Stability and Security in Employment and Decent Work

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_2012_Rpt_Stability_Security_Decent_Work.pdf: 1885 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Fair Labor Association 2006 Annual Public Report

Introduction concerns effects of globalization. Examines changes from 2005-2006 as companies are encouraged to move towards self compliance, with a concentration on corporate responsibility. Data is broken down by company

Are Un-Registered Hedge Funds More Likely to Misreport Returns?

This paper seeks to introduce an empirical finance analysis of the relationship between misreporting behavior in hedge funds at the return level and registration as an investment adviser with the SEC, a law that has been enacted, overturned and re-enacted in the last decade. We hypothesize that hedge funds that are not registered with the SEC will be more likely to misreport returns so that a fund will seem as if it is generating positive returns more often than not. We test our hypothesis on the return level by conducting several statistical tests and regression models on hedge fund monthly returns that fall within a certain monthly reported return bin width. We do not find compelling evidence to support our hypothesis that funds not registered with the SEC will be more likely to misreport returns, although we do find links between certain hedge fund characteristics and misreporting behavior that is supported by the existing literature. We check the robustness of our study according to a number of parameters, including, bin widths of misreporting returns, as well as specifications controlling for fund size, hedge fund style, incentives, backfill bias, survivorship bias and other robustness checks