... of Justice, resolves that earnings management has occurred. While it is likely that earnings management occurs more frequently than is observed from judicial actions, it is not clear to me that earnings management is pervasive: it seems implausible that firms face the same motivations to manage earnings over...

... with lower growth use cash. Describes some less conclusive results and considers consistency with other research and theories. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Accounting research Mergers and acquisitions Motivation Payments New Zealand Volume 26 Number 10 2000 55 New Zealand Takeover Evidence: Firm...

..., campaign contributions and financial or non‐financial (ideological) personal gain; and considers the implications for political reforms such as term limits, rules on campaign finance etc. Discusses how the motives of individual politicians can be discovered and some additional applications of this idea...