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- December 1999
- Article
A Review of the Earnings Management Literature and its Implications for Standard Setting
By: Paul M. Healy and James Wahlen
- 1997
- Chapter
Discussion of "Microeconomic Policy, Technological Change, and Small Business" by Edwin Mansfield
By: Joshua Lerner
Edwin Mansfield’s thoughtful review of the literature on the economics of technological change raises a variety of interesting issues, far too many to address in a few pages. Consequently I will focus my discussion on the section that I found most challenging and... View Details
- March 1994 (Revised February 2001)
- Background Note
Why Manage Risk?
By: Peter Tufano
Conventional finance theory demonstrates that, under simplistic assumptions, firms cannot add to shareholder value through the use of risk management activities. Modern finance theory has begun to carefully consider and examine those circumstances under which firms can... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management
- 2025
- Chapter
Culture and Contemporary Political Preferences
By: Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
This chapter reviews the literature on the relationship between culture and political preferences. We distinguish conceptually between the direct cultural transmission of political ideology and the transmission of more primitive preferences and beliefs that influence... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
The Evolution of Financial Services in the United States
By: Robin Greenwood, Robert Ialenti and David Scharfstein
This article surveys the literature on the historical growth and transformation of the U.S. financial sector. The sector expanded rapidly between 1980 until 2006, when its contribution to GDP rose from 4.8% to 7.6%. After the Global Financial Crisis, the size of the... View Details