Over the last few decades, advances in transportation and production technology, in conjunction with economic globalization and the emergence of multinational corporations, have consolidated fragmented production processes into long and complex supply chains across jurisdictions. While there are...

Faced with the challenges posed by the rise and evolution of disruptive technologies and innovations, many countries have adopted differing regulatory approaches and adapted institutional structures and norms to maximize benefits while mitigating risks. Among such regulatory endeavors, the...

From a political economy perspective, this book chapter uses the Taiwanese case study to shed light on the significant questions about how best to design economic “safety valves”, especially on the periphery of the financial system. These issues are raised in the seminal paper by Professor...

China's Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending market now comprises a significant share of global markets in terms of transaction amounts, followed by the US and the UK. This huge market share was strongly driven by huge demand from the underserved borrowers and lenders in the Chinese financial market as...

Edited by Yun-chien Chang, Wei Shen and Wen-yeu Wang, the book Private Law in China and Taiwan: Legal and Economic Analyses is set to be a leading comprehensive and authoritative law book that provides an economic and comparative framework for analysing private law in China and Taiwan. This book...

In 2009 Taiwan repealed the minimum capital requirement for incorporation (MCR), owing to the World Bank (WB)'s Doing Business (DB) reports. This article presents regulatory/jurisdictional competition as an analytical framework for convergence towards the liberalization of the MCR, especially in...

Crowdfunding has caused a worldwide revolution in early-stage startup financing during recent years. In the United States, the expansion of for-profit crowdfunding platforms to fund small businesses and startups prompted Congress to pass the game-changing law on equity crowdfunding, Title III of...

Taiwan, whose financial market is closely linked to the international market, was seriously affected by the Global Financial Crisis. Among the affected retail investors, those who invested in financial products such as structured notes might have been unaware of the real risk these products...

Online supply chain financing has been a relatively novel funding channel for suppliers as small- and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”) to obtain loans in that the revolution of financial technology (“FinTech”) transforms traditional supply chain financing, which used to be administered...

To resolve global political and scholarly concerns over conflict minerals (“CM”) produced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring regions, two kinds of CM-related disclosure rules (or “CM rules”) come into play in regulating their use: government-mandated laws such as...