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• Private equity ownership and financial misreporting 

  Wang, Shuyang (2020-04-13)

  I study whether private equity (PE) ownership is associated with portfolio firms’ financial misreporting by examining the occurrence of restatements and SEC enforcement actions during the post-IPO period. Using a sample ...

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• Gamifying RPI: The benefits of avatars and knowledge-induced coworker familiarity 

  Williams Jr., Jeffrey O (2020-04-13)

  The growth of the gamification industry has increased the use of avatar-enhanced leaderboards as a method of providing public relative performance information (RPI). This study examines the effect of representing employees ...

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• Do tax aggressive executives influence corporate philanthropy? 

  Jang, Hansol (2020-04-22)

  This study examines whether personally tax aggressive executives pursue corporate philanthropy. Relative to a control group, corporate philanthropy increases by 3.0 percent, on average, following personal tax aggression ...

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• Dismissal threats and the efficacy of performance-based incentives 

  Hudgins, Ryan Matthew (2019-11-22)

  Prior research finds that the threat of being fired is effective at motivating effort. In this study, I use three experiments to examine how the presence of a dismissal threat may affect the efficacy of other incentives ...

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• How review ambiguity and access costs of SEC review correspondence affect investor judgments 

  Gale, Brian Thomas (2019-04-08)

  Review correspondence between the SEC and firms is a potentially valuable resource for investors. Review correspondence often reveals information about firms’ financial reporting quality, which has important implications ...

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