The article explores the legislative and regulatory responses to the global financial crisis, from a US-EU comparative perspective, focusing on the measures dealing with banks' and financial intermediaries' distress. A dual-stage approach in both legal systems is identified: the first, aiming to...

This article proposes that U.S. international tax policy analysis must take into account non-tax regulation, which is generally disregarded in international tax policy analysis. Structural features of non-tax regulatory regimes will be shown to have significant implications for fundamental...

In their Article, Tax Solutions to Patent Damages, Jennifer Blouin and Melissa Wasserman argue that tax transfer prices can provide data to help calculate patent litigation damages. But tax transfer prices are imperfect for reasons of theory, doctrine, taxpayer and government incentives, and...

A first approach to the attitude maintained in the EU and the People’s Re-public of China (PRC) towards alternative dispute resolution (ADR) displays similitudes regarding the support that this movement receives in both places. However, and standing on this common acceptance, a deeper analysis...

Although Uber's arrival in China has resulted in disruptive competition for incumbent taxi companies, it offers an attractive alternative in China's supply-demand-imbalanced urban passenger transport system. China's regulatory regime for Uber has evolved in three stages: from the regulatory...

Djankov et al. (2003a) propose and measure for 109 countries in the year 2000 an index of formalism of legal procedure for two simple disputes: eviction of a non-paying tenant and collection of a bounced check. For a sub-sample of 40 countries, we compute this index every year starting in 1950,...

The paper aims to set grounds to analyse the correlation between Development and Rule of Law indicators in Brazil, comparing Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), which are perception indicators, and GDP per capita, homicides, and child mortality, in a comparative perspective between Brazil,...

This paper assesses the impact of adopting a post-grant review institution in the US patent system by comparing the 'opposition careers' of European Patent Office (EPO) equivalents of litigated US patents to those of a control group of EPO patents. We demonstrate several novel methods of...

Many legal systems have been converging toward a US shareholder-centric model of corporate law and governance. This includes de jure rules relating to derivative enforcement. Despite convergence of the UK system towards the US model, each system continues to diverge as regards levels of...