In the era of globalized economic relations, public and private sector cooperates for creating a joint value and social impact in the well-being of socio-economic condition. Hence, public-private relations are not developed evenly and differentiate in coverage, quality and proximity due to...

No one in United States financial and business history is as misunderstood, and under-appreciated, as the late Jay Gould (1836-1892). There are a number of reasons for this, primary amongst them is that Gould earned a reputation as the most hated man in America. Two early episodes, the Erie...

I study the relationship between debt maturity and agency conflicts between controlling and minority shareholders in unlisted firms. Exploiting cross-provinces variance in the development of local credit markets, I find a negative joint effect of ownership concentration and short-term bank debt...

Despite theoretical and anecdotal evidence highlighting the importance of industry-level analyses to lenders, the empirical literature on debt pricing has focused almost exclusively on firm-level forces that affect expected loss. This paper provides empirical evidence that industry-level...

If managers are risk-averse and compensation schemes are not directly linked to shareholder wealth, incentives to allocate effort to manage effects of relative and macroeconomic shocks may be distorted. In this paper we develop a simple model to identify factors that determine the optimal...

In this paper, we deliver US-sample based evidence that segment reporting biases analysts' earnings per share (EPS) forecasts. We show that the error in EPS forecasts corresponds to a profitability “gap” between profitability aggregated from segment reporting and profitability computed from...

We analyze a unique survey dataset to examine the (micro)foundations of capital allocation in firms. Firms employ systems of interconnected measures to counteract agency problems, including layers of approval, divisional budgets, reporting requirements, and compensation schemes. When making...

Spanish Abstract: Aunque la auditoría no está específicamente destinada a detectar y advertir debilidades financieras, trabajos previos han confirmado que canaliza evidencias útiles para estimar el riesgo financiero. Este trabajo profundiza en estos hallazgos, examinando la vida media de las...

The Foreign Exchange Department of a bank performs foreign exchange operations as well as transactions. The main function of a forex department is to handle foreign inward remittances as well as outward remittances as well as buying and selling of foreign currencies. In some cases, Foreign...

The purpose of the paper is to reveal factors that may have importance for Russian oil-extracting companies' sufficiency and investments appeal. At the emerging markets, due to asymmetric information and lack of transparency, investors can make adequate conclusions on their investments in a...