Any model of corporate governance must answer two basic sets of questions: (1) Who decides? In other words, when push comes to shove, who has ultimate control? (2) Whose interests prevail? When the ultimate decision maker is presented with a zero sum game, in which it must prefer the interests...

In this dissertation, I aim to explore the Corporate Governance (CG) regimes of India and China using CG parameters such as board size and composition, board busyness, board committees, board independence and ownership structure. The reason for undertaking this comparative analysis is that in...

The paper begins with a comparative analysis of the evolutionary legal path adopted by United States, People's Republic of China and European Union with reference to the F/Rand commitments on Standard Essential Patents. In the light of the wide differences which characterize the above-mentioned...

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...

Transaction costs are a major reason why international trade flows are much smaller than traditional trade theory would suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade...