Viewing audit teams as social groups of auditors, we utilize network analysis algorithm “n-clans” to identify clustering of individual auditors, that is, audit teams, based on individual collaboration history. Drawing upon social learning theory, we argue that team network connectedness,...

This paper demonstrates that India’s early 2000s mobile phone service expansion, or the “telecom boom” led to net rural-urban migration of about 13 million individuals out of which 4 million moved for employment. To estimate the effects, we exploit the heterogeneous expansion of telecom...

From the global economic perspective, globalization is the exchange of trade, capital flow and social interaction of human resources in a global context. The process of globalization involves continuous interaction of trade and industrial undertaking, development, technological transfer of ideas...

Under final offer arbitration (FOA), each party to the dispute submits a proposal to the arbitrator who must choose one of the two submitted proposals in the event of a dispute. A long line of research on FOA has assumed that the submitted proposals to the arbitrator are the final bargaining...

Real convergence performance in the EU was strong before the global financial crisis but the period following the crisis saw distinctly weakened catching-up processes. One of the major long-term factors for the convergence process in the EU is the Green Transition since it is expected to...

This paper investigates how the sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition of labor productivity has contributed to β-convergence, using a newly constructed eight-sector database. The main findings are twofold. First, both within and sectoral reallocation have become important...

Despite the diversity of contexts and circumstances in which competition laws are developed and exist, many countries have enacted competition laws that are broadly similar. To learn more about the dynamics shaping the development of competition law at the national, regional, and international...

This paper presents an analysis of the welfare convergence among 27 transition economies based on the evaluation of a micro-based summary statistic combining income, consumption, leisure, life expectancy, and inequality (Jones & Klenow, 2016). The results show that the countries of the former...

The financial crisis of 2007-08 revealed that centralized finance (CeFi) relying on large, interconnected financial institutions is easily destabilized. Since the crisis, significant regulatory tightening, monetary easing, and new competitors (e.g., fintechs) have created significant pressure on...

Through industrialization, digital technologies are changing the structure of information intensive services. The effects of this evolution are specific to each service category including transactional, functional, content-based, and knowledge-based. Consumer consumption behavior and physical...