This research work is aimed at determining the effectiveness of the Audit Committee (AC), analyzing its impact on the reliability of accounting information issued by spanish listed companies. With this aim, we study whether certain features such as its voluntary or otherwise compulsory...

This study investigates the relationship between financial development and the size of the informal economy. We build a model in which an exogenous variation in the size of the informal sector creates two effects on financial development. Specifically, informal sector harms financial development...

Performance concept in economics is a characteristic of economic processes arising from the need to save resources that fall within these processes, while carrying out activities specific to every public entity under the highest quality conditions. In recent years, even the most developed...

Nowadays the reduction or elimination of waste has become a major environmental concern among industrialized countries and a priority for companies. In this work it is carried out a review of the postulates of the classical economic model, existing until a few dates, in connection with the...

We study the cost-effectiveness of a transferable emissions permit system (TEPS) vis a vis a system of emissions standards. Our analysis includes along with abatement costs, the costs of enforcing the system to induce compliance. Further, the analysis considers complete and incomplete...

Cross-country estimations of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) to empirically analyze the relationship between income and pollution have generally assumed a common structure for all countries. Since this latter feature is not supported by economic theory, this paper uses the Random...

Das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG) hat sich als wirkungsvolles Instrument zur Förderung von Strom aus erneuerbaren Energien erwiesen und ist in seiner Grundstruktur von einer großen Anzahl anderer Länder übernommen worden. Beim EEG besteht die Förderung insbesondere aus einer...