We examine the valuation role of customer acquisition cost, retention and usage in the wireless industry during the period 1997-2004. We develop and test a model that links customer acquisition cost, customer retention and call usage to future financial performance and valuation. In doing so, we...

We examine the valuation role of customer acquisition cost, retention and usage in the wireless industry during the period 1997–2004. We develop and test a model that links customer acquisition cost, customer retention and call usage to future financial performance and valuation. In doing so,...

In this paper I examine the incentives for voluntary disclosure of advertising expenditures for a sample of US firms for the period 1994-2003. I estimate proxies for the proprietary costs and valuation benefits of advertising with data from the mandatory disclosure period. My proxy for...

Regulators in the US ruled against introducing mandatory firm rotations in addition to the existing rule for periodic partner rotations. In contrast, European regulators ruled in favour of a dual mandatory rotation rule in which both audit firm and audit partner rotations are required. Employing...

The True and Fair View (TFV) concept requires UK and EU companies to depart from GAAP or the law if necessary to present a true and fair view of the corporation's financial affairs. We analyze a sample of UK public companies that invoked a TFV override during 1998-2000 to assess whether...

This paper analyzes the effect of coverage initiation by a sell-side analyst on the production of private information. It shows that the sell-side analyst's information production may crowd out information production by buy-side analysts. Nonetheless, coverage initiation increases the total...

Using a large sample of domestic and foreign IPOs in the US, we investigate how threats of enforcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and private litigation influence earnings management in IPO prospectuses. We propose that perceptions of foreign institutions may influence SEC...

The fixed-effects specification is often used in panel datasets as a way of dealing with correlated omitted variables. A review of recent accounting publications reveals that while researchers are generally aware of the need to include fixed-effects in empirical models when using panel datasets...

We provide evidence that distinguishes between competing production cost-based explanations of how to interpret unusually high (or low) audit fees and their expected relation with accounting quality. Abnormally high or low fees are typically proxied by the residuals obtained from fee models....

Since 1974, Ramp;D expenditures have been fully expensed when incurred partly because Ramp;D activities are claimed to be associated with a high degree of uncertainty in future economic benefits. In this study, we estimate the association between Ramp;D expenditures and capital expenditures...