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Tilburg University
Education•Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands•
About: Tilburg University is a education organization based out in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 5550 authors who have published 22330 publications receiving 791335 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, a theoretically-grounded framework of cultural dimensions conceptualized and operationalized at the individual level of analysis, based on the work of anthropologists Kluckho...
Abstract: This article describes a theoretically-grounded framework of cultural dimensions conceptualized and operationalized at the individual level of analysis, based on the work of anthropologists Kluckho...
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TL;DR: This paper found that firms whose audit committees have "friendship" ties to the CEO purchase fewer audit services and engage more in earnings management, and that auditors are also less likely to issue going-concern opinions or to report internal control weaknesses when friendship ties are present.
Abstract: To ensure that audit committees provide sufficient oversight over the auditing process and quality of financial reporting, legislators have imposed stricter requirements on the independence of audit committee members. Although many audit committees appear to be “fully” independent, anecdotal evidence suggests that CEOs often appoint directors from their social networks. Based on a 2004 to 2008 sample of U.S.-listed companies after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, we find that these social ties have a negative effect on variables that proxy for oversight quality. In particular, we find that firms whose audit committees have “friendship” ties to the CEO purchase fewer audit services and engage more in earnings management. Auditors are also less likely to issue going-concern opinions or to report internal control weaknesses when friendship ties are present. On the other hand, social ties formed through “advice networks” do not seem to hamper the quality of audit committee oversight. Data Availability: All d...
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TL;DR: This paper describes the study rationale, goals and methodology, as well as psychometrically validated instruments and novel questions developed for this study to assess self-management, attitudes, beliefs, disease impact/burden, psychosocial distress, health-related quality of life, healthcare provision/receipt, social support and priorities for improvement in the future.
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TL;DR: In this paper, consistent cointegration tests, and estimators of a basis of the space of cointegrating vectors, that do not used specification of the data-generating process, apart from some mild regularity conditions, or estimation of structural and/or nuisance parameters, are proposed.
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TL;DR: The screening problem by a novel technique called ‘sequential bifurcation’, which identifies some factors as being important that the ecological experts initially thought to be unimportant.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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David M. Fergusson | 127 | 474 | 55992 |
Johan P. Mackenbach | 120 | 783 | 56705 |
Henning Tiemeier | 108 | 866 | 48604 |
Allen N. Berger | 106 | 382 | 65596 |
Thorsten Beck | 99 | 373 | 62708 |
Luc Laeven | 93 | 355 | 36916 |
William J. Baumol | 85 | 460 | 49603 |
Michael H. Antoni | 84 | 431 | 21878 |
Russell Spears | 84 | 336 | 31609 |
Wim Meeus | 81 | 445 | 22646 |
Daan van Knippenberg | 80 | 223 | 25272 |
Wolfgang Karl Härdle | 79 | 783 | 28934 |
Aaron Cohen | 78 | 412 | 66543 |
Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp | 74 | 178 | 36059 |
Geert Hofstede | 72 | 126 | 103728 |