Hanns Prüttings Nutzen und Schaden der ZPO-Gesetzgebung" fasst die Bemü-hungen zu einer ökonomischen Evaluation der vielen Maßnahmen zur Reform des Zivilprozesses im Jahr 2002 zusammen. Eine befriedigende Evaluation muss dabei zunächst die ökonomischen Zielgrößen benennen, die durch das...

Online copyright infringement is one of the toughest challenges the content industry has faced in the twenty first century. Article 8(3) of the Information Society Directive, implemented under section 97A of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, provides an injunctive remedy in...

Mutually beneficial agreements might fail if the parties fear contractual opportunism. Litigation is supposed to prevent this, but still leaves room for litigational opportunism: Even knowing that the opponent has fulfilled his obligations, a party might bring suit. We show that with positive...

Taking into account that the Romanian Constitution mentions the state of law and constitutional democracy, concomitantly specifying the essential values- human dignity, citizens' rights and freedoms, the free development of human personality, justice and political pluralism- defended by the...

This study examines the nature of interdependence, and return and volatility spillovers, for three Indian exchange rates: US dollar (USD), Euro and British Pound. We use the spillover index methodology of Diebold and Yilmaz (2009) to analyse precisely and independently the returns and volatility...