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We regard accounting regulation as a politico-economic institution and analyze its evolution in the presence of changing investor sentiment. When the market sentiment is moderate, if most of the business projects in the economy are successful, the economy will enter a stable high-disclosure...
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We investigate the effect of standard setters in standard setting: We examine how certain professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting “reliability” and “relevance” of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with...
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This paper develops a theory in which heterogeneity in political preferences produces a partisan disagreement about objective facts. A political decision involving both idiosyncratic preferences and scientific knowledge is considered. Voters form motivated beliefs in order to improve their...
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perception of these consequences varies with a politician's ideology. Therefore, if accounting rules produce those consequences …, ideology plausibly spills over and explains a politician's stance on the technical accounting issue, beyond special interest … to disentangle the role of ideology from special interest pressure. In both debates, ideology explains politicians …
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perception of these consequences varies with a politician's ideology. Therefore, if accounting rules produce those consequences …, ideology plausibly spills over and explains a politician's stance on the technical accounting issue, beyond special interest … to disentangle the role of ideology from special interest pressure. In both debates, ideology explains politicians …
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How does ideological polarization on non-economic matters influence the size of government? We analyze this question using a differentiated candidates framework: Two office-motivated candidates differ in their (fixed) ideological position and their production function for public goods, and...
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We analyze the relative importance of party ideology and rents from office in the formation of coalitions in a …
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