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Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence by Dyck, Alexander, Lins, Karl V., Roth, Lukas, Wagner, Hannes F.

“…This paper assesses whether shareholders drive the environmental and social (E&S) performance of firms worldwide. Across 41 countries, institutional ownership…”
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Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud? by DYCK, ALEXANDER, MORSE, ADAIR, ZINGALES, LUIGI

“…To identify the most effective mechanisms for detecting corporate fraud, we study all reported fraud cases in large U.S. companies between 1996 and 2004. We…”
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Private Benefits of Control: An International Comparison by Dyck, Alexander, Zingales, Luigi

“…We estimate private benefits of control in 39 countries using 393 controlling blocks sales. On average the value of control is 14 percent, but in some…”
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Safety Considerations of Hydrogen Application in Shipping in Comparison to LNG by Depken, Jorgen, Dyck, Alexander, Roß, Lukas, Ehlers, Sören

“…Shipping accounts for about 3% of global CO2 emissions. In order to achieve the target set by the Paris Agreement, IMO introduced their GHG strategy. This…”
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Underground Storage of Green Hydrogen—Boundary Conditions for Compressor Systems by Bekebrok, Heinz, Langnickel, Hendrik, Pluta, Adam, Zobel, Marco, Dyck, Alexander

“…The large-scale storage of hydrogen in salt caverns, modelled on today’s natural gas storage, is a promising approach to storing renewable energy over a large…”
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Development of a Heuristic Control Algorithm for Detection and Regeneration of CO Poisoned LT-PEMFC Stacks in Stationary Applications by Tullius, Vietja, Zobel, Marco, Dyck, Alexander

“…Combined heat and power (CHP) systems based on low-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells (LT-PEMFC) technology are suspected to CO poisoning on the…”
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Investigation of Corrosion Methods for Bipolar Plates for High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Application by Pilinski, Nadine, Käding, Claudia, Dushina, Anastasia, Hickmann, Thorsten, Dyck, Alexander, Wagner, Peter

“…In this work, different methods and electrochemical set-ups were investigated in order to study the corrosion behaviour of bipolar plates (BPP) for high…”
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Highly Active Wood-Derived Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction by Kaare, Kätlin, Yu, Eric, Volperts, Aleksandrs, Dobele, Galina, Zhurinsh, Aivars, Dyck, Alexander, Niaura, Gediminas, Tamasauskaite-Tamasiunaite, Loreta, Norkus, Eugenijus, Andrulevičius, Mindaugas, Danilson, Mati, Kruusenberg, Ivar

“…In this recent decade, great interest has risen to develop metal-free and cheap, biomass-derived electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Herein,…”
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Elucidating Synergistic Effects of Different Metal Ratios in Bimetallic Fe/Co-N-C Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction by Marius Gollasch, Julia Müller-Hülstede, Henrike Schmies, Dana Schonvogel, Peter Wagner, Alexander Dyck, Michael Wark

“…Lowering or eliminating the noble-metal content in oxygen reduction fuel cell catalysts could propel the large-scale introduction of commercial fuel cell…”
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Analysis of HT-PEM MEAs’ Long-Term Stabilities by Büsselmann, Julian, Rastedt, Maren, Klicpera, Tomas, Reinwald, Karsten, Schmies, Henrike, Dyck, Alexander, Wagner, Peter

“…Despite the great advantages of high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane (HT-PEM) fuel cells over the low-temperature (LT) PEM alternative, such as…”
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Experimental based experiences with the introduction of a water safety plan for a multi-located university clinic and its efficacy according to WHO recommendations by Dyck, Alexander, Exner, Martin, Kramer, Axel

“…Due to the high number of immunosuppressed and other predisposed patients hospitals have to control and ensure the microbiological water quality. The origin…”
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Taxes and Corporate Policies: Evidence from a Quasi Natural Experiment by DOIDGE, CRAIG, DYCK, ALEXANDER

“…We document important interactions between tax incentives and corporate policies using a "quasi natural experiment" provided by a surprise announcement that…”
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Privatization in Eastern Germany: Management Selection and Economic Transition by Dyck, I J Alexander

“…This paper suggests that management's role in enterprise restructuring and market failures in the managerial labor market help explain important features of…”
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How pervasive is corporate fraud? by Dyck, Alexander, Morse, Adair, Zingales, Luigi

“…We provide a lower-bound estimate of the undetected share of corporate fraud. To identify the hidden part of the “iceberg,” we exploit Arthur Andersen’s…”
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Management Control and Privatization in the United Kingdom by Cragg, Michael Ian, I. J. Alexander Dyck

“…We examine the links between ownership and internal control for a sample of 112 state-owned, privatized, and publicly traded firms in the United Kingdom from…”
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Evaluation of Cathode Gas Composition and Temperature Influences on Alkaline Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (AAEMFC) Performance by Leyla, Topal, Nunes Kirchner, Carolina, Germer, Wiebke, Zobel, Marco, Dyck, Alexander

“…The effects of different temperatures (55, 65, 75 and 85 °C) and cathode gas compositions (O2, synthetic air, air and 90% synthetic air+10% CO2) on alkaline…”
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The Corporate Governance Role of the Media: Evidence from Russia by DYCK, ALEXANDER, VOLCHKOVA, NATALYA, ZINGALES, LUIGI

“…We study the effect of media coverage on corporate governance by focusing on Russia in the period 1999 to 2002. We find that an investment fund's lobbying…”
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Outraged by Compensation: Implications for Public Pension Performance by Dyck, Alexander, Manoel, Paulo, Morse, Adair

“…Abstract Public pension boards fear inciting stakeholder outrage if they compensate internal investment managers with market-level salaries. We derive…”
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Phase transformation in the palladium hydrogen system: Effects of boundary conditions on phase stabilities by Dyck, Alexander, Böhlke, Thomas, Pundt, Astrid, Wagner, Stefan

“…Different elastic constraint conditions affect the phase stabilities of metal-hydrogen systems. This is studied considering the free energy density within a…”
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Phase transformation in the Niobium Hydrogen system: Effects of elasto-plastic deformations on phase stability predicted by a thermodynamic model by Dyck, Alexander, Böhlke, Thomas, Pundt, Astrid, Wagner, Stefan

“…Constraint conditions and elasto-plastic deformation alter phase stabilities of metal-hydrogen systems. Experiments on niobium-hydrogen thin films reveal, that…”
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