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The Impact of State-Level Nutrition-Education Program Funding on BMI : Evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
McGeary, Kerry Anne - 2009
Currently, there is insufficient evidence regarding which policies will improve nutrition, reduce BMI, the probability of obesity and the probability of overweight nationwide. This preliminary study investigates the impact of a nutrition-education policy relative to price policy as a means to...
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Complex Disclosure
Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2018
Disclosure policies have the potential to help consumers and make markets more efficient. Yet, the effectiveness of disclosure policies can be undermined if firms strategically make unfavorable information unnecessarily complicated to understand. To explore the incentives for using complexity in...
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Investor Inattention, Firm Reaction, and Friday Earnings Announcements
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2005
Do firms release news strategically in response to investor inattention? We consider news about earnings and analyze the response of returns to announcements on Friday and other weekdays. Friday announcements have less immediate and more delayed stock return response. The delayed response as a...
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Continuing Dangers of Disinformation in Corporate Accounting Reports
Kane, Edward J. - 2003
Insiders can artificially deflect the market prices of financial instruments from their full-information or inside value' by issuing deceptive accounting reports. Incentive support for disinformational activity comes through forms of compensation that allow corporate insiders to profit...
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Measuring Firm Environmental Performance to Inform Asset Management and Standardized Disclosure
Muller, Nicholas Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Investing according to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria is gaining momentum. Most environmental performance indices focus only on the tonnage of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. This paper proposes an index covering eight pollutants expressed in monetary damage. Inclusion of...
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Central Bank Transparency : Causes, Consequences and Updates
Dincer, Nergiz - 2009
We present updated estimates of central bank for 100 countries up through 2006 and use them to analyze both the determinants and consequences of monetary policy transparency in an integrated econometric framework. We establish that there has been significant movement in the direction of greater...
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Inflation Announcements and Social Dynamics
Hachem, Kinda - 2014
We propose a new framework for understanding the effectiveness of central bank announcements when firms have heterogeneous inflation expectations. Expectations are updated through social dynamics and, with heterogeneity, not all firms choose to operate, putting downward pressure on realized...
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Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization
Ju, Jiandong - 2007
which financial globalization can be a substitute for reforms of domestic financial system. Inefficient financial system and … investment. While financial globalization always improves the welfare of a developed country with a good financial system, its … the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …
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Financial Globalization, Corporate Governance, and Eastern Europe
Stulz, Rene M. - 2006
financial world is not flat because poor governance prevents firms from being widely held and from taking full advantage of … financial globalization. Poor governance has implications for corporate finance as well as for macroeconomics. I show that poor …
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Investor Protection : Origins, Consequences, and Reform
Porta, Rafael La - 1999
Recent research has documented large differences between countries in ownership concentration in publicly traded firms, in the breadth and depth of capital markets, in dividend policies, and in the access of firms to external finance. We suggest that there is a common element to the explanations...
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