In this paper we consider the role of lawmakers as norm entrepreneurs. Drawing from expressive law theories and social response theories, we shed light on the role of law in shaping social values and norms, and on the ability of the law to produce social norms where they did not exist before....

Law and the State provides a political economy analysis of the legal functioning of a democratic state, illustrating how it builds on informational and legal constraints. It explains, in an organised and thematic fashion, how competitive information enhances democracy while strategic information...

That institutions matter is widely accepted among economists and so are social norms as an important category of informal institutions. Social norms matter in many economic situations, but in particular for markets. The economic literature has studied the interrelation between markets and social...

This thorough and detailed book provides a comprehensive analysis of the various ways in which laws and rules are produced and lays the foundations for a systematic understanding of lawmaking as a production process.

This thorough and detailed book provides a comprehensive analysis of the various ways in which laws and rules are produced and lays the foundations for a systematic understanding of lawmaking as a production process.

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Wer zehn Jahre nach der Umsetzung der europäischen Richtlinie über missbräuchliche Klauseln in Verbraucherverträgen (93/13/EWG) in das deutsche Recht durch die Änderung des AGB-Gesetzes von 1996 über die unterschiedlichen Grundlagen des deutschen AGB-Rechts und der europäischen...

License procedures are a common way of enforcing regulation of activities whose effects on social welfare depend on the specificities of the single case. Building permits may serve as an example, but many other licensing procedures follow the same structure. In particular in Germany, the long...

Human behavior is influenced both by internal norms or values ("what people think to be just behavior") and exogenous restrictions including legal sanctions. In the paper we study the interaction between these legal and extralegal forces and highlight the possibility of a countervailing effect...