In 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an antitrust suit against Google alleging that Google has unlawfully monopolized the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising. The complaint raises questions involving market definition, monopoly...

Abstract This paper explores the relationship between law and applied welfare economics, BCA, and indicates how they are mutually enhancing. A definition of underlying principles for benefit cost analysis is given, from which rules for its application are derived. These rules are useful in...

This article aims to analyze and characterize the primary legal instruments used in the oil industry, with a particular focus on the contractual models that govern hydrocarbon exploration and production operations. It offers a classification of Joint Ventures, a cooperative mechanism that...

This study aims to analyze the relationship between women’s empowerment and poverty, topics that are part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. An analysis of Afghanistan is evaluated through Ordinary Least Square over a time period from 2005-2019, which presents that education and health...

This study aims to analyze the relationship between women’s empowerment and poverty, topics that are part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. An analysis of Afghanistan is evaluated through Ordinary Least Square over a time period from 2005-2019, which presents that education and health...

The Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 (IFSA) came into force on 30 June 2013 with the objective to pave way for the development of an end-to-end Shariah compliant regulatory framework for the conduct of Islamic financial operation in Malaysia. A key concern among Islamic banks is regarding the...

Japan’s national hospital system, which consists of a combination of private, national, prefectural and metropolitan hospitals, is the largest employers of the of the doctors. The article provides details on the women doctors’ discontinuous workforce participation in the Japanese hospital...

We compare the influence of bankruptcy law on the risk of default and the rate of liquidation by banks. We show that it depends on whether it is pro-creditors or pro-debtors oriented, and on the intensity of competition between banks. Then , we analyse the various tools at the disposal of public...

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...

The major legal regulation for patent protection of genetic inventions within the European Union (EU) is the so called 'Biopatentrichtlinie' (BPR). The goal of this guideline is the promotion of R&D in the area of genetic engineering. The following paper shows that the BPR lacks two important...