We examine the relationship of corporate social responsibility (CSR) with earnings management in the context of changing regulatory regimes. We find firms with higher CSR engagement are more likely to have higher discretionary accruals before the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) whereas...

China's growing consumption is a policy objective (CCCPC, 2016), and commercial success for online retailers, such as Alibaba (Lucas, 2017) that serve China's large number of netizens. Within China's thriving social media, WeChat is a world leading innovator (Yu, 2017). With innovation of its...

This paper describes how behavioral elements are relevant to financial supervision,regulation, and central banking. It focuses on (1) behavioral effects of norms (social, legal,and market); (2) behavior of others (internalization, identification, and compliance); and(3) psychological biases. It...

Following concerns that the art market is being used to launder criminal money and fund terrorist activities, measures have recently been introduced to subject the market to the anti-money laundering (AML) regime – such as the EU 5th Money Laundering Directive (2018) and the US Illicit Art and...

For over three decades, money laundering has been an area of concern for policymakers and law enforcement, with significant efforts undertaken at national and international levels to combat it. Recently, laundering of criminal proceeds using real property has attracted increased attention...

Competition agencies and many other related policy and regulatory authorities and regimes on for example consumer protection, product safety, privacy, conventional and digital financial services, the environment, healthcare, and occupational health and safety are now paying much greater...

This paper investigates how privacy regulation affects the structure of online markets. We provide a simple theoretical model capturing the basic trade-off between the degree of privacy intrusion and the informativeness of advertising. We derive empirically testable hypotheses regarding a...

This paper analyses the equilibrium effects of individual information filters. Information is modelled as advertisements which are distributed across a population of consumers with heterogeneous preferences. An advertisement that provides knowledge about a product with little or no utility for a...

Commercial ceilings not only restrict broadcasters in their decisions about commercial broadcasting time, but also affect their differentiation of program content. This study examines the welfare effects of commercial ceilings in a two-sided free-to-air TV market, taking into account welfare...