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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, Jere R. Francis, Antonio Marra, Nicola Pecchiari   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cesarean delivery on maternal request and Robson classification. [PDF]

Int J Gynaecol Obstet
Benetti CMS, Muhandule CJLS, Fogulin LB, Machado HDC, Amaral E.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Enablers of Rare Disease Treatment Coverage in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons from Emicizumab. [PDF]

J Mark Access Health Policy
Sugg Herrera D, Sepúlveda Viveros D, Russo Namias M, Garrido N.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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, ROBERT W. HOLTHAUSEN, CHRISTINE PETROVITS, DANYE WANG   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Brazil following global trends in high-cost treatments? The case of Pompe Disease. [PDF]

J Community Genet
Bento Dos Santos B, de Oliveira Carvalho Faria C, Cirilo HNC, Dornelles AD, de Oliveira Junior HA, Schwartz IVD.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source