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The authors present the idea of integrating prediction markets into the IASB's due process of accounting standards development in order to assure the legitimacy of IFRS. They refer to the constitutional economics concept of hypothetical consent and further substantiate literature claims that the...
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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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Using a novel database of firm patents and board characteristics across 45 countries, we examine both within- and cross-country determinants of board gender diversity and its relation to corporate innovation. Boards are more likely to include women in countries with narrower gender gaps, higher...
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or not governments implement more or less interventions depend on their core political ideology. We thus expect …
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This paper investigates how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 17 OECD … more under rightwing governments than under leftwing governments. The ideology-induced effect was stronger when … OECD countries. Government ideology does not turn out to have a statistically significant effect on top income shares in …
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We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD …
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Using panel data for 157 countries over the period 1999-2005 we empirically investigate the politics involved in IMF economic forecasts. We find a systematic bias in growth and inflation forecasts. Our results indicate that countries voting in line with the US in the UN General Assembly receive...
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captures one’s beliefs, values, and opinions about society: political ideology. We study the donation decisions of more than 46 … also examine the association between political ideology and national generosity without hypothesizing any direction. We … governance, which is found to have significant informative power in explaining the relationship between political ideology and …
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of the political ideology of the executive and dominant legislative party, by country, for the period 1928-1995 (from …
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