In this study, we focus on how regulations and taxes affect manufacturing firms in Eastern Europe Central Asia. We examine whether overall became a bigger obstacle to these after the 2008-2009 Global crisis. also tax inspections Besides inspections, look into prevalence of corruption related officials before Using two large datasets (i.e. BEEPS IV V surveys), are able compare pre-crisis period ...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the Greek firms' earnings management policies compared with debt, taxation and financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach In paper, authors show that existed measures real management, whether corrected for performance or not, rely crucially on strong assumptions. provide a novel modelling permits panel structure so as correct he...

small and medium size firms have major influence on job creation. some researchers, believe most of the new jobs are created in existed firms rather than newly established ones. growth management, could be the most important tactic for the firms future success. although it has many advantages for the firm, growth process faces some challenges. in this research, these challenges were identified,...

This study examines how ownership structure and conflicts of interest among shareholders under a poor corporate governance system affected firm performance before the crisis. Using 5,829 Korean firms subject to outside auditing during 19931997, the paper finds that firms with low ownership concentration show low firm profitability, controlling for firm and industry characteristics. Controlling ...

With the rise of the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and the smash of IT bubbles in 2000, there has been an increase in the number of corporate takeovers and mergers. In light of these events, we investigate the effects of acquisition announcements on the pricing behavior of the Asian bidding and target firms using the data of mergers or acquisitions announcements from the Bloomberg Database and...