2012-05-10T18:07:58Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/t/talley_eric.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030422.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The law and economics literature on suit and settlement has tended to focus on two alternative conceptual models.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20061030.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

This paper analyzes the normative role for civil liability in aligning terrorism precaution incentives, when the perpetrators of terrorism are unreachable by courts or regulators.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR209.html 2008-02-12T20:01:00Z 2008-02-12T20:01:00Z

This report documents the design and business and implementation plans that the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute recommended in 2004 to the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development for its Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9337.html 2008-03-24T15:49:00Z 2008-03-24T15:49:00Z

This research brief describes broker-dealers and investment advisers -- their numbers, size, assets, clients, services, and affiliations -- and examines whether individual investors understand the differences between them.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1267.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Explores the legal, theoretical, and empirical ramifications of insulating the auditing industry from legal liability.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR317.html 2006-03-03T11:40:00Z 2006-03-03T11:40:00Z

Surveys existing research and the general state of knowledge about the impact of regulation and legislation on small business, focusing on the areas of corporate securities, environmental protection, employment, and health insurance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR403.html 2007-09-17T16:34:00Z 2007-09-17T16:34:00Z

Examines how the availability of organizing as Limited Liability Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies affected law firms during the period 1993-1999.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR302.html 2005-10-13T18:27:00Z 2005-10-13T18:27:00Z

Professional service providers who wish to organize as multi-person firms have historically been limited to the partnership form. Such organizational forms trade the benefit of risk diversification off against the costs of diluted incentives and liab...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR300z1.html 2006-05-08T11:04:00Z 2006-05-08T11:04:00Z

This summary is based on: Ehud Kamar, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Eric Talley, Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis, RAND WR-300-2-ICJ, 2006.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR300.html 2005-10-13T09:27:00Z 2005-10-13T09:27:00Z

This report investigates whether the regulatory regime created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) has driven firms in general, and small firms in particular, out of the public capital market. Previous attempts to address this question have had d...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR292.html 2005-09-13T12:00:00Z 2005-09-13T12:00:00Z

This paper reviews federal workplace, environmental, economic regulations. It describes the purpose of and requirements associated with the regulations, any penalties associated with regulatory violations and how requirements or penalties differ for small v. large firms.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20061129.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Arthur Andersen's implosion in 2002, policymakers have been encouraged with ever increasing urgency to insulate the auditing industry from legal liability.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR556.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

This report examines current practices and investor understanding of brokers, dealers, and investment advisers -- three theoretically distinct types of financial professionals whose boundaries have blurred in recent decades.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR300-2.html 2008-02-19T15:13:00Z 2008-02-19T15:13:00Z

Controlling for exit decision factors, this study confirms other reports that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act induced small firms to exit the public capital market.