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The Effect of Regulatory Harmonization on Cross-Border Labor Migration : Evidence from the Accounting Profession
Bloomfield, Matthew J. - 2016
question, we analyze European Union (EU) initiatives that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. Regulatory … harmonization should reduce economic mobility barriers, essentially making it easier for accounting professionals to move across … countries. Our research design compares the cross-border migration of accounting professionals relative to tightly-matched other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000840
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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms
Hjort, Jonas - 2013
evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …. A period of ethnic conflict following Kenya's 2007 election led to a sharp increase in discrimination. In response, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073086
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Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Strobl, Renate - 2018
In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which individuals can influence their risk exposure. With slum dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects'...
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Optimal Regulation of Auditing
Pagano, Marco; Immordino, Giovanni - 2021
We study regulation of the auditing profession in a model where audit quality is unobservable and enforcing regulation is costly. The optimal audit standard falls short of the first-best audit quality, and is increasing in the riskiness of firms and in the amount of funding they seek. The model...
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Sovereign Defaults in Court
Schumacher, Julian - 2018
For centuries, defaulting governments were immune from legal action by foreign creditors. This paper shows that this is no longer the case. Building a dataset covering four decades, we find that creditor lawsuits have become an increasingly common feature of sovereign debt markets. The legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920182
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Investor Protection and Foreign Stakeholders
Giofré, Maela - 2014
Different investor classes are endowed with different rights, and conflicting interests among them can make protections afforded to one party detrimental to another. Indeed, we find that investor protection laws have sizeable "cross" effects on foreign portfolio investment and the direction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069664
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What Slice of the Pie? The Corporate Bond Market Boom in Emerging Economies
Ayala, Diana - 2017
This paper studies the determinants of shifts in debt composition among emerging market non-financial corporates. We show that the determinants of bond market access in EMs vary with global cyclical conditions and across local and foreign currency markets. We find that the role for institutions...
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Investor Protection and Foreign Stakeholders
Giofré, Maela - CESifo - 2010
Different investor classes are endowed with different rights, and conflicting interests among them can make protections afforded to one party detrimental to another. Indeed, we find that investor protection laws have sizeable "cross" effects on foreign portfolio investment and the direction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572590
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An Empirical Analysis of Legal Insider Trading in the Netherlands
Degryse, Hans; De Jong, Frank; Lefebvre, Jérémie - 2021
In this paper, we employ a registry of legal insider trading for Dutch listed firms to investigate the information content of trades by corporate insiders. Using a standard event-study methodology, we examine short-term stock price behavior around trades. We find that purchases are followed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316351
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An Empirical Analysis of Legal Insider Trading in the Netherlands
Degryse, Hans; Jong, Frank de; Lefebvre, Jérémie - CESifo - 2009
In this paper, we employ a registry of legal insider trading for Dutch listed firms to investigate the information content of trades by corporate insiders. Using a standard event-study methodology, we examine short-term stock price behavior around trades. We find that purchases are followed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034632