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   "text": "Harmonization and coordination can facilitate experimentation and learning, but experimentation is most effective when several different approaches are tried simultaneously in different jurisdictions.",
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   "text": "The authors stipulate that Choice of Law Competition is a subcategory of jurisdictional competition in which jurisdictions compete on substantive legal rules to attract contracting parties ex ante, with adjudication of disputes a secondary consideration.",
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   "text": "The authors stipulate that jurisdictions which take steps only to expand the jurisdiction of their courts as venues for litigation, rather than to attract transactions, engage in Forum Competition.",
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   "text": "Most Forum Competition turns on a jurisdiction's attractiveness to lawyers ex post: such jurisdictions ignore the preferences of transacting parties at the time of contracting and appeal only to the preferences of some parties and their lawyers after a dispute has arisen.",
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   "text": "Jurisdictional competition adapts legal rules to changed economic circumstances faster than harmonization does, because a single jurisdiction can change its rule unilaterally whereas harmonized regimes require all jurisdictions to agree on a rule before it can change.",
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   "text": "Harmonization can fail on the merits: the harmonious rule may be the wrong rule for the problem it addresses, or it may become the wrong rule later as circumstances change.",
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   "text": "Jurisdictional competition in global securities litigation after Morrison will be bifurcated, because some jurisdictions recognize private rights of action while others do not, and some, including the United States, extend government enforcement extraterritorially where private suits are barred.",
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   "text": "Although many jurisdictions may protect investors less well than the United States, it is not at all certain that U.S. law does a better job of deterring securities fraud.",
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   "text": "Experimentation with different combinations of regulatory approaches is effective when several different approaches can be tried simultaneously in different jurisdictions.",
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