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Debiasing through Law
Jolls, Christine; Sunstein, Cass R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
questions across a range of areas, from consumer safety law to corporate law to property law. Discussion is also devoted to the …
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"Government Intervention to Prevent Bankruptcy: the Effect of Blind-Bidding Laws on Movie Theaters"
Mulligan, James G.; Wedzielewski, Daniel J. - Department of Economics, Lerner College of Business and … - 2012
In the 1970s motion picture studios increased their use of blind bidding and non-refundable guarantees in an attempt to reduce the risks associated with producing a small number of large budget films. However, theater owners claimed that blind bidding and guarantees shifted risk to them and...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Civil Rights: Testing Decreasing Returns to Civil Rights
Ponce, Aldo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, I examine the effectiveness of improvements in political and civil rights for attracting foreign direct investment flows (FDI) into democracies. I contend that advances in the quality of democracy – specifically those concerning civil rights – present positive but decreasing...
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Elementos fundamentales del derecho y la economía: una aproximación al análisis institucional
Ossa, Jahir Alexander Gutierrez; Ospina, Graicy Sierra - In: REVISTA SEMESTRE ECONÓMICO (2008)
El artículo tiene como propósito resaltar el vínculo entre el derecho y la economía y su aplicación en los sistemas jurídicos internacionales. La forma bajo la cual se están realizando los acuerdos y las negociaciones en los tratados internacionales de comercio obligan a reconsiderar la...
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Äganderättsskydd genom rättsstat och konstitutionalism
Peczenik, Aleksander - Ratioinstitutet - 2005
Uppsatsen konstaterar att rättsstaten bygger på och skyddar våra gemensamma värden: frihet, rättvisa och trygghet. Värdena är förankrade i kulturarvet. Kulturarvet omfattar diverse komponenter, vissa klart fastställbara, andra svåra att påvisa. Den juridiska doktrinen är en klart...
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Den privata äganderätten och dess skydd i Sverige ur ett europeiskt perspektiv - en konstitutionell översikt
Fogelklou, Anders - Ratioinstitutet - 2005
Uppsatsen jämför det konstitutionella skyddet för äganderätten i Europa och Sverige genom en schematisk analys av olika grundlagar. Den privata äganderätten som kärnan i marknadsekonomin kräver konstitutionellt skydd och reglering eftersom skyddet för enskilda individers äganderätt...
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Rearranging the roles of the performer and the composer in the music industry – the potential significance of Fisher v Brooker
Mcdonagh, Luke T. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
The composer has historically been at the top of the tree in the music industry; most royalties due to artists flow back to composers/songwriters rather than performers. Over the last few decades, the enactment of stronger performers’ rights has sought to redress this historical imbalance by...
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Behavioral Equity
Feldman, Yuval; Smith, Henry E. - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 170 (2014) 1, pp. 137-159
The paper uses the findings of psychology, behavioral economics, and behavioral ethics to revisit three main related assumptions of the rational-choice approach to equity, by developing three main points: first, not only bad people try to circumvent the law; second, behavior depends on the...
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Private Takings
Marchesiani, Alessandro; Nosal, Ed - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2014
can be interpreted as supporting eminent domain as a means of transferring property rights from one set of private agents … — landowners — to another private agent — a developer. Under voluntary exchange, where the developer sequentially acquires property … bargaining power and, as a result, their property investments become more inefficient. This is the cost of Kelo. A policy of …
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Copyright infringement, 'free-riding' and the lifeworld
Barron, Anne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
attention is paid to the efforts of critical economists of intellectual property law such as Lemley and Brett Frischmann to …
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