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Protecting Directors and Officers from Liability Arising from Aggressive Earnings Management [PDF]

open access: yes
A lingering topic in corporate governance is whether corporate directors should be protected against shareholder lawsuits and whether such protection reduces the incentives of directors to monitor appropriately the behaviour of corporate officers.
M. Martin Boyer, Amandine Hanon
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Board Liability Limitation, Indemnification and the Cost of Debt

open access: yes, 2010
We document a strong negative relation between the presence of director liability limitation and indemnification-L-index, and the cost of debt. Surprisingly, we find little evidence that firms with higher L-index attracts directors with expertise, the ...
Bradley, Michael   +2 more
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A Study on the Improvement of Limitation of Shipowner's Liability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The purpose of this paper is to study ‘Improvement of Limitation of Shipowner's Liability’ system(herein after called as the "system"). The system is considered as a system of protection of shipowner.
문춘언
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Why is a review of the 1976 Convention on Limitation of Liability desirable?

open access: yesUporedno pomorsko pravo, 1995
The author emphasizes some topics: Problems about the circle of persons who can limit their liability; Should the mortgagee in possession of a ship be allowed to limit; What about claims for the raising and removal of sunken vessels ordered by the ...
Branimir Lukšić
doaj  

Embedding Chemistry and Pharmacy Into Sustainability

open access: yesAngewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.
Chemistry and pharmacy provide products and processes that are indispensable for our high living standard. To understand their relationship with sustainability is important to allow them to contribute to sustainability in a sustainable manner. An integrated overview of green, circular, and sustainable chemistry and pharmacy is given and how they have t
Klaus Kümmerer
wiley   +1 more source

Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims: Multiple Perspectives and Legal Implications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The thesis is an attempt to analyse the concept of limitation of liability for maritime claims with multiple legal and policy perspectives. In trying to analyse the issues related to limitation of liability, the thesis explores the historical background ...
Taheri, Kourosh
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Contingent Capital and Bank Risk-Taking among British Banks before World War I [PDF]

open access: yes
The recent financial turmoil highlights the incentive of highly leveraged financial institutions to take excessive risk, given the protection of limited liability.
Richard S. Grossman, Masami Imai
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Comparative and functional anatomy of masticatory muscles and bite force in opossums (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae)

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
We describe the functional anatomy of masticatory muscles in nine opossums, finding a generalized anatomical pattern with differences related to skull morphology. Variation in quantitative myological data and estimated bite force was mostly related to size, and the increase in bite force supports dietary diversification associated with size increase ...
Juann A. F. H. Abreu, Diego Astúa
wiley   +1 more source

Inter‐microscope comparability of dental microwear texture data obtained from different optical profilometers: Part I Reproducibility of diet inference using different instruments

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has become a well‐established method for dietary inference and reconstruction in both extant and extinct mammals and other tetrapods. As the volume of available data continues to grow, researchers could benefit from combining published data from various studies to perform meta‐analyses.
Daniela E. Winkler, Mugino O. Kubo
wiley   +1 more source

Limitation of carrier's liability for the cargo damage in the carriage of goods by sea

open access: yes, 1993
Ograničenje odgovornosti vozara jedan je od specifičnih instituta saobraćajnog prava koji predstavlja izuzetak od općih načela građanskog prava prema kojima je stranka odgovorna za počinjenu štetu obvezna ju je u cijelosti naknaditi.The limitation of ...
Pejović, Časlav, Časlav Pejović
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