will be affordable. In this paper, I present the facts about how much accountability costs. The facts are, fortunately …, highly knowable because costs show up both as expenditures on government budgets and as revenues on companies' (mainly test … makers') accounts. Moreover, it turns out that worrying about measurement error in the cost data is pointless. The costs of …

predicted by the theory: The synergies between reduced monitoring costs and high performance work systems enable the firm to pay …

costs exceed the benefits of brokers' knowledge and expertise. Thus, quantification of the net value of brokerage services … indicates that agency costs exceed the advantages of brokers' knowledge and expertise by a wide margin …

Entertainment and Travel Costs (ETC) is a standard expenditure item for Chinese firms with an annual amount equal to …

social responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with …

processes for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term oriented, and to exhibit higher measurement and disclosure of …

shareholders and managers in which managers have private benefits or private costs of investment. Managers overinvest when they … have private benefits and underinvest when they have private costs. Optimal incentive contracts mitigate the over- or …, in isolation, is insufficient to identify whether managers have private benefits or private costs of investment. In order …