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The Role of the Tripartite Audit Function in Securing Corporate Accountability
Porter, Brenda - 2012
This paper explores the questions of why corporate accountability arises and how it is discharged. It explains the relationship between corporate governance and accountability and the role of the audit function in securing corporate accountability. It also provides insights into changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107304
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Gender preference gaps and voting for redistribution
Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021
There is substantial evidence that women tend to support different policies and political candidates than men. Many studies also document gender differences in a variety of important preference dimensions, such as risk-taking, competition and pro-sociality. However, the degree to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164121
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Strength of preference and decisions under risk
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Garagnani, Michele - 2022
Influential economic approaches as random utility models assume a monotonic relation between choice frequencies and "strength of preference," in line with widespread evidence from the cognitive sciences, which also document an inverse relation to response times. However, for economic decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164128
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Age Effects and Heuristics in Decision Making
Besedeš, Tibor; Deck, Cary; Sarangi, Sudipta; Shor, Mikhael - Louisiana State University <Baton Rouge, La.> / E. J. … - 2009
We examine in controlled experiments how individuals make choices when faced withmultiple options. The choice tasks mimic the selection of health insurance, prescriptiondrug, or retirement savings plans. However, in our experiment, the available options canbe objectively ranked. We ¯nd that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302527
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A Forward-Looking Stochastic Fleet Model for Analysing the Impact of Uncertainty on Light-Duty Vehicles Fuel Use and Emissions
Bastani, Parisa; Heywood, John B. 153886951; Hope, Chris - Judge Business School <Cambridge> - 2011
Transport policy research seeks to predict and substantially reduce the future transport-related greenhouse gasemissions and fuel consumption to prevent negative climate change impacts and protect the environment.However, making such predictions is made difficult due to the uncertainties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354083
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The Performance of Groups and Individuals in Financial Decision-Making
Gort, Christoph; Gerber, Anke - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2008
degree of information exchange between group members as a higher level is linked to a significantly better performance.<BR> …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005857732
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The Jesuits as Knowledge Brokers Between Europe and China (1582-1773): Shaping European Views of the Middle Kingdom
Millar, Ashley E. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
motives, the roles and the consequences of the Jesuits as agents of information regarding China affected the European … and transmission of information. It finds that economic progress and political consolidation in Europe did result in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870547
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Detecting Informed Trading Activities in the OptionsMarkets
Chesney, Marc; Crameri, Remo; Mancini, Loriano - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2009
This paper presents a new method to detect informed trading activities in the options markets.An option trade is identified as informed when it is characterized by an unusual largeincrement in open interest and volume, induces large gains, and is not hedged in the stock market.For the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868704
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International Capital Flows under DispersedInformation: Theory and Evidence
Tille, Cédric; Van Wincoop, Eric - Finrisk - 2008
We develop a new theory of international capital flows based on dispersed in-formation across individual investors …-standing asset price behavior. We introduce information dispersion into an openeconomy dynamic general equilibrium portfolio choice … model, and emphasize twoimplications for capital flows that are speci…c to the presence of dispersed infor-mation. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868844
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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests
Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - 1999
theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is private information, only known to the donor and the donee, while the … amounts bequeathed is public information. Second, we assume that parents care about the reputation that their bequest behavior …
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