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The most comprehensive single-volume practitioner reference work on financial regulation, Financial Services Law has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the major developments in a rapidly developing regulatory landscape. The updated text analyses all of the substantial institutional...

For such a small state, Delaware has a fascinating aviation history. Delaware counts aircraft from the smallest, like the 1910 Delaplane, to the largest, the USAF C-5 Galaxy airlifter, among its rich variety. Numerous small grass airstrips dotted the state in the early years, serving as an incubator...

Does too much competition in banking hurt society? What policies can best protect and stabilize banking without stifling it? Institutional responses to such questions have evolved over time, from interventionist regulatory control after the Great Depression to the liberalization policies that started...

Corporate governance encompasses the free enterprise system, which is treated comprehensively in this book from a German perspective. This distinguishes the book from other books written in English in this subject area, not only because of the comprehensive way it covers German corporate law and corporate...

This book provides useful tools and information to help readers understand the key factors involved in organizing, structuring and managing a company in China. It achieves this by focusing on the critical issues that foreign investors and professionals encounter in China and using a clear and practical...

The carriage of goods by sea starts off with a contract of carriage, an essentially simple and straightforward contract between two parties, the shipper and the carrier. Very often, however, a bill of lading is issued and a third party appears on the scene: the holder of the bill of lading. The holder...

This textbook on corporate governance is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate law students, as well as scholars working in the field. It offers clear insight into this fascinating area of financial law, from the analysis of the legal and regulatory framework of corporate governance in the...

With industrialization and globalization, corporations acquired the capacity to influence social life for good or for ill. Yet, corporations are not traditional objects of criminal law. Justified by notions of personal moral guilt, criminal norms have been judged inapplicable to fictional persons,...

This publication examines the impact of the crisis among migrant workers and their families---with gender perspective---to provide useful information for better evidence-based policy making. Based on household surveys in Indonesia and the Philippines, the results show that women are in worse condition...

Energiegenossenschaften erleben derzeit einen rasanten Zuwachs, denn sie sind starke Einkaufsgemeinschaften und bieten ihren Mitgliedern günstige Tarife. Auf Grundlage des Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetzes (EEG) werden die Genossenschaften auch immer öfter selbst zu Energieproduzenten. Sie stellen...

Corporate governance initiatives have been developing at a rapid pace in the Commonwealth Caribbean through legislation, case law and codes. Commonwealth Caribbean Corporate Governance offers an overview of current practice and legal developments in corporate governance, highlighting the interpretation...

Written by the country's leading authority on construction management training, this book gives practical examples of construction management problems and how to deal with them.

Il testo di International Business Law di Lucio Ghia si snoda su tre distinte direttrici. La prima si occupa delle grandi organizzazioni sovrannazionali – Nazioni Unite, Organizzazione Mondiale del Commercio, Fondo Monetario Internazionale, Banca Mondiale, ecc. - fornendone un sintetico profilo...

Il libro esamina in modo dettagliato il presupposto della territorialità delle cessioni di beni e delle prestazioni di servizi. Si tratta di un aspetto che ha da sempre dato diverse problematiche agli operatori del settore e che, dal 1° gennaio 2010, è stato oggetto di un'importante riforma (attuata...