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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of China's growing engagement in Eastern Europe, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to challenge the European Union (EU) approach to promoting development in the region. We take issue with this claim by making three interrelated arguments.
Tanja A. Börzel +3 more
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Measuring Risk: Political Risk Insurance Premiums and Domestic Political Institutions. [PDF]
There is a renewed interest in political science on how political risk affects multinational corporations operating in emerging markets. Most existing studies suffer from data problems where researchers can only offer indirect evidence of the ...
Nathan M Jensen
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De‐Dollarization Is a Plausible Outcome of the New Washington Consensus
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A trend towards de‐dollarization of the global economy in which the US dollar ceases to be used as the world's reserve currency for international transactions confronts some of the existing structures of international economic law, built upon the rules set out by US‐led organizations like the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. This article will
David Collins
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Mode of International Investment and Endogenous Risk of Expropriation [PDF]
In this paper, we develop a politico-economic model to analyze the relationship between the mode of international investment and institutional quality in a non-democratic capital importing country.
Oliver Lorz, Ramin Dadasov
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Of Hitler And Camille Pissarro: Jurisdiction In Nazi Art Expropriation Cases Under The Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act [PDF]
, 2011 In November 1938, Walter Westfield, a renowned Jewish art dealer in Germany, was arrested, beaten, and imprisoned by the Nazis for an alleged violation of currency exchange laws.1 The true purpose of the arrest was to seize Westfield’s art collection for
Zarrini, Elnaz
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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
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Downside risk similarity and M&As
Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.Abstract Downside risks are ubiquitous and can profoundly impact firm operations and valuation. Failure to adequately assess and manage target firms' downside risks hinders acquirers' ability to integrate and manage these businesses. This article introduces a novel measure of firms' downside risk similarity (DRS) based on risk factor descriptions and ...
Lei Chen +3 more
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Trade, expropriation and allocation [PDF]
Allocation rules map preference profiles into allocations, whereas trading rules map preference profiles and allocations into allocations. It is shown that no allocation rule can derive from a trading rule based on voluntary trade and satisfying a weak ...
Antonio Quesada
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The informativeness of consolidated and parent‐only earnings to investors: Evidence from India
Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.Abstract We examine whether earnings from parent‐only financial statements are incrementally informative to those from consolidated financial statements. We use a unique mandate in India that requires firms to provide both consolidated and parent‐level financial statements, since currently neither US GAAP nor IFRS mandates this level of disaggregation.
Sudhakar V. Balachandran +3 more
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Indirect Expropriation in Private International Law
Московский журнал международного права, 2014 In the modern theory and practice of international investment law on forced removal of foreign ownership, the issue of indirect expropriation remains topical. Despite the fact that the term “indirect (“creeping”) expropriation” is not legally secured, it
Andrei A. Danelyan
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