During 1990-2015, the global auditing/accounting industry experienced significant structural changes that have implications for Financial Stability, systemic risk and the proper functioning of capital markets. Some of the results included the collapses of stock prices and bond prices of firms...

Many emerging market countries are increasingly affected by their "informal economies", geopolitical risks, U.S. dollar dynamics, legal/regulatory institutions, preferential trade agreements (PTAs), social networks, international labor dynamics, cross-border spillovers (from developed countries...

"This book focuses on aspects of Complex Systems (including Networks), Mechanism-Design and Behavioral Game Theory, introducing new models and "informal" algorithms that solve social-choice problems (using behavioral Game Theory, Complex Systems Theory and Mechanism Design) and presents new...

The PCAOB (USA), IASB and FASB/GASB (USA) perform important rule-making functions and affect accounting regulations, companies, financial institutions and government regulation around the world (many foreign countries raise capital or list their shares in the US markets; and many US companies...