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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Limited Liability"”.
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Limited liability: a pathway for corporate recklessness?
… the twin concept of separate personality and limited liability from its historical beginnings, has entrenched corporate irresponsibility. It assesses the role that these concepts have played in tackling corporate irresponsibility from their historical origins to the present day, commenting on …
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Remedying abuses of limited liability in company groups
… of extending separate legal personality and limited liability to companies operating within a group. The author will seek to evaluate the common law remedy for piercing the corporate veil as a possible remedy against these abuses. The statutory remedy for piercing the corporate veil under …
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Limited Liability Multilateralism: The American Military, Armed Intervention, and IOs
… postwar peacekeeping and stabilization will be limited. That, in turn, can be expected to help forge a winning bureaucratic coalition in Washington and persuade the president to authorize military action. United States multilateralism for military interventions is thus often a genuine policy …
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Limited liability and piercing the corporate veil: a comparative evaluation of U.S. and Saudi laws
… PCV is an exception to the doctrine of limited liability, a key attribute of corporate entities, under which shareholders and managers are protected from a corporation’s debts. When courts pierce the corporate veil (a concept known as “joint liability” under recent Saudi law), they …
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Protecting the creditors of limited liability companies: a comparative view of the United States and China
… governance, and information disclosure in limited liability companies of the United States and China and proposes new ideas for the protection of the rights of creditors of limited liability companies in terms of strengthening the protection of their right to information and providing them …
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The limits on limited liability: a comparative analysis of piercing the corporate veil in Swedish and South African law
… the choice of whether to defend the principle of limited liability, as an inherently respected component of company law, or to neglect a company's separate legal personality and reveal abusive situations. Over the last few decades, the precise approach to be embraced when making such a decision …
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Veil Piercing - A Necessary evil? A critical study on the doctrines of limited liability and piercing the corporate veil
This paper will focus on the limited liability of the company and one of the important exceptions to this rule: piercing the corporate veil. This paper reveals, after a detailed analysis, that the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil is inherently flawed. While accepting the necessity for such a …
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The Emersion of Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies: A Case Study of the Implementation of Hybrid Organizations in Louisiana and North Carolina
… North Carolina. The new entity, the low-profit limited liability company (L3C), is a byproduct of the current two options of operating, as a traditional private company or a nonprofit organization, not being an ideal fit for the entities being established by social entrepreneurs.</p> <p>Trying …
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Exploring the nature of corporate governance On St. Vincent and the Grenadines Within The private limited Liability Company limited by shares: 1845 - 2013
… Vincent and the Grenadines within the private limited liability companies limited by shares. These were unlisted companies. The period under review was from 1845 up to and including 2013. The hypothesis questioned whether there was an indication about a small category of these companies that …
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The powers, duties and control of persons participating in a compulsory winding-up of companies: some comparative aspects between the liquidation of a private company in South Africa and the "Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung" (Company with limited liability) in Germany
… mit beschraenkter Haftung" (Private company with limited liability) in Germany. At the outset it is therefore necessary to give a short description of the private company and to outline the different grounds for a winding-up in both countries, thereafter only the winding-up _grounds relating to …
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Director liability in insolvent companies : an analysis of the effectiveness of private and public enforcement mechanisms with special reference to improper trading liability and disqualification
… and trade by permitting free access to limited liability is a cornerstone emblem of UK enterprise policy. However, it comes at a price. The abuse of limited liability by dishonest, unscrupulous, incompetent, negligent, and occasionally deranged directors, who drive a company into …
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Commitment in Labor and Credit Contracts With Asymmetric Information, Bankruptcy and Extensive Form Gaming
… is asymmetric and the firm is subject to limited liability. These effects are analyzed in two chapters. The first chapter analyzes the contracts with commitment (that is, when renegotiation is not possible). The second chapter analyzes the contracts without commitment.
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Auditor Size And Audit Quality: A Partner-Level Perspective
… firms in China were organized in the form of limited liability corporations, in which the personal wealth of an audit partner was shielded from legal liability. In 2010, however, all audit firms in China were required to reorganize as limited liability partnerships, in which negligent audit …
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Data and decontrol : a civic-tech approach for identification of predatory landlords in the New York City rent-regulated housing market
… from the market, along the widespread use of limited liability companies (LLCs) to obscure ownership, it's difficult to both track changes in the market and to associate those changes with problematic actors.
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Essays on economic theory
… are risk neutral and the agents are protected by limited liability. A contract is said to align the agents' interests if each agent's compensation covaries positively and linearly with the other agents' compensation.
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Economic Policies, Volatility and Development
… piece: a model that explains endogenous limited liability rules and market failures, using a dynamic environment with asymmetric information, with emphasis on wealth effects. Chapter 3 discusses why poor countries are more volatile than rich countries, from an empirical and theoretical …
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Essays in heterogeneous agent macroeconomics.
… the U.S., incorporation provides insurance via limited liability beyond personal bankruptcy exemptions, at the expense of administrative burdens and an endogenous interest rate premium. Our model suggests that capital embodied shocks are important entrepreneurial risks. A calibrated economy in …
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The personal liability of directors in terms of section 424 of the Companies Act - does it provide an adequate remedy?
… separate legal personality of a company and the limited nature of a shareholder's liability afford a measure of protection against personal liability being incurred by those who invest in a company as a shareholder or who are involved in managing a company as a director. Ordinarily the members …
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Beyond the Corporate Veil a commentary on the approach of the South African Courts to the question of lifting the corporate veil, with particular reference to a tax-avoidance based structure in common use in South Africa at this time
… it has imposed as a condition of trading with limited liability .... we have to interpret the law, not make it." Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd, per Herschell, LJ. Thus the starting point of the court in this seminal case (which has been followed ever since in regard to corporate personality) was …
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