This essay argues that, although the International Exhaustion regime provides the greatest scope for market competition among all the regimes of exhaustion of intellectual property rights, unrestricted parallel trade may prove to be harmful in the long run. The Exhaustion principle may promote...

The recent emergence worldwide of pro-market regimes and the subsequent adoption of competition policies and enforcement agencies by nations worldwide have renewed interest in the harmonization of competition policy between the world's various antitrust agencies. Proposals by noted scholars and...

This book by Professor Peter Cameron examines the current multifaceted and multilayered system of legal stability for energy investments and how this system has been tested by unilateral state demands for contract renegotiation. Cameron's contextual point of departure is the extraordinary...

This paper presents findings from the Regional Project on Child Development Indicators, PRIDI for its acronym in Spanish. PRIDI created a new tool, the Engle Scale, for evaluating development in children aged 24 to 59 months in four domains: cognition, language and communication, socio-emotional...

The OPEC Website holds an interesting FAQS (Frequently Asked Questions) about oil industry. The questions are very simple. Anybody could ask them. And the answers are still as simple as could be. You do not need to be an economist to understand these quite complicated issues - as we used to...

In His State of the Union Address, President Bush outlined the Advanced Energy Initiative to help break America's dependence on foreign sources of energy. The President has set a national goal of replacing more than 75% of U.S. oil imports from the Middle East by 2025. With America on the verge...