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The Feasibility of Household Food Waste Reduction in Finland: Insights From Five Consumer Profiles

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We apply a household production framework to analyse how changes in cooking skills, waste‐abatement costs and wage rates influence the food waste behaviour of five consumer profiles in Finland. We find that achieving a given reduction in food waste through skill‐enhancing interventions induces larger behavioural adjustments than equivalent ...
Aino Friman, Dušan Drabik
wiley   +1 more source

Earnings Management Incentives and the Pricing of Discretionary Accruals

open access: yesInternational Journal of Business and Management, 2019
The objective of this research is to investigate whether earnings management incentives influence the pricing of discretionary accruals. Specifically, we verify if growth opportunity, leverage, free cash flow, insider trading and financial distress are useful to investors to discriminate between opportunistic and informative earnings management ...
openaire   +2 more sources

An Investigation of the Effect of Audit Quality on Accrual Reliability of Listed Companies on Tehran Stock Exchange [PDF]

open access: yes
This study investigates the effect of audit quality on accrual reliability of listed companies on Tehran Stock Exchange. In order to determine audit quality has been used of two criteria of auditor level and auditor commission period and due to calculate
Saeid Jabarzadeh KANGARLOUEI   +1 more
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Impact of board of directors’ characteristics on accrual and real earnings management among Jordanian listed firms: conceptual paper

open access: yes
This study aims to develop a theoretical framework that paves the way for future empirical research measuring the impact of boards of directors through independence, activity (number of meetings), financial expertise, and foreign directors on the ...
Abdul Latiff, Ahmed Razman   +2 more
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Lobbying and Political Risk Disclosure: Do Socially Responsible Firms Voluntarily Disclose More?

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on theories of strategic communication, legitimacy, impression management and moral capital, this study investigates whether firms use political risk disclosure to offset negative perceptions associated with corporate lobbying. Using a sample of 10,120 observations from 1362 US firms between 2002 and 2018, we find that firms with ...
Maretno A. Harjoto   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Housing, Inequality and London

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Regional inequalities are deeply entrenched in the UK. London, and its wider region, is often seen as the beneficiary of these inequalities. The capital houses a disproportionate share of the nation's population and its economic output. But London is also home to higher levels of inequality, poverty and child poverty than anywhere else in the ...
Jack Brown, Joe Fyans
wiley   +1 more source

Earnings Management in the Libyan Corporations

open access: yes
International accounting scandals around the world have triggered a wave of interest and discussion on the transparency and integrity of financial statements.
Elseraiti, Alhussien Ramadan
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

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