Singapore Stings: Tales of International Malfeasance

LegisLative MaLfeasance and PoLiticaL accountabiLity

o compelling justification for democracy is that public officials can be held accountable. elected representatives who betray the public trust by extracting excessive rents are vulnerable to electoral retribution with loss of office. Perhaps surprisingly, however, evidence from a variety of countries documents that elected officials who are charged with or convicted of criminal wrongdoing are t...

Accounting Restatements: Malfeasance and/or Optimal Incompetence?

While accounting research often uses restatements as a measure of earnings quality (EQ), often overlooked is the explicit recognition that EQ arises endogenously as a by-product of the firm’s value-maximizing investment in accounting resources. This paper develops a model of restatements that incorporates both the optimal investment in accounting systems (i.e., “optimal incompetence”) and incen...

Australian scorpion stings: a prospective study of definite stings.

There is little information on scorpion stings in Australia. The aim of this study is to describe the circumstances and clinical effects of stings by Australian scorpions. Cases of scorpion stings were collected prospectively from calls and presentations to Australian poison information centres and emergency departments from February 2000 to April 2002. Only definite scorpion stings where the s...

Treatment of Scorpion Stings

Treatment of Scorpion Stings