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Introduction on Political Connections
2017This chapter introduces the topic of political connections. Specifically, it employs both anecdotal evidence and the reference to academic publications to show that political connections are assuming a growing importance and nowadays represent a very hot topic.
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POLITICALLY-CONNECTED FIRMS: ARE THEY CONNECTED TO EARNINGS OPACITY?
Research in Accounting Regulation, 2004Abstract This paper is an investigation of the relationship between earnings opacity in 32 countries and elements of the political order. What the picture shows is a clear manifestation of earnings opacity internationally. What is interesting with this picture is the findings that earnings opacity is positively related to the percentage of ...
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Connecting the Media and Politics
2007Few observers nowadays would fail to acknowledge that the mass media are central to the way modern democracies are constituted. However, there is less of a consensus about whether the media are living up to our expectations or, indeed, what role they ought to play in modern politics.
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Political and economic issues for internetwork connections
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 1975In this paper we will attempt to outline some of the political and economic issues which must be addressed before meaningful network interconnections can come about. The issues we discuss are: Bilateral versus Multilateral Agreements, Standards, The Viewpoint of the Common Carriers, Network Accounting, Tariffs and Excises, Privacy and Security.
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Politically Connected Polluters Under Smog
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013I conduct an event study of an exogenous pollution shock-smog in the winter of 2013 to examine how the market values of firms in polluting industries and environmental protecting industries, respectively, responded in “the world's worst polluter”: China.
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Political persistence, connections and economic growth [PDF]
, 2009 Using data on a panel of 56 democratic countries in the period 1975-2004, we find evidence of a negative association between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast with previous contributions, we develop a model of growth
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