This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation into timing relationships between variables within and across industrialized countries. In the analysis we highlight the two polar cases of completely closed and open economies and draw some implications for timing between monetary...

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation into timing relationship between variables within and across industrialized countries. In the analysis we highlight the two polar cases of completely closed and open economies and draw some implications for timing between monetary...

The world community had, and still has, high expectations for the impartial rendering of justice by the International Criminal Court (ICC) which, unlike other international criminal tribunals, bears a universal scope and is charged with administering justice in a non-selective manner. However,...

In January 2006, the European Court of Human Rights held that the punishment of two individuals in 2003 in Estonia for the deportation of civilians to the Soviet Union in 1949 classified as a crime against humanity, was not contrary to the principle of non-retroactivity of criminal law....