In this paper the author questions the role of Eugen Ehrlich's sociological jurisprudence for contemporary debates regarding the sources of binding rules that have their (ontological) foundation in societal practices, but whose validity cannot be extracted from these practices. The question on...

International law spreads into a myriad of legal fields including human rights law and it is in this protective net that women’s reproductive rights fall. It is pertinently a delicate aspect of our civilization which has been given a deaf ear since time immemorial and it is the lack of...

We propose an explanation for why states choose different apportionment formulas for corporate income tax purposes. Based on a two-state equilibrium model of location choice by firms, we show that aggregate social welfare is maximized when both states use the same formula, regardless of which...

This paper develops a politico-economic model for use in studying the role of intra-elite conflict in the simultaneous determination of a country’s political regime, trade policy and income-tax-based redistribution scheme. Three socioeconomic groups are involved: two elite groups and workers,...

This paper investigates the behaviour of the mark-up of prices over marginal costs under two different assumptions about market structure. In the customer market model firms lower their mark-up when current output is low relative to future profits, foregoing current profits in order to capture...

This paper examines the performance of simple monetary policy rules in a two country open economy model under both cooperative and non cooperative settings. In particular, it examines the extent to which simple policy rules with external variables and simple policy rules under policy...

Limitations of existing schemes are detected and on the basis of it the conclusion about their inapplicability in practice of designing of radio-electronic means is drawn. On the basis of the analysis of possible schemes of synthesis and decomposition the approach to the decision of a problem of...

This paper provides a first insight into cost sharing rules for the continuous knapsack problem. Assuming a set of divisible items with weights from which a knapsack with a certain weight constraint is to be filled, different such (classes of) rules are discussed. Those - based on individual...

Shareholders rights advocates argue that shareholders have the right to control the corporation. This article examines the basis for the claims. It begins with an analysis of rights, then moves to an analysis of legal rights, which is followed by an analysis of property rights as a species of...