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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 +3 more
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The challenges of bankruptcy reform [PDF]
The 2008 financial crisis was followed by a global economic downturn, credit crunch, and reduction in cross-border lending, trade finance, remittances, and foreign direct investment, which adversely affected businesses around the world.
Klapper, Leora +2 more
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Incidence, Risk, and Disclosure of Corporate Litigation: Insights from Federal Court Filings
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We assemble and describe a sample of 174,782 lawsuits filed against 218,437 public‐company lawsuit‐defendants in federal district court from 2006 to 2021. These lawsuits involve an array of allegations, including product liability, civil rights discrimination, contract breaches, improper compensation and labor practices, antitrust violations ...
MARY BROOKE BILLINGS +3 more
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Financial versus Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law: the French Dilemma? [PDF]
We study the French dilemma associated with court administered resolution of corporate financial distress of firms, in which bankruptcy courts have to combine both social efficiency (maintaining employment) and ex post financial efficiency (determining ...
Agnès Fimayer +3 more
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Misconduct complaints and agents’ incentives: Evidence from housing transactions
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the impact of misconduct complaints against agents on their self‐interested incentives and examines how agents attempt to shield themselves from the associated adverse effects on their reputations and career prospects.
Lawrence Kryzanowski, Yanting Wu
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Journal on European History of LawThe bankruptcy proceedings codified in the Bavarian Code of Civil Procedure immediately before the founding of the German Empire after long scientific and political discussion (Gant) competed as the most up-to-date regulation of the bankruptcy ...
Martin Löhnig
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Not the Last Word: Are Medical School Loans Mortgages Without Houses? [PDF]
Clin Orthop Relat Res, 2023 Bernstein J.
europepmc +1 more source
Sustainable HRM in the Public Sector: A Question of Viability or Legitimacy?
Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent research has underlined the growing importance of sustainability in HRM policy and practice, taking into account long‐term multi‐stakeholder goals. However, few studies have specified the drivers and outcomes of sustainable HRM practices, nor the contradictions that arise when managers attempt to satisfy the demands of both internal and
Mathew Johnson +3 more
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Are Russian commercial courts biased?Evidence from a natural bankruptcy experiment [PDF]
We study the nature of judicial bias in bankruptcy proceedings following the enactment of bankruptcy law in Russia in 1998. We find that regional political characteristics affected judicial decisions about the numbers and types of bankruptcy procedures ...
Konstantin Sonin +2 more
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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