The literature and many national regulatory frameworks have underlined the importance of
audit committees as monitoring mechanisms. In the prevailing Italian firms' corporate …

Even though there is clear evidence that large shareholders play an effective monitoring role
over poorly-performing CEOs, the monitoring of family owners is yet quite unexplored. This …

A ghost spectroscopy measurement with an entangled photon source is demonstrated. The
transmission spectrum at the 2 μ $\umu$ m absorption peak of gaseous carbon dioxide (CO …

A critical concern of family firms’ behavior is the low propensity to invest and grow. Indeed,
because of the undiversified nature of their investments and the unwillingness to dilute …

Despite research provides wide evidence that family-controlled firms face underinvestment
and low growth problems, literature provides limited insight on what factors are able to incite …

Firm's objectives have been often defined in terms of financial accounting numbers, inducing
managers to focus on short-term financial results and sacrificing long-term performances. …

This study aims to replicate the analysis of the relationship between earnings quality and
cost of equity in the Italian context, a context characterized by high ownership concentration …

This article aims to test whether an announcement regarding a possible intervention and/or
investment of a Private Equity (PE) in a company already listed has a signalling effect that …

… Davide Rizzotti … Rizzotti D., Tempo A. (2014), La relazione tra servizi diversi dalla
revisione ed earnings management: studio esplorativo del contesto italiano, Rivista Italiana di …

In the wake of financial scandals (eg, Enron, Tyco International, Parmalat), a priority for
governance reformers all over the world was to strengthen the monitoring role of board of …