A Primer on the Civil-Law System councils of state. In Germany and countries that follow its model, special administrative courts have been created. In theory, ordinary court and administrative court jurisdiction is separate and exclusive, but disputes arise. In France, a special Tribunal of Conflicts decides which is the proper court for a disputed case. In Germany, the court in which the case...

The government for a jurisdiction has both capital and labor taxes at its disposal. It taxes mobile capital to finance the public good despite the desire to attract capital and despite the tax on immobile labor if capital incomes are distributed more unequally than labor incomes among the residents of the jurisdiction. The result extends to progressive taxes and to pure redistribution. JEL clas...

This paper studies interjurisdictional competition in the fight against crime and its impact on occupational choice and the allocation of capital. In a world where capital is mobile, jurisdictions are inhabited by individuals who choose to become workers or criminals. Because the return of the two occupations depends on capital, and because investment in capital in a jurisdiction depends on its...

NatioNal Notifiable Diseases surveillaNce system, 1 april to 30 JuNe 2014 A summary of diseases currently being reported by each jurisdiction is provided in Table 1. There were 54,644 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) with a notification received date between 1 April to 30 June 2014 (Table 2). The notification rate of diseases per 100,000 population f...