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Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi, Jere R. Francis, Antonio Marra, Nicola Pecchiari   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Department of Economics and Business newsletter, 2024

Prior to 2021, the department was called the Division of Economics and ...

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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Uncertainty, credibility and monetary policy in Brazil: A BVAR approach with sign restrictions

Central Bank Review
This paper examines how uncertainty and monetary policy credibility affect economic activity and inflation expectations in Brazil. We use Bayesian Vector Autoregression (BVAR) models with sign restrictions to identify structural shocks, based on monthly ...
Karina Oliveira Belarmino de Almeida, Wilson Luiz Rotatori Corrêa, Luckas Sabioni Lopes   +2 more
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Measuring Agricultural Wages Amidst Conflict: Evidence From Myanmar

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Violent conflict is globally on the rise, and an increasing body of literature analyses its impacts on agricultural production and food security. Yet the quality of data collected in conflict zones is sometimes questioned and remains underexplored. This paper addresses this gap by examining two types of reporting bias—recall and question order
Andrew Laitha, Bart Minten, Henry Stemmler, Eva‐Marie Meemken   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The law of AI knowledge distillation

American Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Knowledge distillation—the practice of training a compact student model on the outputs of a larger teacher model—has emerged as the fastest‐growing technique for replicating and disseminating frontier artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Taorui Guan
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting smoking cessation and preventing relapse to tobacco use following a smokefree mental health in‐patient stay: A multi‐centre randomised controlled feasibility study

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims This study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of a new theory‐ and evidence‐based intervention designed to prevent return to pre‐admission smoking behaviours after discharge from a smokefree mental health in‐patient setting in the United Kingdom (UK).
Petal Petersen Williams, Lisa Huddlestone, Emily Shoesmith, Jennifer Sweetman, Heidi Stevens, Alex Mitchell, Fraser Wiggins, Lesley Sinclair, Victoria Exley, Catherine Hewitt, Judith Watson, Qi Wu, Jodi Pervin, Moira Leahy, Claire Paul, Lion Shahab, Michelle Horspool, Tim Coleman, Simon Hough, Elena Ratschen, the SCEPTRE Collaboration team, Lesley Colley, Samantha Brady, John Britton, Simon Gilbody, Steve Parrott, Peter Coventry, Gregor Russell, Paul Galdas   +28 more
wiley   +1 more source

An empirical analysis of percentage tax designation to the catholic church and other social entities in Spain

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Since 2007, the Spanish State's contribution to funding the Catholic Church comes from what is known as the ‘tax allocation’ (asignación tributaria). It is a pure system of percentage tax designation consisting of 0.7% of the tax liability of taxpayers who decide to tick the relevant box on their personal income tax form.
Ángela Castillo‐Murciego, Julio López‐Laborda, Guillermo Peña   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economics In Business (Macroeconomics)

, 2010
This is a 59-page handout for a core unit delivered to Level 1 Business / Economics students. Around 250 students study the unit each year as taught by Nick Potts of Southampton Solent University.
Nick Potts
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The Health, Wellbeing and Health Service Use of Women Attempting or Planning Pregnancy: A Nationwide Cross‐Sectional Survey of Australian Women

Birth, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Health and wellbeing during the preconception period influence maternal and child health outcomes. We describe the sociodemographic and health characteristics of Australian women currently attempting pregnancy or planning to conceive in the next 12 months, compared with other women of reproductive age, to identify opportunities for ...
Amie Steel, Danielle Schoenaker, Joanna Harnett, Jon Adams   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source