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The ECN - Network Antitrust Enforcement in the European Union

Gerard, Damien M. B. - 2013

Drawing both from earlier policy discussions and more recent empirical findings, this paper explores the functioning of the European Competition Network. It is structured in two parts: (i) part one aims first to identify the various driving forces that have prompted the switch towards a network...

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Endogenous Enforcement of Intellectual Property, North-South Trade, and Growth

Schäfer, Andreas - 2013

While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a)...

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A Revolution of Human Rights in Kenya : Assessing the Enforceability of Socio-Economic Rights Under the Constitution of Kenya 2010

2013

The entrenchment of social and economic rights in the Constitution of Kenya 2010 signifies the states willingness to fulfill its obligation under international law by enhancing the realization of social and economic rights through a constitutional machinery. Article 43 of the current...

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Business Associations and Private Ordering

Prufer, Jens - 2014

We study the capacity of business associations|private, formal, noncommercial organizations designed to promote the common business interests of their members|to support contract enforcement and collective action. Inspired by recent empirical literature, our theoretical framework connects the...

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Two Direct Rights of Action in Child Support Enforcement

Ryznar, Margaret - 2014

Child support enforcement and collection is a familiar problem in both the United Kingdom and the United States, fraught with low enforcement rates and high costs. The United Kingdom had approached the problem by centralizing collection efforts through the Child Support Agency and prohibiting...

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The Economics of Patent Enforcement and Its Reception in Asia

Wechsler, Andrea - 2014

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The End of Shareholder Litigation? Allowing Shareholders to Customize Enforcement through Arbitration Provisions in Charters and Bylaws

Weitzel, Paul D. - 2014

Shareholder litigation has been heavily criticized for its inability to compensate harmed shareholders or deter managerial misconduct. While some have suggested abolishing shareholder litigation altogether, this article takes a more moderate approach. I propose allowing shareholders to enforce...

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The State’s Enforcement Monopoly and the Private Protection of Property

Grechenig, Kristoffel - 2014

infringements. From a legal perspective, our approach emphasizes a regulation of victim behavior as opposed to the standard approach … which focuses on the regulation of criminal behavior …

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Environmental Enforcement Networks : Development of a Network Evaluation Matrix

Pink, Grant - 2014

Despite sharing relatively common purposes, Environmental Enforcement Networks are each unique. Part of this is because the circumstances vary under which they were established. A range of factors influence their development and ultimately determine their relative capability and potential...

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Bank Capital Regulation by Enforcement : An Empirical Study

Hill, Julie Andersen - 2014

regulation has been missing. Existing regulations establish numerical capital requirements. Regulators, however, have significant … the current capital regulation system. This Article provides a more complete picture of discretionary capital enforcement … role of this discretionary enforcement. It concludes that a capital regulation system that relies heavily on discretion is …

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