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Notice-and-takedown as dispute resolution: An empirical analysis of GitHub notices 通知-撤下作为争议解决：对GitHub通知的实证分析

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International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2025.106281

Pengfei Zhang, Ji Li

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Clearance rates and disposition times: Not the whole story of judicial efficiency 清案率和处置时间：并不是司法效率的全部

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International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2025.106283

Miguel Alves Pereira

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Conflict and property law: The hidden costs of takings and of liability rule protection 冲突与财产法：征收与责任规则保护的隐性成本

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International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2025.106280

Sergio Mittlaender

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Do Chinese courts apply the “Hand Formula”: Empirical evidence from cases related to the duty of safety protection 中国法院是否适用“汉德公式”：安全保护义务相关案件的经验证据

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International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2025.106279

Haoyi Zhang

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And the law relaxed the rules – A quasi-experimental study of fatal police shootings in Europe 法律放宽了规定——一项关于欧洲警察致命枪击事件的准实验研究

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International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2025.106282

Sebastian Roché , Simon Varaine , Paul Le Derff

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The impact of antitrust enforcement on China’s digital platforms: Evidence from SAMR v. Alibaba 反垄断执法对中国数字平台的影响：来自SAMR诉阿里巴巴的证据

IF 0.9 3区社会学

International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2025.106268

Kenneth Khoo , Sinchit Lai , Chuyue Tian

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News flow as a determinant of the voting premium of dual-class shares 新闻流对双层股权表决权溢价的决定作用

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International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2025.106270

Hubert de La Bruslerie

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“Platform Holdup” and Platform Regulation “平台堵塞”和平台监管

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International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2025.106266

Jinglei Huang , Danxia Xie

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Competition and the two margins of privacy 竞争与隐私的两个边缘

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International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2025.106262

David Bounie , Antoine Dubus , Patrick Waelbroeck

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Has the European Takeover Bids Directive reached its objectives? The cases of Finland, Germany and Spain 《欧洲收购投标指令》达到其目标了吗？芬兰、德国和西班牙的案例

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International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2025.106269

Nuria Alcalde-Fradejas , Inés Pérez-Soba

{"title":"Has the European Takeover Bids Directive reached its objectives? The cases of Finland, Germany and Spain","authors":"Nuria Alcalde-Fradejas , Inés Pérez-Soba","doi":"10.1016/j.irle.2025.106269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.irle.2025.106269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Inspired in the common law tradition, the European Takeover Bids Directive (TBD) aimed to promote an efficient market for corporate control in Europe by facilitating competition among acquirers in EU economies while protecting the rights of minority shareholders of listed companies. After more than 15 years from its transposition into European national regulations, in this paper we investigate whether the main objectives of the Directive have been achieved in three European countries representing the three legal families included under the Civil law regime: Spain, as a country belonging to the French Civil law tradition, Finland, which belongs to the Nordic law tradition and, finally, Germany as a country representing Germanic Civil law tradition. To perform an in-depth analysis, we did not use a sample of takeovers, but a hand-collected database covering all takeovers launched in Finland and Spain over the period 2000–2019, and in Germany over 2002–2019. The results obtained in our analysis lead us to be sceptical about the clear achievement of the objectives intended by the Directive in the three countries analysed. Although more openness to European bidders seems to have been reached in Spain and Finland, there is no evidence of an increase in intra-European cross border takeovers following the TBD’s transposition in any of the countries analysed. Moreover, the premiums paid to minority shareholders (proxy for their higher protection) have remained unchanged in Germany and have been reduced in Spain and Finland.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47202,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Law and Economics","volume":"83 ","pages":"Article 106269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143874217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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