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mitigate restrictions on the fee dimension. While restrictions on fee structures do affect market transparency, it has no …
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How important is information disclosure through patents for subsequent innovation? To answer this question, we examine the expansion of the USPTO Patent Library system after 1975. Before the Internet, patent libraries gave inventors access to patent documents. We find that after patent library...
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When firms are forced to publicly disclose financial information, credit rating agencies are supposed to improve their risk assessments. Theory predicts such an information quality effect but also an adverse reputational concerns effect because credit analysts may become increasingly concerned...
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We examine whether a disclosure mandate for greenhouse gas emissions creates stakeholder pressure for firms to subsequently reduce their emissions. For UK-incorporated listed firms such a mandate was adopted in 2013. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that firms affected by the...
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qualitative tax transparency leads to intended outcomes using, as an exogenous shock, the 2016 UK reform that mandated the …
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Firms constantly face new and more stringent tax disclosure requirements and, increasingly, paying a fair share of tax is seen as part of corporate social responsibility. In this paper, we investigate whether mandating qualitative tax disclosure leads to intended outcomes, using, as an exogenous...
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We investigate the effects of a qualitative tax disclosure mandate aimed at improving tax transparency and compliance …
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We study the causal effects of increasing the transparency of parliamentary speeches on polarization and other types of … increased transparency and left-right polarization but that the presence of TV cameras can fuel other political divides and … behavior. Our results regarding higher attendance suggest that transparency may increase politicians' effort. …
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We study the causal effects of increasing the transparency of parliamentary speeches on polarization and other types of … increased transparency and left-right polarization but that the presence of TV cameras can fuel other political divides and … behavior. Our results regarding higher attendance suggest that transparency may increase politicians' effort. …
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