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16 Oct 2019
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The (W)hole Story: On the Origin of Gaps in Commercial Contracts

Julian Nyarko

Through choice-of-forum provisions such as arbitration clauses or court selection clauses, contractual parties have the opportunity to determine where and how their disputes should be solved ex ante...

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  • Commercial Law
04 Feb 2019

Contracts and Choice Theory, Part 1 – Choice Theory and the Economic Analysis of Contracts

Oren Bar-Gill

In ‘Choice Theory and the Economic Analysis of Contracts’ I offer an economist’s reaction to Hanoch Dagan and Michael Heller’s important book, ‘The Choice Theory of Contracts.’ In this post, I...

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  • Commercial Law
28 Jan 2019

Video Interview: The Law and Economics of Extreme Sports Sponsoring in a Comparative Perspective

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Take a look at our full video interview with Prof Horst Eidenmüller about his empirical research on extreme sports sponsoring contracts and their link with inefficient risk-taking by the sponsored...

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  • Commercial Law
08 Jan 2019

Law and Surplus: Opportunities Missed

Michael Guttentag

Surplus is a ubiquitous feature of economic activity. The ubiquity of surplus challenges us to find fair and efficient ways to share resources. This is the surplus problem. In my article, Law and...
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  • Commercial Law
29 Nov 2018

Video: Setting Up Dates with Death? The Law and Economics of Extreme Sports Sponsoring in a Comparative Perspective

Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College

Video of Setting Up Dates with Death? The Law and Economics of Extreme Sports Sponsoring Extreme sports and extreme sports sponsoring have become key features of the modern entertainment and sports...

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  • Financial Regulation
26 Nov 2018

Rethinking the Law and Economics of Post-Crisis Micro-prudential Regulation: The Need to Invert the Relationship of Law to Economics?

Iris H-Y Chiu

In the decade after the global financial crisis 2007–09, financial regulation reforms have been extensive, led at the international level by the Basel Committee of the Bank for International...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
31 Aug 2018

On the Economics of the Google Android Case

ProMarket Writers

A general challenge facing competition authorities in the digital era is learning how to apply the traditional tools of competition policy in multi-sided platform environments. This column argues...
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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
25 Apr 2018

International Guideposts for Pricing Lives

W. Kip Viscusi

Governments and corporations throughout the world set a price on life either explicitly or implicitly. How do they do this and are current practices sensible? In this article, I focus on how fatality...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Tax
23 Jan 2018

Modeling the Response to Exogenous Shocks: The Capital Uplift Rate in Petroleum Taxation

Magnus Berg | Øyvind Bøhren | Erik Vassnes

Firms are exposed to exogenous shocks, such as sudden shifts in exchange rates, input and output prices, corporate law, and the tax system. Regulators, financial analysts, and researchers who want to...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
31 Oct 2017

Crowdfunding Civil Justice

Ronen Perry

Crowdfunding—the aggregation of numerous but modest individual contributions through specialized online platforms—is a relatively new finance method. In the last few years, it has started its...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
23 Jun 2017

Managers’ Personal Bankruptcy Costs and Risk-Taking

David Schoenherr

It has long been argued that strengthening creditor rights facilitates firms’ access to credit financing, leading to larger credit markets and fostering economic growth (La Porta et al. 1997, 1998)...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
  • M&A
22 Jun 2017

Eclipse of the Public Corporation Revisited: Concentrated Equity Ownership Theory

Claudio R Rojas

The era of the US public corporation is in decline. Tectonic shifts in seemingly disparate regions of the corporate landscape are underway. Through the lens of a new theory of the firm, these...

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  • Financial Regulation
01 Sep 2016

Cultural Paradigms in Property Institutions

Taisu Zhang

In a recent article I examine whether ‘cultural factors’ substantively influence the creation and evolution of property institutions. For the past several decades, few legal scholars have answered...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
18 Apr 2016

On the Origin of (Corporate Governance) Species

Massimiliano Vatiero

Corporate governance structures interact deeply with the political arena through party systems, political orientations of governments and coalitions, votes of stakeholders (workers, shareholders, etc...

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  • Financial Regulation
10 Apr 2016

The Economics of Disclosure and Financial Reporting Regulation: Evidence and Suggestions for Future Research

Christian Leuz

In our paper “The Economics of Disclosure and Financial Reporting Regulation: Evidence and Suggestions for Future Research”, Peter Wysocki and I review the empirical literature on the economic...

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