Bücher der Reihe Clarendon Lectures in Economics

'Incentives and Political Economy' constructs a normative approach to constitutional design using developments in contract theory. It treats political economy as the study of the incentive problems created by the delegation of Politicians are treated successively as informed supervisors or residual decision-makers.

This book presents a unified analysis of transition. Transition in Central and Eastern Europe has led to a U-shaped response of output, that is, a sharp decline in output followed by recovery. This U-shaped response, its causes and its implications, are the subject of this text. Now available in paperback.

An overview of the most recent research on the saving and consumption patterns of households - a very active area of research in economics in which substanital progress has been made over the last decade.

Oliver Hart's 'Clarendon Lectures' are a contribution to contact theory as it is developing in economic analysis, and especially in the context of the firm. He starts by developing a general model of the firm, and then analyses in greater depth the financial structure of firms, debt collecting and bankruptcy. T

Robert Shiller has created a proposals for establishing new markets for the management of the biggest economic risks faced by governments. He argues that we have largely the wrong financial markets and that establishing new ones may fundamentally alter and diminish international economic fluctuations and reduce the inequality of incomes.