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I. Property law

COMPULSORY

• You can read Ian Ayres’ book on Optional law (proofs) here Ayres book - here too, please read only the part covered in the course, which means up to page 38 (the rest is, indeed, optional)
• For our applications on property law, you can read this paper (published in Pacces & Van den Bergh, regulation and Economics, Elgar 2012) 7._Renda_FINAL revAR
• Refer to this paper (Fool Monti) for the Microsoft case
• On net neutrality, you can read this SSRN-id1680446 (1)
• My slides for 5 March 2013 - 130305 Slides EAL
• My slides for 25-26 March 2013 - 130325 Slides EAL
  
• My slides for 15-22 April 2013 - 130419 Slides LUISS EAL
• Slides with exercises for April 22 - 130422 slides EAL RIA exercises
• Slides on Art 102 - 130503 slides EAL
• Paper on private and public regulation for our class on Monday 29th  WD370 Renda Public and Private Regulation

OPTIONAL

• One specific application on spectrum: please read the recent paper by Crocioni and Franzoni science_008
• As another “optional reading on optional law”, you can read Fennell (2005), Revealing Options, available here SSRN-id592945 . Useful for the so-called “Texas shoot-out rule” that we might apply to spectrum policy.
• On the Microsoft case, see Larouche
• Two optional readings by Guido Calabresi:  calabresi and  calabresi melamed
• A recent paper on evolution in copyright legislation - SOPA PIPA ACTA TPP- An Alphabet Soup of Innovation-Stifling Co
• two interesting papers by Russel Korobkin on behavioral economics and legal analysis. One is on the case “Williams v. Walker Thomas Furniture” (SSRN-id471961), the other is more general (SSRN-id326360).

HALFWAY TAKE HOME EXAM!!

Law and economics halfway take home 2013

(plus, have a look here)

MOOT COURT

The main documents for themoot court are found at this link

Check this out – last minute http://www.canalys.com/static/press_release/2013/canalys-press-release-090513-smart-mobile-device-shipments-exceed-300-million-q1-2013_0.pdf

GETTING READY FOR THE SECOND TAKE HOME 

The first exercise (6-7 May 2013) is on this IA – see http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/pdf/road_worthiness_package/impact_assessment_en.pdf

The second exercise (7-10 May 2013) is on this IA – see http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SWD:2012:0057(51):FIN:EN:PDF

Third exercise will take you a week: read this long IA on the sale of tobacco products and provide comments by Friday 17. http://ec.europa.eu/governance/impact/ia_carried_out/docs/ia_2012/swd_2012_0452_en.pdf

We will meet on Friday 17 May at 11 in Viale Pola, floor -1

A short 20-step test for IA assessment is found here - 20 step test.

Second take home

Please read the following IA document and provide your comments

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SPLIT_SEC:2011:0891(51):FIN:EN:PDF

you have time until Sunday at noon!

Law and economics halfway take home 2013

(plus, have a look here)

You can ask questions and clarifications until April 26 at 1PM. Then, I will close communications. You will find my answers to the questions on this same page.

Good luck!

See you on Monday

Andrea

Information about the conference that takes place on Friday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome.

The location of the Ministry is Piazzale della Farnesina 1 – 00135 Rome

Andrea Renda is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), where he started and currently manages the CEPS Regulatory Affairs Programme. From January 2006, he is also the Coordinator of the European Network for Better Regulation (www.enbr.org), a Coordination Action on regulatory impact assessment funded by the European Commission under the FP6 programme. From 2010, he is also the founder and manager of the CEPS Digital Forum (www.digitalforum.eu). Andrea is an ongoing consultant for a number of institutions, including the European Commission, the European Parliament, the OECD, the United Nations and the World Bank. He was, i.a., the lead author of the Pilot Project on Administrative Burdens for DG ENTR; the main author of the Impact Study on private antitrust damages actions for DG Comp in 2007; the project leader in major studies in the field of financial services, administrative burdens, electronic communications, spectrum policy, and social impact assessment. For the period 2011-2012, he held a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute in Fiesole (Italy), researching in particular on better regulation, private regulation and telecommunications issues. In 2012, he became part-time Professor at the EUI and was awarded the “morris Tabaksblat Chair on Private Actors and Globalization”, an endowed chair funded by The Hague Foundation for the Internationalization of Law (HIIL). In 2011 he became the Director of the Global Outlook Program at the Italian think tank Istituto Affari Internazionali (Institute of Foreign Affairs).

Andrea Renda is Adjunct Professor of “Economic Analysis of Law”, “Antitrust and regulation”, “Policies and policymaking in the EU” and “Regulatory Policies in a global perspective” at Luiss Guido Carli University, in Rome, and a Senior Research Fellow at Luiss’ Law and Economics Lab. Since 2006, he also lectures on “Advanced Topics in Competition and Regulation” at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam within the European Master in Law and Economics. For 2008-2011, he also lectures at the University of Stockholm (“Competition Policy and Intellectual Property”) and at the University of Jordan (“Telecommunications regulation”). He is responsible for the course “Regulatory Impact Assessment for Business” at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Andrea is member of the Editorial Board of the international peer-reviewed journals “Telecommunication Policy” (Elsevier) and of the European Journal of Risk Regulation (Lexxion); he is a member of the Scientific Board of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) and of the Scientific Board of EuroCPR. He is a member of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE), a founding member of the Italian Association of Law and Economics (SIDE-ISLE) and a member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali.

Andrea Renda earned a laurea cum laude in Economics from LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, in 1995 (Dissertation awarded a special distinction) and is European Master of Law and Economics (LL.M., with distinction, University of Hamburg, 1996). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Law and Economics awarded by the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Andrea is the author of several publications, including the books “Impact Assessment in the EU. The State of the Art and the Art of the State”, published by CEPS in January 2006; “Last call for Lisbon? Suggestions for the future regulation of e-communications in Europe”, CEPS, June 2006; “Achieving the Internal Market for e-communications in Europe”, May 2008; “Policymaking in the EU: challenges and proposals for reform”, CEPS, June 2009; “A new innovation policy for EU2020”, CEPS, June 2010 (with Massimiliano Granieri); “Critical infrastructure protection in the EU” (CEPS, forthcoming September 2010”; “Law and economics in the RIA world” (Intersentia, September 2011); and “Innovation law and policy in the European Union. Towards Horizon 2020”, with Massimiliano Granieri, Springer, April 2012).

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Module 1: Property law and economics. This module starts from the Coase theorem and the contribution of Calabresi and Melamed (1972), and describes the new frontiers of optional law (Ayres 2005: Fennell 2004). Applications include spectrum policy, the Microsoft case, access policy in telecommunications, network neutrality and the fundamentals of the Google case.

Module 2: Contract law and economics. This module includes a description of the agency game and its relevance for contract law and damage calculation. Applications include the birth and evolution of consumer protection legislation, and abuse of economic dependence. other applications might include unfair trading practices and global value chains.

Module 3: Tort law and economics. This module looks at the theory of optimal deterrence and at the cost of accidents as described in Cooter-Ulen. Applications cover private antitrust enforcement, environmental protection, critical infrastructure protection.  

—- a halfway take home exam will be distributed at the end of session 3 —-

Module 4: Regulatory Impact Analysis. This module looks at the birth of administrative law and economics and the successive evolution of regulatory impact analysis in the US and Impact assessment in the European Union. If we have enough time, we’ll also organize an impact assessment exercise in class, with a breakout session in which 3-4 groups will have to evaluate a given IA from the European Commission.

Module 5: The quagmire of private regulation: understanding modern standard-setting

—- a final take home exam will be given to the students at the end of the course ––

Troverete qui il mio libro “Law and economics in the RIA world” Law and economics in the RIA World_2e proef

Ecco la lettura opzionale su information semi-commons di cui vi ho parlato Scarica

Link interessanti e “freschissimi”:

• Il pezzo di Sunstein sul trionfo della cost-benefit analysis http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-12/the-stunning-triumph-of-cost-benefit-analysis.html
• Un articolo di Key4biz che riassume le principali notizie relative alla proposta di c.d. “lex google” http://www.key4biz.it/News/2012/10/22/Policy/editori_google_google_news_Lex_Google_anj_motori_di_ricerca_213395.html
• Un altro articolo di oggi che parla del nuovo servizio di musica online di Google  (Google play) http://www.key4biz.it/News/2012/10/30/Tecnologie/tablet_google_apple_amazon_kindle_fire_ipad_Nexus_10_surface_Microsoft_Nexus_7_213564.html

Per chi si interessa della c.d. New Monetary Economics:

• Ecco il link al discorso di Bill Mitchell in Commissione europea
• Un paper riassuntivo sul Jobs Guarantee concept
• Uno dei più celebri paper di Bill Mitchell (link)

Vi allego qui le slides che ho mostrato il 12 novembre Slides EAL 12 novembre

Qui trovate le slides che ho mostrato sulla private regulation

Ecco le slides sul roadworthiness test e l’Impact Assessment originale su roadworthiness tests

Un paper sul value of a statistical life di Kip Viscusi

Il paper che ho recentemente scritto con Fabrizio Cafaggi su public and private regulation

Compulsory reading materials

• Please find attached the slides that will be projected during the course
• Evans, D., essays on the economics of two-sided markets Download
• Page, William H. and Childers, Seldon J., Antitrust, Innovation, and Product Design in Platform Markets: Microsoft and Intel (August 22, 2011). Download
• Pardolesi, R and A Renda (2004), The European Commission’s Case Against Microsoft: Fool Monti Kills Bill?, World Competition Law and Economics Review. Download
• Renda, A. (2010), Competition-Regulation intercace in Telecommunications: what’s left of the essential facilities doctrine, Telecommunications Policy Vol. 34. Download
• Renda, A. (2012a), Neutrality, diversity and competition in the cloud, forthcoming, Communications & Strategies. Download
• Renda, A. (2012b), Telecommunications, chapter of the Encyclopaedia of Law and Economics, forthcoming spring 2012. Download
• Renda, A. et al. (2008), Making antitrust damages actions more effective in the European Union, Report for the European Commission. Download
• Renda, Andrea (2004), Catch Me if You Can! The Microsoft Saga and the Sorrows of Old Antitrust. Erasmus Law and Economics Review, No. 1, pp. 1-22, February 2004. Download

Per la domanda 1, potete usare i seguenti materiali , più il paper di Crandall et al.

Per la domanda n. 2, guardate questi allegati.

Per la domanda n. 3… avete piena libertà di fonti!

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As I travel frequently when not teaching, it is recommended to send an email at arenda@luiss.it.