Legal enforcement against illegal imitation in developing countries

Legal Enforcement of Morality

Legal Principles in Antitrust Enforcement

We study antitrust enforcement that channels price-fixing incentives through setting fines and allocating resources to detection activities. Antitrust fines obey four legal principles: punishments should fit the crime, proportionality, bankruptcy considerations, and minimum fines. Bankruptcy considerations limit maximum fines, ensure abnormal cartel profits and impose a challenge for optimal an...

Re: Violence against women in developing countries.

From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States

From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States This paper develops a framework for estimating previous illegal experience among annual cohorts of new legal immigrants to the United States – using public-use administrative microdata alone, survey data alone, and the two jointly – and provides estimates for the FY 1996 cohort of new i...

Against the Interests of Developing Countries?

Continued on page 18 T issue of the extension to other products of the additional protection provided under the TRIPs Agreement for geographical indications (GIs) for wines and spirits has for some time been one of the most passionately debated topics in the WTO. Its characterization in the Doha Development Agenda Declaration as an ‘outstanding implementation issue’ necessitates a balanced asse...