This paper examines the economic effects of the adoption and implementation of performance-based budgeting (PBB) at the state government level. We examine the association between the implementation of PBB and aggregate state expenditures from the General Fund and Other State Funds, and further...

Differences in cultural philosophy at the national level have been theorized to affect business practices, legal systems, social behavior norms, educational achievements, and even the rate of economic growth. We extend this literature to examine the effect of national culture on government...

This paper examines the determinants of a company's choice of disclosure informativeness. The specific context is the disclosure of the value of stock options granted to the top executives under the SEC's Regulation S-K (Item 403). We show that firms with executives who are excessively paid,...

This study examines empirically the extent to which the frequency of interim financial reporting affects stock price volatility over the course of the fiscal year in four countries with different interim reporting regimes: the United States and Canada with quarterly reporting, and Great Britain...

This study examines whether analysts' forecast revisions exhibited increased herding behavior following the adoption of Regulation Fair Disclosure. A recent model by Arya, Mittendorf, and Narayanamoorthy (2005) projects that one potential consequence of Regulation Fair Disclosure might be...

This study introduces a methodology for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of alternative management tools in public institutions with an application to public education. The shift towards performance budgeting and outcome measures for public-sector institutions in recent decades creates a need...

This study examines the influence of taxpayer balloting on budget levels and its relationship with standardized test results in New Jersey school districts. The relation between efficiency, effectiveness, and budget voting outcomes is analyzed over a ten-year sample period. Cost and production...

We present in this study a method for comparing the relative effectiveness of different non-profit institutions with similar objectives. In addition, we show how this measure of relative effectiveness is related theoretically to their relative efficiency. Finally, drawing on developments in data...

This paper evaluates the prevalent view that accounting information competes with, but also disciplines, information from other sources by examining the inferential value to investors of accounting versus non-accounting information. Inferential value is defined as the ability of the capital...

This study examines whether the provision of non-audit services by a firm's own auditors provides value to the firm. We examine the future return on assets and sales growth as a function of the expenditures by the client firms on non-audit services, reasoning that if such payments are intended...