Edited by Gerrit De Geest, Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law, Washington University School of Law, US, Jacques Siegers, Professor of Economics, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands and Roger J. Van den Bergh, Professor of Law and Economics, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

• Contents: Foreword 1. Labour Law and Economic Theory: A Reappraisal 2. The Right-to-Lie: New Law and Economics versus Dutch Labour Law? 3. Information-forcing and Cooperation-Inducing Rules: Rethinking the Building Blocks of Labour Law 4. The Law and Economics of Dismissal Regulation: A Comparative Analysis of the US and UK Systems 5. Potential Labour Market Repercussions of Proposed Reforms to the US Fair Labor Standards Act Overtime Hours Law 6. Law and Economics Analysis of the European Works Council 7. Severance Pay in Germany: A Contract Perspective 8. The Co-determined Corporation as a Player in the Labour Market Index

Edited by Gerrit De Geest, Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law, Washington University School of Law, US, Jacques Siegers, Professor of Economics, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands and Roger J. Van den Bergh, Professor of Law and Economics, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

• Contents: Foreword 1. Labour Law and Economic Theory: A Reappraisal 2. The Right-to-Lie: New Law and Economics versus Dutch Labour Law? 3. Information-forcing and Cooperation-Inducing Rules: Rethinking the Building Blocks of Labour Law 4. The Law and Economics of Dismissal Regulation: A Comparative Analysis of the US and UK Systems 5. Potential Labour Market Repercussions of Proposed Reforms to the US Fair Labor Standards Act Overtime Hours Law 6. Law and Economics Analysis of the European Works Council 7. Severance Pay in Germany: A Contract Perspective 8. The Co-determined Corporation as a Player in the Labour Market Index

Edited by Gerrit De Geest, Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law, Washington University School of Law, US, Jacques Siegers, Professor of Economics, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands and Roger J. Van den Bergh, Professor of Law and Economics, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

• Contents: Foreword 1. Labour Law and Economic Theory: A Reappraisal 2. The Right-to-Lie: New Law and Economics versus Dutch Labour Law? 3. Information-forcing and Cooperation-Inducing Rules: Rethinking the Building Blocks of Labour Law 4. The Law and Economics of Dismissal Regulation: A Comparative Analysis of the US and UK Systems 5. Potential Labour Market Repercussions of Proposed Reforms to the US Fair Labor Standards Act Overtime Hours Law 6. Law and Economics Analysis of the European Works Council 7. Severance Pay in Germany: A Contract Perspective 8. The Co-determined Corporation as a Player in the Labour Market Index