Our article integrates the manager’s care in the literature on auditor’s liability. With unobservable efforts, we face a double moral hazard setting. It is well-known that efficient liability rules without punitive damages do not exist under these circumstances. However, we show that the...

Die Liberalisierung leitungsgebundener Wirtschaftszweige (Elektrizität, Erdgas, Telekommunikation) erfordert die wirksame Entflechtung ("Unbundling") des weiterhin bestehenden natürlichen Monopols der Leitungsnetze von den übrigen, im Wettbewerb stehenden Aktivitäten des Unternehmens. Eine...

The European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) was created as a successor to the cooperation programmes TACIS (for the Eastern European countries) and MEDA (for the Mediterranean countries), with enlarged objectives and an increased budget. It was operational from January 2007, and...

The emergence of the current intangible-intensive economy does not only mean enormous opportunities but also serious challenges in different dimensions. These challenges are mainly due to some fundamental differences in nature between physical assets and intangibles. The very same reasons that...

Using a variance decomposition approach, we examine the importance of accounting information - in particular the cash flow and accruals components of earnings - in explaining the variation in UK company stock returns. We extend prior research by analysing whether auditor quality moderates the...

This study examines the effects of a joint audit on auditor's report consensus and accuracy. We investigate whether a joint audit, particularly the report issued, improves an audit's quality. We measure the audit's quality using the degree of auditor consensus in the auditor's report. We also...

We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities:[...]