Seit dem Ausbruch der Finanzkrise 2007-2009 wird in internationalen Foren über eine Verschärfung der Regelung und Beaufsichtigung von "Schattenbanken" diskutiert. Auf der Grundlage von Vorschlägen des Financial Stability Boards erarbeitete die Europäische Kommission im Jahre 2012 ein...

Assessment of Intangible Assets along with managing the same utilizing different International Standards. Recognition of the generated Intangible Assets by the Company employing Cost or Revaluation Model, following the Valuation Methodology being utilized in Business Enterprise. Position of...

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) has raised the stakes for financial regulation by requiring more than twenty federal agencies to promulgate nearly 400 new rules. Scholars, regulated entities, Congress, courts, and the agencies themselves have all...

The author analyzes the different forms of relationships between businesses and bodies of state power in Russia: private and public partnership, the delegation of public powers and property, self-regulation, the transfer of government authority to the private organizations, self-regulation, and...

The Western Balkans is a politically fragmented subregion, possessing moderate levels natural resources, and lagging behind the rest of Europe in terms of income. Integration into the European Union offers the only feasible perspective to overcome deep-rooted divisions, and to speed up progress...

The emerging importance of laws regarding exploitative abuse continues to prevail; not only the European Union but the United States, the jurisdiction least concerned about this type of abuse, is interested in dealing with standard-essential patents, and such cases include issues of exploitative...

When the chairmen of the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Acting Comptroller of the Currency express doubts about a regulation designed to eliminate seventy percent of a market, and when the queen and spokeswoman of consumer financial protection, Elizabeth...

Competition law is fun. As a noted expert consultant told one of us: ‘Don't tell my spouse, but I'd work on these cases for the sheer joy of it.' The facts, the issues, the window into economies and legal systems -- it does not get much better than this. Not surprisingly, then, competition law...

Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, stated that "benefit corporation legislation creates the legal framework to enable mission-driven companies like Patagonia to stay mission-driven through succession, capital raises, and even changes in ownership." This article uses Patagonia, one of the most...

Considerable debate exists as to the interaction of antitrust and privacy law. This nuanced debate encompasses many difficult questions: when is there a strong consumer preference for privacy, and when is there not? Under what circumstances do consumers happily trade data for service access?...