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Development Lending and Debt Discipline: The Political Economy of External Finance in Brazil

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Brazil's External Financing Commission (COFIEX), a centralized body that approves all public‐sector external borrowing and exemplifies efforts in middle‐income democracies to reconcile fiscal restraint with the demands of strategic public investment.
Benjamin Vidmar, Felipe Krause
wiley   +1 more source

The informativeness of consolidated and parent‐only earnings to investors: Evidence from India

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine whether earnings from parent‐only financial statements are incrementally informative to those from consolidated financial statements. We use a unique mandate in India that requires firms to provide both consolidated and parent‐level financial statements, since currently neither US GAAP nor IFRS mandates this level of disaggregation.
Sudhakar V. Balachandran   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Settle for the Status Quo? A Critical Assessment of Pension Liability Measurement Under IFRS and US GAAP

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
Relevance and faithful representation are identified by standard‐setters as fundamental qualitative characteristics for useful accounting information. We critically assess whether current pension measurement guidance under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) results in pension ...
Divya Anantharaman, Darren Henderson
wiley   +1 more source

Does Investors’ Information‐acquisition Ability Affect IPO Underpricing? Evidence from a Quasi‐natural Experiment

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
Initial public offering (IPO) underpricing, driven by information asymmetry, is a prevalent and serious global phenomenon. In addition to the influence of information providers such as IPO firms, investors’ ability to acquire information may also significantly affect IPO underpricing.
Haipeng Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking the contract‐failure theory

open access: yesAmerican Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The contract‐failure theory posits that the nonprofit form can be an indicator of high product quality because the nondistribution constraint reduces the nonprofit manager's financial benefits from cheating. This would give nonprofits an advantage over for‐profit firms when consumers cannot determine product quality and thus explains ...
Yumiao Wang
wiley   +1 more source

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