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I compare voting positions taken by Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) members on standards to positions taken by constituent sponsors in comment letters both before and after the emergence of the FASB's conceptual framework. I find that, relative to the Pre-CF regime (1973–1986),...
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implementation of the Reform and Opening-up policy in China in 1978 that significantly weakens the communist ideology. We find that … the reform, and therefore, were indoctrinated with stronger communist ideology, are significantly higher than those of … secretaries' communist ideology affect corporate taxation through both tax benefit provisions and enforcement of tax rules. A …
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The authors present the idea of integrating prediction markets into the IASB's due process of accounting standards development in order to assure the legitimacy of IFRS. They refer to the constitutional economics concept of hypothetical consent and further substantiate literature claims that the...
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We regard accounting regulation as a politico-economic institution and analyze its evolution in the presence of changing investor sentiment. When the market sentiment is moderate, if most of the business projects in the economy are successful, the economy will enter a stable high-disclosure...
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We investigate the effect of standard setters in standard setting: We examine how certain professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting “reliability” and “relevance” of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with...
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ideology of board members, can affect a firm's performance. We employ personal political contributions' data to measure … political ideology distance among groups of inside, outside directors and the CEO. Our empirical evidence strongly supports the …
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