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Showing 1 to 20 of 3430 for “"Regulations"”.
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Auditing and Regulations
Effective financial reporting has become of critical importance in our economic markets and the international accounting scandals of the last decades have accentuated the role of auditing in protecting stakeholders' interests and contributing to an efficient functioning of financial markets. …
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Improving Commercial Sign Regulations: A Preliminary Framework to Evaluate Commercial Sign Regulations in Texas
Legislative efforts to regulate commercial signs or outdoor advertising in the United States have met repeated contest from those who are regulated by poorly drafted sign code. Historically such codes utilized the content of signs to determine how the sign would be regulated, differentiating the …
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International trade and environmental regulations
This dissertation consists of five Chapters. Chapter I extensively reviews the literature on trade and the environment published since 1970.
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Heterogenous banks and macroprudential regulations
This paper studies how financial intermediation varies across banks. Bank size is a first-order determinant of banks' capital structure in the cross-section. Largest banks have the lowest capital-to-asset ratio and the lowest ratio of Tier-1 capital against risk-weighted assets. These large banks …
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Essays In Financial Fragility And Regulations
… by coordination failure and discusses plausible regulations to alleviate coordination problems and enhance social welfare. It consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, "Capital Flows in the Financial System and Supply of Credit," I study how capital flows in the financial system affect the …
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Tracking technologies, identifiability, and privacy regulations
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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POWERSTRUCTURES : the urban form of regulations
… roots, the necessity and exponential growth of regulations across the urbanized world and portrays their effects on urban design and architecture. Through several contemporary case studies, this thesis investigates the power and flux of regulation on the formation of modern cities. It focuses on …
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Physician response to medicare fee regulations
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Essays on environmental regulations and international economics.
… that study the links between environmental regulations and international trade and capital flows. The first essay investigates the relative importance of environmental regulations in shaping trade patterns of manufactured goods with particular reference to the OECD countries. I introduce …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cyber Security Regulations
… is a growing need for effective cyber security regulations to protect against data breaches and ensure the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and General …
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War in Islamic Law : justifications and regulations
This study examines the justifications and regulations for going to war in both international and domestic armed conflicts under Islamic law. It studies the various kinds of use of force by both state and non-state actors in order to determine the nature of the Islamic law of war, specifically, …
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Development regulations and the small scale environment.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1973. M.C.P.
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Technical Regulations as Barriers to Agricultural Trade
Technical regulations are a form of non-tariff barrier that is becoming increasingly visible in agricultural trade disputes. A distinguishing feature of technical barriers is their legitimate use by governments to protect consumers' health, recognize citizen preferences in packaging and labeling, …
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Essays on Regulations in Peer-To-Peer Markets
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) markets have shown tremendous growth in the post-recession era, and three reasons contribute to their success. First, the economic surplus is generated for both buyers and sellers from the trade of a large selection of traditional products and services. Second, there exists easy …
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Essays on environmental regulations and performance of firms
… whereby certain flexible forms of environmental regulations can benefit regulated firms by fostering innovation. It is known as the Porter hypothesis. Regulations typically impose costs thereby decreasing a firm's profit increasing opportunities. But this essay derives four examples consistent …
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Climate risks, environmental regulations, and corporate environmental management
… such as natural disasters and environmental regulations, affect business firms and their resulting environmental management strategies. The first of the three studies in this dissertation examines the effects of natural disasters on firm productivity. The second study investigates how air …
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Climate risks, environmental regulations, and corporate environmental management
… such as natural disasters and environmental regulations, affect business firms and their resulting environmental management strategies. The first of the three studies in this dissertation examines the effects of natural disasters on firm productivity. The second study investigates how air …
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Genistein suppresses colon cancer metastasis through epigenetic regulations
… that genistein is a mediator of epigenetic regulations, including DNA methylation and histone modifications, both in vitro and in vivo. But there is lack of critical data indicating the epigenetic mechanisms of metastasis prevention potentials of genistein. Because of the known functions of …
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Understanding Housing Supply under Stringent Energy-efficiency Regulations
… more stringent energy-efficiency building regulations can also lead to increased construction costs and negatively impact housing production and affordability. In this study, I investigate the tension in the housing supply resulting from the adoption of the Stretch Energy Code by analyzing …
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