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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"law & economics"”.
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THE LAW&ECONOMICS OF INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS: THREE ESSATS.
THE LAW&ECONOMICS OF INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS: THREE ESSAYS The present thesis is essentially devoted to exploring the legal consequences of bounded rationality. This concept, due to H. Simon, constitutes one of the first erosion of classical economics. In particular: in the traditional economics …
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Access and benefit-sharing regimes concerning the utilization of plant genetic resources and traditional knowledge regarding the use of plant genetic resources: using law, economics, and empirical methods to analyze plant genetic resources issues, including biopiracy, bioprospecting, and intellectual property
… evaluates these issues objectively using law, economics and regression analysis (Probit Regression). The regression analysis shows countries that experience net inflows of foreign direct investments and increased numbers of plant variety protection (PVP) applications adopt ABS regimes. …
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In pursuit of a better legal theory of the company: A data-driven, co-evolutionary and multiple equilibria model
… disciplinary perspectives, namely those of law, economics and management, and on qualitative-empirical evidence. The aim is to evaluate the shareholder primacy model which underlies the current orthodoxy in Anglo-American company law. The thesis argues that, in line with generally accepted …
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Law as a regulator: steering waste management by steering itself through its relationship with the environment
… economy in terms of the social factors – law, economics, politics, etc. ‐ that influence behaviour. The proposed conceptualisation moves away from the notion of waste as a material substance discarded by human beings into the environment; instead, waste is a shared understanding of the …
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International monetary flows of non-declared origin
… and calls on contributions from International Law, Economics, Criminal Justice Studies, and Governance and Ethics. Its approach is illustrative and fits Baudrillard’s 1981 methodological principles known as bricolage. Using five methodologies and six major case studies, the thesis reaches four …
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La saisine du syndic et le déssaisissement du débiteur en matière de faillite
Abstract not available.
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An explication of agency theory with theoretical and practical considerations for school-based management
Agency theory is a relatively new theoretical approach to the study of control loss and delegation in organizations. Several educational researchers have applied agency theory to an analysis of school-based management, however they have reached inconsistent conclusions.
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An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between the Doctrine of Strict Products Liability and the Provision of Insurance
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between the tort-liability system and the current problems in the provision of commercial liability insurance. It uses loss-ratio data by insurer group and state to assess empirically the manner in which liability standards affect systematic underwriting …
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Tort Liability Standards and the Firm's Response to Regulation
Much of the recent regulation literature is concerned with the impact of regulation on the value of firms. Previous research has indicated that regulation can be either beneficial or harmful to firms. Increasingly, financial models using an event study methodology are used to measure the effects of …
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The efficiency of professional malpractice laws under asymmetric information
… professional relationship rather than using tort law.
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The Supreme Court and labor policy: A rational choice perspective
The role that the United States Supreme Court has played in the development of public policy in general, and labor policy in particular, has been the subject of substantial research. Most of this research, however, has been mainly normative, with little attention been paid to the political context …
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Volunteer Labor Supply and Liability of Volunteers
… the Volunteer Liability Protection Act became law in 1997. The volunteer liability factor is measured in two ways -- using the variability of certain legal protections for line volunteers among state laws and using per capita tort filings per state as a "litigousness index." The "litigousness …
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Through The Looking Glass: Transparency in the WTO
… ranging from Agreement provisions to soft law or general principle and from the obligation of member states to publish national trade laws to civil society participation in the WTO. I argue that they all these transparency variations are linked as they relate to the organization’s …
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The Utility Analysis of Choices Involving Risk: Some Implications for Hedonic Damages
… be adjudicated under tort rather than criminal law.
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The Impact of Corporate Diversification on the Financial Performance of U.S. Bank Holding Companies Pre and Post the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999
<p>The Financial Services Modernization Act, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), of 1999 has permitted U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) to operate in non-banking activities that are financial in nature. This dissertation addresses the impact of this across-activity diversification …
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Education policy issues in Turkey
… as a whole. First, the Compulsory Education Law enacted in 1997 required that all the children enrolled in grade 4 or lower must stay in school until the completion of the eighth grade. Second, in 2002, the Ministry of National Education (MONE) abandoned recruiting teachers based on lottery …