Global development -- making a difference? -- Development through the ages -- Understanding and measuring development -- Globalisation, economics and development -- Why we think development only happens 'over there' -- Contesting the development landscape -- Is there a future for global development?

We investigate the motives and circumstances surrounding outside directors' decisions to publicly announce their board resignations. Directors who leave "quietly" are in their mid-sixties and professional directors, i.e., retirees, who are retiring entirely from professional life. Directors who...

In an MBO contest, managers offer to buy the firm from public shareholders at a premium to the current market price and thus have incentives to buy the firm ?cheap.? Prior studies have found evidence that managers, on average, manipulate earnings downward prior to an MBO offer in an attempt to...