In many models of corruption where enforcement is unbiased and the official maximizes her income, the rich are more likely to pay bribes for their children's education, implying that corruption reduces educational inequality. We develop models of bribery that reflect the fact that, in developing...

This study analyzes all insider trading cases in Hong Kong since a dual civil and criminal insider trading regime was implemented in 2003. The analysis reveals some significant findings. Firstly, the successful cases prosecuted under the criminal provisions outnumber those brought as civil...

This paper will argue that, considering the massive growth of international cartels, competition agencies need to rethink the way that they investigate and enforce their antitrust laws. In particular, it will argue that there should be a type of global network that provides a legislative...

This Book proposes a different approach to theorising, analysing and expounding antitrust issues. It states that at present, antitrust is addressed from top-down and narrow perspectives which in effect limit or exclude issues that could otherwise be addressed as antitrust-related especially...

Like all statutes, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has specific elements that must be met in order for there to be a violation. However, with increasing frequency in this new era of FCPA enforcement, it appears that the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have...

This paper provides an overview of the governing conflict of laws principles for the recognition or enforcement of foreign judgments, including an analysis of the recent Court of Appeal for Ontario decision in Yaiguaje et al. v. Chevron Corporation et al. and its implications for the recognition...

In Pro Swing Inc v Elta Golf Inc the Supreme Court of Canada has continued its development of the common law rules for the enforcement of foreign judgments. It has abandoned the longstanding orthodoxy that to be enforceable a foreign judgment must be for the payment of money. Under the court's...

The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector...

Following the 2003 competition statute, anti-cartel enforcement has become a visible priority of the Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC). This article examines recent major cases and presents some lessons that can be learned from the Portuguese experience

The Antitrust Marathon is a long-running series of roundtable discussions sponsored by the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies of Loyola University Chicago School of Law and the Competition Law Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, focusing on enduring issues...