affiliation of the future governor is a source of political risk to firms considering business investment. More importantly, the …We estimate the effect of electorally induced policy uncertainty on investment in the manufacturing sector. Because …, and because the policies relevant to business investment vary systematically by party, uncertainty over the partisan …

Many companies in USA and Western Europe are taking advantage of developments in information technology and outsourcing … parts of the accounting process to vendors in other parts of the world. Offshore outsourcing of accounting presents some … unique risks, control problems and challenges. In this paper we focus on the control of relational risk, a form of risk …