This study aims to present the legal, political and institutional framework governing offshore practices in the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) of the European Union, which fall under the sovereignty of four Member States: Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. It...

In the last twenty years the law in New Zealand relating to the enforceability of variation agreements has witnessed some notable developments. The traditional rule was that a one-sided variation to an existing contract whereby party A agrees to pay more in return for party B's agreement to...

Objective – The purpose of this research is to map the level of ethics and integrity practices in the Royal Malaysian Police (RMP) using the Global Ethics and Integrity Benchmark.Methodology/Technique – A survey questionnaire method was adopted where it was distributed randomly to 100 police...

Public announcement of formal enforcement actions against banks for safety and soundness reasons may enhance effective depositor monitoring or cause depositors to overreact, leading to disruptive runs. We test these competing hypotheses, using hand-collected data on enforcement actions and...

Tougher immigration enforcement has been responsible for approximately 1.8 million deportations between 2009 and 2013 alone. Children enter the foster care system when their parents are apprehended, deported and unable to care for them. We find that the average increase in interior immigration...

Normative reflection on the ethics of migration has tended to remain at the level of abstract principle with limited attention to the practice of immigration administration and enforcement. This paper explores the implications of this practice for an ethics of immigration with particular...

This paper finds evidence of an inverse U shape in the number of cartels detected by a Competition Agency (CA) over its lifetime. We interpret this as evidence that, as the CA builds up experience in enforcement, this feeds back into the business community to deter future cartel formation. We...

We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement can be strengthened by making law enforcement activities more salient. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in residential areas. At a random subset of 56 locations in a city in the...

A staple of M&A agreements, deal protection devices are contractual provisions designed to increase deal certainty and provide “insurance” in the event of non-consummation of a merger. While revolutionary innovations in deal protection devices – often spurred by dramatic legal or economic...