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   "text": "Issuing contingent capital securities with a conversion feature is a way for a banking entity to signal to its market that it will adhere to stricter standards, ethical or otherwise.",
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   "text": "Early triggers in executive compensation improve the signaling of default risk by producing the signal while default risk is present but still somewhat remote.",
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   "text": "Parties subject to informal rules signal their preferences and efficient solutions to the public rulemaker, so informal rules and practices supply additional information that modifies rulemakers' actions and improves rulemaking.",
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   "text": "Contingent capital qualifies as a dynamic regulatory mechanism because capital injection is available only if and when needed and because the conversion of contingent capital securities into near worthless equity signals impending regulatory issues to regulators, which creates feedback effects.",
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   "text": "Contingent capital creates feedback effects because the conversion of debt to equity signals to regulators that the entity's management was unable to avoid the trigger, which is itself a call for increased regulatory scrutiny.",
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   "text": "Just as centralized institutions rely on the vetting of candidates by other centralized institutions, the CHARITYxDAO may serve as a decentralized oracle for philanthropic endeavors.",
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   "text": "An agent may fund a proposal it generated itself in order to derisk it for downstream funders, because posting a proposal with the architect's own seed bounty signals commitment and reduces the information asymmetry that would otherwise prevent third-party funding.",
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