Insurance Distribution Directive: A Legal Analysis
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force on 1 October 2018 and regulates the distribution of insu…
Since a reform in 2010, foreign investors can establish a Foreign-Invested Limited Partnership Enterprise (FILPE) in China together with Chinese or foreign investors. The FILPE can be combined with a domestic or foreign corporate general partner, thus allowing for a structure th…
This book discusses the use of the compromissory clause in international investment agreements (IIAs) for interstate dispute resolution. It puts forward the possibility of using state-to-state arbitration based on the compromissory clause in IIAs as an alternative means of resol…
Dieses Lehrbuch führt in die Grundlagen der nationalen und internationalen Bilanzierung und Bewertung ein, veranschaulicht die Zusammenhänge zwischen Handels-, Steuer- und IFRS-Bilanzen und erklärt die Änderungen durch das BilMoG. Die Auswirkungen von Bilanzwahlrichtlinien werde…
Consumer Law and Economics
This edited volume covers the challenges currently faced by consumer law in Europe and the United States, ranging from fundamental theoretical questions, such as what goals consumer law should pursue, to practical questions raised by disclosure requirements, the General Data Pro…
1 Introduction -- Part I: Conceptual Framework: 2 Public Procurement Regulation -- 3 Green Public Procurement (GPP) -- Part II: World Trade Organization: 4 GPP and International Trade Regulation -- 5 Relevance of the Multilateral WTO Agreements -- 6 Government Procurement Agreem…
This book examines how regulators and policymakers from nine different countries have dealt with Uber, and initiates a legal dialogue between different jurisdictions that could potentially pave the way to a harmonized approach in regulating Uber. The case studies, conducted in B…
"The repeal of Britain's Corn Laws in 1846--one of the most important economic policy decisions of the nineteenth century--has long intrigued and puzzled political scientists, historians, and economists. Why would a Conservative prime minister act against his own party's interes…
The overlapping and interacting forces that caused a Conservative government to repeal the protectionist Corn Laws against its own political principles and economic interests: extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis.
This open access book provides the first-ever comparative study on criminal policy concerning the illicit trade of tobacco, conducted among four comparatively new EU Member States (Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Romania) and two "old" EU countries (Germany and Italy). The book …
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods wholly or partly by Sea: an appraisal of the "Rotterdam Rules"
by Güner-Özbek, Meltem Deniz, United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, Istanbul)