"The cost of absenteeism in organizational functioning has been widely acknowledged and extensively examined in the management disciplines of organizational behavior, organizational theory and strategy (Cascio & Boudreau, 2011). Yet, its alleged flip side "presenteeeism" (working while sick) has...

Unternehmenszusammenbrüche, die oft mit fragwürdigen, teils kriminellen Bilanzierungsmethoden einhergingen, führten auch zu Kritik an Wirtschaftsprüfern. Hierauf reagierten die Gesetzgeber mit zahlreichen Reformen. Christopher Zilch untersucht, ob strengere Regulierungen zu einer...

We ask whether cuts of government consumption lower or raise the sovereign default premium. To address this question, we set up a new data set for 38 emerging and advanced economies which contains quarterly time-series observations for sovereign default premia, government consumption, and...

Policy makers often implement austerity measures when the sustainability of public finances is in doubt and, hence, sovereign yield spreads are high. Is austerity successful in bringing about a reduction in yield spreads? We employ a new panel data set which contains sovereign yield spreads for...