Burkhard Hess. Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht

Este artículo reseña: Burkhard Hess. Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht. 2a ed. De Gruyter, 2021, 1026 págs. ISBN 978-3-11-071509-5.

Computation of Business Cycle Models: A Comparison of Numerical Methods

We compare the numerical methods that are most widely applied in the computation of the standard business cycle model with flexible labor. The numerical techniques imply economically insignificant differences with regard to business cycle summary statistics except for the volatility of investment. Furthermore, these results are robust with regard to the choice of the functional form of the utility function and the model’s parameterization. In conclusion, the simplest and fastest method, the log-linearization of the model around the steady state, is found to be most convenient and appropriate for the standard business cycle model.log-linearization, projection methods, extended path, value function iteration, parameterized expectations, genetic search

Comparison Geometry for the Bakry-Emery Ricci Tensor

For Riemannian manifolds with a measure $(M,g, e^{-f} dvol_g)$ we prove mean curvature and volume comparison results when the $\infty$-Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor is bounded from below and $f$ is bounded or $\partial_r f$ is bounded from below, generalizing the classical ones (i.e. when $f$ is constant). This leads to extensions of many theorems for Ricci curvature bounded below to the Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor. In particular, we give extensions of all of the major comparison theorems when $f$ is bounded. Simple examples show the bound on $f$ is necessary for these results.Comment: 21 pages, Some of the estimates have been improved. In light of some new references, and to improve the exposition, the paper has been reorganized. An appendix is also adde

Non-Party Access to Court Documents and the Open Justice Principle : The UK Supreme Court Judgment in Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Dring

The article analyses the eagerly awaited, unanimous judgement in the case of Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Dring which was delivered on the 29th July 2019 by the UK Supreme Court. Broadly speaking, the case concerned the scope and operation of the constitutional principle of open justice. More precisely, the questions before the Court were how much of the written material placed before a court in a civil action should be accessible to persons other than the parties to the proceedings, and how such access should be facilitated. The judgment is significant for at least two reasons. On the one hand, it provides an extensive analysis of the court’s power to allow third parties access to court documents under the constitutional principle of open justice. In so doing, the judgment revisits the contents of the open justice principle and its application in the context of modern, predominantly written-based, civil proceedings. On the other, the judgment provides certain guidance on the circumstances in which a third party may obtain access to court documents and, to some extent, clarifies the type of documents that may in principle be obtained. As a result, the judgment largely opens third party access to the court files that have been under the exclusive purview of the court and the parties