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Unlocking Liquidity: The Role of Market Makers in Kuwait’s Emerging Market

Journal of Emerging Market Finance
This study uses a difference-in-differences approach to examine the influence of market-maker agreements on liquidity alterations in Boursa Kuwait.
Khaled Alsabah, S. Althaqeb
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The Bright Side of Political Uncertainty: The Case of R&D

The Review of financial studies, 2015
We use close gubernatorial elections as a quasi-natural experiment to document a positive effect of political uncertainty on firm-level R&D. This finding is in contrast to the existing literature documenting a negative impact of political uncertainty ...
Julian Atanassov, Brandon Julio, Tiecheng Leng   +2 more
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Does Fiscal Monitoring Make Better Governments? Evidence from US Municipalities

Social Science Research Network, 2020
This paper examines the effect of state-level monitoring on municipal governance, focusing on outcomes in financial reporting quality, local corruption, political entrenchment, and municipal financial soundness.
Anya Nakhmurina
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Regulatory Policy Uncertainty, Financial Innovations, and the Performance of Financial Institutions among Emerging Markets

Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies
This study examines the impact of regulatory policy uncertainty and financial innovations on the performance of financial institutions among emerging economies from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 2004 to 2020.
Rexford Abaidoo, E. Agyapong
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Tax Policy Uncertainty and Investment in Tax Planning: Firm-Level Evidence

Journal of the American Taxation Association
Using a large sample of U.S. firms between 2003 and 2019, this paper employs a novel firm-level measure of tax policy uncertainty from conference call transcripts and finds that investment in tax planning is significantly lower when perceived tax ...
Jennifer Brown, S. Guo, Michael Zheng
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Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on Foreign Direct Investment of Bangladesh

Bulletin of Applied Economics
The main purpose of the study is to explore the impact of macroeconomic variables, such as GDP growth rate (GDPGR), inflation rate (INF), the real exchange rate (RER), and balance of trade (BOT) on foreign direct investment the FDI in Bangladesh.
Mohammad Sogir Hossain Khandoker, Shakil Mallik, Rafiqul Bhuyan   +2 more
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Political Investment Cycles of State-Owned Enterprises

The Review of financial studies, 2019
Using a large panel of more than 140,000 state-owned enterprises (SOEs), this study examines SOEs’ investment behavior surrounding 82 national elections in 25 European countries between 2001 and 2015.
Qingyuan Li, Chen Lin, Li Xu
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Competition and Credit Ratings After the Fall

Management Sciences, 2018
Sean Flynn, Andra Ghent
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Much Ado About Nothing ?

, 2015

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Tax Avoidance and Tunneling: Empirical Analysis from an Agency Perspective

, 2016
K. Chan, P. Mo, Tanya Y. H. Tang
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