Resumen de Roman law and economics: Ökonomische analysetools als erweiterung des klassischen romanistichen methodenspektrums
This paper wants to show to what extent economic theory, especially the concepts of the New Institutional Economics, can provide Roman lawyer with supplementary tools which might prove helpful in the analisys of the ancient legal sources. It may be useful to take into consideration existing information asymmetries and corresponding ways of balancing them as well as the concepts of bounded rationally and path dependence. Moreover, an analisys of the broader institutional arragement (formal laws and informal customs) and of the consequences of an interference with the established institutional equilibrium situation can be of use in order to better understand the process of institutional change. This paper presents the abive-mentiones concepts, gives an overview on the pertinent literature, and gives two examples, the first on the market jurisdiction of the aediles and the second on the "lex Fufia Caninia" and the "senatusconsultum Orfitianum"
