Purpose: The Securities Exchange Commission mandated eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) filing data provide immediate availability and easy accessibility for both academics and practitioners. To be useful, this data should provide information for decisions, specifically, investment...

The corporate lawyer-client privilege is increasingly controversial. Courts assert that the privilege promotes corporate compliance with the law as long as it is restricted to communications in furtherance of legal advice. This article assumes the privilege increases the probability that a...

Purpose – Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique data set is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which...