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Product Regulation and Stock Prices: The Case of the US Food and Drug Administration

Hingorani, Archana; Shastri, Karen; Shastri, Kuldeep - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 1 (1994) 2, pp. 163-178

This study focuses on the stock market effects associated with the announcements of product approvals, denials and recalls by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the impact of product approvals on research and development expenditures (R&D) and forecasts of earnings by Value Line....

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Privatization in Russia - the Third Wave

Gogol, A.; Starchenko, N. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 20 (2013) 4, pp. 154-158

Passing the 2010 intensive information closed and inefficient process of privatization of small companies ("quiet privatization") doesn't provide problems of effective transformation of public sector in economy of Russia. On the basis of the analysis of the main tendencies in the field of...

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Analysis of the Results of "Small" Privatization in Russia 2010-2013

Starchenko, N. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 20 (2013) 4, pp. 168-172

On the basis of the analysis of open data of Rosimushchestvo the main features of process of privatization in Russia in 2010-2013 are revealed. High intensity, information closeness, and sale generally of small state firms allow to call this process a "quiet" and/or "small" privatization.

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Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance

Kaal, Wulf A. - 2020

Corporations and other forms of business organizations can be supplemented with blockchain-based agency constructs. Blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) expand the definition of the firm. On-chain DAO governance enables dynamic regulatory features that facilitate...

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Environmental Self-Auditing : Setting the Proper Incentives for Discovery and Correction of Environmental Harm

Sanchirico, Chris William; Pfaff, Alexander - 2013

Many firms conduct 'environmental audits' to test compliance with a complex array of environmental regulations. Commentators suggest, however, that self-auditing is not as common as it should be, because firms fear that what they find will be used against them. This article analyzes...

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Designing Effective Regulation : A Positive Theory

Feaver, Donald P.; Sheehy, Benedict - 2017

This paper is the second of two parts of a general theory of regulation. An effective regulatory system, whether created by a public legislative body or by private charter, must be coherent if it is to be successful. Coherence is a ‘property’ of well-designed regulatory systems. We suggest...

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Keep Hope Alive : Updating the Prudent Investment Standard for Allocating Nuclear Plant Cancellation Costs

Kahn, Jonathan D. - 2011

As the United States is poised to enter a new era of nuclear power plant construction, it behooves us to revisit some of the controversies of the past and consider how best to deal with some of the major problems that arose once before and may confront us once again as we go down this path. A...

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Using National Border Climate Adjustment Schemes to Facilitate Global Greenhouse Gas Management in Industrial Production

Khrebtukova, Alexandra - 2010

An appropriately conceived and well-designed border climate adjustment scheme, as a policy mechanism potentially utilizable by many States party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, may lead to desirable consequences for the development of comprehensive global greenhouse...

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Net Neutrality : A Further Take on the Debate

Esbin, Barbara S. - 2013

The case for regulating the Internet has not been made. Proposed rules mandating network neutrality are not in response … First Amendment concerns. Regulatory advocates' assertions that the Internet has always been a “neutral” network and “we now … suddenly cannot trust broadband network operators to discriminate in the handling of Internet traffic in socially beneficial …

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The New Regulatory Era - An Introduction

Orbach, Barak - 2009

For many decades the word “regulation” has been a bogeyman concept evoking images of unproductive and wasteful government bureaucracy. While this image has been a popular rallying cry for politicians over the years, every interest group — with the exception of libertarians — has actively...

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