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Full-Text Articles in Law
Using Water More Efficiently, Barton H. Thompson Jr.
Using Water More Efficiently, Barton H. Thompson Jr.
Two Decades of Water Law and Policy Reform: A Retrospective and Agenda for the Future (Summer Conference, June 13-15)
23 pages.
Contains footnotes.
Building A Strong Subnational Debt Market, Paul S. Maco
Building A Strong Subnational Debt Market, Paul S. Maco
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
Decentralization of responsibility for finance and growing infrastructure needs are two trends that are expected to stimulate a growth in government borrowing at the sub-national level. Statistics for the first half of 2000 show a significant increase in sub-national debt volume, with global public finance, excluding Canada and the United States, more than doubling that of the first half of 1999.
Megafirms, Randall Thomas, Stewart J. Schwab, Robert G. Hansen
Megafirms, Randall Thomas, Stewart J. Schwab, Robert G. Hansen
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This paper documents and explains the amazing growth of the largest firms in law, accounting, and investment banking. Scholars to date have used various supply-side theories to explain the growth, and have generally examined only one industry at a time. We give the first demand-side explanation of firm growth, and show how the explanation is similar for firms in all "project" industries. We show that law plays an important role in determining industry structure. Among the areas we cover are the growth of Multi-Disciplinary Practice firms. We argue that the issues surrounding MDPs can best be understood by looking more …
A Property Theory Perspective On Russian Enterprise Reform, Michael Heller
A Property Theory Perspective On Russian Enterprise Reform, Michael Heller
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Why have Russian enterprises performed so poorly since privatization? This is a problem with many answers, each independently sufficient: the bleak mix includes vacillating macroeconomic policy, endemic corruption, a corrosive tax structure, poor human capital, and so forth. Even well-performing companies must hide good results because visible profits or dividends provoke confiscatory taxation and mafia visits. In such a difficult environment, the rule of law generally, and corporate governance in particular, may seem not to count. Macroeconomic implosions dwarf subtle distinctions in corporate dividend rules or minority voting rights.