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The Role Of International Law Firms And Multijural Legal Human Capital In The Harmonization Of Legal Regimes, Gillian K. Hadfield

Gillian K Hadfield

The problem of harmonizing legal rules across multiple overlapping legal orders is, in part, a problem of knowledge. If the public goal of harmonization is to promote value in transactions and dispute resolution, a legal regime needs institutions that facilitate the production of multijural human capital: expertise about how legal rules interact with each other and with the environment in which economic actors design transactions and dispute processing mechanisms. Because much of this expertise is embedded with the actors involved in transactions and disputes, the production of expertise has to be supported by adequate incentives for private actors to invest …

The Economic Situation In Europe, North America And The Cis In 2008-2009, Robert C. Shelburne

Robert C. Shelburne

This document was prepared for the 2009 meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It provides an analysis of the economic situation in Europe, North America, and the CIS during 2008 and 2009. It is also available in French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese on the UN ECOSOC web site.

The Global Economic And Financial Crisis: Regional Impacts, Responses, And Solutions: Europe, North America, And The Cis, Robert C. Shelburne

Robert C. Shelburne

An assessment of the economic impact of and policy response to the 2007-2010 economic and financial crisis in Europe, North America and the CIS.

Defining And Measuring Entrepreneurship For Regional Research: A New Approach, Sarah A. Low

Sarah A. Low

A strong correlation might exist between entrepreneurship and long-term regional

employment growth (Acs and Armington, 2003). Entrepreneurship may be a more

sustainable economic development strategy than alternatives, like industrial recruitment,

because entrepreneurs tend to locate in their home region. Research and policies on

fostering entrepreneurship are hindered, however, by the lack of a clear definition and

measure of entrepreneurship (Bruyat and Pierre-Andre, 2000). Multiple definitions of

entrepreneurship, often flawed, lead to contradictory findings that fuel policymaker

confusion (Tamasy, 2006). Most importantly, the commonly used measures of

entrepreneurship ignore innovation—a long established defining attribute of

entrepreneurship for economic development. This is …