There is a growing consensus that emergency arbitration is now a permanent and integral part of international arbitration. Commentators and practitioners recognise the significance of the emergency arbitrator mechanism in protecting the parties’ assets and interests. In emergency arbitration,...

Mexico, a prominent liberalizer, failed to attain stellar gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the 1990s, and since 2001 its GDP and exports have stagnated. In this paper we argue that the lack of spectacular growth in Mexico cannot be blamed on either the North American Free Trade Agreement...

This study assesses the causal effect of the inefficiency of the judicial system on the delay in the execution of public contracts. We apply a border-discontinuity design that leverages the variation in the length of civil proceedings across Italian jurisdictions and a granular dataset of public...

This paper uses replicator dynamics to compare the steady states arising from two types of common property regimes - one in which over-exploiters are punished by the resource users themselves, and another where enforcement is handled by guards who collect a tax from the users. The use of guards...

A recently published study by the author addressed the remedies imposed in the European Commission’s (the “Commission”) Google Search (Shopping) antitrust decision of 2017. The study ‘Google’s (Non-) Compliance with the EU Shopping Decision,’ considered the measures that Google...

In this article we explore fault as it has traveled from public enforcement to private enforcement of EU competition law and beyond the implementation of the Damages Directive. We demonstrate how differences between national tort law systems have prevented harmonization of fault in the Damages...

The American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility recently issued an advisory ethics opinion in which it found that a lawyer has an ethical duty to investigate when a client or prospective client tries to retain a lawyer for a matter that could be...

Policymakers and antitrust enforcers are debating whether to increase scrutiny of “nascent” acquisitions, in which an established company purchases a smaller firm in a related market, out of a concern that such acquisitions may stifle competition by nipping in the bud a potential rival....

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine propensity score matching with a discrete-time hazard...

The focus of this paper is the analysis of the persistent lawlessness attitude observed in some transition and developing countries where an overall increase in the quality of institutions is recorded. The mechanism of information diffusion on institutional quality is explored using a model...