In this research we employ data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the Malmquist productivity of semiconductor packaging and testing firms in Taiwan from 2000 to 2003. Malmquist productivity has three components: the measurement of technical change, the measurement of the frontier forward...

In this paper I criticize Alexy's necessary incorporation thesis, which claims that moral principles are necessarily incorporated into the law in virtue of the judicial obligation to apply and balance principles in hard cases. I argue that although incorporation by balancing is an unsound...