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Stremitzer, Alexander - 2007

If a seller delivers a good non-conforming to the contract, Article 2 of the UCC as well as European warranty law allows consumers to choose between some money transfer and termination. Termination rights are, however, widely criticized, mainly for fear that the buyer resorts to "opportunistic...

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Integration, decentralization, taxation, and revenue sharing: Good governance, sustainable fiscal policy and poverty reduction as peace-keeping strategies ; Paper prepared for the...

Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2008

The paper tries to shed some light on the problems of centralization and decentralization within an economic union and the federal member states. Integration and decentralization are not opposite policy strategies but both meaningful if the single public goods and services supplies are analyzed...

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Would global patent protection be too weak without international coordination?

Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Yan, Isabel K.-M. - 2011

This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...

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Tax principles and tax harmonization under imperfect competition : a cautionary example

Keen, Michael; Lahiri, Sajal; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis - 2001

This paper shows that under imperfect competition the welfare effects of indirect tax harmonization may depend …, while harmonization always makes at least one country better off, and may be Pareto-improving, when taxes are levied under … the destination principle (which currently applies in the European Union), harmonization of origin-based taxes (as …

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Would global patent protection be too weak without international coordination?

Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Yan, Isabel K. M. - In: Journal of international economics 89 (2013) 1, pp. 42-54

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International protection of intellectual property

Grossman, Gene M.; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2002

global regime of patent protection and asking whether harmonization of patent policies is necessary or sufficient for global …

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Is policy coordination a good idea? : public inputs and policy harmonization with skilled and unskilled workers

Batina, Raymond G. - In: Public finance review : PFR 45 (2017) 3, pp. 423-440

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Subsidizing education in the economic periphery: Another pitfall or regional policies?

Südekum, Jens - 2002

One of the most prominent instruments of regional policy is to foster education and human capital formation in economically lagging regions. However, regional policy of this type can actually hurt instead of help the poor areas. The reason is that individual geographical mobility increases with...

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Public expenditure and international specialisation

Brülhart, Marius; Trionfetti, Federico - 2001

It is widely recognised that public-sector purchasers tend to discriminate in favour of domestic suppliers. We study the consequences of home-biased public procurement on international specialisation. In the theoretical analysis we find two effects. First, a country will specialise in the sector...

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European Policymaking: An Agency-Theoretic Analysis of the Issue

Schmidtchen, Dieter; Steunenberg, Bernard - 2002

In various European legal acts the Council has delegated power to the Commission to set common policy, conditional on specific procedural requirements, which are commonly known as "comitology". In this paper we analyse whether and how far these implementation procedures help to overcome a...

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