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Why do lawyers in some jurisdictions continue to ‘automatically’ exclude the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) in their choices of law for international sales contracts? Why do lawyers in other jurisdictions approach the decision very differently? Why...
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We introduce labour contracts in a framework of optimal redistribution: firms have some local market power and try to … discriminate among heterogeneous workers. In this setting we show that if the firms have perfect information, i.e, they perfectly … discriminate against workers and take all the surplus, the best tax function is flat. If firms have imperfect information, i.e, if …
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only some are fair-minded, and identical firms facing very similar pools of workers might employ very different …
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although only some are fair-minded, and identical firms facing very similar pools of workers might employ very different …
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We argue that with interdependent utility functions growth can lead to a decline in total welfare of a society if the gains from growth are sufficiently unequally distributed in the presence of negative externalities, i.e., envy.
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minority of new firms is of major significance to the commercialization of new ideas and employment growth. These growing new … firms are transforming on a structural basis, like caterpillars turning into butterflies. However, like butterflies they are … firms develops subsequent to their start-up. A new conceptual framework and an empirical study of the life course of …
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The research question for this paper is to identify how some widely accepted governance practices are not necessarily consistent with the objectives of good governance. One reason is that there is little agreement as to what are the objectives of generic good governance, be it in the public,...
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The research question for this paper is to identify how some widely accepted governance practices are not necessarily consistent with the objectives of good governance. One reason is that there is little agreement as to what are the objectives of generic good governance, be it in the public,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005178
This paper analyses lawyer's choices of law in international sales contracts. It identifies key reasons for opting in or out of the CISG across different jurisdictions. The paper then examines aspects of this choice from economic and psychological perspectives: from the ability to externalize...
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This paper analyzes interactions within standard‐setting networks in the area of social and labor rights. We examine the shape of transnational business governance interactions (TBGI), pathways, and interaction mechanisms in three sectors: garments, toys and agriculture. Our comparative...
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