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The Frequency, Predictability, and Proportionality of Jury Awards of Punitive Damages in State Courts in 2005: A New Audit [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The state of punitive damages in the United States has been a controversial topic for more than three decades, resulting in litigation reaching the U.S. Supreme Court and state supreme courts.
Vidmar, Neil, Holman, Mirya
core   +1 more source

Rethinking the contract‐failure theory

open access: yesAmerican Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The contract‐failure theory posits that the nonprofit form can be an indicator of high product quality because the nondistribution constraint reduces the nonprofit manager's financial benefits from cheating. This would give nonprofits an advantage over for‐profit firms when consumers cannot determine product quality and thus explains ...
Yumiao Wang
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of ESG Rating Divergence on Excess Cash Holdings: Evidence From China A‐Share Listed Firms

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between ESG rating divergence and corporate excess cash holdings, employing a sample of Chinese A‐share listed companies from 2015 to 2021. Our findings reveal a significant positive relationship between ESG rating divergence and firms' excess cash holdings, a conclusion robust to various sensitivity ...
Qun Cao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harvesting benefits: Exploring the effects of second‐best policies on enhancing soil organic carbon stocks in agriculture

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agricultural subsidies can be an effective policy tool to enhance soil organic carbon sequestration. This paper assesses the effectiveness of a second‐best hypothetical policy which subsidizes additional canola hectares optimally for each soil zone in Saskatchewan in an effort to increase soil organic carbon.
Devin A. Serfas
wiley   +1 more source

Tinkering Towards Sustainability: Bundling Innovations to Electrify the Fossil‐Dependent Process Industry

open access: yesCreativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability transitions, such as electrifying the process industry, require a bundle of related innovations to make meaningful progress. Drawing on literature on innovation through tinkering, that is, adaptive, typically small‐scale experimentation with various forms of innovation, and applying a micropolitical perspective, this qualitative
Karin Wigger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spanish stock returns, growth, and inflation, 1900–2020

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies equity returns in the Madrid Stock Exchange and their connections with the macroeconomy from the emergence of a stock market around 1900 to its ‘big bang’ at the turn of the twenty‐first century. Using high‐quality data from primary sources and the methodology of the modern IBEX35 (published since 1987), we constructed an ...
Stefano Battilossi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The possibilities and limits of insurance as governance in insuring pandemics. [PDF]

open access: yesGeneva Pap Risk Insur Issues Pract, 2023
He Q, Faure M, Liu C.
europepmc   +1 more source

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