In 2008, Daqi was one of the largest Internet portals for user-generated content and leading word-of-mouth marketing provider in China. Grace Zhou, Daqi's CEO, was contemplating the risks and benefits of expanding Daqi's services into three new content areas-news, music, and popular bloggers....

The political story of the enactment and subsequent repeal of federal luxury taxes on high-end automobiles, boats, airplanes, furs and jewelry. Such luxury taxes are inappropriate. The same goals are better achieved by levying higher taxes on higher incomes across the board

In the recent Basel Accords, the Expected Shortfall (ES) replaces the Value-at-Risk (VaR) as the standard risk measure for market risk in the banking sector, making it the most important risk measure in financial regulation. One of the most challenging tasks in risk modeling practice is to...

Urbanization presents students of commons dilemmas with a pressing challenge: how to achieve the benefits of proximity among people and land uses while curbing the negative effects of that same proximity. This piece, written for the 2014 BYU Law Review Symposium on the Global Commons, focuses on...

Despite the proliferation of scholarly work on the capability approach, and its wide endorsement as a theoretical framework in a variety of applications, there are very few sufficiently detailed accounts of what the capability approach exactly is. This is unfortunate, since a more robust...

This article addresses not only offshore detainees at Guantánamo and elsewhere, but also the two Americans and one Qatari held in the United States as enemy combatants. It focuses on the critical issues in U.S. litigation - extraterritoriality and deference - yet also examines the scope of...

In the paper entitled Reconciling the Evidence on the Knowledge-capital Model by Henrik Braconier et al., Vol. 13, No. 4, Review of International Economics, there was an error in three of the figures. In Figures 2 and 3, the top-right axes were incorrectly labeled Home country origin (country...

With many countries facing scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor Sao Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast. To do so, Brazil was instituting its first...

In the article by N. Schmitt, F.L. Oswald, B.H. Kim, M.A. Gillespie and L.J. Ramsay entitled "The Impact of Justice and Self-serving Bias Explanation of the Perceived Fairness of Different Types of Selection Tests" in Volume 12, Numbers 1/2 of International Journal of Selection and Assessment,...