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Confidence in the Judicial System and Court Experience: Evidence from Brazil
Sampaio, Joelson Oliveira; Bueno, Rodrigo de Losso da … - Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, … - 2014
the judiciary, there is a gap on the causal relationship between these two variables. The purpose of this paper is to … examine the causal relationship between confidence in the judicial system and utilization of the judiciary in Brazil. To … judiciary, we used instrumental variable approach: IV Probit. We used the news of corruption (front page coverage of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812483
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Confidence in the Judicial System : Evidence from Brazil
Sampaio, Joelson Oliveira; De-Losso, Rodrigo; Cunha, … - 2014
One issue that affects the economic and social development of a country is the ability of the judiciary to present … to measure this is through legitimacy of the motivations that lead citizens to trust or not in the Judiciary. We created … measure of perception, which shows the opinion of the population about Brazil’s judiciary. Our results indicate that race and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014143759
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Confidence in the Judicial System and Court Experience : Evidence from Brazil
Sampaio, Joelson Oliveira; De-Losso, Rodrigo; Cunha, … - 2014
the judiciary, there is a gap on the causal relationship between these two variables. The purpose of this paper is to … examine the causal relationship between confidence in the judicial system and utilization of the judiciary in Brazil. To … judiciary, we used instrumental variable approach: IV Probit. We used the news of corruption (front page coverage of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014143760
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Judicial Legislation
D'Amato, Anthony - 2010
My argument will be that it is unjust in the broadest view of our legal system for judges to legislate, even if they confine their legislation to the narrowest limits in the closest of cases. To the extent that my argument is successful in diminishing the judicial legislation position, it would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189173
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The Financial Collateral Directive’s Practice in England
Ho, Look Chan - 2011
This article assesses the operation of the Financial Collateral Arrangements (No.2) Regulations 2003 (FCAR), as amended by the Financial Markets and Insolvency (Settlement Finality and Financial Collateral Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations 2010. It will be seen that the FCAR has achieved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128253
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Immediate Indefeasibility for Mortgagees : A Moral Hazard?
O'Connor, Pamela - 2010
Since the global financial crisis of 2007, regulators and economists have analysed the moral hazards inherent in institutional arrangements which encouraged economic actors to act irresponsibly. The process of institutional reform must extend to review of legal rules which allow transacting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138363
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Making and Enforcing International Schemes of Arrangement
Ho, Look Chan - 2011
While English schemes of arrangement have proved to be a popular restructuring tool for non-English companies, their jurisdiction basis has been controversial. Recent cases (the latest being Re Rodenstock [2011] EWHC 1104 (Ch)) show that the position is far from stable. This article maps out the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121376
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Neurobiology and Patenting Thought
Torrance, Andrew W. - 2014
Many have argued that thought should constitute per se unpatentable subject matter, and some have even suggested that any patent claim that includes a mental step should lie outside patentability. Many courts have long disagreed with such a draconian rule, and have instead upheld myriad patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070323
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Incentives and Ethics in the Economics of Body Parts
Lacetera, Nicola - 2017
Recent research shows that properly devised economic incentives increase the supply of blood without hampering its safety; similar effects may be expected also for other body parts such as bone marrow and organs. These positive effects alone, however, do not necessarily justify the introduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964767
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Sovereign Debt as a Commodity : A Contract Law Perspective
Thomas, Dania - 2017
The ad hoc institutional configurations that facilitated the resolution of sovereign insolvency for over thirty years are fragmenting. In the absence of an acceptable alternative, the recent pari passu decision reveals the dangers of common law courts pressured to enforce contracts and paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964768