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On the Economics of Limited Liability

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  • Susan E. Woodward

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  • Susan E. Woodward, 1985. "On the Economics of Limited Liability," UCLA Economics Working Papers 371, UCLA Department of Economics.
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    6. Turner, John D., 2014. "Financial history and financial economics," QUCEH Working Paper Series 14-03, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History.
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    8. Susan Woodward, 1988. "A Transaction Cost Analysis of Banking Activity and Deposit Insurance," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 7(3), pages 683-699, Winter.
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    10. Thomas H. Noe & Stephen D. Smith, 1997. "The buck stops where? The role of limited liability in economics," Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, vol. 82(Q 1), pages 46-56.
    11. Joshua R. Hendrickson, 2014. "Contingent Liability, Capital Requirements, and Financial Reform," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 34(1), pages 129-144, Winter.
    12. Colvin, Christopher L. & de Jong, Abe & Fliers, Philip T., 2015. "Predicting the past: Understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 97-121.
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    15. Naomi R. Lamoreaux & Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, 2004. "Legal Regime and Business's Organizational Choice: A Comparison of France and the United States," NBER Working Papers 10288, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    16. Holderness, Clifford G., 2003. "Joint ownership and alienability," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 23(1), pages 75-100, March.
    17. Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, 2004. "Legal Regime and Business’s Organizational Choice: A Comparison of France and the United States during the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Joint with Naomi Lamoreaux," UCLA Economics Online Papers 309, UCLA Department of Economics.
    18. Grillet, Luc L., 1992. "Markets, hierarchies, and hybrids in corporate insurance," Discussion Papers, Series II 173, University of Konstanz, Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 178 "Internationalization of the Economy".
    19. Pat Akey & Ian Appel, 2021. "The Limits of Limited Liability: Evidence from Industrial Pollution," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 76(1), pages 5-55, February.
    20. Grillet, Luc L., 1991. "Insurance hedging in the theory of the firm," Discussion Papers, Series II 166, University of Konstanz, Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 178 "Internationalization of the Economy".
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    22. Acheson, Graeme G. & Turner, John D., 2008. "The death blow to unlimited liability in Victorian Britain: The City of Glasgow failure," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 45(3), pages 235-253, July.

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