Gibrat's law test on Brazilian commercial banks

Lenders Liability of Commercial Banks in Environmental Tort: Focusing on American Law

With the deterioration of the environment and increasingly seriously environmental damage, the spread of the environmental responsibility scope is one of means to respond environmental crises. The federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act 1980 (CERCLA of US) imposed strict and joint liability to commercial banks and made them first become the main principle of...

On Performance Audit Methods in Commercial Banks

Lying at the elementary stage of relevant research, China is still lacking in modern performance audit methods fit for commercial banks. This paper aims at applying data enveloping analysis in the linear programming theory as well as benchmarking management to commercial banks to effectively improve the efficiency and quality of their performance audit. In addition, the application of this meth...

Bank risk taking, efficiency, and law enforcement: Evidence from Chinese city commercial banks ¬リニ

Article history: Received 30 May 2011 Received in revised form 7 November 2011 Accepted 20 December 2011 Available online 29 December 2011 We investigate bank risk taking, efficiency and their relation to law enforcement using a unique sample of 133 Chinese city commercial banks across 31 regions for the 1999–2008 period. We find that stronger law enforcement tends to promote greater bank risk ...

On the Difficulties of Codifying Commercial Law

Current Brazilian law on animal experimentation.

Law 11794 establishes procedures for the scientific use of animals and abrogates the previous Law 6638/1979, which was ineffective because it was not regulated by the Brazilian Executive Power. Without regulation, many issues remained ill-defined, including operational procedures and responsibilities such as licensing, accreditation, and institutional compliance inspection. The new law states t...