Encyclopedia of Law and Economics

Alain Marciano is full professor of economics at the University of Montpellier. He is mainly interested in the emergence and existence of norms (formal and informal, juridical and non-juridical) and mechanisms coordination/cooperation among individuals. A major area of his work consists in studying the history and methodology of recent economics - with a focus on law and economics and public choice. He has edited many books in law and economics, and published a reader in law and economics. He has published articles in different journals (International Review of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Law and Contemporary Problems, the Journal of Institutional Economics, History of Political Economy, the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the European Journal of History of Economic Thought, the Journal of Economic Methodology). He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief European Journal of Law and Economics,and is in the boards of different journals. He is series Editor of Palgrave Studies in Institutions, Economics and Law (Palgrave Macmillan).Giovanni B. Ramello is Full Professor of Industrial Economics at Università del Piemonte Orientale. In addition he coordinates the IEL International PhD Program in Comparative Analysis of Institutions, Economics and Law hosted at Collegio Carlo Alberto.He mainly teaches industrial economics and law and economics, while his research cover topics in industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, intellectual property rights and market structure, and economic analysis of litigation and of judicial systems. He published articles in several international leading journals and has worked as an advisor for ministries of countries all around the world and other international institutions. Further he serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief European Journal of Law and Economics, as Editor of the European Journal of Comparative Economics and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. Besides the editorship of the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics he is series Editor of Palgrave Studies in Institutions, Economics and Law (Palgrave Macmillan).