In this study, we investigate why CEOs seem to be held more accountable for poor firm performance in some countries than others. We integrate research from comparative corporate governance and agency theory to identify and evaluate four fundamental assumptions underlying most theoretical...

This article investigates whether and how changes in the world oil price affect the Canada/U.S. real exchange rate. We applied vector autoregression and vector error correction models for the real exchange rate, world oil price, monetary differential, government spending, and productivity...

This article considers the harmonizing effect of TRIPS and the global enforcement of IPR through a discussion of legal transplantation and cultural adaptation. Part I examines the harmonizing effect of TRIPS and its implications to the countries at different development levels, particularly...

This article considers the enforcement insufficiency via a discussion of the evolving cultural phenomena associated with the fundamental systemic weakness of China's institutional problems. It argues that current mainstream legal epistemology incorrectly links China's enforcement problem to...