Hsu, Audrey; O'Hanlon, John; Peasnell, Ken - In: European Accounting Review 21 (2012) 1, pp. 87-113
Following the work of Basu in 1997, the excess of the sensitivity of accounting earnings to negative share return over its sensitivity to positive share return (the Basu coefficient) has been interpreted as an indicator of conditional accounting conservatism. Although this interpretation is...