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   "text": "Dynamic regulation as part of institutional design in the evolution of law has not been systematically analyzed, despite an existing economics literature applying dynamic regulation to telecommunications, learning by doing, and principal-agent problems.",
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   "text": "The decades long academic debate over improving fiduciary duty doctrine has overlooked Corporate Integrity Agreements entirely, even though the debate is otherwise framed as a choice between expanding and curtailing the doctrine.",
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   "text": "No prior study had analyzed the performance implications of hedge fund adviser regulation, making this the first estimate of the causal effect of the Dodd-Frank Act registration requirement on hedge fund returns.",
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   "text": "Prior scholarship on the corporate governance effects of non and deferred prosecution agreements rests largely on anecdotal evidence and individual case studies rather than on systematic evidence, which is why its conclusions about those effects are unreliable.",
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   "text": "Because private funds evolved under low or no regulatory supervision until Dodd-Frank, the large prior literature on private fund performance largely does not assess the implications of private fund regulation, leaving a gap this study fills.",
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   "text": "Beyond the authors' own prior work, there is no other empirical evidence on the effects of the Dodd-Frank Act on the private fund industry.",
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