Bank of Italy data managers check the market notices published daily by the Italian Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana) and select those of interest to update the Bank of Italy's Securities Database. This activity is time-consuming and prone to errors should a data manager overlook a relevant...

Among the largest entities in the world are the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Group. From the perspective of researchers in accounting, such size is used as a proxy for political visibility; and often implicit asymmetries of power and information become explicit in...