Contrary to established academic literature, the primary motive of corporate “Earnings Management” is not always manipulation of Net Income (EPS), but also is to change perceived corporate credit-risk, perceived asset-quality and expected growth; and to influence the sensitivity of managers...

“Restoring American Financial Stability Act” of 2010 (“RAFSA” or the Dodd-Frank Act) was the first set of statutes in any country, that attempted to simultaneously address the Global Financial Crisis, the national securities law framework, the structure of the executive branch of the...

Akamai Technologies, Openwave Systems, Novell, Firstwave Technologies, and Ask.com (Ask Jeeves) (collectively, the "USTechCos") are US-based technology companies that have been functioning since 1999. The common characteristics among most of the USTechCos during 2001-2004, were that they were...

Equity Based Incentives (“EBIs”) remain the dominant form of incentives in many developed and developing countries; and thus have significant effects on the quality-of-life and subjective well-being of individuals in both small and large firms. The timing of exercise of EBIs and the...

During 2005-2018, the “Sharing Economy” (which includes Airbnb; Apple; Alibaba, Uber; WeWork; Liquidspace, Lyft; Ebay; Didi Chuxing; Taxify; Amazon; HomeAway; etc.) blossomed across the world, triggered structural changes in industries and significantly affected international capital flows...

This article: i) explains why international financial contagion could have been a major cause of structural changes in the US economy and specific major US industries (housing, retailing, etc.) during 1995-2003; ii) critiques traditional methods of modeling international financial contagion; iii)...

This article addresses decision-making parameters in machine-learning algorithms, and more specifically, critiques the mathematical explanation for the Hipster Effect (a group of evolutionary processes), and discusses implications for portfolio management and corporate bankruptcy prediction (two...

This article summarizes corporate strategy mistakes, and earnings management and asset quality management by Beiersdorf (an exchange-traded German company that also operated in the US and several countries during 2010-2017) which have implications for asset pricing, bankruptcy models and...

This article explains the relationships among Constitutions, Sovereign Debt policies and Foreign Aid and systemic risk; and why it's improper to criticize what is termed “Foreign Aid”. During the last fifty years, Foreign Aid has remained functionally, politically and economically the same...

Multiple Listing Systems (MLS), Real Estate Website (REW) Laws, and Rent-Control and Rent-Stabilization statutes (RCRS) are unconstitutional and affected the transmission of monetary policy and fiscal policies, and the rapid changes in housing prices and housing demand which occurred in the US...