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Empirical findings
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- 2447306-039 : The measured effect of Form PF data reporting on the private fund industry is milder than the pre-adoption debate predicted.
- 2447306-044 : The study's cost findings are bounded to the short run: the data cannot establish what it will cost the private fund industry to keep completing and filing Form PF annually or quarterly over time.
- 2486570-011 : Coding of all publicly available non and deferred prosecution agreements executed between 1993 and 2013 shows that 97.41 percent of them, or 264 of 271 agreements, contained relevant corporate governa
- 2486570-013 : In 63.47 percent of the coded non and deferred prosecution agreements the agreement itself referenced preemptive remedial measures the corporation had instituted before the agreement was executed.
- 2486570-015 : Waiver of rights provisions are the most prevalent governance term in the sample, appearing in 96 percent of agreements, followed by cooperation with the government at 91 percent and improved complian
- 2486570-016 : The less prevalent categories of governance change mandated by non and deferred prosecution agreements are increased monitoring at 46 percent of the sample, board changes at 38 percent, business chang
- 2486570-018 : Cooperation requirements appear in 91.10 percent of the sampled agreements, and within that category document production requirements, meaning the identification, assembly, organization, and productio
- 2486570-019 : Although 45 percent of sampled agreements required improved communication and training, only 11 percent required the entity to create the position of chief compliance officer, so the most structural c
- 2486570-020 : The trend in attorney client privilege waivers reversed after 2008: agreements requiring no privilege waiver increased steadily from 2008, and provisions requiring an attorney client privilege waiver
- 2486570-025 : Because 63.47 percent of the sampled agreements were executed even after the corporation had already instituted preemptive remedial measures, the current quantity, quality, comprehensiveness, and effe
- 2486570-040 : Corporate governance provisions in non and deferred prosecution agreements increased significantly over the decade to 2013, raising prosecutors' influence over corporate governance to unprecedented le
- 2811718-010 : The intensity of due diligence mentioning relative to total Form ADV Part II brochure filings increased substantially, and the due diligence count exceeded the total number of ADV II filings for the f
- 2811718-011 : Form ADV Part II filings jumped from 3,024 in 2010 to 21,685 in 2011, and that jump was accompanied by a corresponding increase both in the number of filings mentioning investor due diligence and in t
- 2811718-012 : Although overall Form ADV Part II filings fell between 2012 and 2013, due diligence counts fell only marginally, from 20,828 to 20,031, and filings mentioning due diligence fell from 7,862 to 7,198, l
- 2811718-015 : Legal decisions involving private fund due diligence increased substantially after 2005 and especially after 2008, and the broad, narrow, and hand selected case categories all increased consistently w
- 2811718-036 : Madoff related cases following the discovery of the Ponzi scheme in 2008 only partially explain the significant increase in the prevalence and importance of private fund investor due diligence after 2
- 2998033-036 : Private fund adoption of blockchain began in 2012, coinciding with the broader public debate over blockchain solutions, and took the form of managers setting up separate new fund entities that used th
- 2998033-037 : In the study's dataset the clear majority of private investment funds using blockchain technology are engaged in venture capital rather than hedge fund or private equity strategies.
- 2998033-038 : The predominant uses of blockchain technology in the private investment fund industry originate in holding crypto assets of various kinds, which indicates that the technology plays its primary role in
- 2998033-039 : The third most important use of blockchain by private investment funds is support for fund growth, which is consistent with anecdotal evidence that returns attainable through crypto investments have n
- 3249860-019 : The tokens in the sample of the top 100 cryptocurrencies were launched between January 2009 and March 2018, with the greatest number of top 100 coins launched in a single month occurring in November 2
- 3249860-020 : Much of the stability in month over month coin launching from mid-2013 onward is attributable to the launching of the Ethereum platform.
- 3249860-021 : Of the top 100 tokens, fifty-six held an ICO and thirty-eight did not.
- 3249860-022 : Fifty-six of the top 100 tokens are implemented at the protocol level of a blockchain, thirty-five follow the ERC-20 Token Standard, six are implemented in a crypto economic protocol on top of a block
- 3249860-023 : Among the top 100 tokens, currency and utility models are the most common, USDT is the only purely Stablecoin token, Steem and Maker are both Stablecoin and utility, and only four tokens are asset-bac
- 3249860-026 : Thirty-two of the top 100 tokens have inherent value, for example as a currency, and thirty-two derive their underlying value from giving holders permission to use a digital service.
- 3249860-028 : Seventy-two of the top 100 tokens cap the number of tokens that will ever be issued, a deflationary model of token issuance.
- 3249860-030 : The remaining twenty-eight tokens in the dataset use inflationary models that operate similarly to fiat currency, contemplating no maximum issuance and a continuing minting process that gives the issu
- 3249860-033 : Sixty-six of the top 100 tokens are user facing, letting ecosystem participants handle the token directly, while thirty-four are layered and operate underneath another token, platform, or chain.
- 3249860-035 : Sixty of the top 100 tokens allow or intend inter-system functionality, while thirty-two are fundamentally restricted to use within a given ecosystem.
- 3249860-038 : Proof of Work remains the most popular consensus protocol type among the top 100 tokens, and the Other category alone comprises thirty-four tokens.
- 3249860-039 : Attempts to increase throughput and scale in consensus protocols concentrate on proof of stake, and the data are consistent with anecdotal evidence that proof of stake may be the most dominant attempt
- 3249860-042 : Tokens launched before 2015 were overwhelmingly developed on a hardfork governance mechanism or a combination of hardfork and one other governance type.
- 3249860-043 : Outlier governance mechanisms rose sharply in the dataset: three per year in 2015 and 2016, then eighteen in 2017, and five in the first six months of 2018.
- 5254152-018 : Across the sampled DAOs, no single industry consistently outperforms the others on total score, indicating a diverse rather than sector determined performance landscape.
- 5254152-020 : The average decentralization score across the sampled DAOs is 4.25, with a maximum of 9 and a minimum of 1, showing wide variability in how decentralized these organizations actually are.
- 5254152-021 : The average attack resistance score across the sampled DAOs is 3.65 on a scale of 0 to 10, the lowest of the measured attributes alongside regulatory compliance.
- 5254152-022 : The average regulatory compliance score across the sampled DAOs is 3.22, ranging from 1 to 9, and the distribution shows that many DAOs struggle with regulatory compliance while only a few achieve hig
- 5254152-023 : The average Work to Earn score across the sampled DAOs is 4.1, ranging from 1 to 9, indicating only moderate effectiveness of contributor reward mechanisms across the market.
- 5254152-024 : The average organizational communication score across the sampled DAOs is 4.32, with a maximum of 10 and a minimum of 1, indicating only moderate communication effectiveness overall.
- 5254152-025 : The analysis reveals significant variability across all six attributes, decentralization, security, governance, regulatory compliance, work incentives, and communication effectiveness, reflecting the
- 5254152-026 : DeScience and Data Analysis DAOs generally score higher on overall performance metrics, whereas Investment DAOs and Art and Culture DAOs display idiosyncratic mixes of strengths and weaknesses.