In the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises and then falls with national income, which reverses the well-known U-shaped relationship between female labor force participation and economic development. This paper presents a model of entrepreneurship in...

Impression management refers to controlling or shaping the information disclosed to affect readers' interpretations. Managers may manipulate the tone and length of financial reports to manage stakeholders' expectations. This exploratory study examines the impact of managerial ownership on...

A experiência do passado sugere que a estabilização da dívida na África Subsariana continua a ser exequível na maioria dos casos, apesar de os níveis de dívida pública e de a vulnerabilidade face à mesma serem elevados. Os países da região, ao longo das últimas décadas, foram...

The Liberty Bond drives of World War I were nation-wide interventions aimed at increasing financial literacy and associating bond ownership with patriotism. Using data from the first year of the Survey of Consumer Finances, 1947, through 1971, we investigate whether exposure to the drives shaped...

"Offering new insights into the excesses of capitalism that are shaping pandemic preparedness, Investable! is an ethnography of a Wall Street bond designed to solve a big-ticket global health problem by getting global investors to gamble on the next crisis."