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Googlestroika: Privatizing Privacy, Karl T. Muth
Googlestroika: Privatizing Privacy, Karl T. Muth
Karl T Muth
This is part of a slide deck from a presentation given in July 2009 in Washington, D.C. by Karl T. Muth. Those interested in discussing this material or obtaining the full slide deck should contact the author at rhetoric@uchicago.edu.
Invisible Ink In The Eighth Arrondissement, Karl T. Muth
Invisible Ink In The Eighth Arrondissement, Karl T. Muth
Karl T Muth
IMPORTANT: This document may prompt you for a username and password. If this occurs, please simply click "cancel" and the document will load. Thank you. This Article deals with the history of the secret contract that governs the distribution of economic rents enjoyed by Formula One. It further explores the environment in which this secret contract evolved and briefly discusses applications for secret contracts in other scenarios and industries.
Flying Passports Of Convenience, Karl T. Muth
Flying Passports Of Convenience, Karl T. Muth
Karl T Muth
This paper proposes an economic alternative to the legal construct of citizenship that currently dominates international law.
The Fragile Armistice: The Legal, Economic, And Policy Implications Of Trading In A Competitor's Stock, Karl T. Muth
The Fragile Armistice: The Legal, Economic, And Policy Implications Of Trading In A Competitor's Stock, Karl T. Muth
Karl T Muth
This paper examines the legal and other implications when a corporation elects to use corporate treasury resources to trade in a competitor's stock, with a primary focus on short-selling of a direct competitor's stock and the reaction of markets, media, and stakeholders to this activity, as well as a discussion of the practice's relative rarity. Included are brief discussions of the history of securities law around short-selling, the legal landscape internationally, and the timeliness of this particular issue in the context of the market conditions of Q3/Q4-2008.
With Avarice Aforethought: Insider Trading And 10b5-1 Plans, Karl T. Muth
With Avarice Aforethought: Insider Trading And 10b5-1 Plans, Karl T. Muth
Karl T Muth
The 10b5-1 plan and its growing popularity create a variety of governance problems and temptations for executives at publicly-traded corporations. The thought, in creating a safe harbor for such plans, was to allow insiders to diversify their individual holdings while in possession of nonpublic, material information. The 10b5-1 plan allows the actual liquidation transaction to occur while the plan participant is in possession of inside information, so long as the orders or instructions causing the trade were created as part of a "plan" that predates the insider's acquisition of the pertinent information. This creates a sort of time machine, where …