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Network Structure and the Efficiency Gains from Mergers: Evidence from U.S. Freight Railroads

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The trade‐off between market power and efficiency gains is central to antitrust analyses of mergers, but empirical evidence quantifying efficiencies remains limited. Using transaction‐level data from U.S. freight railroads (1985–2005), this article quantifies merger‐induced cost efficiencies, driven mainly by eliminating inter‐railroad ...
Yanyou Chen
wiley   +1 more source

A Structured Review of Research‐Informed Instructional Strategies to Support CPA Enabling Competencies in Future Accountants*

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 189-249, March 2025.
ABSTRACT CPA enabling competencies underpin the human skills and professional values that all future accountants should possess. Nevertheless, to date, the discourse is limited within the scholarship of teaching and learning on how to best inculcate these competencies in future accountants.
Sanobar Siddiqui
wiley   +1 more source

Common ground: Efficient, consistent, observer‐independent bioacoustic call density estimation with adjudicated ground truth and capture–recapture detection functions

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Passive acoustic recording is a cost‐effective method for monitoring vocal animals. Within this field, there is an increasing focus on automated detection algorithms for counting calls and estimating call density (in space and time). For accurate interpretation of such results, it is important to understand and correct biases introduced by ...
Brian S. Miller   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Risk Culture Scale: A Measurement Tool to Comprehensively Assess Banks’ Risk Culture

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
In the wake of recent financial crises and scandals, risk culture has increasingly become the focus of various actors, such as supervisors, financial service providers, academics, and consultants. While it is acknowledged that a proper risk culture is needed to make banks safer, as an intangible, organizational, and social phenomenon, risk culture is ...
Niclas Dürst, Jennifer Kunz
wiley   +1 more source

Harvesting benefits: Exploring the effects of second‐best policies on enhancing soil organic carbon stocks in agriculture

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agricultural subsidies can be an effective policy tool to enhance soil organic carbon sequestration. This paper assesses the effectiveness of a second‐best hypothetical policy which subsidizes additional canola hectares optimally for each soil zone in Saskatchewan in an effort to increase soil organic carbon.
Devin A. Serfas
wiley   +1 more source

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