The Impact of Elections on the Quality of Financial Statements in Municipally Owned Entities
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Keywords
Quality of financial statements; elections; public sector accounting; power; Benford's Law;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C12 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Hypothesis Testing: General
- M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2022-02-07 (Accounting and Auditing)
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