory for Social Responsibility, Ethics and Rational Choice
Arco, Trento, Casinò Municipale - Sala Consiliare 19th – 25th July 2009

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Presentation

As in every summer, the Economic Department of the University of Trento and other partners organize a summer school on Ethics, Law & Economics, with focus on the economic theory of  social norms, ethics and institutions. The idea behind this year summer school is that 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 -  would improve very much  from an updating of the portrait of the Homo Oeconomicus through behavioral insights. Therefore, the lectures will focus on the impact of the behavioral approach on assumptions and predictions both in the field of economics of organizations and law & economics.

Lecturers
Avner Ben-Ner  (University of Minnesota),  Carlo Borzaga (University of Trento), Shaun Hargreaves-Heap (University of East Anglia), Christine Jolls (Yale Law School),  Luigi Marengo (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies), Lorenzo Sacconi (University of Trento), Henry Smith  (Harvard Law School), Christian Zehnder (Harvard Business School)

Main Topics

1. Behavioral Law & economics,  the state of the art  and recent developments.
2. Experimental  economics and incomplete contracts.
3. Bounded rationality,  modularity and  organization design.
4. Behavioral and experimental game theory:    trust, social norm and institutions.
5. Law & economics, modularity and property rights .
6. Preference heterogeneity, organization design and differences in organization ownership .

Participants
The school is aimed at PhD students and junior researchers in Economics Management, Law and Economics, Applied mathematics, Political Science, Sociology and Philosophy with a strong interest in the topics discussed.
20 participants will be admitted without charging fee.

Participant will be accommodated at the Hotel Pace, Arco at the cost of  37 euro per day (single room, full board) 

Deadline for applications :10th  June 2009 (admission will be notified by 15th June 2009)

Website: http://www-econo.economia.unitn.it/new/centri/laser/SS09.htm

Email: laser@economia.unitn.it

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