Fiduciary monitoring has become a hot topic as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Tibble v. Edison International, according to recent expert insights published by Analysis Group Managing Principal D. Lee Heavner and Fiduciary Leadership LLC Managing Director and Analysis Group...

In a sample of sixty less developed countries, the present study observes that the regulation of competition in the production sector has a favourable effect on the growth of aggregate output, manufacturing value-added and fixed capital formation. The regulation of competition in the banking...

Competitive bidding (CB) is the dominant governmental contracting mechanism by which hundreds of billions of dollars are allocated annually. We claim that when bid evaluators assess the qualitative components of competing bids while being exposed to the bid prices, a systematic bias occurs that...

Teenage startups are in the public interest and should be encouraged, yet the federal CARD Act of 2009 eliminated credit card financing for many such companies, cutting off an important source of early-stage business capital for teenage entrepreneurs. Since then, however, Congress passed the...

The word “Mifidization” refers to the impact of the EU regulation on financial products, mainly the rules laid down by MiFID II, to the insurance sector and more specifically with regard to life insurance. The paper explores four areas of the insurance framework that are likely to be...

Much of the recent history of intellectual property has been a move from status to contract, resulting in an unchecked expansion of controls over knowledge beyond the boundaries once drawn in IP law. When employers introduce these contractual arrangements as standard HR provisions, they are...

This article is discussing the subrogation as one of the key legal concepts of insurance business. Origin and definition of subrogation, historical background, types of subrogation, common and civil law approaches to this legal concept, legal doctrines made to ameliorate the harshness of...

This Article analyzes the impact of FERC v. Electric Power Supply Association, in which the Supreme Court upheld FERC's demand response rule (Order 745) and confirmed FERC's authority over “practices” “directly affecting” wholesale rates for electricity. It contends that the Supreme...

This Comment analyzes the current balance between foreign investment and national security in light of recent Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") decisions and questions whether further administrative changes such as judicial review would prevent the counterproductive...

As former President George W. Bush said once, “the tax code is a complicated mess . . . [and] a million pages long.” The length and complexity of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) is largely the result of the U.S. government's rule-based approach to curtail tax abuse. Taxpayers, aided by...