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investments. The purpose of this paper is to open the "black box" of the construction of financial disclosure by analyzing the …, the quality of the financial disclosure and the internal reporting systems are measured, and analyzed with a view to … finding some links between them. It is expected that the quality of disclosure is dependent on the quality of the internal …
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In this paper, we examine the stock market reaction to industrial disasters. We consider an original sample of 64 explosions in chemical plants and refineries worldwide over the period 1990-2005. A quarter of the accidents resulted in a toxic release, and half of them caused at least one death...
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We investigate the economic consequences of additional disclosure about assets with no active market in terms of … liquidity, perception of information reliability and relevance. We use an experimental design: 181 MBA students are asked to … value 24 investments. We manipulate the level of disclosure on the fair value of assets (Limited versus Full), the …
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This paper examines firms' incentives to commit to a transparent behavior (that precludes bribery) in a competitive procedure modeled as an asymmetric information beauty contest managed by a corrupt agent. In his evaluation of firms' offers for a public contract the agent has some discretion to...
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increasing the probability of a financial crisis, and therefore provides an additional argument in favor of transparency in the …
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This article analyses the effects of economic transparency on the optimal monetary policy in an economy affected by … the economy. Transparency is optimal as long as the central bank does not weight the stabilisation of the output gap too …
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all participants but with ambiguity (partial transparency). We show that, in theory, both communication strategies are … reducing the degree of transparency. We run a laboratory experiment to test whether theoretical predictions hold in a game … either communication strategy. This paper, however, makes a case for partial transparency rather than partial publicity …
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transparency on central bank forecasts. By modelling the private sector's behavior explicitly, we show that transparency reduces … the shocks. Consequently, transparency can be preferred. …
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federation of NGOs), in which the classical notions of fraud and transparency prove to very ambiguous, so that accounting cannot … sense of Actor Network Theory (ANT). Beyond transparency that translation institutionalizes trough accounts, we raise an …
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Using Benford's Law, we find evidence supporting the hypothesis that countries at times misreport their economic data strategically. We group countries with similar economic conditions and find that for countries with fixed exchange rate regimes, high negative net foreign asset positions,...
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