The financial crisis is destroying wealth but is also a remarkable opportunity to uncover the ways by which debt can be used to regulate the economic system. This book uses four case studies of cooperatives to give an in-depth analysis on how they have braved the crisis and continued to generate...

The book shows the fundaments of the shadow banking system and its entities, operations and risks. Focusing on the regulatory aspects, it provides an original view that is able to demonstrate that the lack of supervision is a market failure

Should laws be made in courts or in parliaments? Orlin Yalnazov proposes a new approach to the problem. He conceptualizes law as an information product, and law-making as an exercise in production. Law-making has inputs and outputs, and technology is used to transform one into the other. Law...

This book offers a vision of economics in which there is no place for universal laws of nature, and even for laws of a more probabilistic character. The author avoids interpreting the practice of economics as something that leads to the formulation of universal laws or laws of nature. Instead,...

This book investigates whether legal reforms intended to create a market-friendly regulatory business environment have a positive impact on economic and financial outcomes. After conducting a critical review of the legal origins literature, the authors first analyze the evolution of legal rules...

1. CSR als Bestandteil des Unternehmensinteresses und Maßstab des Vorstandshandelns -- 2. Die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen – eine rechtsphilosophische Betrachtung -- 3. CSR – Vorgaben durch Grundrechte, EU-Recht und internationale Regelungen -- 4. CSR als...

China’s M&A environment -- Cooperative JVs versus Equity JVs -- Regulatory issues concerning acquisition of privately held enterprises -- Regulatory issues concerning acquisition of foreign-invested enterprises -- Regulatory issues concerning acquisition of state-owned enterprises --...