Contractual certainty in international trade : empirical studies and theoretical debates on institutional support for global economic exchanges

Contractual certainty in international trade : empirical studies and theoretical debates on institutional support for global economic exchanges / edited by Volkmar Gessner.

Global business interacts efficiently despite the heterogeneity of social, economic and legal cultures which, according to widespread assumptions, cause insecurities and uncertainties. Breaches of contracts may occur more frequently and business relationships may be terminated more often in internat...

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Other Authors: Gessner, Volkmar
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland : Hart Pub., 2009.
Series:Oñati international series in law and society.
Subjects:
Foreign trade regulation.
International trade.
Contracts.
contracts.
LAW > Commercial > International Trade.
Contracts
Foreign trade regulation
International trade
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Table of Contents:
  • Towards a theoretical framework for contractual certainty in global trade / Volkmar Gessner
  • Ethnic networks, extra-legal certainty and globalization : peering into the diamond industry / Barak D. Richman
  • The role of Lex Mercatoria in supporting globalised transactions : an empirical insight into the governance structure of the timber industry / Wioletta Konradi
  • The emergence of transnational cooperation in the software industry / Thomas Dietz and Holger Nieswandt
  • Cross-border dispute resolution from the perspective of mid-sized law firms : the example of international commercial Arbitration / Fabian P Sosa
  • Structuring transactions : the case of real estate finance / John Flood and Eleni Skordaki
  • Theories of change : the governance of business transactions in globalising economies / Volkmar Gessner
  • Transnational civil regimes : economic globalisation and the evolution of commercial law / Gralf-Peter Calliess
  • The public and the private in the provision of law for global transactions / Gillian K. Hadfield
  • Institutional designs in international transactions : an evolutionary economics perspective / Jörg Freiling
  • Global trade : changes in the conceptualisation of legal certainty? / Bärbel R Dorbeck-Jung
  • Contractual certainty versus efficiency : the historical and institutional context of global trade / Wolf Heydebrand.

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