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The effects of the 2012 Spanish law reform to protect mortgage debtors
González-Val, Rafael - 2020
We examine the effects of the legal reform passed in 2012 in Spain to protect mortgage debtors. Under the new regime, it is difficult for low-income debtors who meet certain requirements to be evicted. In the case of default, the bank is forced to offer the debtor a restructuring of the debt, or...
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Financial collateral Arrangements under Directive 2002/47/ec of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 June 2002
Ivan, Mangatchev - 2008
The aim in this article is to compare effect of financial collateral arrangements under Directive 2002/47 EC. The starting point is the definitions of these contracts provided by the Financial Collateral Directive. The financial collateral arrangements have their historical roots in Roman law....
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Licensing probabilistic Patents and Liability Rules: The Duopoly case
Vargas Barrenechea, Martin - 2009
unjust enrichment (UE), both damage rules that are used by courts in the calculation of damages when a patent has been … homogeneous good. One of the firms (patent holder) develops a cost reduction innovation (drastic or non-drastic) and got a patent …
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Implementing Intergenerational Equity in Goa
Basu, Rahul - 2014
Hartwick’s rule says that as mineral resources are extracted from the ground, investments in productive assets need to be made to leave future generations with as much assets as the present generation. This article examines whether mining in Goa meets Hartwick’s rule, and finds that the...
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Licensing probabilistic Patents and Liability Rules: The Duopoly case
Vargas Barrenechea, Martin - 2009
unjust enrichment (UE), both damage rules used by courts in the calculation of damages when a patent has been infringed. The … innovation, whose property right belongs to a firm (patent holder) has a positive probability to be declared invalid in a court … of cases LP benefits more to the patent holder. …
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Zum Nutzen internationaler Standards bei der Vergabe von Genpatenten - Eine vergleichende Analyse am Beispiel der EU und Japans
Gilroy, Bernard Michael; Vollpert, Tobias - 2003
The specific characteristics of the R&D system of the modern molecular biotechnology lead to the fact that patent … of cultural and traditional conditions with view to the allocation and usage of property rights, an optimal patent system …
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Delayed privatization in Kosovo: causes, consequences, and implications in the ongoing process
Mulaj, Isa - 2005
Kosovo is distinguished from other transition countries by being the last country to embark on privatization. The wave of revolutionary political and economic changes spreading like wildfire across the Central and Eastern European countries and in former Soviet Union since 1989 found Kosovo...
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The relationship between common management and ecotourism development: tragedy or triumph of the commons? A Law & Economics answer
Samà, Danilo - 2011
Since its origin, ecotourism development has been at the centre of controversial and heated debates within the environmental and scientific society. On one hand, it has been considered as a model of responsible and sustainable tourism with the capacity to guarantee the conservation of the...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Civil Rights: Testing Decreasing Returns to Civil Rights
Ponce, Aldo - 2010
In this paper, I examine the effectiveness of improvements in political and civil rights for attracting foreign direct investment flows (FDI) into democracies. I contend that advances in the quality of democracy – specifically those concerning civil rights – present positive but decreasing...
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Prospects of liberalization for S&T policies in Russia: institutional analysis
Kirdina, Svetlana - 2010
The objective of the paper is to define the trajectory of economic institutional reforms in Russia as a framework of S&T policies. The methodology of this research is based upon the institutional matrices theory (Кирдина, 2001; Kirdina, 2003). The hypothesis claims that the “institutional...
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