This paper argues that the large differences among EU countries in post-crisis employment performance are to a large extent driven by the need to adjust corporate balance sheets, which had greatly deteriorated during the boom years in some countries but not in others. To close the large gaps...

This paper recasts the debate over whether accounting research is relevant to accounting practice by asking the more fundamental question of whether modern academic accounting is even an applied discipline. Using an institutional theory template, we argue that academic accounting only purports...

This study examines the impact of restatements on the labor market outcomes for corporate accountants. We use LinkedIn to identify a comprehensive sample of corporate accountants who work for firms that restated their financial statements between 2004 and 2014. Using a difference-in-differences...