We are inviting submissions for a two half-day online workshop on the economics of disclosure, information sharing, and secrecy. We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects of information disclosure (or non-disclosure) in economics, accounting, management science, and...

Do sanctions strengthen the targeted regime? I analyze the 2014 imposition of Western sanctions on Russia and its impact on voting. The United States and the European Union introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to President Putin’s regime. Using polling...

DRUID22 invites paper submissions on innovation, entrepreneurship and other aspects of structural, institutional and geographic change, such as • Open innovation, search strategies and knowledge sourcing • Markets for technology and knowledge labor • Digital markets, platforms and...

This paper investigates how the rules that corporations wrote for themselves related to their financing and performance in an environment characterized by poor investor protections, Imperial Russia. We present new data on detailed governance provisions from Imperial Russian corporate charters,...

This year's conference is devoted to the challenges related to the responsible economic and business growth. The concept of responsible growth is getting increasingly topical to ensure more prosperous and more equitable future for the next generations. The objective of the conference is to...

Der Wandel zur Nachhaltigkeit stellt Markt und Unternehmen vor eine große Herausforderung, deren Kritikalität kaum zu übertreffen ist. Die Wettbewerbsvorteile liegen zukünftig in der Fähigkeit mit seinem unternehmerischen Handeln einen positiven Einfluss auf Umwelt und Gesellschaft...

Gilles Maglo (MES/DAK) and Sara Nyman (World Bank) The Digital Development Dialogue (3D) seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum for policy and research exchange. Two speakers – one researcher and one practitioner – touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating...

How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

The third Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network (PSDRN) offers an opportunity to bring together staff of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), think-tanks, and donor agencies involved in private sector development with academics who study private firms and...

The central theme of the Workshop is ‘Family Firms between local and global challenges’, but we welcome all research papers contributing at expanding the frontiers of family business research. For example, we welcome paper exploring the intersection between family business and Innovation,...