Ronald H. Coase zählt zu den bekanntesten und bedeutendsten Ökonomen. In seinen Werken hat er den Grundstein für die Neue Institutionenökonomie gelegt und die Theorie der Verfügungsrechte entwickelt. Die Arbeiten von Coase finden über die Wirtschaftswissenschaften hinaus weitreichende...

This paper takes up Coase's views on the Chicago school, as found in his published and, especially, unpublished writings, beginning already in the early 1960s, prior to his appointment at Chicago. These commentaries at once demonstrate a measure of kinship and significant differences of...

The standard model of optimal deterrence predicts that the probability of wrongful conviction of innocents is at the margin as detrimental to deterrence as the wrongful acquittal of guilty individuals. We extend the model in several directions: using expected utility as well as non expected...

This paper investigates the interplay between copyright law and antitrust law in two distinct respects. We first argue that the origin of copyright seems to be rooted not only in the need to foster the production and the spread of knowledge but also in the necessity of limiting market power on...