Markets are not a natural phenomenon but depend on a complex set of institutions. Commercial law enables and facilitates at-arm’s-length market exchange. Competition law regulates freedom of contract in order to protect it from self-abolition. On the domestic level, these core pillars of the economic constitution have been safely installed by the modern nation state. However, on the global level the situation is different. Since in contrast to domestic trade, cross-border transactions are not conducted “in the shadow of law” but largely depend on private governance-mechanisms, the crucial question is whether the world market is able to reproduce its own institutional prerequisites. Consequently, we assess the potential effects of this priva...
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What would happen if cost benefit analysis were applied to disclosure regulations? Mandated disclosu...
We will present an analysis of data from a literature review and semi-structured interviews with exp...
This article analyses the impact on the labor market of the transition from a state-controlled econo...
Public choice economics is often criticized by its critics not primarily for its lack of empirical c...
In this paper we analyse discursive struggles over what is referred to as legal and illegal user pra...
New advertising formats such as behavioural advertising, for which children’s personal data are proc...
Recent years have seen large-scale litigation of standard-essential patents between companies like...
Over the past decades, public concerns about the environment have kept increasing. Conscious consump...
Conflicting interests among private actors constitute an important factor to explain why and how tra...
Arguing that much of Africa’s recent economic boom has been confined to unsustainable growth in prim...
This article examines the 2007 banking crisis from an interdisciplinary and, in particular, social c...
In the early 2000’s green technology is a buzz word. However in a developing country like Malaysia...
Constitutional principles are sometimes invoked in adjudication as a bridge to foreign law. This art...
This article argues that corporate legal scholarship needs to focus primarily upon the indeterminacy...
Academic literature recognizes that firms in different countries deal with Corporate Social Responsi...
What would happen if cost benefit analysis were applied to disclosure regulations? Mandated disclosu...
We will present an analysis of data from a literature review and semi-structured interviews with exp...
This article analyses the impact on the labor market of the transition from a state-controlled econo...