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Indirect Expropriation in the Petroleum Industry : The Response of International Arbitrations [PDF]
, 2021 The present article aims to argue indirect expropriation in international petroleum agreements and to analyse the response of international arbitrations. In particular, international arbitral awards by the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, the Yukos case as an Energy Charter Treaty Arbitration and certain North American Free Trade Agreement cases have been ...
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The impact of board governance on director compensation in West African IPO firms [PDF]
, 2013 This paper undertakes a unique study of the determinants of corporate governance in the West African developing region and their impact on director compensation.
Hearn, Bruce
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The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biased recommendations arise naturally in markets with heterogeneous consumers. We study a model in which a monopolist offers an experience good to a population of consumers with heterogeneous tastes and makes personalized purchase recommendations.
Martin Peitz, Anton Sobolev
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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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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Philip Morris lawsuits against Australia and Uruguay in the early 2010s highlighted the need to reform international investment agreement (IIA) practices to ensure that governments do not give up their regulatory autonomy for foreign investment. We undertook a policy analysis to reveal how interests, ideas and institutions shaped reform in
Dori Patay +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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Economic Freedom and Audit Fees: Evidence From the USA
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the association between US state‐level economic freedom and audit fees. We argue that economic freedom lowers clients' perceived business risk, thereby requiring reduced audit effort and exposing auditors to a lower probability of litigation risk, which enables auditors to charge lower audit fees to clients headquartered in states ...
Mahmud Hossain +3 more
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INFLUENCES ON THE QUANTUM OF DAMAGES AWARDED AT ICSID [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2016 The present paper is part of a larger study that aims to identify some of the factors that have a great impact on the quantum of the damages awarded in ICSID cases.
Mihai Berinde, Dana Petrica
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Evaluating a Potential US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty: Background, Context and Implications [PDF]
, 2010 [Excerpt] This paper, prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit for the US-China Economic and Security Council, summarises the context, current discussions and implications of a potential US-China bilateral investment treaty (BIT).
US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
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Economic Development, Legality, and the Transplant Effect [PDF]
, 1999 We analyze the determinants of effective legal institutions (legality) using data from 49 countries. We show that the way the law was initially transplanted and received is a more important determinant than the supply of law from a particular legal ...
Berkowitz, Daniel M. +2 more
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