The advent of corporate limited liability in Prussia 1843 [PDF]
Corporate limited liability has a long and contentious history, stretching back to the mid-19th century and beyond. Initially being hailed as one of the decisive legal invention of our age, recently scholars have highlighted the negative effects of ...
Ilgmann, Cordelius
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Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley +2 more
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Limited Liability, Asymmetric Taxation, and Risk Taking - Why Partial Tax Neutralities can be Harmful [PDF]
We examine the combined effects of asymmetric taxation and limited liability on optimal risk taking of investors. Given an optimal risk level in the pre-tax case under full liability, loss-offset restrictions reduce, and limited liability enhances the ...
Rainer Niemann, Ralf Ewert
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook +3 more
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The Effect of Malpractice Liability on the Specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology [PDF]
Using data from a 2003 survey of 1,476 obstetrician-gynecologists, the effects of malpractice pressure on the specialty are investigated. Physicians report having made substantial changes to their practice in response to the general environment and to ...
Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
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Genetic Resilience and Resistance in Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis and Pathology
Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.Objective Some individuals avoid Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology as they age, or retain cognition despite substantial pathology, suggesting mechanisms of resistance or resilience to neurodegeneration. Educational attainment (EA) is associated with reduced risk of cognitive decline, although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.
Ganna Leonenko +8 more
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The Relevance of Law and Economics for Fire Safety. [PDF]
Fire TechnolKorsten R, Franchini A, Van Coile R.
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Civil Liability, Safety and Nuclear Parks: Is Concentrated Management Better? [PDF]
Ultra-hazardous risky activities as nuclear industry cannot be considered as “normal industries” i.e. industries without abnormal environmental and health risks.
Gérard Mondello
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Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.Catalytic, intramolecular N‐heterocycle arylation by nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) is now available for synthesis of highly strained macrocycles and medium‐sized heterobiaryl atropisomeric rings, including atropopeptides. Key to the approach is the ability to generate a strong base catalytically, taking advantage of base‐embedding ...
Alireza Abbasi Kejani +7 more
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The Corrective Tax versus Liability As Solutions to the Problem of Harmful Externalities [PDF]
Although the corrective tax has long been viewed by economists as a theoretically desirable remedy for the problem of harmful externalities, its actual use has been limited, mainly to the domain of pollution.
Steven Shavell
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