Professor George Mason University mpevzner@gmu.edu Partha Sengupta Associate Professor George Mason University psengupt@gmu.edu We examine whether Ball and Shivakumar (2006) and Basu (1997) models of conservatism identify fraud firms as anti-conservative. We show that both models do so to some extent‚ but Ball and Shivakumar model results are stronger. We further show that these results are driven by firms committing largest frauds as a percentage of firms’ assets. Our results are important to
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Hoover Dam The Hoover Dam is one of America¡¦s greatest civil engineering marvels (Hernan 22) and ¡§has become a magnet to those fascinated by human ingenuity at its best¡¨ (Haussler 30). With its enormous size and construction during the Great Depression‚ it was an interesting topic to me. I would like to major in civil engineering and‚ at first‚ I was researching this topic. I was looking for salary and job descriptions. Then‚ I discovered the name John L. Savage‚ the engineer who supervised
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Hoover Dam INTRODUCTION Without the Hoover Dam‚ many more people would have been jobless during the hard times of the Depression which would have hindered many people needs for inexpensive power and water. While the construction of the Hoover Dam was ongoing‚ many workers looked to it as a representation of every American’s contribution to a better life. The Hoover Dam caused the once deserted towns in the West to flourish into booming metropolises. The construction of the Hoover Dam helped to
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Taylor March 23‚ 2014 Herbert Hoover During Herbert Hoover’s time as president of the United States of America there were three important factors that allowed president Hoover to poorly handle the depression were not being able to relate to people‚ passing of acts that had little no help at all‚ and the fact that congress had no faith in him. President Hoover was a president that came from a Quaker family born second out of three children. Although when Hoover was 6 he lost his father to pneumonia
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can change. A word can mean something different to different people. A term that I find interesting is the word liberal ‚ with is root word being Liber which means free or “free one“. the meaning of the word liberal has also changed over time. What the word liberal means today doesn’t mean what it use to back In he 18th and 19th centuries. Back then the word liberal referred someone who believed in individual freedom in both personal and fiscal matters. It was used to described
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Chapter 29 Questions Sanjana Satish 1. Roosevelt campaigned for female suffrage and a broad program of social welfare‚ such as minimum-wage laws and "socialistic" social insurance. Wilson’s New Freedom favored small enterprise‚ desired to break up all trusts. 2. With the Republican split‚ Woodrow Wilson easily won with 435 electoral votes‚ while Roosevelt had 88 and Taft only had 8. But the Democrats did not receive the majority of the popular vote. Socialist Eugene V. Debs racked up over 900
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J. Edgar Hoover Former Senator Joseph McCarthy put it perfectly when he said‚ " for the FBI is J. Edgar Hoover and I think we can rest assured that it will always be." (qtd. in Denenberg 7). J. Edgar Hoover is credited for reconstructing the Bureau of Investigations (later renamed Federal Bureau of Investigations). Regardless of how people saw him‚ Hoover was powerful and committed‚ and did everything within his power to improve the agency that would make this country a safer place for
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Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives In 1975‚ Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party and began to steer it towards what many have dubbed ÔThatcherismÕ. Margaret Thatcher believed in radical change‚ individuality‚ and a strong Government that enforces the law‚ rather than interfering in the economy. She was also opposed to the welfare state. In many ways‚ her ideology was broadly similar to classical liberalism‚ and many theorists see her ideology as neo-liberalism. Under her
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The Conservative Revolution It seems to be the case that the American Revolution was a conservative revolution‚ or at least more conservative than revolutions in places such as France and Russia. There was no social class upheaval‚ no “terror” like the one in France‚ and no dramatic redistribution of wealth and land. In fact‚ the Revolution was a rather expected and natural event of human history. Part of this has to do with the enlightened age. Enlightened people were thinking of themselves
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Liberal‚ Conservative‚ and Socialist Ideals vs. Feminism before the 20th Century Tales from the beyond‚ story one: a parent binds his baby girl’s feet in China‚ so it will not grow more than five to six inches because small feet in women are a sign of elegance; story two: a wife is burned alive in India‚ so she can accompany her husband in death. Are these stories? No‚ things like this really happened in the past. They are part of the reason that contributed to the birth of the Women’s Movement
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