Emerging Business Issues

Preface; Minority Contracting and Affirmative Action for Disadvantaged Small Businesses: Legal Issues; Federal Prison Industries; Firms That Incorporate Abroad for Tax Purposes: Corporate "Inversions" and "Expatriation" ; Estate Taxes and Family Businesses: Economic Issues; Comparing Automotive and Steel Industry Legacy Cost Issues; Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code: Ancillary and Cross-Border Cases; Changes to the SBA Disaster Loan Program: Proposed Legislation in the 110th Congress; Business Tax Issues in 2007; Federal Tax Treatment of Health Insurance Expenditures by the Self-Employed: Current Law and Issues for Congress; Average Effective Corporate Tax Rates: 1959 to 2005; Largest Mergers and Acquisitions by Corporations, 2006; Monopoly and Monopolization -- Fundamental But Separate Concepts in U.S. Antitrust Law; "Clear Incompatibility" Between Antitrust and Securities Laws Implies Antitrust Immunity: Credit Suisse Securities v. Billing; Codes of Conduct for Multinational Corporations: An Overview; Excessive CEO Pay: Background and Policy Approaches; "Price Gouging", the Antitrust Laws, and Vertical Integration in the Petroleum Industry: How They Are Related; Executive Compensation in Bankruptcy: The Fairness and Accountability in Reorganizations Act; Gift Cards; Executive Compensation: SEC Regulations and Congressional Proposals; Index.