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losses, CFO asymmetry adds noise or bias to tests of conditional conservatism. We show that CFO asymmetry is predictable in … use accruals-based asymmetric timeliness measures when testing for conditional conservatism. …
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foreign direct investment (FDI) and corruption. The prevailing literature has produced confused and contradictory results on … this vital relationship due to errors in their measurement of corruption which are correlated with FDI inflows. When a less … biased operationalization is employed, we find clear evidence of corruption during both registration and procurement …
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Using the regression discontinuity design of close gubernatorial elections in the U.S., we identify a significant and positive impact of the social networks of corporate directors and politicians on firm value. Firms connected to elected governors increase their value by 3.89%. Political...
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We document a positive association between political uncertainty and accounting conservatism. In the year prior to a U ….S. presidential election, on average, accounting conservatism increases by nearly 20 percent. This election year effect is stronger … Democrat. In the post-election year, conservatism is lower relative to the non-election period when the incumbent party wins …
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Bureaucracy and corruption represent major causes of fiscal crises, and structural unemployment all over the world … in the future. Corruption is growing in a changing global environment and is considered one of the most important … geopolitical risks. Most of the time, corruption is associated with fraud and money laundering. European growing cities and public …
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Corporate lobbying activities are designed to influence legislators, regulators, and courts, presumably to encourage favorable policies and/or outcomes. In dollar terms, corporate lobbying expenditures are typically one or even two orders of magnitude larger than spending by Political Action...
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We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify incentive pay in the critical banking segments of treasury/capital market management and investment banking for 66 banks. We document an economically significant correlation of...
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Since 1989 and the regionalization of public transports in Belgium, the Société des transports intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB), i.e. the public operator of urban transport in Brussels, has undergone many changes, both structural and organizational. Meanwhile, the company has managed to...
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This study is aiming to outline the entrepreneurs’ opinions regarding to the effect of the Intermediary Management Agencies (IMAs) and the subsidy Operational Programmes (OPs) in the concretisation of their investments. More specific, the study aims into the acquisition of knowledge and...
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The paper argues that the Indian Managing Agencies that controlled most industrial firms and their associated enterprises were themselves embodiments of pre-industrial forms of capital, accumulated through trading and moneylending. This militated against technological dynamism within the...
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