Can a preference-based conception of welfare accommodate changes in people's preferences? I argue that the fact that people care about which preferences they have, and the fact that people can change their preferences about which preferences it is good for them to have, together undermine the...

Canada's performance in attracting foreign direct investment faces serious headwinds, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Foreign Direct Investment in Canada – The Case for Further Openness and Transparency” author Daniel Schwanen makes a case for more open and...

According to the data released by the Bank of Russia, as of July 1, 2016, the number of credit institutions issuing residential loans (RL) and housing mortgage loans (HNL) fell to 680 and constituted 85.3% of their number as of July 1, 2015 (Table 16). Herewith, the number of credit institutions...

Large but temporary price increases are sometimes deployed on days when the demand for electricity is extremely high due to exceptionally warm or cold weather. But what happens when the extreme price changes are permanent? Between January 2013 and April 2016, natural gas and electricity prices...

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME) are at the heart of the economies of all Member States. However, their share of public contracts is often deemed insufficient. Four main ‘innovations' of the new EU public sector procurement Directive 2014/24/EU are directed at increasing the...

In order to identify convergence patterns among the group of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) we analyze clusters of traditional OECD countries, i.e. EU-15 plus Norway and Switzerland, Anglo-Saxon non-EU countries plus Japan, and CEECs based on macro data on government regulation...

Justice L'Heureux-Dubé is well known, in both academic and judicial circles, as a leader in the application of comparative analysis to the resolution of the universal issues with which family law must contend. Perhaps less well known is her role in bringing pluralistic legal sources to bear in...

This paper is written for a collection of essays in honour of Professor William Twining, by all accounts a trailblazer in legal theory and jurisprudence, human rights and legal pluralism, legal education and transnational legal thought. The paper engages with a number of Professor Twining's many...

This paper reports on two voluntary, contributory, contextualized, community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes, launched in Dhading and Banke (Nepal) in 2011. The implementation followed a four stage process: initiating (baseline survey), involving (awareness generation and engaging...