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Corporate performances and market selection. Some comparative evidence [PDF]
Diverse theories of industry dynamics predict heterogeneity in production efficiency to be the driver of firms' growth, survival and industrial change, either through a direct link between efficiency and growth, or through an indirect effect via ...
Angelo Secchi +4 more
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Co‐opted Boards and the Obfuscation of Financial Reports
Abacus, EarlyView.This study investigates the relationship between board co‐option and the obfuscation of financial disclosures in a comprehensive sample of 9,620 10‐K filings by 1,076 US‐listed firms between 1996 and 2018. Our empirical results are consistent with our hypotheses that board co‐option partly explains the obfuscation of financial reports.
Abongeh A. Tunyi +3 more
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Unveiling Corruption's Influence on Insider Trading: US Insights
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between state‐level political corruption and firm‐level insider trading in the United States. State corruption is proxied using Department of Justice court cases involving corrupt activities. The findings reveal a positive and statistically significant association between political corruption and insider ...
Ahmed Al‐Hadi +3 more
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Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Global value chains (GVCs) have connected firms in complex networks within and across national borders. However, political economy models often assume away production linkages and thus fail to explain pervasive and diverse trade coalitions cutting across industries and firms. I develop a GVC‐centered framework where production linkages through
Hao Zhang
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Outstanding Master's Thesis Award: The law and economics of "consumer only" financed export subsidies: a context for the WTO panel on Canadian dairy pricing policy, by Isabel Schleup; Assessing the market potential for character marked wood furniture, by
Anonymous
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi +3 more
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper reflects on the pedagogical possibilities of cultivating a ‘geography of hope’. ABSTRACT Amid intersecting global crises—war, genocide, the erosion of academic freedom and the deepening precaritisation of higher education—this paper reflects on the pedagogical possibilities of cultivating a ‘geography of hope’.
Mariasole Pepa
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A practical optimization method for enhancing drilling efficiency in panel furniture manufacture. [PDF]
PLoS OneWang G, Xiong X, Fu S, Zhang M, Yang L.
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BiplotGUI: Interactive Biplots in R [PDF]
Biplots simultaneously provide information on both the samples and the variables of a data matrix in two- or three-dimensional representations. The BiplotGUI package provides a graphical user interface for the construction of, interaction with, and ...
Anthony la Grange +2 more
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Child protection and welfare systems are entrusted with significant power by governments and are therefore a significant focus of monitoring activities. Monitoring can help to build a better child protection system and to ensure child safety; track policy and legislative implementation and resource allocation; contribute to preventing systemic
Kenneth Burns +3 more
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