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Economic Freedom and Audit Fees: Evidence From the USA
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the association between US state‐level economic freedom and audit fees. We argue that economic freedom lowers clients' perceived business risk, thereby requiring reduced audit effort and exposing auditors to a lower probability of litigation risk, which enables auditors to charge lower audit fees to clients headquartered in states ...
Mahmud Hossain +3 more
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Consumer confidence indeces and short-term forecasting of consumption [PDF]
, 2007 Recently there has been growing interest in examining the potential shortterm link between survey-based confidence indicators and real economic activity, notably for macroeconomic policy making.
Al-Eyd, A, Barrell, R, Davis, EP
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Forma Breve, 2019 Se ninguém nega a importância da literatura na escola, já o modo como se ensina a conhecer a língua dos textos literários e, sobretudo, o papel que a escrita pode ter neste processo é polémico e discutível (Tauveron, 2005; Pereira, 2008; 2014).
Luísa Álvares Pereira +2 more
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Comparison of Distances for Supervised Segmentation of White Matter Tractography
, 2017 Tractograms are mathematical representations of the main paths of axons within the white matter of the brain, from diffusion MRI data. Such representations are in the form of polylines, called streamlines, and one streamline approximates the common path ...
Avesani, Paolo +4 more
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Cell Proliferation, EarlyView.A zeolitic framework co‐delivers a DNAzyme and a protein prodrug to tumour cells and executes a self‐amplifying therapeutic cascade: the DNAzyme elevates tumour oxidative stress to activate a caged RNase A prodrug. This spatiotemporally controlled synergy converts a genetic input into potent enzymatic cytotoxicity, suppressing tumour growth.
Yan Huang +4 more
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Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 2018 ZnDTP antiwear additive for lubricating oil is known to absorb strongly on sliding surfaces in boundary lubricated tribosystems, forming a tribofilm, which is able to reduce the wear of involved surfaces.
Kouami Auxence Melardot ABOUA +7 more
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, 2013 The more detailed description of the quantum 'ax+b' group of Baaj and Skandalis is presented. In particular we give generators and present formulae for action of the comultiplication on them; it is also shown that this group is a quantization of a ...
Stachura, Piotr
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Sports CEOs and Corporate Innovation
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a hand‐collected data set, we find that firms led by CEOs who were student‐athletes in college exhibit significantly superior innovation outcomes, as measured by patent numbers, citation counts, and the economic value of patents. Evidence from CEO turnover analysis supports a CEO imprinting interpretation.
Jaideep Chowdhury +2 more
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Do Major Customers Affect Firms' Environmental, Social and Governance Activities?
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the role of major customers in shaping firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. We find that firms with major customer relationships undertake fewer ESG activities compared to those without such ties. The association is attenuated when institutional ownership is high, firms are less diversified, customers exhibit
Feng Dong +4 more
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