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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"regulatory intervention"”.
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The personality of company directors as a behavioural risk contributor in the corporate governance process : regulatory intervention as a risk management mechanism.
… of these failures, this thesis suggests a hybrid regulatory model as an approach to managing personality risks in corporate governance. Building upon relevant corporate and regulatory theories; and incorporating current realities as they relate to the regulation of companies, the thesis proposes a …
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act, insider trading and earnings management
… performance on the other in light of the recent regulatory intervention (SOX). Moreover, the relevance of political regulation of financial markets has not yet been thoroughly investigated. The research aims of the dissertation are: 1) To evaluate the effectiveness of financial market regulation …
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The Legal Classification of Cryptocurrency in South African Law: An Argument for Classification as Currency.
… investment in new technologies should its regulatory response to such innovation remain principled. The primary purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the most appropriate classification of cryptocurrency in South African law. The research is qualitative in nature. It considers …
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Illness Perceptions, Coping, and Psychological Outcomes in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer and their Caregivers
… studies have developed and tested psychological interventions to improve adjustment to HNC. Using the common sense model of selfregulation (CSM) as a theoretical framework, this thesis aimed to: 1) investigate the capacity of illness perceptions and coping strategies to predict patient and …
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A critical analysis of the regulation (of the European Parliament and of the Council) on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps
… An analysis of the rationale behind the chosen regulatory framework and an examination of the Regulation in parallel with an examination of the salient regulations falling within US regulatory framework is also provided. The examination of the scope and applicability of the Regulation is …
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How Should Information Technology be Regulated?
… methodologies to evaluate the impact of specific regulatory mechanisms, thereby creating a theoretical template for how such regulations can be evaluated. In my first chapter in this stream, I analyze how firm investments can be incentivized and coordinated through a platform, and whether the …
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Leadership Characteristics of Hospital CEOs: Factors That Influence Leadership Style
… increased consumer demands, decreased funding, regulatory intervention, and professional staff shortages. There is a need to understand the type of leadership that exists and that which would be most effective in addressing these challenges. Procedure: Sixty-three of Iowa's 116 hospital CEOs …
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Institutionalisation of integrated urban stormwater management: multiple-case analysis of local management reform across metropolitan Sydney
… as opposed to being mobilised by a top-down regulatory intervention. For this local organisational interaction the particular capacities of the local stormwater officer that were demonstrated to be important included the ability to facilitate an action-learning environment, relationship …
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Spatiotemporal lifecycle assessment of the light-duty vehicle fleet of United States
… to achieve net environmental benefits without regulatory intervention. These findings fill an important gap in people's understanding of the advanced automotive technologies and the emerging mobility behavior from sustainability perspective, and shed light on the recent upheaval that vehicular …
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What Work? Quasi-Experiments in Cybersecurity Policy Interventions
… how effective has a decade of policy interventions been at reducing social costs? This paper uses the limited regulations implemented by State and United States government agencies as quasi-experiments. This work measures regulatory efficacy by compiling mandatory state-level data …
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Empirical Studies in Financial Econometrics: Market Functioning, Forecasting, and Reform
… these interact with macroeconomic modelling, regulatory intervention, and institutional design. The first chapter, Forecasting Macro with Finance, is co-authored with Dr Niklas Schmitz. While financial markets are known to contain information about future economic developments, the channels …
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Impact of Regulatory Interventions and Transitions on Broker-Dealer Audit Quality
<h1>ABSTRACT</h1> <p>IMPACT OF REGULATORY INTERVENTIONS AND TRANSITIONS ON BROKER-DEALER AUDIT QUALITY</p> <p>By</p> <p>Darlene A. Adkins</p> <p> The purpose of this study is to examine the audit quality of public U.S. broker-dealer (BD) entities after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street and …
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Three Essays on Market Discipline in the Banking Industry
… for market discipline in their design of a new regulatory framework. In Chapter 1, I investigate how the yield spreads of debt issued by U.S. Systemically Important Banks (SIBs) in the secondary market are associated with their idiosyncratic risk factors, as well as bond features, and …