The Philippine Constitution contains many strong restrictions targeted against the flow of foreign capital in specific areas of economic activities. These restrictions were the same ones that were incorporated into the nationalistic provisions of the 1935 Constitution when its framers were...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 COVID-19 and Business Law: Challenges and Opportunities -- 2 The Impact of COVID-19 on Contractual Obligations in Malaysia -- 3 COVID-19 and Its Influence on Selected Employment Relationship Issues -- 4 Look What COVID-19 Unveiled: The Lack of Insolvency...

With banking sectors worldwide still suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, public discussion of plans to place toxic assets in one or more bad banks has gained steam in recent weeks. The following paper presents a plan how governments can efficiently relieve ailing banks from toxic...

Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on combined administrative and survey data, these differences...