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The relationship between copyright and contract law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Contracts lie at the heart of the regulatory system governing the creation and dissemination of cultural products in two respects: (1) The exclusive rights provided by copyright law only turn into financial reward, and thus incentives to creators ...
Derclaye, Estelle   +3 more
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Do Insurers Have to Pay for Bad Behaviour in Settling Claims? Legal Aspects of Insurers' Wrongful Claims Handling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
: This article presents a comparative legal analysis of wrongful claims handling by insurance companies in indemnity and liability insurance. From the outset, it is clear that it may be difficult to draw the line between legitimate claims denial and ...
Boom, W.H. (Willem) van
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AXA General Insurance Ltd v Lord Advocate : analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Discusses the Supreme Court decision in AXA General Insurance Ltd, Petitioners on whether Scottish legislation which reversed a House of Lords ruling concerning the actionability of certain asbestos-related conditions breached insurers ...
Hogg M, Lyall F, Orr N
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Climate Change Risks and Customer Concentration: Evidence From US‐Listed Firms

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While prior studies have investigated climate risks in supply chains, customer ESG pressures, and shared climate exposure, this paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to provide direct empirical evidence on the relationship between climate change risks and firms' customer concentration.
Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Newsletter / House of Finance, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 3/09 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Credit Rating Announcements – The Impact of the Agency’s Reason, Public Information, and M&A ; Toward a New European Financial Architecture in the Rating Sector – an Economic Analysis and Legal Solutions ; Where Finance Meets Macro ; Clear Enforcement ...
House of Finance
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Climate Stress Testing on European SME Securitised Loans Under Climate Mitigation Scenarios

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Assessing the future impact of climate risks on the probability of default (PD) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is challenging due to limited disclosure, policy uncertainty and exposure to physical risks. This paper addresses this gap by integrating macroeconomic variables from the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS ...
Luca Zanin, Raffaella Calabrese
wiley   +1 more source

Firm‐Size Heterogeneity in the Effects of ESG Disclosure on Firm Value Under Institutional Reform: Evidence From Japan

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on firm‐size heterogeneity, this study examines how institutional reform reshapes the effects of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure on firm value. Using 2019–2023 panel data on 1427 Japanese listed firms (before and after the 2022 Tokyo Stock Exchange reorganization and Corporate Governance Code revision), this ...
Akio Nakashima, Kimitaka Nishitani
wiley   +1 more source

Restatements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Written for an encyclopedia on European private law, this brief article first addresses the term restatements and then compares the U.S. Restatement of the law as prototype with different European restatements of the law in the area of private ...
Michaels, Ralf
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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