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Present research is aimed to examine the factors affecting the disclosure of corporate carbon emission. Investors, especially shareholders, largely rely upon the disclosure of financial and other data to determine the firm value. However, disclosure of environmental performance such as carbon...
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The trading of securities on multiple markets raises the question of each market's share in the discovery of the informationally efficient price. We exploit salient distributional features of multivariate financial price processes to uniquely determine these contributions. Thereby we resolve the...
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Keech and Munger (2015) argue that the failures of markets are often preceded by the failures of governments to define the necessary institutions needed for the success of markets. In this paper, we attempt to test this hypothesis by examining whether institutional quality is associated with...
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This study investigates whether and how a firm's voluntary adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards … reporting and synchronicity. Using firm-level data from 34 countries, we find that synchronicity is significantly lower for IFRS …
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In this paper, we investigate how firm reporting incentives and institutional factors affect accounting quality in … international reporting standards. We develop an approach of cross-country comparisons allowing for differences between firms within … quality. We find that financial reporting quality increases in the presence of strong monitoring mechanisms by means of …
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In this paper, we examine the monitoring role of government customers in emerging markets, a setting where public procurement is significant but the procurement institutions are weak. In these countries, financial statements certification could be an important mechanism for a private firm to...
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We examine the informational role of governments in the private sector in emerging economies. Using a large sample of private firms, we show that governments’ ability and willingness to collect and disseminate economic information (government transparency) is positively associated with...
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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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