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Changing Paradigms: The Liability Of Corporate Groups In Germany, René Reich-Graefe Jan 2005

Changing Paradigms: The Liability Of Corporate Groups In Germany, René Reich-Graefe

Faculty Scholarship

The German law on affiliated companies and groups of companies ("Konzernrecht"), as embodied in the German Stock Corporation Act of 1965, as amended ("Aktiengesetz"), has often been credited for its innovative approach to the dichotomy of liability strategies relevant to corporate groups-viz., the traditional concept of entity liability based on the fundamental doctrine of the legal separateness of the corporate entity and, accordingly, resulting in a limitation of investor liability as the rule, and discrete and rare occurrences of what is almost poetically designated the "piercing of the corporate veil" ("DurchgriffshaJtung") as narrow and reluctantly crafted exceptions, and the more …

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Asynchronous Risk: Unemployment, Equity Markets, And Retirement Savings, Jason S. Seligman, Jeffrey Brian Wenger Jan 2005

Asynchronous Risk: Unemployment, Equity Markets, And Retirement Savings, Jason S. Seligman, Jeffrey Brian Wenger

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

The link between unemployment and pension accumulations is conceptually straightforward; periods of unemployment lead to lower pension contributions, and thus to lower accumulations. However, impacts on accumulation may differ as a result of the timing and frequency of unemployment spells. We hypothesize that unemployment is more likely during periods in which the equities market experiences greater than average returns, largely due to a lead/lag structure of the stock and labor markets, respectively. This would imply that workers may systematically miss opportunities to purchase equities through DC plans when prices are relatively low. To test this hypothesis, we match historic stock …

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Single Mothers, Social Capital, And Work-Family Conflict, Teresa Ciabattari Jan 2005

Single Mothers, Social Capital, And Work-Family Conflict, Teresa Ciabattari

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

The purpose of this paper is to examine work-family conflict among low-income, unmarried mothers. I examine how social capital affects work-family conflict and how both social capital and work-family conflict affect employment. I analyze the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national sample of non-marital births collected in 1998-2000 and 1999-2002. Results show that social capital reduces unmarried mothers' reports of work-family conflict, especially for low-income women. In addition, mothers who report high levels of work-family conflict are less likely to be employed; this pattern holds for women who are not looking for work as well as those who …

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Retinohypothalamic Connections In The Rhesus Monkey., John C. Chijuka Jan 2005

Retinohypothalamic Connections In The Rhesus Monkey., John C. Chijuka

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Vaccines And Disease Mechanisms Relevant To Pneumococcal Disease In Two Groups Of High -Risk Children., Mamie Thomas Coats Jan 2005

Vaccines And Disease Mechanisms Relevant To Pneumococcal Disease In Two Groups Of High -Risk Children., Mamie Thomas Coats

All ETDs from UAB

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Design Of Wrap Around Steel Gusset Plates., Ronald Scott Dowswell Jan 2005

Design Of Wrap Around Steel Gusset Plates., Ronald Scott Dowswell

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Regulation Of Angiogenesis In Gliomas And Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells., Constance Y. Fears Jan 2005

Regulation Of Angiogenesis In Gliomas And Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells., Constance Y. Fears

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Blockage Of O-Glcnac Metabolism By Overexpressing A Dominant-Negative Splice Variant Of Ncoat Results In Cell Apoptosis., Yong Hu Jan 2005

Blockage Of O-Glcnac Metabolism By Overexpressing A Dominant-Negative Splice Variant Of Ncoat Results In Cell Apoptosis., Yong Hu

All ETDs from UAB

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A Longitudinal Analysis Of Factors Related To Persistence Of Academically Underprepared Community College Students., Kimberly M. Ennis Jan 2005

A Longitudinal Analysis Of Factors Related To Persistence Of Academically Underprepared Community College Students., Kimberly M. Ennis

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Hox Proteins As Bmp Downstream Transcription Factors., Xuelin Li Jan 2005

Hox Proteins As Bmp Downstream Transcription Factors., Xuelin Li

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Calcium Entry Channels And Calcium Mobilizing Receptors In Human Airway Epithelial Cells: Implications For Respiratory Disease Therapy., Lihua Liang Jan 2005

Calcium Entry Channels And Calcium Mobilizing Receptors In Human Airway Epithelial Cells: Implications For Respiratory Disease Therapy., Lihua Liang

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Single -Gender Classes: A Quantitative Analysis Of The Impact On The Academic Achievement And Behavior Of Students In An Urban Middle School., Spencer Wade Horn Jan 2005

Single -Gender Classes: A Quantitative Analysis Of The Impact On The Academic Achievement And Behavior Of Students In An Urban Middle School., Spencer Wade Horn

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The Functional Role Of Human Breast Fibroblasts In Breast Carcinogenesis., Andrea Sadlonova Jan 2005

The Functional Role Of Human Breast Fibroblasts In Breast Carcinogenesis., Andrea Sadlonova

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Examining Relationships Between Dibels And Sat 10., Susan Arnold Seay Jan 2005

Examining Relationships Between Dibels And Sat 10., Susan Arnold Seay

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Two To Tango: Sexual Health And Sex Partners At High Risk Of Sexually Transmitted Infections., Margaret Christine Snead Jan 2005

Two To Tango: Sexual Health And Sex Partners At High Risk Of Sexually Transmitted Infections., Margaret Christine Snead

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A Mouse Model With Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase -1a Deficiency Reveals Its Crucial Roles In Gestation And Glucose Tolerance., Lara Rachel Nyman Jan 2005

A Mouse Model With Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase -1a Deficiency Reveals Its Crucial Roles In Gestation And Glucose Tolerance., Lara Rachel Nyman

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Activation Of Neuregulin -1/Erbb Signaling Promotes Proliferation In Human Schwann Cell Neoplasia., Mark S. Stonecypher Jan 2005

Activation Of Neuregulin -1/Erbb Signaling Promotes Proliferation In Human Schwann Cell Neoplasia., Mark S. Stonecypher

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Analysis And Mitigation Of High Frequency Harmonic Interference In High Voltage Power Line Carrier Coupling Systems., Gregory A. Franklin Jan 2005

Analysis And Mitigation Of High Frequency Harmonic Interference In High Voltage Power Line Carrier Coupling Systems., Gregory A. Franklin

All ETDs from UAB

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Peptide Agonists And Antagonists Of A Novel Pathway In Neutrophilic Inflammation., Nathaniel M. Weathington Jan 2005

Peptide Agonists And Antagonists Of A Novel Pathway In Neutrophilic Inflammation., Nathaniel M. Weathington

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Mechanisms Regulating Mesenchymal Stem Cell Adhesion To Biomimetically-Functionalized Hydroxyapatite Biomaterials For Bone Tissue Engineering Applications., Amber Annette Sawyer Jan 2005

Mechanisms Regulating Mesenchymal Stem Cell Adhesion To Biomimetically-Functionalized Hydroxyapatite Biomaterials For Bone Tissue Engineering Applications., Amber Annette Sawyer

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The Development Of Insulin Resistance Following Hemorrhage., Lawanda Holland Thompson Jan 2005

The Development Of Insulin Resistance Following Hemorrhage., Lawanda Holland Thompson

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Functional Properties Of Subplate Neurons., Juan Ed Torres-Reveron Jan 2005

Functional Properties Of Subplate Neurons., Juan Ed Torres-Reveron

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Primum Non Nocere: Measuring And Benchmarking Hospital Malpractice Performance., Carlton C. Young Jan 2005

Primum Non Nocere: Measuring And Benchmarking Hospital Malpractice Performance., Carlton C. Young

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Characterization Of A Rod Photoreceptor Cgmp -Gated Cation Channel Beta-Subunit Knockout Mouse., Youwen Zhang Jan 2005

Characterization Of A Rod Photoreceptor Cgmp -Gated Cation Channel Beta-Subunit Knockout Mouse., Youwen Zhang

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Investment Companies Industry Developments, 2005/06; Audit Risk Alerts, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Division Jan 2005

Investment Companies Industry Developments, 2005/06; Audit Risk Alerts, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Division

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

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Perceptions Of The Teacher–Leader In Modern Society: Insights From The Master Teacher’S Pedagogy, Stanley E. Fawcett, James C. Brau, Amydee M. Fawcett Jan 2005

Perceptions Of The Teacher–Leader In Modern Society: Insights From The Master Teacher’S Pedagogy, Stanley E. Fawcett, James C. Brau, Amydee M. Fawcett

Faculty Publications

Meeting the challenges of a modern era, including corporate scandal, government gridlock, and societal turmoil, requires a high level of effective leadership. In such an environment, the teacher–leader plays a critical role in cultivating the knowledge worker and learning organization. After all, the teacher–leader leverages the human resource by challenging and inspiring people to bring forth their best efforts and ideas in the quest to identify and implement creative solutions to society’s dilemmas. To understand the opportunities and challenges encountered in the teacher–leader paradigm, the pedagogy of a prototypical teacher was modeled and evaluated. As the ideal model of the …

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Equilibrium Underdiversification And The Preference For Skewness, Todd Mitton, Keith Vorkink Jan 2005

Equilibrium Underdiversification And The Preference For Skewness, Todd Mitton, Keith Vorkink

Faculty Publications

We develop a one-period model of investor asset holdings where investors have heterogeneous preference for skewness. Introducing heterogeneous preference for skewness allows the model's investors, in equilibrium, to underdiversify. We find suppport for our model's three key implications using a dataset of 60,000 individual investor accounts. First, we document that the portfolio returns of underdiversified investors are substantially more positively skewed than those of diversified investors. Second, we show that the apparent mean-variance inefficiency of underdiversified investors can be largely explained by the fact that investors sacrifice mean-variance efficiency for higher skewness exposure. Furthermore, contrary to the asset-pricing predictions of …

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Stock Market Liberalization And Operating Performance At The Firm Level, Todd Mitton Jan 2005

Stock Market Liberalization And Operating Performance At The Firm Level, Todd Mitton

Faculty Publications

I use firm-specific measures of openness to foreign investors to study the impact of stock market liberalization on firm-level operating performance. In a sample of over 1,100 firms from 28 countries, firms with stocks that are open to foreign investors experience higher growth, greater investment, greater profitability, greater efficiency, and lower leverage. Strategies to address potential endogeneity suggest that the observed relationship, at least in part, reflects a causal effect of openness on operating performance.

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Dependability Auditing With Model Checking, Bonnie Anderson, James Hansen, Paul Benjamin Lowry Jan 2005

Dependability Auditing With Model Checking, Bonnie Anderson, James Hansen, Paul Benjamin Lowry

Faculty Publications

Model checking offers a methodology for determining whether a model satisfies a list of correctness requirements. We propose a theory of dependability auditing with model checking based on four principles: (1) The modeling process should be partitioned into computational components and behavioral components as an aid to system understanding; (2) The complex system will be abstracted to create a model; (3) A language must be available that can represent and evaluate states and processes that evolve over time; (4) Given an adequate model and temporal specifications, a model checker can verify whether or not the input model is a model …

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What Does The Naep Tell Us About Student Achievement In Arkansas?, Joshua H. Barnett, Gary W. Ritter Jan 2005

What Does The Naep Tell Us About Student Achievement In Arkansas?, Joshua H. Barnett, Gary W. Ritter

Arkansas Education Reports

This brief discusses the most recent and historical NAEP data in math, science, reading, and writing. Arkansas’ NAEP results are compared to national and border state averages. Based on the most recent NAEP exams, Arkansas is performing slightly below the national average in reading, math, science, and writing. There is also data to support that Arkansas students perform less well in Grade 8 than in Grade 4 when compared to the national and border state averages. Arkansas, however, is among the highest performing states with regard to change over the last decade. Since 1992, Arkansas has gained on the national …

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