Research Study Capital-Market Effects of Corporate Disclosures and Disclosure Regulation Christian Leuz Peter Wysocki June 26, 2006 Commissioned by the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada Christian Leuz Christian Leuz is currently the Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. He is also the David G. Booth Faculty Fellow. Prior to this position, Professor Leuz was the Harold Stott Term Assistant Professor in Accounting at
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Psychological egoism is the view that people are always selfish. When was the last time you did a good deed? Did you do it for its own sake, or for your own? The egoist says that all of us are necessarily self-regarding. I shall argue that this view is incorrect. First we should ask, what kind of claim is this? Is it an a priori claim, or a generalization from experience? If it were the latter, we could never conclusively prove it: we could never show that necessarily all actions are selfish
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Berkeley: to exist is to perceive or to be perceived 'To exist is either to perceive or to be perceived.' - How would you explain Bishop Berkeley's idealism to someone who knew nothing about philosophy? This is a good essay. Many students are very puzzled by Berkeley's claim that his theory is intended as a 'defence against scepticism'. I don't know what a 'real' tree is, because I have never met one, and never will. All I know is my perception of this tree and other trees like it. - This
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Sindhuja Muppa November 21, 2013 Writing Workshop Mythology “Myths are common stories at the root of our universal existence” (Seger). In the essay written by Scott Russell Sanders, "The Men We Carry in Our Minds" discusses Sander’s perspective on men in comparison to the impression that women carry in their minds. The essay, “Creating the Myth” by Linda Seger shows on how stories are based on our own life experiences. Sander’s argument about how the impressions of men or women are based on
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Skepticism, Rationalism, Empiricism, and Realism Skepticism well known as skepticism involves generally facts on the questions that articulate attitude, facts, beliefs, as well as opinions generated from claims granted elsewhere. Skeptical is a philosophical term and the anticipation of it is supposed to be supported by evidence. Many philosophers around the world, believes that skepticism is a pyrrhonist that refrains and position itself through claiming and making truth. Through various researches
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SCIENTIFIC METHOD CEDRIC KEARNEY SCI/230 20 April 2014 CHRISTINE ROGERS SCIENTIFIC METHOD The scientific method is the process of research in which an observation is made and information is gathered, a hypothesis is made, and experiment is taken place to understand the observation. There are six parts to a scientific experiment. The first part is the observation; the event that has taken place. The second part is the question; what caused the particular event to take place. The third and
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Journal of Business Ethics (2009) 88:351–366 DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-9968-9 Ó Springer 2008 Determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure Ratings by Spanish Listed Firms Carmelo Reverte ABSTRACT. The aim of this paper is to analyze whether a number of firm and industry characteristics, as well as media exposure, are potential determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure practices by Spanish listed firms. Empirical studies have shown that CSR disclosure
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philosopher(Photo: Maros Markovic/iStock/Getty Images) At its core, the divide between evidence-based practice and theory-guided practice can be traced back to an ancient divide often found in science and philosophy: That of rationalism versus empiricism. Extreme rationalists claim that our senses are limited and place all their trust in reason. In contrast, empiricists claim that sense experience is the source of all our concepts and knowledge. While their positions are not so extreme, theory-guided
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I used the scientific method to determine how to solve a car problem. I picked the car instead of the tomatoes because I am more familiar with cars and I do not like tomatoes. I was able to experiment before I was able to find out the correct problem. I am generally good with cars and know to check the basics problems that can occur with a car. In this activity the first thing that I thought about was the condition of the battery of the car. I was able to choose that and found out that the battery
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Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2012, 28(4), 580-598 Empirical validation of the importance of employees’ learning motivation for workplace e-learning in Taiwanese organisations Hsiu-Ju Chen and Chia-Hung Kao I-Shou University, Taiwan E-learning systems, adopted by organisations for employee training to enhance employees’ performance, are characterised by self-directed, autonomous learning. Learning motivation is then of importance in the design of e-learning practices in workplace
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