National comparisons, whether of cuisine, driving habits, or law, are apt to provoke hurt feelings. The renewed interest of late in comparing US and European environmental policies has been spurred in part by a series of transatlantic conflicts -often rather acrimonious -over trade restrictions and international treaty language. The comparative studies themselves sometimes manifest unkind stere...

During the last decades, international outsourcing has received huge attention in political discussion as well as in economic research. In empirical studies, outsourcing is measured in different ways. The several measurements are mostly calculated from different datasets, which often lead to diverse results and thus complicate comparative analysis. In Germany, the discussion about international...

arbitration is a private justice for the settlement of disputes in the international trade. by reason of number of benefits, international traders prefer the arbitration in relation to the justice tosettle their disputes. confidentiality is one of those benefits. here, there are some questions: is there any source in international commercial judgment that indicates the confidentiality of judgme...

International misclassification of suicide, particularly undercounting, has long been a scientific concern. An important question is whether official national suicide data are sufficiently reliable and valid to justify their use in international comparative studies or longitudinal intervention studies. Is cross-national variation in rates of suicide, in part or whole, an artifact of such factor...

There is a considerable amount of controversy about the model(s) of comparative advantage and its applicability to international business, in particular as a guide to the success of nations and/or firms in international markets. This perception (or understanding) of inapplicability of the model(s) of comparative advantage has lead international business experts to develop new models, or what ma...