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   "text": "If national securities regulators are unable or unwilling to cooperate with each other, there is likely to be more securities fraud.",
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   "text": "Overuse of the Dodd-Frank extraterritorial enforcement provision by the SEC or the DOJ could deter foreign companies from having U.S. operations.",
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   "text": "The second trigger voting rights increase should never actually be triggered; its function is to level the playing field between constituents, incentivize negotiation, and provide an alternative to reorganization.",
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   "text": "Although many jurisdictions may protect investors less well than the United States, it is not at all certain that U.S. law does a better job of deterring securities fraud.",
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   "text": "A CIA raises the stakes for directors who would otherwise neglect their governance responsibilities, because the agreement puts the company effectively on parole and gives the government direct access that facilitates detection of compliance failures.",
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   "text": "Under the regulatory framework in place at the time of writing, the threat that hedge funds' systemic risk filings could be publicly disclosed through the bankruptcy process will affect hedge funds' tactics and their role in distressed investing only marginally.",
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   "text": "Because the board changes mandated by non and deferred prosecution agreements consist largely of additional reporting obligations and committee reform rather than removal of officers or directors, those reforms alone may not create sufficient incentives for boards and management to improve governance and avoid execution of an agreement.",
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   "text": "The threat of bad press, reputational harm, legal costs, stock price declines, and the cost of implementing mandated governance changes can partly substitute for the weak direct incentives, pushing boards and management to optimize governance and keep the entity out of an agreement.",
   "abstract": "the cost of implementing N/DPA governance changes can help counteract lack- ing incentives for boards and management to optimize governance and protect the entity from entering into a N/DPA.",
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   "text": "The deterrent power of reputation tokens grows with network size, because the loss of opportunity from having reputation slashed increases as the network gets larger.",
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   "text": "The opportunity loss from having reputation slashed grows as the network grows, because a larger network means more competition for the reputation tokens that determine fungible salary shares.",
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   "text": "The loss of opportunity from slashing a voting associate's reputation grows as the size of the network increases, because a larger network intensifies competition among associates for the reputation tokens that determine fungible salary payouts.",
   "abstract": "reputation tokens to receive fungible token salaries that are paid in proportion to reputation tokens. Accordingly, in the CHARITYxDAO design, the loss of opportunity from slashing CHARITYxDAO VA reputation grows as the size of the network increases.",
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   "text": "Retroactive citation penalties deter under-citation only if the penalty parameter is set high enough that the expected gain from under-citation is less than the probability of detection multiplied by the penalty magnitude.",
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   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518",
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