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The UN Goldstone Report and retraction : an empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

The United Nations Goldstone Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense...

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What explains sovereign debt litigation

Schumacher, Julian; Trebesch, Christoph; Enderlein, Henrik - 2015

We study the occurrence of holdout litigation in the context of sovereign defaults. The number of creditor lawsuits against foreign governments has strongly increased over the past decades, but there is a large variation across crisis events. Why are some defaults followed by a "run to the...

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Property rights to the world's (linear) ocean fisheries in customary international law

Barrett, Scott - 2023

I model the ocean as an array of lines set within a two-dimensional frame, and show how the Exclusive Economic Zone emerged as an equilibrium in customary international law. I find that custom codifies the efficient Nash equilibrium of enclosure for nearshore fisheries. For highly migratory and...

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Privatising network industries

Newbery, David M. G. - 2004

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Privatisation around the world : new evidence from panel data

Bortolotti, Bernardo; Fantini, Marcella; Siniscalco, … - 2001

This paper presents new evidence about privatisation processes and their determinants from a panel of 34 countries over the 1977-99 period. The empirical analysis shows that privatisation takes place typically in wealthy and democratic countries, endowed with deep and liquid stock markets, and...

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Privatisation and institutions : a cross country analysis

Bortolotti, Bernardo; Siniscalco, Domenico; Fantini, … - 2000

Privatisation, i.e. the transfer of ownership and control of state-owned enterprises, is a worldwide phenomenon. Which political, economic and institutional factors are shaping this process? This paper addresses the issue presenting new evidence from a sample of 49 countries. From an empirical...

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Privatization experiences in France

Berne, Michel; Pogorel, Gérard - 2004

firms as well as all the banks and public services were state-owned. Since then, a series of privatization moves have caused … telecommunications operator France Telecom was simultaneously subjected to the deregulation of the telecom market in the world and to a …

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Network utilities in the U.S. : sector reforms without privatization

Vogelsang, Ingo - 2004

U.S. network industry reforms led other countries in the past, but have recently run into difficulties in specific areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the California disaster. Part of the explanation for these...

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Interjurisdictional linkages and the scope for interventionist legal harmonization

Baniak, Andrzej; Grajzl, Peter - 2010

We study the desirability of interventionist harmonization of legal standards across multiple, mutually interdependent jurisdictions which strive to adapt law to their local conditions as well as to synchronize it with other jurisdictions. In a setting where jurisdictions are privately informed...

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Privatization in Italy 1993-2002 : goals, institutions, outcomes, and outstanding issues

Goldstein, Andrea - 2003

This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on … analysis of the consequences of privatization on corporate governance show that, notwithstanding considerable changes in the …

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