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Does Political Connection Mitigate the Sanctions for Corruptions? Evidence From the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)

open access: yesJournal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of political connection on sanctions for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Using a sample of revealed FCPA sanctions and two alternative proxies for US firms’ political connections, we find a negative association between political connection and the severity of sanctions, an effect that ...
Kaishu Wu, Wenjia Yan
wiley   +1 more source

Firm‐Level Political Risk and Earnings Manipulation

open access: yesJournal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using recently developed proxies for firm‐level political risk and earnings manipulation, we test the limited attention theory. Contrary to Hirshleifer and Teoh's core prediction that investor attention is associated with less managerial manipulation, we find that firm‐level political risk, serving as a proxy for investor attention, is ...
Hui L. James, Thanh Ngo, Jurica Susnjara
wiley   +1 more source

Feeding Profit: how the food and drinks industry (FDI) is one of the key drivers of the global epidemic of childhood overweight and obesity. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Paediatr Open
Spencer N   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Technocracy, Supranationalism and Right‐Wing Populism: The Variegated Sheltering of Western Assets in East Central European Countries

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract After the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, European Union (EU) governance has become more tolerant towards national policy adaptation and experimentation. Right‐wing populist governments in East Central Europe (ECE) have used this increased flexibility amongst other things to develop various economically nationalist strategies to reassert ...
Gerhard Schnyder   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Out of Many, Many: Variation in East Central Europe Financial Governance Despite the EU's Single Market

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Following the global financial crisis, European financial authorities introduced a host of new initiatives intended to advance market integration, improve the quality of bank oversight and enhance both economic stability and prospects for growth.
Dóra Piroska, Rachel A. Epstein
wiley   +1 more source

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