This study examines whether the Islamic religious atmosphere of local communities
influences audit pricing. We use a comprehensive survey conducted by Iran's Ministry of …

We find that local religious social norms mitigate professional misconduct by financial
advisors. Using publicly disclosed misconduct data, we find that financial advisors working …

Existing research often highlights the impact of several categories of corporate enforcement
action on corporate performance, thus overlooking the impossibility of isolating the impacts …

This paper describes a dataset capturing insider trading activity at publicly traded
companies. Investors and investment analysts demand this information because executives …

This thesis examines opportunism of insider trading during the trade war in 2018. The
objectives of this thesis are: first, to investigate whether political connections can facilitate …

Using a unique and granular data set of 5,049 Finnish insider transactions from a period
between August 2016 and August 2023, I further contribute to the research field of the …

This study examines whether government investment is associated with corporate insiders'
trading profitability. By exploiting the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) introduced in the US …

We examine whether local gambling preferences encourage more aggressive insider
trading behaviors in China. We find that insiders at firms headquartered in gambling-prone …