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Do Better Institutions Mitigate Agency Problems? Evidence from Corporate Finance Choices [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines how firm characteristics, the legal system and financial development affect corporate finance decisions using a novel and unexplored data set containing balance sheet information for listed and unlisted companies.
Mariassunta Giannetti
core  

Surgical Outcomes and Recurrence Management in Borderline Resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Implications for Multidisciplinary Strategies

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Multivariate analysis identified that up‐to‐7 out (p < 0.001), lymph node metastasis (p < 0.001), and non‐anatomical resection (p = 0.02) were independent predictors of cancer recurrence, while older age (p = 0.01), Child‐Pugh B (p < 0.001), up‐to‐7 out (p = 0.01), macrovascular invasion (p = 0.01), and lymph node metastasis (p < 0.001) were ...
Koichiro Haruki   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Financial and Economic Crisis and its Russian Manifestations [PDF]

open access: yesProstranstvennaâ Èkonomika, 2009
Main causes of the current global economic crisis are considered, whose major discrepancy lies in the total capital accumulated by the American economy exceeding the size of capital value, which could have been covered by the revenues of the economy ...
Goryunov A. P.
doaj  

VAE+DDPG: An Attention‐Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Autonomous Navigation in Low‐Light Environments

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Variational Autoencoder+Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient addresses low‐light failures of infrared depth sensing for indoor robot navigation. Stage 1 pretrains an attention‐enhanced Variational Autoencoder (Convolutional Block Attention Module+Feature Pyramid Network) to map dark depth frames to a well‐lit reconstruction, yielding a 128‐D latent code ...
Uiseok Lee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rules for the Enforcement of the Exception of Non-Performance in Civil Proceedings [PDF]

open access: yesOvidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2017
In civil proceedings, contract non-performance is a substantive defense means available to aparty that, by its mere invocation, can block the claim brought by the other party (which has notfulfilled its own obligation) that, in its turn, aims at obliging
Calafus Sorin
doaj  

Repurchasing debt [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we build a theoretical model of corporate debt repurchases. First, we find that the firm that buys back its own debt from a creditor must pay a premium over the price at which the same creditor is willing to trade with third parties.
Mao, Lei, Tserlukevich, Yuri
core  

MusicSwarm: Biologically Inspired Intelligence for Music Composition

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Biologically inspired swarms of frozen foundation models self‐organize to compose complex music without fine‐tuning. By coordinating through stigmergic signals, decentralized agents dynamically evolve specialized roles and adapt to solve complex tasks.
Markus J. Buehler
wiley   +1 more source

Market Discipline by Bank Creditors During the 2008-2010 Crisis

open access: green, 2011
Rosalind L. Bennett   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

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