Università Roma Tre

The course is focused on the economic analysis of public and administrative law.
After providing basic information on the conceptual tools used by the economic analysis of law, the following topics will be addressed: notion of public administration; foundations and optimal dimensions of the State; market failures and public intervention; the risks of an opposite state failure; the role of public administration in the context of collective action; the logic of bureaucratic behavior; the delegation of functions to the administration; the industrial organization of the administration; the action tools of the public administration; techniques for regulating administrative activity; the functioning of the judicial review.

G. Napolitano - M. Abrescia, Analisi economica del diritto pubblico, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2009.
Further materials will be made available to those attending classes.