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When Should Contractual Rights be Transferable? A Legal and Economic Analysis

Paul MacMahon

A contractual right can be treated as an asset and transferred to a non-party. But when are contractual rights transferable? The answer to this question is mainly provided by the law of assignment...

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Competition/ Antitrust
M&A

Policy Failure: The Role of “Economics” in AT&T-Time Warner and American Express

Marshall Steinbaum | James Biese

The recent AT&T and Amex decisions showcase the pitfalls of considering antitrust cases solely on the basis of economic analysis and may have the effect of immunizing tech giants from serious...

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Financial Regulation

When Nudges Are Forever: Inertia in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan

Henrik Cronqvist | Richard H. Thaler | Frank Yu

In 2000, the Swedish government launched a new defined contribution component of its social security system that was dubbed the Premium Pension Plan. Like any service, whether provided by the public...

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Corporate Finance
Corporate Tax

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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Brexit
Corporate Governance

Brexit Negotiations Series: 'Brexit and Corporate Governance - An Economics Perspective'

Colin Mayer

To date, the response of the UK economy to the threat of Brexit has been quite benign. As this article is being written, there are gathering clouds in terms of consumer demand and industrial...

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Commercial Law

The Power of Convictions

Luigi Zingales

Much has already been written about the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics: Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom. With their contributions, not only did they create a new area of economic...

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Financial Regulation

Debt in Just Societies

John Linarelli

Much of the post-crisis focus on debt has been on making debt safer – on restricting debt and deleveraging debtors. Insights from behavioural economics and the economics of financial crises inform us...

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