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   "text": "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.",
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   "text": "Where coded categories such as cooperating, disclosure, and internal review fall well short of 100 percent of the sample, the shortfall may reflect a gap in what the agreements record rather than a real absence of those corporate actions, so the coded frequencies understate actual conduct.",
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   "text": "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 effectiveness of those preemptive measures may be insufficient to prevent an agreement.",
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   "text": "High quality and effective preemptive remedial measures are themselves part of good corporate governance and can help a corporation avoid investigation, prosecution, and the execution of a non or deferred prosecution agreement.",
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   "text": "Regulators can learn from the preemptive remedial measures corporate wrongdoers institute, because those measures reveal where governance concerns lie in a particular industry and where regulatory action is increasingly needed.",
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   "text": "More than 60 percent of the non and deferred prosecution agreements executed between 1993 and 2013 were preceded by preemptive remedial measures instituted by the corporate wrongdoer.",
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   "text": "The effectiveness of existing preemptive remedial measures is in question, because the majority of governmental contracts are executed only after those measures have already proved unsuccessful.",
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   "text": "If governmental contracts increasingly mandate replacement of boards and senior management, boards will have stronger incentives to make preemptive remedial measures effective.",
   "abstract": "Should future governmental contracts increasingly mandate re- placement of boards and senior management (38% of governmental contracts from 1993 to 2013 replaced boards and management)86, boards may be fur- ther incentivized to optimize the effectiveness of preemptive remedial measures.",
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   "text": "Preemptive remedial measures have a low success rate, as evidenced by the fact that more than 60 percent of deferred and non prosecution agreements executed between 1993 and 2013 refer to preemptive remedial measures that preceded them.",
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