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The Assessment: The Economics of Legal Reform

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  • Fenn, Paul
  • McGuire, Alistair

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The paper applies an approach to medium-term policy-making that emphasizes the case for tax-rate smoothing to the present situation of the European community and particularly the U.K. within it. U.K. attempts since 1960 at a medium-term framework for policy are reviewed, as is the erosion over the same period of the scope for national policy as a result largely of EC developments relating to harmonization and convergence. While EMU would assign monetary policy to the Community level, the small size of the central budget effectively assigns fiscal policy to the national level with implications that are explored. The wisdom of EMU is questioned in the light of the heterogeneity and low labor mobility of member states. Recent German experience illustrates some of these problems and the contributions of (mis)management of unification to Europe's current macroeconomic disarray is also assessed. Copyright 1994 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Fenn, Paul & McGuire, Alistair, 1994. "The Assessment: The Economics of Legal Reform," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 10(1), pages 1-17, Spring.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxford:v:10:y:1994:i:1:p:1-17
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    1. Hyde, Charles E., 2006. "Conditional versus contingent fees: Litigation expenditure incentives," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 26(2), pages 180-194, June.
    2. Cave, Jonathan & Marsden, Christopher, 2008. "Quis custodiet ipsos custodies in the Internet: self-regulation as a threat and a promise," MPRA Paper 83193, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Swanson, Timothy & Mason, Robin, 1998. "Nonbargaining in the shadow of the law," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 121-140, June.

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