Following the passage of the Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008, the UK government began a process of consultation to review existing legal powers for the handling of banks and financial institutions that had encountered financial difficulties or were facing insolvency as a result of the...

The essay provides a brief overview of the transition that occurred in major legal systems from golden share to golden power provisions in order to protect national strategic interests in the economic field, with a focus on Italy. A closer look is then dedicated to a recent proposal for an EU...

Between 1869 and the early 1900s state governments regulated safety in mines and factories and reformed the liability for accidents. Reformers sought to reduce workers' risks and ensure that those involved in accidents received reasonable medical care and compensation for lost earnings. Yet...

We examine government cartelization efforts in crude oil production. Texas and Saudi Arabia are alleged to act as swing producers to maintain the interstate (1933-1972) and OPEC (1973 on) oil cartels respectively. We analyze the political constraints that affected the ability of Texas and Saudi...

Contrary to the conventional wisdom among economists and legal scholars, command-and-control (CAC) environmental regulations are not inherently inefficient or invariably less efficient than alternative "economic" instruments (EI). In fact, CAC regimes can be and have been efficient (producing...

The focus of this article is on legal-economic institutions that organized early-modern Eurasian trade. It identifies two such institutions that had divergent dispersion patterns, the corporation and the commenda. The corporation ended up as a uniquely European institution that did not migrate...

We examine government cartelization efforts in crude oil production. Texas and Saudi Arabia are alleged to act as swing producers to maintain the interstate (1933-1972) and OPEC (1973 on) oil cartels respectively. We analyze the political constraints that affected the ability of Texas and Saudi...

Spanish Abstract: En esta ponencia se presenta el concepto de gobierno abierto poniendo especial énfasis en las diferencias que existen entre el mismo y el concepto de gobierno electrónico. Se analizan asimismo los compromisos adquiridos en el Open Government Partnership por los países de...

As opposed to the studies concerned with the methods of allocating spectrum and their relative efficiency, this paper argued institutions rather than the allocating methods do matter to succeed spectrum allocation. This paper with the transaction cost theoretic approach examined the...

This paper is a piece for contributing to the sustainable European stake in order to interlock financial systems with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda (the UN’s SDGs). It is intended to be used as a platform for discussion between risk management practitioners in the financial industry and...