better health outcomes, receive more federal discretionary transfers, and have lower corruption. Additionally, male mayors … municipal elections are approaching. These findings suggest that male mayors may promote more political patronage than female …

. Content analysis is applied through a multidimensional framework composed by three main disclosure profiles(time orientation … atheoretical and mono-dimensional way. Moreover the resource base theory has been scarcely applied to explain the disclosure of …

signals, and toward reasoning through the implications of a failure to disclose. In equilibrium disclosure is incomplete, and … observers are unrealistically optimistic. Nevertheless, regulation requiring greater disclosure can reduce observers' belief … accuracies and welfare. A stronger tendency to neglect disclosed signals increases disclosure, whereas a stronger tendency to …

analyses which include a focus on China, Japan, Brazil, and South Africa, this paper not only highlights why there is need for … as disclosure and financial reporting requirements. Audits, which serve as vital signalling mechanisms in capital markets …

methods to respond to those issues, and apply those methods to a study of five major emerging markets -- Brazil, India, Korea …

of government corruption. The government sets the level of enforcement against drug trafficking taking into account the … diverse sanction policy outcomes. We also show evidence about the relationships among drug trafficking, corruption and FDI for …

The corruption is a phenomenon present in different degrees in all countries around the world. In this revision article … the objective was to identify the theoretical explanations of corruption and their consequences on the economic …-agent relationship approaches stand out in economics and political science. There is no doubt in associating the corruption to the lower …

emerging markets such as Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Mexico, which are not only top recipients of foreign capital … been the eruption of world-class Latin multinationals (or multilatinas) from Mexico and Brazil, in particular, following …

Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but … achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique of Brazil’s strategy in terms of economic statecraft; reflect on … enhance Brazil’s leadership role at the regional and global levels. It would involve the Brazilian government and business …