La institucionalidad de los gobiernos locales tiene un impacto significativo en la pobreza: un mayor riesgo de corrupción e ineficiencia en el uso de las transferencias para el gasto en educación y salud incrementa la pobreza de los municipios colombianos y por el contrario, una gestión...

Under certain circumstance, a relaxation in occupational licensing standards can increase the quality of those who enter the industry. The effect turns on the opportunity costs of preparing for the licensing examination: making the test easier can increase the quality of those passing if it...

The appellate review system is intended to serve as an efficient remedy for imperfect judicial decision making. However, it can fulfill this task only when appeals are filed solely due to bad verdicts and are ex-ante unpredictable based on factors that are exogenous to the judge. Using data from...

Because verdicts are typically the more costly resolution of legal disputes, most governments are interested in high settlement rates. In this paper, we use a unique dataset of 860 case records from a German trial court to explore which factors have a significant impact on the decision to settle...

An ongoing problem in the application of U.S. antitrust law is the delineation of the appropriate product market. Demand and supply substitutability, as measured by the coefficients of cross elasticity of demand and the coefficient of elasticity of supply, respectively, were introduced in the...

On 1st October 2011 a new Romanian Civil code has been enacted, which has included therein the regulations of commercial law. This new regulation meant not only taking some provisions from the former Commercial Code, thus repealed, but also redefining some institutions of business law and...

The article presents research in the role and significance of evaluation categories in the legal system. It is proved that presence of evaluation categories is unavoidable for a legal system of any country of the world. In terms of Russia the authors show a different role and significance of...

The scientific article is devoted to the multidisciplinary study of the phenomenon of legal responsibility, in legal terms, as a manifestation of social responsibility. Responsibility as a phenomenon of social life rezmatra primarily from the standpoint of hermeneutics, and then illuminates the...

The Cluj School of Law was formed and developed under the aegis of both the Faculty of Law at “Babeº-Bolyai” University and the Cluj-Napoca branch of the Romanian Academy, which encouraged and coordinated the local scientific research in the field of law. Regarding the Cluj-Napoca juridical...

The concept of human dignity allows giving up a formal approach of equality in favour of substantive equality. Ordinance no. 137/2000 on preventing and sanctioning all forms of discrimination transposes the provisions of Directive no. 2000/43/EC of the Council regarding the implementation of the...