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Big fish in a bigger pond: positional envy in the workplace
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract In an agency model with hidden information, we examine how skill heterogeneity can affect the design of optimal contracts and the distribution of rents across workers. We first consider a standard model with two worker types, and show that under certain conditions, the information rent accruing to high‐ability workers can be non‐monotonic ...
Rosaria Distefano, Francesco Reito
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ПравоприменениеThe subject. Аt the beginning of the 21st century the growing interest of the parties to the dispute and the arbitral tribunals in the rules of customary international law became apparent.
S. D. Pimenova
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Corporate human rights obligations of investors in recent investment agreements: The progressive hardening process of CSR clauses. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Francis Maïnkade B.
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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International investment arbitration: An outlook from Croatia [PDF]
Strani pravni životSince Croatia's establishment as a sovereign country in the early 1990s, foreign investments have been identified as a strategic priority of its economic policy.
Poretti Paula, Župan Mirela
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Counterclaims in Investor-State Arbitration
Minnesota Journal of International Law, 2011 This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal regime governing counterclaims in investor-State disputes. It challenges the frequent presumption that the right to assert counterclaims is hindered by the fact that investment treaties impose no obligations on foreign investors and only protect their rights.
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Banks and the economy: Evidence from the Irish bank strike of 1966
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of the Irish bank strike of 1966, which led to the closure of the major commercial banks for 3 months. We collect a variety of new evidence, such as high‐frequency macro data, economic forecasts, micro data and narrative sources.
Emma Horgan, Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard
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Paving the way for incumbents' digital transformation. A review and research agenda
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Digital transformation is reshaping the competitive landscape by forcing incumbent firms to rethink their strategies, organizational structures, and business models. While a substantial body of literature has explored digital transformation in specific sectors, focusing on various factors and organizational mechanisms, there remains a lack of ...
Anna Bastone +3 more
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Iuris Dictio, 2018 The Clean Hands doctrine is currently applied in international investment arbitration. Tis doctrine has the effect that arbitration tribunals declare their lack of competence over to process the dispute proposed by the investor and the host State.
Andrés Armando Cervantes Valarezo
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Organisational dehumanisation: Authoritativeness as remedy
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract According to orthodoxy, the human relations movement was a watershed in rehumanising scientifically managed workplaces. In the wake of such purported reform, pundits (theorists and practitioners alike) have typically taken for granted that 21st century approaches to workplace superintendence, birthed in the wake of the Hawthorne Studies and ...
Jean‐Etienne Joullié +2 more
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