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Administrative Procedure

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This chapter examines the economics of administrative procedure and shows how law and economics insights can be used to understand fundamental features of administrative procedure. Moreover, it offers a survey of law and economics literature on administrative procedure and addresses three general aspects of administrative procedure. The first is the administrative decisions and access to information. The second general aspect is administrative procedure and agency capture problem. The third general aspect addressed in this chapter is the issue of administrative procedure and international trade.

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  1. Department of Economic Theory and Policy, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Mitja Kovac

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Kovac, M. (2017). Administrative Procedure. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_653-1

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