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firms are not obliged to express reservations they may have about the fundamental accuracy of the reports they audit. This …
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events on themarket for tax planning, in particular the longstanding link between audit and tax services. Whilethe effects … audit fees paid to the auditors of firms in the S&P500 decline from approximately one in 2001 to one-fourth in 2004. At the … of the longstanding link between audit and tax services, such that firms are shifting theirpurchase of tax services away …
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The `Excessive Deficit Procedure' of the Maastricht Treaty on Economic and Monetary Union proposes two fiscal convergence conditions for entry and continued membership in the EMU: 1) a country's overall budget deficit for each fiscal year must be equal to or below 3% of GDP, and 2) a country's...
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The design of budget rules and institutions, long a neglected area in public finance and macroeconomics, has recently been thrust to center stage by the debate over a balanced budget amendment and other deficit-reduction measures in the United States. This paper describes the existing evidence...
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We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia …
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borrowing and renegotiation experience of five Latin borrowers (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Peru). Another goal is …
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We study the transmission of sovereign debt inflow shocks on domestic firms. We exploit episodes of large sovereign debt inflows in six emerging countries that are due to the announcements of these countries' inclusion in two major local-currency sovereign debt indexes. We show that these...
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inflations in the 1980s. Several other countries, for example Colombia, have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods …
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While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, the empirical literature has struggled to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. Previous research typically derived revenue productivity (TFPR), which is downward biased if more efficient producers...
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, Colombia and Mexico -- and three East Asian countries--Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. It identifies a number of potential …
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