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The impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley act on the cost of going public [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of SOX on the total cost and the component cost of going public. First, we document a statistically significant increase in non-underwriting expenses of 0.8 percentage points after the introduction of SOX, which is mostly ...
Kaserer, Christoph +2 more
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In Litigation: How Far do the “Haves” Come Out Ahead [PDF]
This paper studies the consequences of asymmetric litigation costs. Under three differ- ent protocols: static legal process, dynamic legal process with exogenous sequencing and dynamic legal process with endogenous sequencing, solutions are obtained for ...
Zhou, J.
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All in the Family or Public? Law and Appropriative Costs as Determinants of Ownership Structure [PDF]
We examine how the legal protection of outside shareholders and the appropriative costs that they induce influence the incentives for private firms to go public.
Ramon Castillo, Stergios Skaperdas
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Online Terrorist Speech, Direct Government Regulation, and the Communications Decency Act [PDF]
, 2018 The Communications Decency Act (CDA) provides Internet platforms complete liability protection from user-generated content. This Article discusses the costs of this current legal framework and several potential solutions.
Beale, Steven
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On the Allocative Efficiency of Ownership Unbundling [PDF]
We analyze vertical structures where a regulated network operator serves n network users, and the network users compete in quantities for customers. We distinguish two cases: (i) none of the network users are related to the network operator (ownership ...
Bolle, Friedel, Breitmoser, Yves
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Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2010 This paper reviews and presents a theoretical model to determine the costs, benefits, and welfare effects of hazardous wastes management. According to the Iranian law, environmental costs are assigned to waste producing firms. However, in practice, due
Abdoli, M.A., Tavakoli, B., Menhaj, M.H.
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The "Regulatory Compact" and Implicit Contracts: Should Stranded Costs Be Recoverable? [PDF]
Progress toward electricity market deregulation has brought controversy over whether or not utilities are entitled to compensation for "stranded costs," i.e., costs utilities will not be able to recover due to the advent of competition in their markets ...
Boyd, James
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Five Basic Facts on Immigrants and Their Health Care [PDF]
, 2008 Addresses questions about the percentage of legal and undocumented immigrants in the growing population of uninsured, their eligibility for Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance programs, and the taxpayer costs of their health ...
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Legal effectiveness and external capital : the role of foreign debt [PDF]
Previous research has documented weak, and sometimes conflicting, effects of legal quality on measures of firm debt. Using WorldScope data for 1,689 firms, as well as more detailed proprietary data for 315 firms across nine East Asian countries, the ...
Allayannis, George +2 more
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U.S. Public Opinion on Vulnerable Populations [PDF]
, 2006 Summarizes findings from a June 2006 survey on Americans' views on government support for legal immigrant children and foster children, issues of community violence, and long-term care services, costs, and long-term care ...
Lauren Necochea
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