Contractual Certainty in International Trade : Empirical Studies and Theoretical Debates on Institutional Support for Global Economic Exchanges (Paperback)

Part I: Introduction 1. Volkmar Gessner, Towards a Theoretical Framework for Contractual Certainty in Global Trade Part II: Empirical Studies 2. Barak Richman, Ethnic Networks, Extra-legal Certainty and Globalisation: Peering into the Diamond Industry 3. Wioletta Konradi, The Role of Lex Mercatoria in Supporting Globalised Transactions: An Empirical Insight into the Governance Structure of the Timber Industry 4. Thomas Dietz and Holger Nieswandt, The Emergence of Transnational Cooperation in the Software Industry 5. Fabian P Sosa, Cross-Border Dispute Resolution from the Perspective of Mid-sized Law Firms: The Example of International Commercial Arbitration 6. John Flood and Eleni Skordaki, Structuring Transactions: The Case of Real Estate Finance Part III: Debates and New Approaches 7. Volkmar Gessner, Theories of Change-The Governance of Business Transactions in Globalising Economies 8. Gralf-Peter Calliess, Transnational Civil Regimes: Economic Globalisation and the Evolution of Commercial Law 9. Gillian K Hadfield, The Public and the Private in the Provision of Law for Global Transactions 10. Jorg Freiling, Institutional Designs in International Transactions-an Evolutionary Economics Perspective 11. Barbel R Dorbeck-Jung, Global Trade: Changes in the Conceptualisation of Legal Certainty? 12. Wolf Heydebrand, Contractual Certainty versus Efficiency: The Historical and Institutional Context of Global Trade