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Big 4 Office Political Connections and Client Restatements
Elemes, Anastasios; Chen, Jeff Zeyun - 2021
Extant literature suggests that audit firms establish political connections at the national level to lobby regulators and legislators. In this paper we construct a novel dataset of Big 4 auditors’ political connections at the audit office level and examine the implications of auditors’...
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Political connections and firms : network dimensions
Bussolo, Maurizio; Commander, Simon; Poupakis, Stavros - 2018
Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network dimensions of such connections are ubiquitous. We use a unique dataset for seven economies that documents politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their links to companies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853617
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Political Connections and Government-Awarded Economic Incentives : US State-level Evidence
Aobdia, Daniel - 2019
award in a politically connected state and this association is stronger when politicians' motives appear to be self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899967
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The economics of politics : patronage and political selection in Italy
Quaresima, Federico; Fiorillo, Fabio - 2016
This article investigates the patronage phenomenon in the italian, so called, Second Republic. In particular, the … instrument to control and reward politicians' loyalty throughout a legislature. Especially in a majoritarian electoral system …, where the interests of political parties and districts may diverge, the formers would need patronage resource to assure …
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Campaign connections
Bazzi, Samuel; Labanca, Claudio - 2023
hires are relatively more qualified. Our results suggest a potential upside to patronage as campaign connections create new …
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Persistence of politicians and firms' innovation
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2010
We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …' innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians …-term connections with politicians. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737834
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Political Connections and Insider Trading
Bourveau, Thomas - 2018
This paper investigates whether political connections affect individuals' propensity to engage in illegal activities in financial markets. We use the 2007 French presidential election as marker of change in the value of political connections, in a difference-in-differences research design. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935450
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Politically Connected Governments
Cuny, Christine - 2020
This paper examines the consequences of powerful political connections for local governments. We find that governments located within the constituencies of, and thus connected to, powerful congressional members reduce their stewardship over public resources. Using plausibly-exogenous declines in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834757
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Politically Connected Governments
Cuny, Christine - 2020
This paper examines the consequences of powerful political connections for local governments. We find that governments located within the constituencies of, and thus connected to, powerful congressional members reduce their stewardship over public resources. Using plausibly-exogenous declines in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852380
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Politically Connected Governments
Cuny, Christine; Kim, Jungbae; Mehta, Mihir N. - 2021
This paper examines the consequences of powerful political connections for local governments. We find that governments located within the constituencies of, and thus connected to, powerful congressional members reduce their stewardship over public resources. Using plausibly exogenous declines in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245217