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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Conflicts of Interest"”.
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Credit rating agencies and conflicts of interest
… Many have attributed the recent failures of credit rating agencies to conflicts of interest, such as the agencies’ issuer-pays business model and the agencies’ provision of ancillary services. This report identifies these conflicts; examines recently-finalized Security and Exchange …
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The Ethical Challenge of Conflicts of Interest in Healthcare
<p>Conflicts of interest are prevalent across all walks of society, and unfortunately, the healthcare industry is not immune to these impediments. Conflicts of interest arise when the objective of upholding a patients’ interest collide with the physicians’ secondary goals and is mostly but not …
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Cryptogatekeepers in decentralized finance: Conflicts of interest and prospective solutions
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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The Evolutionary Dynamics of Conflicts of Interest in Plant Mating Systems
The diversity of flowering plants -angiosperms- on planet Earth is nearly matched by the diversity of mating systems and floral traits they exhibit. Since Darwin evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by this diversity and worked to explain and understand it. In this thesis I focus on aspects …
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Help! not just anybody : essays on altruism and conflicts of interest
If you can help someone without detriment to your interest, nor anyone else's interest, then it is clear that you ought to do so. But things are not always so easy. When there is a conflict of interest, you have to decide what to do. Whom should you help when you cannot help everyone? How much …
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Conflicts of interest in the reporting of biomedical research in mainstream newspapers in Canada
… in Technology: Journalism, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2013.
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Effects of Conflicts of Interest on the Appointment of Principals: Perceptions on the Quality of Leadership in the Vhuronga I Circuit, Vhembe East District, Limpopo Province
This study aimed to determine the effects of conflicts of interest on the appointment of school principals. Specifically, it sought to find out teachers’ views regarding the extent to which conflicts of interest affect the appointment of quality school principals; to determine teachers’ perceptions …
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Public-private partnerships in space projects : an analysis of stakeholder dynamics
… approaches. The larger responsibility of the private partner is expected to improve efficiencies of the project. However, it also increases potential challenges such as conflicts of interest. If the dynamic structures which cause challenges in PPPs are identified, they will help to …
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The law and Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies in the US and EU
The need for regulation of the credit rating agencies (CRAs) arose due to their role in the subprime mortgage crisis. The CRAs awarded risky securities ‘3-A’ investment grade status and then failed to downgrade them quickly enough when circumstances changed which led to investors suffering …
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Incentive Compatibility and Efficiency in the Contractual Insurer-Provider Relationship - Economic Theory and Practical Implications: The Case of North Carolina
… is concerned with the efficient organization of contractual relationships between health insurers and providers. An introduction to relevant aspects of contract theory is followed by their adaptation to the characteristics of the health care system. The focus lies on an ex ante alignment of …
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Designing Public Organizations and Institutions: Essays on Coordination and Incentives
This thesis consists of an introduction and four self-contained chapters that address issues of how organizations and institutions should be designed in order to provide adequate incentives and enable coordination. The first essay uses a multi-task principal-agent model to examine two reasons why …
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Governance issues and default resolution in commercial mortgage backed securities
With the increasing role of CMBS in commercial real estate lending, it has become crucial to understand the agency and governance risks that are created with the CMBS servicing structure. This study is an investigation of three key relationships within CMBS servicing, (1) between the servicers and …
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Essays in Economic and Corporate Finance
This dissertation consists of two distinct chapters. In the first chapter, I study the outsourcing of corporate governance to proxy advisory firms, which are third-party advisors that help institutional investors decide which way to vote on corporate governance issues. Advising equity assets in …
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Power and energy : geopolitical aspects of the transnational natural gas pipelines from the Caspian Sea basin to Europe
… examines the geopolitical rivalry over control of the Caspian Sea basin natural gas resources and the transportation routes among four world powers--Russia, the European Union, the United States, and China. The author assesses the risks posed by instability in the Caspian Sea states to the …
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Peer evaluation with graph neural networks
… peer assessing group work or individual work of others). In this work, we first model peer assessment as multi-relational weighted networks that can represent a variety of peer assessment setups, and capture conflicts of interest and strategic behaviors. Leveraging our peer assessment network …
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Who Governs the Sea? An Analysis of the Regime Complex in International Shipping
… shipping represents the physical embodiment of globalization. It ties states together via the exchange of raw materials and finished goods in ways that inspire important questions about power distributions, trade, growth, global governance, jurisdiction, policy coordination, sovereignty, and …
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Feel-Good Or Feel-Right: the Role of Moral Emotions and Other-Orientation In Prosocial Behavior In the Workplace
… perspectives, wherein cognitive modes of processing have been the prevalent explanatory mechanisms underlying prosocial behavior. While there have been affect-based explanations for prosocial behavior, they tend to downplay the role of cognitive processing, and adopt a broad perspective …
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Governança corporativa e criação de valor para os investidores no mercado brasileiro de capitais
Companies that have higher levels of transparency and employ different mechanisms of governance aiming to reduce conflicts of interest between managers and owners are generally well conquests by the market. Larger and more detailed information on market volumes on the main administrative acts and …
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