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FDI and EU Competition Law - Achieving Legal Certainty When Creating Korean-European Joint Ventures
Baier, Simon - 2012
Korea’s foreign direct investment in the European Union is expected to increase as a consequence of the Korea‐EU FTA. Korean companies planning to invest in the European market will often choose the form of a joint venture as the preferred business vehicle. This article analyzes the...
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The Dragon in the Room : China's Anti-Monopoly Law and International Merger Review
Lyons, Christopher Hamp - 2009
August 2008, when China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) came into effect. Antitrust review by a government that is historically … wary of market forces raises both substantive and procedural concerns for parties to mergers with connections to China … both in China and worldwide. Procedurally, imposing yet another regulatory burden on mergers may deter economically …
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A Review of China’s Sustainable Development Goals through International Investment Agreements
Fan, Kun - 2023
existing Chinese IIAs, an increasing number of China's recent treatises move towards sustainability. Most sustainable …
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Rescuing International Investment Arbitration : Introducing Derivative Actions, Class Actions, and Compulsory Joinder
D'Agostino, Joseph - 2017
The treaty-based international investment arbitration (IIA) system is undergoing a major crisis as governments denounce the unfairness of IIA while the resolution of claims becomes increasingly inconsistent. This crisis threatens the future of much foreign investment and thus the rate of global...
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Foreign Investments in Emerging Economies : Do Competition Laws Help or Hinder?
Parakkal, Raju - 2021
The recent literature on the determinants of foreign direct investments (FDI) has missed to evaluate the role competition laws play in encouraging, or deterring, FDI inflows. The present study fills that gap by theoretically and systematically examining the effect of national competition laws on...
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Competition Laws, External Financing and Investment
Xede, James; Dak-Adzaklo, Cephas Simon Peter; Ofosu, … - 2022
We examine the effect of competition laws on external financing and investment decisions around the world. Using a large sample of 21,801 firms across 32 countries, we find a positive association between the stringency of competition laws, and external financing and investment. Our finding is...
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Korea
Baek, Yongchun - 2004
Maintaining rapid economic growth depends increasingly on productivity gains, particularly in the service sector. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken competition and has left a legacy of government...
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Investing in Private Evidence
Guerra, Alice - 2020
Technological advances have changed our ability to acquire and save information, with far-reaching implications in legal discovery and evidence. In this paper, we analyze the interrelated effect of legal presumptions and discovery rules in incentivizing the voluntary adoption of private evidence...
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Multinationals and Transparency in Foreign Direct Liability Cases - The Prospects for Obtaining Evidence Under the Dutch Civil Procedural Regime on the Production of Exhibits
Enneking, Liesbeth F.H - 2014
On 30 January 2013, the The Hague district court rendered a final judgment with respect to a number of civil liability claims against Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) and its Nigerian subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) that had been pursued by four Nigerian farmers and the...
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The Future of Foreign Direct Liability? Exploring the International Relevance of the Dutch Shell Nigeria Case
Enneking, Liesbeth F.H. - 2014
In January 2013, the The Hague district court in the Netherlands rendered a groundbreaking verdict in a civil liability suit against Royal Dutch Shell and its Nigerian subsidiary (SPDC). The lawsuit had been brought before it by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch NGO Milieudefensie, in response...
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