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The Determinants of ESG Ratings: Rater Ownership Matters
ABSTRACT We examine whether and how common ownership affects Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings—an important research question given the increasing use of these ratings in investment decisions and corporate evaluations. We find that companies with major shareholders in common with the rating agency (“sister firms”) tend to receive ...
Dragon Yongjun Tang +2 more
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Flickering in Information Spreading Precedes Critical Transitions in Financial Markets. [PDF]
Gatfaoui H, de Peretti P.
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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
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Audit Committee Networks and Audit Fees: A European Analysis
ABSTRACT This study investigates the association between audit committee member networks and audit fees in a sample of 225 publicly traded firms from eight European countries between 2005 and 2020. Using social network analysis, we find that director interconnections—established through overlapping board memberships—are associated with audit fees.
Ruth García‐Cobo +2 more
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Global agricultural value chains and food prices
Abstract We study the relationship between the extent of participation in global agricultural value chains (GAVCs) and food prices at the country level. Using longitudinal data on a sample of 138 countries for the period 2000–2015 and a shift‐share instrumental variable design, we study how the extent of a country's participation in GAVCs in a given ...
Bernhard Dalheimer, Marc F. Bellemare
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