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Arbitration - A Potential Brexit Bonus?
Macey-Dare, Rupert - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897283
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The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts : a cross-country analysis
Voigt, Stefan - 2008
Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003865862
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Crime, prosecutors, and the certainty of conviction
Entorf, Horst - 2011
This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal prosecution process in Germany, empirical evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009259507
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The Protection of Industrial Inventions : Analysis of the Regulation and Policy Evaluation
Sabbatini, Daniele - 2012
The Italian and European regulatory framework for patents would benefit from further improvements in order to foster dynamic competition between Italian firms. At the national level the exclusive allocation of the right to patent inventions to universities, rather than to researchers, would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109093
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The US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) : Should it Leave a Door Open for Non-Legal Arbitrators?
Fach Gómez, Katia - 2016
This article reflects on the suitability of including non-legal arbitrators in certain investment arbitrations. It presents different mechanisms that have been used in the investment arbitration context to aid legal arbitrators with scientific-technical issues and contemplates the drawbacks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987636
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How effective are different social policies in Brazil? A simulation experiment
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2021
a strong diminishing effect on inequality, pension benefits largely reach those with above-median incomes. Over many … benefits could have had for reducing inequality. Maintaining the purchasing power of pension benefits while shifting the … significantly stronger progress in reducing inequality. This strengthens the case for rethinking the current indexation mechanism of …
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How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Courts of Law? Evidence from Brazil
Castelliano, Caio; Grajzl, Peter; Watanabe, Eduardo - 2021
We provide empirical insight into the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the administration of justice. Drawing on a comprehensive monthly panel of Brazilian labor courts and using a difference-in-difference approach, we show that the pandemic has had a large and persistent deleterious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232607
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The (Economic) Effects of Lay Participation in Courts - A Cross-Country Analysis
Voigt, Stefan - 2021
Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316487
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Employment protection legislation, labor courts, and effective firing costs
Jimeno, Juan F.; Martínez-Matute, Marta; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/2, pp. 1-26
In many countries, labor courts play a central role in the determination of firing costs by monitoring and supervising the procedures for dismissals, and, eventually, deciding severance payments mandated by the employment protection legislation (EPL). To get some insights about the impact of...
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Does a House of Congress Have Standing Over Appropriations? : The House of Representatives Challenges the Affordable Care Act
Mank, Bradford C. - 2016
In U.S. House of Representatives v. Sylvia Matthews Burwell, the District Court for D.C. in 2015 held that the House of Representatives has Article III standing to challenge certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act as violations of the Constitution's Appropriations Clause. The Supreme...
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