課程資訊
課程名稱
法律的經濟分析專題
SPECIAL TOPICS ON ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW 
開課學期
94-1 
授課對象
社會科學院  國家發展研究所  
授課教師
周治邦 
課號
NtlDev5161 
課程識別碼
341 U7660 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
 
上課地點
國發210 
備註
分組必選,時間另訂
限碩士在職專班生 
課程網頁
http://home.kimo.com.tw/jbjou.tw/032.htm 
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課程概述

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%0D%0Ain+reading+and+writing+English%
2C+and+who+would+like+to+improve+these+skills+so+%0D%
0Aas+to+be+able+to+read+essays+and+books+in+English+on+a+broad+range+of+%0D%
0Asubjects%2C+and+make+comments+on+the+writings+they+are+dealing+with. 

課程目標
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0D%0Athe+class+expand+the+volume+of+vocabulary+on+subjects+which+engage+the+%
0D%
0Aattention+of+average+students+at+the+graduate+level.+The+readings+are+also+%
0D%0Achosen+as+models+of+fluency+and+eloquence.+This+means+that+vocabulary%
2C+grammar+%0D%0Aand+style+are+acquisition+targets+of+the+class.++ 
課程要求
Students+of+the+class+are+expected+to+do+before-
class+preparations+and+all+the+%0D%
0Aassignments+given+after+every+class.+There+will+be+writing+tests+for+the+mid-
%0D%
0Aterm+and+the+final.+Also+there+will+be+short+writing+exercises+to+be+done+at+
%0D%
0Ahome.+As+the+reading+materials+will+either+be+uploaded+to+the+class+webpage+o
r+%0D%0Adistributed+to+the+individual+e-mail+box%
2C+it+is+expected+that+all+students+%0D%
0Ahave+proper+computing+equipments+and+essential+operating+skills+to+get+the+%
0D%
0Aclass+work+going.+The+class+are+also+expected+to+keep+close+attention+to+the%
0D%0Aannouncements+on+the+bulletinboard+to+be+well+informed+of+what-to-
dos+and+how-%0D%0Ato-dos+for+the+course.+ 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
另約時間 備註: Monday and Wednesday 4:00-5:00 PM 
指定閱讀
 
參考書目
1. Douglas Baird, Robert Gertner, and Randal Picker, 1994, Game Theory
and the Law, Harvard University Press.

2. Robert Cooter and Thomas Ulen, 2004, Law and Economics, 4th ed.,
Addison-Wesley(雙葉書局總經銷,中文翻譯係第二版,書名為法律經濟學,民國92年由華
泰書局出版).

3. Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff, 1991, Thinking Strategically, New
York: Norton & Company中文翻譯書名為大謀略,時報文化出版.

4. Avinash Dixit and Susan Skeath, 1999, Games of Strategy, New York:
Norton & Company (華泰書局總經銷,中文翻譯係第一版,書名為策略的賽局,民國91年
由弘智文化出版).

5. David Friedman, 2000, Law’s Order, Princeton University Press 中文翻譯
書名為經濟學與法律的對話,民國91年由先覺出版).

6. Robert Gibbons, 1992, Game Theory for Applied Economists, Princeton
University Press.

7. Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell, “Economic Analysis of Law,” in Alan
Auerbach and Martin Feldstein (ed.), 2002, Handbook of Public Economics, Vol.
3, 1661-1784. North Holland.

8. James Miller, 2003, Game Theory At Work, The MacGraw-Hill Companies,
Inc(中文翻譯書名為洞悉商場賽局,民國92年由其台灣分公司出版).

9. Barry J. Nalebuff and Adam A. Brandenburger, 1996, Co-opetition,
Doubleday, New York (中文翻譯書名為競合策略,民國93年由台灣培生教育出版).

10. Richard Posner, 2003, Economic Analysis of Law, Aspen Publishers.
 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
Problem Sets  
10% 
 
2. 
Mid-Term Exam  
40% 
 
3. 
Final Exam  
50% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
9/20  “Economic Analysis of Law” by Kaplow and Shavell in Auerbach and Feldstein ed. (2002).

Ÿ This is a comprehensive survey paper.
 
第2週
9/27  B&G&P Chapter 1 (Simultaneous Decisionmaking and the Normal Form Game), and D&S Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5.

Ÿ Provide an example, i.e., the tort rules governing an accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian.
 
第3週
10/04  B&G&P Chapter 1 (Simultaneous Decisionmaking and the Normal Form Game), and D&S Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5.

Ÿ Provide an example, i.e., the tort rules governing an accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian.
 
第4週
10/11  B&G&P Chapter 1 (Simultaneous Decisionmaking and the Normal Form Game), and D&S Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5.

Ÿ Provide an example, i.e., the tort rules governing an accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian.
 
第5週
10/18  B&G&P Chapter 2 (Dynamic Interaction and the Extensive Form Game), and D&S Chapters 3 and 6.

Ÿ Introduce incomplete information and subgame perfection.
 
第6週
10/25  B&G&P Chapter 2 (Dynamic Interaction and the Extensive Form Game), and D&S Chapters 3 and 6.

Ÿ Introduce incomplete information and subgame perfection.
 
第7週
11/01  B&G&P Chapter 5 (Reputation and Repeated Games), and D&S Chapter 8.

Ÿ Examine how legal rules may affect parties who interact with each other over time.

Ÿ Investigate issues regarding Statute of Frauds, tacit collusion, and predatory pricing.
 
第8週
11/08  B&G&P Chapter 5 (Reputation and Repeated Games), and D&S Chapter 8.

Ÿ Examine how legal rules may affect parties who interact with each other over time.

Ÿ Investigate issues regarding Statute of Frauds, tacit collusion, and predatory pricing.
 
第9週
11/19  Midterm Exam (Nov. 19, 2005) 
第10週
11/22  B&G&P Chapter 6 (Collective Action, Embedded Games, and the Limits of Simple Models), and D&S Chapter 11.

Ÿ Explore issues regarding the mechanism design, network externalities, and herd behavior.

B&G&P Chapter 3 (Information Revelation, Disclosure Laws, and Renegotiation), and D&S Chapter 12.


 
第11週
11/29  B&G&P Chapter 6 (Collective Action, Embedded Games, and the Limits of Simple Models), and D&S Chapter 11.

Ÿ Explore issues regarding the mechanism design, network externalities, and herd behavior.

 
第12週
12/06  B&G&P Chapter 3 (Information Revelation, Disclosure Laws, and Renegotiation), and D&S Chapter 12.

Ÿ Examine issues regarding unraveling, signaling and screening, and renegotiation of contracts.

 
第13週
12/13  B&G&P Chapter 3 (Information Revelation, Disclosure Laws, and Renegotiation), and D&S Chapter 12.

Ÿ Examine issues regarding unraveling, signaling and screening, and renegotiation of contracts.

 
第14週
12/20  B&G&P Chapter 4 (Signaling, Screening, and Nonverifiable Information), and Gibbons Chapter 4.

Ÿ Introduce the beer-quiche game (i.e., intuitive criteria), plant closing laws, and Disabilities Act.
 
第15週
12/27  B&G&P Chapter 7 (Noncooperative Bargaining), and D&S Chapter 16.

Ÿ Introduce the Nash bargaining solution.

Ÿ Explore how the breach problem (in contract law) can be seen as a bargaining game.
 
第16週
1/03  B&G&P Chapter 8 (Bargaining and Information), and D&S Chapter 17.

Ÿ Introduce two-sided private information into a model of bifurcated trials.
 
第17週
1/14  Final Exam (Jan. 14, 2006)