Manuscript Type: EmpiricalResearch Issue: This study applies the statistical properties of Benford's Law to CEO pay. Benford's ‘Law' states that in an unbiased dataset, the first digit values are usually unequally allocated when considering the logical expectations of equal distribution. In...

The auditing profession came under intense scrutiny following the collapse of Enron and several other leading firms. Legislators responded swiftly with the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, a stringent rules-based system widely considered the most comprehensive economic regulation since the New Deal....

We present the derivation of cost of capital under the assumption of risky tax shields discounted with the cost of levered equity. We show that the formulation is consistent and is derived from basic financial principles. This formulation is valid for finite cash flows and non growing...

El estudio realizado desde el semillero de investigación de tributaria SITUQ logra desarrollar el trabajo de investigación "Análisis comparativo de impuestos de carácter nacional del Derecho Tributario de Colombia y el Derecho Tributario de España", con el cual se conoce el marco histórico...

The problems that are seeing by paper is to examine to what extent accounting reports can provide us with the true picture of company performance and finds the way how to broaden accounting reports in order to incorporate other relevant information (News in TV, newspapers, education, moral...

I have designed a valuation method adjusted to the specific characteristics of Spanish professional soccer clubs under the hypothesis that clubs behave financially reasonably. I analyse the factors that define the context where soccer business takes place. I have built a conceptual model that...

Many question the value of accounting scholarship to society. We compared the attention the general public, policy makers, and academics give to academic accounting research relative to other business disciplines and other more general disciplines (economics, psychology, and other sciences). The...

<p>I discuss a new intellectual paradigm, social economics and finance: the study of the social processes that shape economic thinking and behavior. This emerging field recognizes that people observe and talk to each other. A key, underexploited building block of social economics and finance is...</p>

<p>This document contains presentation slides for the American Finance Association's Presidential Address of January 4, 2020. The address is based on the paper "Social Transmission Bias in Economics and Finance."</p><p>The paper: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3550880" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3550880...</p>

<p>I discuss a new intellectual paradigm, social economics and finance: the study of the social processes that shape economic thinking and behavior. This emerging field recognizes that people observe and talk to each other. A key, underexploited building block of social economics and finance is...</p>