Ahsan Habib

TL;DR: The design, implementation, and evaluation of PROMISE, a novel peer-to-peer media streaming system encompassing the key functions of peer lookup, peer-based aggregated streaming, and dynamic adaptations to network and peer conditions, are presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between audit firm industry specialization and the audit report lag (ARL) and found that firms audited by industry specialist auditors are likely to complete the audit sooner than their non-specialist counterparts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine empirically the managerial earnings management practices of financially distressed firms and consider whether these practices changed during the recent global financial crisis, and find that managers of distressed firms engage more in income-decreasing earnings management practice compared to their healthy firm counterparts.

TL;DR: Through simulation and wide-area measurement studies, it is verified that the proposed incentive mechanism can provide near optimal streaming quality to the cooperative users until the bottleneck shifts from the streaming sources to the network.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors survey the literature on the determinants of future stock price crash risk in the US, as well as in countries outside the US and propose a broad categorization of the literature into financial reporting and corporate disclosures, managerial incentives and managerial characteristics, capital market transactions, corporate governance mechanisms, and informal institutional mechanisms.