The costs of socializing with government officials: A new measure of corporate political connections

We construct a new measure to capture corporate political connections, which is based on the amount a corporation spends on socializing with government officials. We examine the validity of this measure using the exogenous turnover of top local officials and find that firms increase their political...

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Main Authors: Jingjing Li, Liming Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-03-01
Series:China Journal of Accounting Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755309114000379