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Gender Pay Disclosure and Firm Performance: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of pay transparency on firm performance, measured as sales growth, in a large sample of UK‐registered companies between 2005 and 2023. We employ a difference‐in‐difference approach based on the pay transparency regulation enacted in 2017, which mandated all companies registered in the United Kingdom with at ...
Hildebrando Pahula, Charles Ambilichu
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Busy independent directors and IPO company earnings management: Evidence from China. [PDF]
He Y, Hamdan SL, Faizal SM.
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Cancer pain: current practice and emerging targets
Cancer pain (CP) arises from a complex interplay between the tumour and its microenvironment. Many patients experience a mixed pain phenotype that encompasses nociceptive, neuropathic and neuroinflammatory mechanisms, and vary across tumour type and disease stage. Despite decades of intensive research, the mainstay of cancer pain treatment is still non‐
Yi Ye +5 more
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Abstract This paper examines the long‐term effects of ‘Apni Beti Apna Dhan’ (ABAD), a unique conditional cash transfer programme implemented in the north Indian state of Haryana from 1994 to 1998. The programme provided bonds to female beneficiaries at birth, redeemable on attaining 18 years of age, if they remained unmarried. In particular, we examine
Shreya Biswas, Upasak Das
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Can IFRS adoption mitigate earnings management in an emerging market? [PDF]
Mohamed Amer AM +2 more
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Companies' behavior in measuring the quality of financial reports: Pre- and post-pandemic research. [PDF]
Dănescu T, Stejerean RM.
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Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies
ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
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Accounting Earnings and Economic Growth, Trends, and Challenges: A Bibliometric Approach. [PDF]
Sun M +3 more
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Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann +2 more
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Does an optimistic tone in annual reports predict better financial and non‐financial performance?
Abstract In the current paper, we investigate whether management adopts an optimistic disclosure tone to impress the corporate audience or to provide incremental information (II) by anticipating positive corporate performance. Specifically, we test whether an optimistic tone in annual reports (ARs) is a positive predictor of better financial and non ...
Francesco Gangi +3 more
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