On January 1, 2013, it became mandatory that every new sovereign bond issued by a member of the European Monetary Union include a new contract clause called a Collective Action Clause or CAC. This, we believe, constituted the biggest one-time change to the terms of sovereign debt contracts in...

When the Covid-19 crisis erupted, in order to prevent instant bankruptcy, throughout the world tour organisers issued vouchers representing the value of the cancelled holiday to consumers instead of reimbursing them in cash. Tour organisers in the EU did the same. In this paper, I will address...

Purpose: The purpose of this work is to confront the social expectations of the TTIP, and how it effects the so-called “expert knowledge”. Defining a mismatch between the social expectations and expert knowledge may contribute to better understanding of the controversies related to the TTIP....

In diesem Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie groß die ökonomischen Effekte der EURichtlinie zur Dienstleistungsfreiheit aus dem Jahr 2006 zu veranschlagen sind. Zunächst werden einige Thesen zu den Wirkungen einer Liberalisierung des grenzüberschreitenden Dienstleistungsverkehrs...