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The trading of unlimited liability bank shares: the Bagehot Hypothesis [PDF]
From the mid-1820s, banks became the first business sector in Great Britain and Ireland to be granted the right to form freely on an unlimited liability joint stock basis.
John Turner, Charles Hickson
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Is penal liability for legal persons compatible with the humanistic ideology of the Enlightenment period? In penal law, the principle of guilt has been seen as an expression of this ideology.
Dag Victor
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Artificial Intelligence and Legal Liability [PDF]
A recent issue of a popular computing journal asked which laws would apply if a self-driving car killed a pedestrian. This paper considers the question of legal liability for artificially intelligent computer systems. It discusses whether criminal liability could ever apply; to whom it might apply; and, under civil law, whether an AI program is a ...
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The Case for Limited Auditor Liability - The Effects of Liability Size on Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion [PDF]
Both the US and the EU consider limiting auditor liability in order to ensure the viability of the audit market, but fear its potentially negative impact on audit quality.
Schunk, Daniel, Koch, Christopher
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Risk, Informational Asymmetry and Product Liability; An enquiry into conflicting objectives [PDF]
Risky products cause two types of costs for society; the accident costs and the insurance costs. Liability rules allocate these costs between the parties involved.
Ram Singh
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Economic Analysis of Accident Law [PDF]
Accident law is the body of legal rules governing the ability of victims of harm to sue and to collect payments from those who injured them. This paper contains the chapters on accident law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic ...
Steven Shavell
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Optimal liability sharing and court errors: an exploratory analysis [PDF]
We focus in this paper on the effects of court errors on the optimal sharing of liability between firms and financiers, as an environmental policy instrument. Using a structural model of the interactions between firms, financial institutions, governments
Donatella Porrini, Marcel Boyer
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Concept of Liability, Legal Liability, and Budgetary Responsibility
Responsibility is a concept used in common communication but also as a technical term, especially in the legal sciences, but also in psychology, ethics and sociology, philosophy, and theology.
Pařízková, Ivana +2 more
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Enforcement of environmental liability in the case of uncertain causality and asymmetric information [PDF]
In providing precautionary incentives and allocating environmental risk, liability for environmental damages faces two difficulties: randomness of damages incurred and nonobservability of precautionary measures. Hence, a major obstacle in enforcing legal
Bartsch, Elga
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Liability of Legal Person in Indonesia: A Statutory and Practical Review
Liability of legal persons for criminal offences has been slowly, but making its way to the legislations of Indonesia. Trends of development indicate that the liability of legal persons for criminal offences has been regulated in few regulations and will
Yetty Komalasari Dewi
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