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Consumer Arbitration in the European Union and the United States

Drahozal, Christopher R. - 2011

This article examines the differing legal treatment of pre-dispute consumer arbitration agreements in the European Union and the United States. Under the E.U. Directive on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts (particularly as implemented in the United Kingdom), most such agreements are invalid. In...

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Making Firms Liable for Consumers' Mistaken Beliefs : Theoretical Model and Empirical Applications to the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Card Markets

Alexandrov, Alexei - 2017

I show that an introduction of a liability on firms, proportional to the difference between consumers' beliefs and the effective terms of purchase/contract, can improve both social welfare and consumer surplus, depending on the relative magnitudes of: 1) decrease in the gap between the beliefs...

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Personal Guarantees between Commercial Law and Consumers in the United States

Henkel, Christoph - 2014

Guaranties and suretyships reduce the risk of default and today remain essential arrangements in many commercial and consumer transactions. A guarantor or surety promises to pay for the debt of a third party and may become primarily liable on that debt. Despite the significance of such a promise...

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The Rome I Regulation Rules on Party Autonomy for Choice of Law : A U.S. Perspective

Brand, Ronald A. - 2012

This chapter was presented at a conference in Dublin on the (then) new Rome I Regulation of the European Union in the fall of 2009. It contrasts the Rome I rules on party autonomy with those in the United States. In particular, it considers the rules in the Rome I Regulation that ostensibly...

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New Experiences of International Arbitration in the United States

Drahozal, Christopher R. - 2011

This article is the National Report of the United States for the XVIIth International Congress of Comparative Law held in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Part I provides an overview of international arbitration law in the United States, highlighting some currently unsettled issues. Part II describes...

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Private International Law Bibliography 2013 : U.S. And Foreign Sources in English

Symeonides, Symeon - 2014

This bibliography covers private international law, or conflict of laws, in a broad sense. In particular, it covers judicial or adjudicatory jurisdiction, prescriptive jurisdiction, choice of forum, choice of law, federal-state conflicts, recognition and enforcement of sister-state and...

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Agricultural contracting and the scale of production.

Key, N. - 2004

This study presents evidence that contracting is positively associated with the scale of production for six major U … likelihood of an operation contracting increases with its scale. This relationship is strongest in the cattle and hog sectors … scale and contracting are proposed, including imperfect capital markets, contractor transaction costs, input leverage …

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Financial constraints and moral hazard : the case of franchising

Fan, Ying; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Lafontaine, Francine - 2013

Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the organizational decisions and growth of principals, in the context of...

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The role of financial reporting in debt contracting and it stewardship

Shivakuma, Lakshmanan - In: Accounting and business research : a research quarterly … 43 (2013) 4, pp. 362-383

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Behavioral analysis and adaption of a negotiation based, quantitative planning approach for hybrid organizations

Oberlaender, Michael; Dobhan, Alexander - In: International journal of production economics 157 (2014), pp. 31-38

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