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Credit Rating Agencies and Conflicts of Interest : Comparative Study of the Post-Credit Crisis Regulatory Reforms

Lipszyc, Deborah - 2011

When things go wrong, it is always good to find someone to blame. As the credit crisis started to unfold in 2007, credit rating agencies (“CRAs”) emerged as the villain – or scapegoat, one might say – for commentators and regulators alike. To sum up, observers accused CRAs of doing a...

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The World Bank Doing Business Reports - Regulation and Change in China and Australia

Bath, Vivienne - 2008

economies around the world in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. The Reports focus on business regulation by looking at regulations that …Under the auspices of the World Bank, "Doing Business" reports have been issued in relation to business activity in … measure business regulation and various types of regulated activities in a number of identified sub-indices (now 10) and to …

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Ordre Public and Cross-Border Insolvency : Especially in Relation to Council Regulation (EC) No. 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings

Belohlavek, Alexander J. - 2015

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The Global Regulation of 'Fake News' in the Time of Oxymora : Facts and Fictions about the COVID-19 Pandemic as Coincidences or Predictive Programming?

Neuwirth, Rostam J. - 2021

The beginning of the twenty-first century saw an apparent change in language in public discourses characterised by the rise of so-called “essentially oxymoronic concepts”, i.e., mainly oxymora and paradoxes. In earlier times, these rhetorical figures of speech were largely reserved for the...

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Using Central Counterparties to Limit Global Financial Crises

Henkel, Christoph - 2020

Conventional economic analysis assumes that Central Counterparties (CCPs) may help to reduce systemic risk and avoid future financial crises by mandating the central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. This view largely goes unchallenged by governments, regulators, practitioners, and...

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Terrorism and International Criminal Law : Questions of (In)Coherence and (Il)Legitimacy

Saul, Ben - 2012

liberty to state interests, without necessarily making the world safer …

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Fair Work in the International Spotlight : The CEPU Complaint to the ILO’s Committee on Freedom of Association

McCrystal, Shae - 2011

This article examines the June 2010 report of the International Labour Organisation Governing Body’s Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA) made in response to a complaint by the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of...

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International Conventions and the Failure of a Transnational Approach to Controlling Asian Crime Business

Findlay, Mark; Hanif, Nafis - 2012

The paper argues that without a realistic understanding of criminal enterprise located against the commercial forces shaping contemporary Asian market contexts, then domestic, bi-lateral, regional and international control initiatives are not only likely to fail in their regulatory objectives,...

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WTO Disputes Settlement – An Evolving Jurisprudence

Triggs, Gillian - 2011

An examination of some of the recent decisions of the panels and Appellate Body demonstrates the continuing evolution of WTO trade rules through traditional processes of treaty interpretation, reference to earlier jurisprudence and judicial reasoning. The quasi-judicial development of the law in...

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Novel Treaty-Based Approaches to Resolving International Investment and Tax Disputes in the Asia-Pacific Region

Burch, Micah; Nottage, Luke R. - 2012

Trade and investment treaties have proliferated throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Their dispute resolution mechanisms are important in entrenching market access commitments, especially when providing for direct claims by firms against states. But the Global Financial Crisis has also heightened...

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