A paper by Ditillo, Steccolini, Liguori and Sicilia finds out that trustbased controls on contracted out services are the most commonly used by Italian municipalities regardless of the kind of service

Cameran, Prencipe and Trombetta, studying the Italian setting, highlight that audit quality improves when the audit firm can't be reappointed

Family firms engage in earnings management as much as nonfamily business, but in a peculiar way, Gianfranco Siciliano and three coauthors from Technische Universitaet Muenchen explain

A new paper by Prencipe, BarYosef and Dekker highlights theoretical and empirical challenges and provides guidelines to scholars who intend to focus on such area

A new full professor at the Department of Accounting

A paper by Cameran, Pettinicchio and Campa shows that IFRS didn't improve earnings quality of the Italian firms that adopted them