This study aims to achieve a short analysis of cross-border cooperation agreements between territorial-administrative units in the border areas of Romania and similar structures in neighboring states. The article investigates the form they takes these agreements – contract or treaty –, the...

This study aims to achieve a short analysis of cross-border cooperation agreements between territorial-administrative units in the border areas of Romania and similar structures in neighboring states. The article investigates the form they takes these agreements - contract or treaty -, the role...

Public-private partnership is a solution in the management of public services by government authorities. Often faced with budget restrictions and laws limits, the administration was asked to address the problem of investments to develop local communities. In this issue has been addressed...

This survey of the law and economics of consumer finance discusses economic models of consumer lending, and evaluates the major consumer finance laws in light of them. We focus on usury laws, restrictions on creditor remedies such as the ban on expansive security interests, bankruptcy law,...

CalFed Bancorp is one of 126 Samp;Ls suing the U.S. government for breach of contract related to supervisory goodwill, a form of goodwill created by the acquisition of insolvent thrifts during the early 1980s. Before a determination of damages in its lawsuit, CalFed announced and issued a...

In this paper we investigate the history of negotiable instruments and the holder in due course rule and contrast their function and consequences in the 1700s with their function and consequences today. We explain how the holder in due course rule works and identify ways in which the rule's...

The relationship between corporate governance and financial stability is an intermediate one. Firms have no obligation to take financial stability into account except when the law or the applicable regulation imposes it. In several fields this is the case: regulation of auditors or credit rating...

This paper deals with the corporate governance thematic area of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). Its contribution to the literature is twofold: (1) It provides additional evidence that a microeconomic perspective of studying governance leads to a better understanding of key reform...

This study offers an examination of the decision and implementation in New Zealand of a personal property security regime based in North American Article 9 Models, with specific focus on the approach in force in Saskatchewan at that time. Subsequent to the New Zealand Personal Property...