The scandals surrounding questionable accounting practices and corporate wrongdoing during 2000-2008 have often been attributed to the lack of effective internal controls. We examine the relations between national culture and the incidence and the number of reported internal control material...

"Tail dependence" characterizes the cross market linkages during stressful times. Analylzing tail dependence is of primary interest to portfolio managers who systematically monitor the co-movements of assets markets. However, the relevant literature on real estate securities markets is very...

During the recent COVID-19 pandemic crisis, several high-income countries pursued vaccine nationalism (i.e., my country first approaches for vaccine distribution), leading to an even wider income inequality between rich and poor countries. This significantly challenged the poorer countries'...